College intern began work the day he was killed.

This is Jim Denison's Daily article for Monday, February 18th, 2019.

Gary Montez Martin went into his local Circle K convenience store to buy a few cigars last

Friday.

He did this almost every day.

Store clerk said he seemed fine.

Hours later, he learned he had been fired from his job and allegedly shot five co-workers to death.

We're now learning more about his victims.

One was Josh Pinkard, who sent his wife this text.

I love you, I've been shot at work.

He did not survive, leaving his wife and three children.

Vicente Juarez was a father of three and grandfather of eight.

Russell Bayer had a daughter and a son and would have turned 48 this Thursday.

Clayton Parks left his wife and a young son.

And Trevor Wainer was a student at Northern Illinois University who began as an intern that day.

He was scheduled to graduate in May.

The company is determining if anything can be done in the future to ensure this horrible

incident is never repeated.

Since the Parkland shooting on February 14, 2018, there have been nearly 350 mass shootings

in the U.S., nearly one a day.

Whether the issue is crime and violence, disasters, or disease, when we look at the future

through the prism of the present, it's easy to abandon hope.

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