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El Paso Strong: How One Community Prepared for a Shooting They Didn’t Know was Coming [kens5.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 12/11/196:41 AM

By Anastasiya Bolton, KENS5, December 9, 2019

By now, we all know what happens after a mass shooting: The breaking news alerts, social media updates, body counts, thoughts and prayers and the public moves on.

The victims, survivors, families, people who witnessed the carnage don’t get to. At least not right away. All need some form of immediate help: Counseling, money, someone to talk to who’s already “been there.” A person to provide insight as to what’s to come emotionally, financially and give advice or share experience on what the post-mass shooting life could look like.

“It’s survivorship, it’s going through it, it’s living through your worst nightmare and then saying, ‘this is either going to kill me or it’s going to make me a different person and I’ve got to find out what that is,'” said Sandy Phillips, whose daughter, Jessica Ghawi, was killed in the Aurora Colorado movie theater in 2012.

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