Unharmed...really?

One of the smallest articles in the Dec. 8th edition of Ed Week made one of the biggest impacts on me.  There was a news brief about a Wisconsin teen who took a teacher and fellow students hostage and then ended up killing himself when police entered.  The part that struck me so much was the last two sentences, "Mr. Hengel shot himself. All of the hostages emerged unharmed." I know that Ed Week got this report from the AP, but they actually left it like that.  Unharmed...really?  There is not a chance that the 25 people held in that room by someone they knew, who also witnessed a police intervention and a suicide, remain unharmed. At the least, they will deal with the tragedy of the situation and the "what if" questions. Maybe this news brief displays some of the same sort of societal apathy that alienates kids and makes resort to this tragic action as a means to be noticed and taken seriously.