10:11 AM EDT on Tuesday, May 31, 2005

13News team coverage

A Memorial Day weekend reunion ended tragically for a group of four men who went to high school together. Family members said the men were innocent bystanders who were caught in the crossfire of a domestic dispute.

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Bryce Bauerband (top) and David Kusa were getting together with two other high school friends in Va. Beach when they were killed at an Oceanfront condo.

Police say 27-year-old Marcus Garrett killed his child’s mother and two other people. Garrett heads to court Tuesday morning, facing multiple charges of murder.

Garrett allegedly shot five people early Saturday morning at a Virginia Beach Oceanfront condo, including 24-year-old Rachel Scher, who is the mother of Garrett's two-year-old daughter.

Also killed in the shooting were Bryce Bauerband, 26, from Chicago, and David Kusa of Columbia.

The father of one of the victims told 13News that the four friends graduated high school together in Germany and were having a reunion of sorts in Virginia Beach because that’s where a mutual friend had a condo. The father said the four men barely knew Rachel Scher, who apparently was a friend of the condo’s owner.

Bauerband had just graduated from University of California – Davis Kusa had just graduated from law school at the University of South Carolina and was studying for the bar exam.

"It's a great loss to all of us, and I just can't imagine what the loss is like to his wife and his parents." said Kusa's law professor at USC, Lewis Burke.

The other two shooting victims remain in the hospital.

James Mason, a neighbor of Rachel Scher, said he was shocked by the violence. "He (Garrett) seemed like a very nice person, very amiable, calm, very devoted to his daughter."

Police do not know the motive for the killlings. They say Garrett shot five people at the condo on 24th Street after 3:00 a.m. Saturday morning, and fled with his two-year-old daughter. Police arrested Garrett hours later on I-95 near Emporia. The child was recovered unharmed.