A seventh or eighth grade student named Cora watched multiple friends get shot during Mass at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. The student saw one friend shot in the neck and another in the stomach. During the chaotic evacuation, the student had to tell a friend’s father that the friend had been shot. The account provoked strong emotional reactions from viewers and was described as devastating, especially for parents. The narrative underscores parents’ expectations of safety when dropping children at school and highlights the traumatic consequences of a mass shooting for children, families, and school communities.
The kids were in the Mass, and they were packed in there, Klobuchar said. And so this girl seventh, eighth grade literally watched her friends, some of her best friends, be shot. One in the neck, one in the stomach. And when they were running out, when they finally got out, she was the one, this child, who had to tell one of her friend's dad's that the friend had been shot.
To hear you describe Cora an eighth grader, seventh or eighth grader having to tell the parent of her friend that they were shotit's anybody with kids, anybody with a beating heart, it's just beyond, Bash said. Klobuchar agreed. Anyone can imagine on the first day of school, I remember this, dropping your child off to a bus, or bringing them to the school thinking they're going to be safe, she said.
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