Source: The Arizona Republic

On August 12, 2001, The Arizona Republic reported that "the shocking slaughter of [nine people, including six Buddhist monks] in August 1991 by two Valley teenagers was the worst mass murder in Arizona since the Indian wars before statehood in 1912. But time, aided perhaps by the power of Buddhist philosophy, has done its healing work in the West Valley community of Wat Promkunaram...The monks say that they won't forget what happened 10 years ago, but that their Buddhist philosophy dissuades them from worldly emotions such as revenge, anger or hatred for the killers."