All posts tagged "Trauma"

The mass shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis on Wednesday in which two children were killed and 17 people injured was simply yet another product of too-lax gun laws, said a teacher who survived the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting nearly 13 years ago.

Abbey Clements, now executive director of Teachers Unify to End Gun Violence, spoke to Raw Story the day after a 23-year-old shooter fired into the church at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis.

The children at the Pre-K-through-eighth-grade school were attending mass. ...

CHICAGO — A recreation director in Highland Park, Ill., who says he suffered psychological trauma following a mass shooting at the suburban city’s 2022 Fourth of July parade, has been fired, according to interviews and government records reviewed by Raw Story.

On Dec. 27, Highland Park officials terminated Chris Maliszewski, 41, who says he is actively being treated for depression, anxiety, insomnia and post-traumatic stress disorder stemming from the massacre, during which seven people died and at least 48 were injured. Maliszewski is in the midst of a workers’ compensation case initiated while he was on leave from his job through the Family and Medical Leave Act.

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LOS ANGELES — A US judge on Monday approved a $4.6 million compensation payment for a boy who had the end of his penis removed in a botched circumcision shortly after birth.

Dog comes home from Iraq suffering what military suspects is PTSD, but is now on mend.