Suicides highlight mass shooting survivors' trauma and fragility of healing: 'We still live with it every day.'
Two teenagers who survived a high school mass shooting in Florida and a parent of a girl killed in an elementary school mass shooting in Connecticut died by apparent suicide within the last 10 days, prompting calls to focus on the lasting trauma of these attacks, which doesn't end with the gunfire.
"Jeremy was a good friend," Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., told ABC News on Monday. "He was someone so committed to understanding why these tragedies happen and why brains push people to acts of violence." Murphy said Richman was at his office a few weeks ago and appeared "so excited about the work the foundation was doing and their ability to get their training program -- teaching about the way that the brain works and the way that it can fail to work properly -- to more and more people."
"Just because time has gone away, it doesn't mean that the hurt has gone away or that the guilt has gone away," said Missy Mendo, a student survivor of the 1999 Columbine High School mass shooting in Colorado which killed 13. "We still live with it every day. It's just how we learn to live with it."
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