Life is so brief and it seems so unfair at times. I really loved his work.
My heart goes out to his family and loved ones.
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... when someone from my city around the world is gunned down in my home country. The videos of his family's reaction has been all over the local news here. :( I didn't know him, but it breaks my heart because I know how much people here sacrifice to be able to send one family member overseas to have a better life. It just hits home doubly hard.
Partahi Lombantoruan,
34, of Indonesia, was a civil engineering doctoral 
student. He had been
studying at at Virginia Tech for three years, said his father, Tohom
Lumbantoruan, a 66-year-old retired army officer.
Lumbantoruan’s family in Indonesia said they sold off property and cars to pay his tuition and that his goal was to become a teacher in the United States.
“We tried everything to completely finance his studies in the United States,” said his father. “We only wanted him to succeed in his studies, but ... he met a tragic fate.”
His stepmother, Sugiyarti, said he had called almost daily to talk to the family. In their last conversation he had asked for the latest news on Indonesian politics.
“Why can people bring guns to campus?” she asked, weeping. “How is it possible that so many innocent people could be killed? How could it happen?”
An aunt, 53-year-old Christina Panjaitan, said her nephew was hardworking, intelligent and never complained. “He told me he wanted to teach in America,” she said.
Family members were planning a public burial in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.
Read about the rest of the victims from Monday's massacre.
(Photo from Associated Press)
