25 years after Columbine, trauma shadows survivors of the school shooting

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A quarter of a century after the Columbine High School shooting, the trauma from the attack has remained with survivors

Hours after she escaped the Columbine High School shooting, 14-year-old Missy Mendo slept between her parents in bed, still wearing the shoes she had on when she fled her math class. She wanted to be ready to run. Twenty-five years later, and with Mendo now a mother herself, the trauma from that horrific day remains close on her heels.

Nationwide hundreds of thousands of people have been exposed to school shootings that are often not mass-casualty events but still traumatic, Rossin-Slater said. The impacts can last a lifetime, she added, resulting in 'kind of a persistent, reduced potential” for survivors. Those who were present at Columbine say the years since have given them time to learn more about what happened to them and how to cope with it. Heather Martin, now 42, was a Columbine senior in 1999.

 

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