A woman with short blond hair and eyes red from crying knelt before the door of Dayton’s Hole in the Wall bar, just a short walk from where a 24-year-old shooter opened fire on downtown residents. She placed a bouquet of roses on the bar’s doorstep, wept, and then silently walked away.

A few blocks away, Airiana Camp, 22, wrestled with what she had seen and heard. The shooting left nine dead and dozens wounded. “Bodies in the street covered up with white bags. Blood everywhere,” she told the Detroit News. She later discovered that her close friend Lois Oglesby was in one of those bags.