"Tretta's experience captures a grim reality for a generation now in college: students who grew up rehearsing lockdowns and active-shooter drills, only to encounter the same violence again years later on campuses that once seemed like an escape from it. In recent years, small groups of students have endured multiple mass shootings at different stages of their education, including survivors of the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, who later experienced a deadly shooting at Florida State University in April."
"By the end of the day, two people were dead and nine others injured in the Providence, Rhode Island, shooting that once again upended a school campus. "No one should ever have to go through one shooting, let alone two," Tretta said in a phone interview Sunday. "And as someone who was shot at my high school when I was 15 years old, I never thought that this was something I'd have to go through again.""
Mia Tretta, a Brown University junior and a 2019 Saugus High School shooting survivor, received emergency alerts during finals week as a new campus shooting unfolded. The Providence incident left two people dead and nine injured and prompted lockdowns and manhunt-related anxiety. The experience underscores a pattern of students who grew up practicing active-shooter drills encountering repeated campus violence years later. Small groups of students have survived multiple mass shootings at different educational stages, including survivors connected to the 2018 Parkland massacre who later faced another deadly campus shooting.
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