Vigil Held For 2 Boys Killed By Their Father In Perry Hall
BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md. (WJZ)--An emotional night in Baltimore County as loved ones remembered two boys whose father killed them amid financial problems.
WJZ Investigator Mike Hellgren has more.
Loved ones came to remember 12-year-old Julian Roary Jr. and his 10-year-old brother Ian who were shot to death last week inside their Perry Hall home--the boy's father pulling the trigger.
"As a family, we have a hard time just sitting at the kitchen table because all we see are their faces."
Tears stained faces at a prayer vigil with many struggling to understand why Julian Roary Sr. couldn't take his financial problems any more.
He left behind a note and his girlfriend found it, along with the bodies.
"Even if it was hard times, he was going to pay that rent. He was going to pay the light and gas. He was going to pay the car note until it got to be too much," said Shantal Brown-Winn, Roary's girlfriend. "Only he (Jesus) knows how much a person can take. I'm kind of feeling like I'll never find that person again, but I'm sure, as he said in his letter, he'll always be with us."
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Similar pressures have drawn people to desperation before--including a real estate lawyer who killed his wife and two daughters in Towson in 2009.
People wrote notes to the boys and threw them in a fire outside Saint Isaac's in Parkville--hoping they reach them in heaven--sending a message that life should never end this way.