Liz and Oliver Feeback also have no idea how to cope with losing their nieces.

Of 11-year-old Kelsey: "She was a daredevil. Nothing scared her," said Liz.

Hayley was 9. "Hayley was a little bit more of a little lady. She liked her dolls and her stuffed animals," Liz said.

The girls' uncle Oliver added: "Something like this is beyond imagination. We were aware that Steve was a troubled individual."

There was no sign Steven Byrne would hurt his daughters, not even in the 911 call he made minutes before he killed himself Monday afternoon.

In it, a dispatcher asks, "911. What are you reporting?" Steve Byrne answers: "You need to send an ambulance and the police to 8121 188th Street SW in Edmonds."

Dispatcher: "What's the problem? You there sir?"

Then silence.

Edmonds Police found Byrne dead in his back yard from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. His daughters were inside and they may have been dead hours.

Four minutes before Byrne made that 911 call, he sent eight friends an e-mail threatening to kill his daughters and himself.

"Talking about satisfaction with life in general. With the system. And apologizing for actions that are being taken," said assistant Edmonds Police Chief Al Compaan.

Tuesday night, parents and students at the girls' school, Sunset Elementary, tried to cope. They met with counselors, who say let children grieve, talk with them, and let them ask questions. If you can't explain what's happened, that's OK. No one can.

Not even Liz Feeback: "I don't know how, I don't know why. These questions were never meant to be asked."

For More Information:

Grief and trauma help:

www.childrensresponsecenter.org
www.griefworks.org