OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - When tragedy came in the form of a gunman to a Jewish community center here Sunday, it was two Methodists who were shot and killed in the building’s parking lot.
Reat Underwood, a 14-year-old high school freshman, had come to the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City with his grandfather, Dr. William Lewis Corporan, 69, who was always accompanying one of his grandkids to some event or another.
Reat, a Boy Scout, loved to sing and perform in musicals, and after years of waiting to become eligible, he had come to audition for a local "American Idol"-style competition for high school students. He had two songs prepared.
The first was "On the Street Where You Live," a tune from "My Fair Lady," which he planned to perform in a coat and tie with a black shirt and hat.
The second was "You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone."
Reat's mother, Mindy Corporan, shared those details about her son and her father in a news conference Monday in which she refused to break down into sobs over the attack on two Jewish facilities in Overland Park. A third victim, Terri LaManno, 53, a Catholic, was also killed.
“It was horrible act of violence, and my dad and my son were at the wrong place at the wrong time for a split second, and we want something good to come out of this," Corporan told reporters, explaining why she was being so open about her family and their grief. "We don’t know what that’s going to be, so we want people to let us know if something good has come from it."
Corporan was among the first on the scene after the shooting in the parking lot of the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park.
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