On April 20, 1999 a school shooting in Littleton, Colo., shook the country. Now, 20 years later, Reporters Nate Minor and Andrea Dukakis look at how one shooting changed America and what we've learned since.
Sherrie described to me what was happening to her just then, in the grocery store aisle: “My fingers will turn white, and you’ll see the blood leaving them.”
Martin founded the Rebels Project, which connected her with Sherrie Lawson, a survivor of the 2013 Navy Yard shooting. The project has created a supportive community online and in Colorado for survivors.
School resource officers are trained police officers assigned to specific schools. And as more attention has focused on school shootings, their jobs have become more defined.