"If we better understand their history, we might be able to prevent future school shootings."
After hundreds of hours of interviews, Shenandoah University researchers are able to create a timeline in reverse to see what events took place in a teenage shooter’s mind. The virtual reality world is based on the minds of nine shooters including 11-year-old Drew Golden, 13-year-old Mitchell Johnson and 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz.
“Hopefully take away a few things so that we can be proactive in our community,” said Participant Whitney Mauck. “Just in case something like this happens, it’s not if it happens, it’s when.”
While the demonstration was going on, the room started buzzing with confirmation of two students being killed Thursday morning at the Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California. Students started asking each other and wondering what could they have done to prevent another shooting.
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