Zoe Weissman<\/a>, reflected on social media about attending middle school next door to the Parkland high school during the mass killing there. <\/p>\nShe said she was outside the middle school when the shooting happened, and heard gunshots and screams, saw first responders, and then watched videos of what happened.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the latest on the mass shooting at Brown University<\/p>\n
Ben Greenberg, the son of the mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, was in biology class at his high school in 2022 when the principal pulled him out of class, and two police officers escorted him to meet his mother.<\/p>\n
Another Brown student, Zoe Weissman, reflected on social media about attending middle school next door to the Parkland high school during the mass killing there. Zoe Weissman\/LinkedIn<\/p>\n
A man views flowers laid on a snowy sidewalk at Brown University, where a shooting occurred. Matthew Healey\/UPI\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
She told him that his father had just survived an assassination attempt. A gunman had stormed into his office and opened fire, and one bullet came so close to him it ripped a hole in his sweater.<\/p>\n
Greenberg was often on edge after that, terrified that violence could take his family from him at any moment, he said. When he moved to Providence to attend Brown University, he finally felt he could relax a little.<\/p>\n
Greenberg, now 20, lives directly across the street from the building where the shooting happened Saturday afternoon. He and his roommates were scared the gunman could be hiding in their house. <\/p>\n
They built a barricade at the top of the stairs with a mini fridge and a bookcase, and put bottles behind it, so if someone was able to knock it over, at least the rattle of the bottles would alert them. <\/p>\n
He talked to his parents on the phone all night, and they could hear the terror in his voice, said his father, Mayor Craig Greenberg. The assassination attempt changed their family forever, Craig Greenberg said. This shooting will, too.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe impact of gun violence goes far beyond the individuals who are wounded or killed by bullets, to families, friends, entire communities. Those impacts are real, they\u2019re not physical wounds, but they are traumatic wounds,\u201d said Greenberg, a Democrat. \u201cMy hope is that eventually our nation will come together to take meaningful action, even if it\u2019s small steps at first, we have to do something.\u201d<\/p>\n
After Tretta was shot in high school, she pushed for tighter gun restrictions and rose to a leadership role with the group Students Demand Action. Her advocacy took her to the White House under former President Joe Biden, and she also\u00a0met with his former Attorney General Merrick Garland.<\/p>\n
She has particularly focused on \u201cghost guns,\u201d such as the one used at her high school, that can be built from parts and make it difficult to track or regulate owners.<\/p>\n
Attendees light candles during a vigil at Lippitt Memorial Park after the shooting. REUTERS<\/p>\n
\u201cI chose Brown, a place that I love, because it felt like somewhere I could finally be safe and finally, you know, be normal in this new normal that I live of a school shooting survivor,\u201d Tretta said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s happened again. And it didn\u2019t have to.\u201d REUTERS<\/p>\n
And at Brown, Tretta had been working on a paper about the educational journeys of students who have lived through school shootings, a subject shaped by her own experience. The paper was due in a few days.<\/p>\n
Tretta, who studies international and public affairs and education, said Saturday was the first time she\u2019d gotten such an active shooter alert at Brown.<\/p>\n
\u201cI chose Brown, a place that I love, because it felt like somewhere I could finally be safe and finally, you know, be normal in this new normal that I live of a school shooting survivor,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s happened again. And it didn\u2019t have to.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Brown University junior Mia Tretta\u2019s phone began buzzing with an emergency alert during finals week, she tried…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51645,52597,7,9,8,7535,33256,3586],"class_list":{"0":"post-95711","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-brown-university","9":"tag-brown-university-shooting-2025","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-california-headlines","12":"tag-california-news","13":"tag-mass-shootings","14":"tag-school-shootings","15":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}