“The news is now going against everything I say when I say this place is safe and this place is beautiful,” Ong said. “Because when you hear about something that is so ugly that happened here, it makes people start to question, and I have to think ‘is it really as beautiful or welcoming?’ I wonder if there is even a community here, because normally everyone in a community should be close-knit and be friends, but I hate to think of someone in our community hurting another one in our community.”