"When she was 15, she was shot in the stomach by a classmate at her high school in California. Yesterday, she survived the second school shooting of her short life: A person opened fire at Brown University, where Tretta is a junior. Students were studying for finals when a shooter walked into an economics classroom and started firing, killing two students, injuring nine, and inflicting terror on not just a campus but an entire city."
"Of all the amenities that the Ivy League campus providedbountiful libraries, a full-service gymthe most luxurious to me was a sense of safety. I'd walk around campus at all hours of the night; just the other day, my freshman roommate and I reminisced about keeping our dorm room unlocked so our friends could come and go. Despite how much has changed in the decades since I was there, it was that sense of security that had, after what she'd endured in high school,"
Mia Tretta, previously shot at 15, survived a second school shooting as a junior at Brown University. A shooter entered an economics classroom during finals, killing two students, injuring nine, and terrorizing campus and city. Authorities detained a person of interest, and no suspect has been named. The incident destroyed a longstanding sense of campus safety and triggered intense local fear because of close personal ties between community members and students. The event illustrates broader societal failures to protect children and students from recurring gun violence and campus attacks.
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