Sophomore Jason Magdaleno, 16, was in the hallway at Seattle’s Ingraham High School when another student was shot and killed last week.
“I didn’t know what fear felt like until that moment,” he said in front of City Hall on Monday during a student walkout. “I don’t want anyone to have to go through what I went through. … Every hug, every ‘I love you,’ could be your last.”
Painful memories like Magdaleno’s have become all too familiar throughout the United States. At least 152 incidents of gunfire have occurred on school grounds in 2022 across the nation, according to Everytown, a gun-control advocacy group that tracks shootings on K-12 campuses both during and outside of school activities.
