Amid the scores of fearful and worried students following Saturday’s shooting at Brown University were two who have been here before.
Brown junior Mia Tretta was injured in a California school shooting, and sophomore Zoe Weissman was in class next door during the Parkland, Florida, high school massacre.
“No one in this country even assumes it’s going to happen to them,” Tretta said. “Once it happens to you, you assume or are told it will never happen again, and obviously that is not the case.”
Tretta said she chose Brown because she believed its smaller size would translate to greater safety. But the trauma of her injury followed her to Brown even before Saturday’s attack. She said she can’t enter a library on campus alone for fear that another shooting could happen.
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