Michael Henninger

Essays: LA Fitness Shooting

Theresa Smith, left, 18, and friend Ashley Slifko, 19, embrace outside of LA Fitness, the scene of a massive shooting in Bridgeville, Pa. on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009. Smith's sister Tracey Smith, 22, was inside during the shooting, and escaped unharmed.
  
Members of the Allegheny County Medical Examiners office wheel out one of the three people killed in the LA Fitness shooting.
  
An unidentified woman who was in LA Fitness during a massive shooting is comforted by her friends in the parking lot of the fitness center in Bridgeville, Pa. on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009.
     
  
An unidentified woman who was in LA Fitness during a massive shooting is comforted by her friends in the parking lot of the fitness center in Bridgeville, Pa. on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009.
  
Nancy Smith hugs her daughter Tracey Smith (right), 22, and friend Jill Mazuk, 22, as the three reunite outside LA Fitness, the scene of a massive shooting in Bridgeville, Pa. on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009. Tracey Smith was inside LA Fitness at the time of the shooting.
  
A woman walks up to hug her brother after he was released by police from inside LA Fitness, where a gunman killed three people and himself on Aug. 4, 2009.
     
  
A group of bystanders watch from behind police tape as officers respond to a mass shooting at LA Fitness.
  
From left to right, Theresa Smith, 18, hugs her sister Tracey Smith, 22, as their mother Nancy Smith comforts friend of the family Jill Mazuk, 22, at LA Fitness, the scene of a massive shooting in Bridgeville, Pa. on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009. Tracey Smith was inside LA Fitness at the time of the shooting.
  
From left to right, Theresa Smith, 18, hugs her sister Tracey Smith, 22, and friend Jill Mazuk, 22, at LA Fitness, the scene of a massive shooting in Bridgeville, Pa. on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009. Tracey Smith was inside LA Fitness at the time of the shooting.