Eight people were killed and six others injured at Allen Premium Outlets one year ago.
"Just keep trying, don't give up," said Flo Rice who survived the Santa Fe High School shooting in 2018."You have to learn to live with it."ALLEN, Texas — The spate of mass shootings in Texas, from Sutherland Springs to El Paso to Uvalde to Santa Fe to Allen, leave each community with its own trauma, its own struggle with post-traumatic stress. , people still struggling with the memories of that day have a path to recovery that all those other cities know all too well.
"They kept telling us to breathe, to breathe, to breathe," she said of the police who pressed the crowd to move and to seek shelter."And then we also saw people going down over by the planter," she said trying to shield her son from the images of people shot and killed."I turned and looked down that walkway, and I saw another body down," she said.
"I don't think it necessarily ever gets easier. I think it's just something that you learn to live with," said former Santa Fe High School student Kaitlyn Richards who still receives counseling at the Santa Fe Resiliency Center. "And my friend that I worked with, she was a few feet away and she was dead. I'm always kind of there. It's never gone.""There are triggers that she has that can just put her back at zero again," her husband Scot Rice said."And we have to build from there to try to find...peace."Her search for that sense of peace led to similar free counseling services offered through Galveston County.
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