About Victoria

As a mother you have children, you watch them grow up and if you do your job well they become independent. You teach them all the important things like saying please and thank you, stay away from strangers, drive safely, etc. You expect to grow old and have your children there to take care of you until you die, you never expect that they will die before you. 

On October 20, 2004 my world was turned upside down. My daughter Torie left our home with her friends to watch the Red Sox as she had so many times before. My husband Rick and I told her to have a good time, be careful and that we loved her. We never thought that would be our last conversation. On the morning of October 21, 2004 at 1:00 AM Rick and I received the call that would change our lives forever. Torie had been shot. 

Driving to the emergency room I kept thinking "she is fine, she will need a few stitches and come home." When we walked into the emergency room and talked to the doctor he explained there was no hope. At that very moment the love and light was taken away from us. I felt like I was dying inside. 
- Dianne Snelgrove