Grief and Healing

The time was shortly after 10 p.m., nearing the end of the shift, when an urgent-sounding female voice came over the police scanner. “Shots fired. At least eighteen, possibly nineteen victims. Some fatalities. This is an active shooter.” I heard it myself and remember thinking, Was this real? Nineteen victims? You can generally tell the seriousness of a situation by the tone of the dispatcher’s …

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