Victim's father offers 'love and compassion' to family of gunman It's a horrific tragedy and we want everybody to know that our hearts and our prayers go out to them. This includes the family of the shooter. I can't imagine how hard it this experience must be for you and I want you to know that our love and our support goes out to you as well. He continued: "The person that chose to act in this way was acting with a God-given right with his own free agency. That free agency is given to all of us to act and choose to do whatever we want and God can't take that away from us. I know that's something that he was given and that's what he chose to do with it. I'm not mad because I have my agency to make sure that I use this event to do whatever I can. Emilie was the oldest of three daughters of Mr Parker and his wife Alissa. They only moved to Newtown eight months ago from Utah when he got a new job as a physician's assistant in the newborn emergency care unit at Danbury hospital, where he was working when some victims of the shootings were brought into a different department. "Emilie was bright creative and very loving," he said. She was blond. She was always smiling. She was the type of person who just lit up the room. She always had a kind word to say about anybody. She's an incredible person and I am blessed to be he dad. He described how little Emilie was a serial maker of cards and "always carried around her markers and pencils" to make notes for anyone who was looking sad. Asked how the couple would deal with their loss, he said: "I don't know how to get through it. The best thing I can do is to help other people. My hope in life is the number one thing that people say is that I was a great dad. Meanwhile, the family of Nancy Lanza, the first victim of her son Adam's shooting spree, expressed their "heartfelt sorrow" for the "incomprehensible loss" in a statement issued on Saturday on the behalf of her brother James Champion, a New Hampshire policeman.