For survivors of Covenant School shooting, nightmares persists [View all]

She saw the face of the killer who gunned down her friends. The shooter looked mean. Angry.

For weeks, the 9-year-old perched atop a set of stairs as night fell. There, inside her family’s two-story home, the girl, whose free time was once consumed by dancing and crafts, kept vigil, watching passing headlights that beamed through the floor-to-ceiling windows.

Within days of the Covenant School shooting in late March, this survivor began an evening ritual — checking exits, searching for signs of suspicious cars, identifying hiding spots and always thinking of escape plans — on the off chance a killer tried to shoot their way into her home.

She even asked her parents to install bulletproof glass.

Before the school shooting, her mother said, she was a happy girl. Silly and funny. Delightful. Since then, she’s become more withdrawn. She lost 50% of the hearing in her left ear, a consequence of being so close to the shooter, inside the third-grade classroom that was riddled with more than 150 bullets.

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/local/2023/12/10/nashville-covenant-school-shooting-survivors-say-their-pain-remains-fresh/71604990007/

Here, and everywhere else there's been a shooting. When will it STOP?