From a New York Times story by Jack Healy headlined “A Mother Had Three Minutes to Address Her Son’s Killer”:

The night before Adriana Vance addressed her son’s killer in a Colorado courtroom, she was still searching for the right words.

She had spent days struggling to write a statement about her son, Raymond Green Vance, 22, one of the five people killed last November in a shooting rampage at Club Q in Colorado Springs. She wanted to say how sweet and easygoing he had been. How Raymond’s little brother had dangled off his hulking 6-foot-4 frame as if it were a jungle gym. How at the funeral, Raymond’s friends had not wanted to let go of his coffin. How Ms. Vance felt as though there was no justice.