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And though the man was looking forward to spending time with his family and his newborn, he didn't want to leave his co-workers at the bowling alley without any help.
So even though he didn't have childcare for his two older children, Steve packed the girls up and headed into work.
He expected to leave the two young girls, six-year-old Paula and two-year-old Valerie, in the childcare center with Melissa and her friend Amy.
However, when he entered the bowling alley, he found it eerily silent and immediately knew that something was wrong.
Steve wandered around the building for a few minutes trying to find his coworkers.
He checked the kitchen and the childcare center, but there was no one to be found.
Finally, Steve and the girls went to Stephanie Sinek's office, where they walked into the most terrifying and violent scene of women and girls lying on the floor with guns pointed at their heads.
The gunmen quickly forced Steve to lie on the floor with his small children.
The victims likely thought they'd be left behind after the men were done robbing the bowling alley.
But the truth was much more sinister.
After they finished ransacking the office, the men chose to take the most evil route and shot all seven victims multiple times in the body and head, making sure no witnesses were left behind, despite how young some of the victims were.
And it would later be discovered that all the shots were at point blank range.
So all the victims were shot execution style.
Even the youngest victims were shot multiple times.
As if the shooting wasn't heinous enough, around 8.30am, the gunmen took the time to set fire to the office by igniting a pile of papers before they left out the front door.
At 8.33 a.m., the first call to 911 happened.
A person passing by the bowling alley had seen the smoke coming from the roof.
Dispatchers began to organize the dispersal of firefighters when a second call, only moments after the first, came in.
The caller was 12-year-old Melissa Repass, the young victim who had been shot five times.
The critically wounded girl had regained consciousness shortly after the men fled, was able to find a phone, and make that 911 call.