Addressing a need for long-term care for shooting survivors and families, Virginia allocates $10 million to cover expenses not met by insurance or donations.
Frances Shelton writes a message on a wooden cross outside the Walmart in Chesapeake, Va., last year after a supervisor there shot six of her co-workers before taking his own life. In 2022, America suffered more than 36 mass killings, where four or more people were killed not including the shooter. One of those was in a Walmart in Chesapeake, Va., where six people were fatally shot and six were wounded in November.
Their needs “go beyond one or two years,” Samaha said of survivors and victims’ families. “They last a lifetime. And there needs to be a continuum of care. There’s a cost to all of that. If gun prevention, violence prevention is not working, communities and society need to be prepared right now on how to help these families and survivors in the aftermath. The injuries and the grief and the PTSD do not go away.
whose definition differs from ours. The GVA defines a mass shooting as an event in which four or more people, excluding the shooter, are injured or killed by gunfire, including events with no fatalities..). In 2021, 2020 and 2019, there were 690, 610 and 417, respectively. Before that, the Gun Violence Archive tracked fewer than 400 a year since 2014.
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