Many teens in the Santa Clarita community, roiling with the terror of a school shooting in their own backyard, turned to TikTok as a safe environment to vent their fears and frustrations.
Dozens of teens joined Olmeda in sharing their horror on TikTok as the news of the shooting broke.
"I just graduated from Saugus High School and if you haven't paid attention to the news or the world recently there was a shooting there this morning," Grisanti, 18, said in the approximately 1-minute video. By Thursday evening, more videos began appearing in response to the shooting, with young people expressing their grief for the students who were killed and their fear of returning to schools in the area.
"I don't want to go back to school because I don't want to get shot," Kali.V23 said in the video, choking back tears."I've got a boyfriend and friends and family that I love and don't want to leave behind, and I don't want to go through that. I'm genuinely terrified."The New York Times
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