Stronger Every Day: Healing After Gun Violence by The Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting published on 2022-06-10T03:20:47Z Tashawn Strother, a community journalist from our Credible Messenger Reporting Project, hosts an audio documentary sharing her family’s journey after her son Walter Willis was shot and critically wounded on New Year’s Eve in 2019. Voices include our Director of Research Dr. Jessica Beard, who is also the trauma surgeon who cared for Walter – and Walter himself. Thanks also go to the Independence Public Media Foundation, The Stoneleigh Foundation and Kouvenda Media. Genre News & Politics Comment by Sunday Evenings Tashawn Strothers did an excellent job of telling the story what happens after someone survives gun violence. As I listened to this story, my heart just broke. The senseless violence and the damage to someone's life for no reason. It hurt to listen to this. You never think about how much the victims who survive gun violence go through, the length of time it takes to recover and the losses even though the person survived. The loss of time from one's life, the loss of health, the loss of the sense of security to just go out into the world again and live life. I so hope that Walter can recover mentally and emotionally from this. Walter is fortunate to have such a strong, beautiful, supportive mother who was there for him constantly throughout this ordeal and a caring physician. Tashawn and Walter, please know my prayers are with you both and I am so happy that Walter is getting better, and stronger every day. 2023-05-11T03:50:38Z
