"It was an apparently senseless act of violence in a nice apartment building," he said.

We could not have imagined for a moment that our son would do this senseless act.

There has been so much violence in Iraq that it's become hard to distinguish one senseless act from another.

"We know how upset members of the community are by this senseless act," she said.

"The sorrow we all feel at this senseless act is beyond human measure," he later said.

As a family, they have constructed a narrative to make sense of a senseless act.

"I want to show the world the end effect of a senseless act," she said.

"I have no reason to think that this was anything but a senseless act of terrorism," he said.

The other man had placed himself beyond her reach for ever with one brutal senseless act.

He got off on each murder, enjoying the entire, senseless act.