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I suspect the immediate reaction (as it was when she was found guilty of reckless homicide rather than murder) will be anger and revulsion, and I’m not sure exactly why. Not in the sense that I think that’s the wrong reaction, but in that I, personally, don’t know how to react, either way. That I didn’t know any of the victims, unlike so many people, certainly factors in. Never having lost anyone I know to the acts of another I can’t honestly see it from that angle.
The most interesting piece about the tragedy that I’ve read is “Collision Course” by Noah Isackson from the August issue of Chicago Magazine. There’s a lot less discussion of the legal questions than I would have wanted, and which I hope to poke around about myself, but it’s a moving and comprehensive overview with well-wrought details; the one that got me was this:
