DAVID KERRwas just five years old when he became one of the 17 victims of the Dunblane massacre on 13 March, 1996.Laying the young boy to rest at his funeral, local priest Canon Basil O’Sullivan told mourners: “We thank our Heavenly Father for giving us such a beautiful, beautiful boy.”Outside, motorists stepped out of their cars in a spontaneous gesture of respect as David’s funeral cortege wound its way through the Scottish town.His was the first of all the Dunblane victims’ funerals to be held.David Charles Kerr was from Menteith View in Dunblane.He and his classmates were in the gym at Dunblane Primary School when gunman Thomas Hamilton burst into their PE lesson and began to fire at the Primary One class.It took 105 rounds and three minutes to kill his 17 victims.Canon O’Sullivan helped the family identify his body and later said: “David was dressed in white, and looked like a little angel.”At his funeral, police halted traffic for the cortege to set out on its way to the cemetery.A tribute outside read: “If love could heal a broken heart, we send all of ours to make a start.”The words on David’s gravestone read: “May he run, skip, giggle and play forever.”
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