AP examines lingering trauma in communities of mass shootings

By ​Terry Spencer, Kelli Kennedy and Lindsey Tanner

Terry Spencer, correspondent, West Palm Beach; Kelli Kennedy, reporter, Miami; and Lindsey Tanner, science and health reporter, Chicago, for a sensitively reported story on the trauma that lingers long after mass shootings, including a heartbreaking interview with a student who had tried to kill herself repeatedly. The story came after three suicides in one week among mass shooting survivors and their families.