A Brown University student said surviving Saturday’s mass shooting at the college made her feel like she was 12 years old again in Parkland, Florida, surviving that mass shooting in 2018.
“Mentally, I feel like I’m 12 again,” Zoe Weissman, a sophomore at Brown University, told MS NOW. “This just feels exactly like how I felt in 2018. But honestly, I’m really angry. I’m really angry that this is happening to me all over again. And I’m just in shock.”
Weissman was a 12-year-old middle schooler at Westglades Middle School, just down the road from Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School, where in 2018, a gunman killed 17 people and injured 18 others.
On Saturday, a person with a gun opened fire in Brown’s engineering building, killing two people and injuring nine others. A person of interest was taken into custody Sunday morning. Weissman told MS NOW she was in her dorm about to study for finals when her friend called to tell her about the mass shooting.
“My experience is so important because it shows that no one is safe from this,” Weissman said. “Until our Congresspeople actually decide to do something and care about children, care about their constituents, care about people in this country, this will continue to happen, and there will be more people like me who have survived several school shootings.”
