After A Mass Shooting Shattered Their Peace, Survivors Find Trauma — And Closure

After A Mass Shooting Shattered Their Peace, Survivors Find Trauma — And Closure

This story was originally published by The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. Sign up for its newsletters here.For three days in late February, Ashbey Beasley woke up in the biting cold, hopped into her friend Michael Cohn’s car, and together, they made the 30-minute drive from Highland Park, Illinois to the Lake County Courthouse. Cohn and Beasley got to know each other in the aftermath of the 2022 Highland Park mass …