After a Sweet 16 shooting killed four Black youth, Martin Collins searches for answers and fights to keep his son’s name alive
. Each one he’s learned about has compounded his grief, Martin said, serving as a devastating reminder that shooting deaths are now treated as ordinary casualties of life in the US. “It is absolute insanity. It’s been trauma and hell every single day since my son was murdered in a mass shooting. How many more have we had since then? I’ve lost count.”
“I’ve seen what guns do to people when I was in Iraq, where I was looking at death every day while dreaming about what my son would become, hoping and praying I made it home before he was born,” he said. “We nurtured and loved him, and then 20 years after I went to war, my son is dead? Murdered. In America.
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