"I was numb. I'm still numb. The shock won't be out for a while," Robert Marshall said.
The Crescent father is dealing with the pain of his son and his son's wife being among the 26 people killed at a church in Texas.
Marshall, and his wife Fran, sat down with Channel 11 to talk about the horrific crime that took one of Robert's five children, in the most shocking of ways.
"To be killed in a church, my only son too," Marshall said. "Go there to pray and got killed."
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Robert Marshall just turned 85-years-old, his second wife Fran is 90 years old.
And these good, kind people are both still, understandably, shocked.
"I got to face my grandchildren down there in Texas," Robert Marshall said. "They got to go down there and ID the bodies. It's going to be tough."
The Marshalls fly out Tuesday.
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They found out Sunday when Robert's daughters told him there'd been a shooting at a church.
Were Karen and Scottie Marshall there? No one knew for sure. Then one of the grandsons drove to the church to see if his dad's car was there.
It was.
"I was just devastated. You don't know whether to believe it," Fran Marshall said.
Scottie and his wife were in Pittsburgh just last week.
They'd gone down to Texas, where Karen's from, to look for a new church to join. It was their first time there.
"I'm still numb. The shock won't be out for awhile," Robert Marshall said.
One thing Robert, an Army vet who served in Korea, is sure of: gun laws need to change.
"There have got to be better gun laws than what they have," he said.