Mom Who Lost Her 6-Year-Old Son in School Shooting Turns Tragedy Into a Message of Love

Mom Who Lost Her 6-Year-Old Son in School Shooting Turns Tragedy Into a Message of Love
Photo courtesy of Scarlett Lewis
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When unforeseen tragedy occurs, the only choice that remains is how we respond to it, and this mom from Connecticut chose love.

On Dec. 14, 2012, Scarlett Lewis’s 6-year-old son, Jesse, was murdered in his first-grade classroom at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Connecticut. A former student named Adam Lanza gunned down 20 students and six educators in two first-grade classrooms, making it one of the United States’ most devastating mass shootings to date.