Loughner’s Parents Issue Brief Statement
Via the AP: Dad pursued Ariz. massacre suspect before shooting
"There are no words that can possibly express how we feel," Randy and Amy Loughner wrote in a statement handed to reporters waiting outside their house. "We wish that there were, so we could make you feel better. We don’t understand why this happened.
"We care very deeply about the victims and their families. We are so very sorry for their loss."
In regards to the headline, the details are sketchy:
Mysterious black bag in hand, Jared Loughner ran into the desert, his angry father stopping pursuit in his truck.
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On the morning of the shooting, a mumbling Jared Loughner fled after his father asked him why he was removing a black bag from the trunk of a family car, said Nanos and Rick Kastigar, chief of the department’s investigations bureau. Investigators are still searching for the bag.
