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Coping for Copeland: Grandparents help boys deal with tragic loss

There is no way proper way to explain to a child that not only was their mother shot and killed but it was their dad who pulled the trigger, and did the same thing to himself.

There is the matter of dealing with your own personal pain and grief from losing your daughter, and the reality that the person responsible for your anguish is the father of the two sons you are raising.

This is the scenario Dee Gibson faced on the morning of Sept. 10, 2017 when she received word that her daughter, Krista Copeland, died from two gun shots by her ex-husband in a vacant Fort Worth library parking lot.