Citation

Rowhani-Rahbar A, Zatzick DF, Rivara FP. J. Am. Med. Assoc. JAMA 2019; 321(18): 1765-1766.

Affiliation

Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, American Medical Association)

DOI

10.1001/jama.2019.5063

PMID

30977768

Abstract

In the span of 2 weeks in March 2019, 2 students who survived the mass shooting that occurred in February 2018 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and the father of 1 of the young victims of the mass shooting that occurred in December 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, died by suicide. Drawing direct individual-level causal connections between mass shootings and suicide deaths cannot be done with certainty; however, these 3 deaths painfully underscore the potential long-lasting consequences of gun violence generally and mass shootings specifically ...

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