Uploaded March 2018 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
annah Kruse has nightmares about a gunman chasing her; sometimes panic attacks overwhelm her in crowded elevators.
The popping sound tires make as they run over black walnuts on the road in front of her mother's house makes her jump. It sounds like gunfire.
Mike Solano winces when he thinks about the random fireworks that are bound to go off as the weather gets warm. An unexpected boom could trigger his post-traumatic stress disorder.
The Trenton couple doesn't watch the TV news much anymore because it's just too hard. But even when they avoid television, they can't completely dodge headlines as big as the Valentine's Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., where 17 were killed by a former student with an AR15 semiautomatic assault rifle.
They know the terror of a mass shooting. They were in Las Vegas on Oct. 1 when Stephen Paddock opened fire on an outdoor country music concert from the window of his room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, killing 58 and wounding hundreds more.
Kruse and Solano ran for their lives as the rat-a-tat-tat of gunshots ripped through the crowd.
see the rest @freep.com/story/news/2018/03/04/las-vegas-shooting-survivors-gun-violence-parkland/381107002
annah Kruse has nightmares about a gunman chasing her; sometimes panic attacks overwhelm her in crowded elevators.
The popping sound tires make as they run over black walnuts on the road in front of her mother's house makes her jump. It sounds like gunfire.
Mike Solano winces when he thinks about the random fireworks that are bound to go off as the weather gets warm. An unexpected boom could trigger his post-traumatic stress disorder.
The Trenton couple doesn't watch the TV news much anymore because it's just too hard. But even when they avoid television, they can't completely dodge headlines as big as the Valentine's Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., where 17 were killed by a former student with an AR15 semiautomatic assault rifle.
They know the terror of a mass shooting. They were in Las Vegas on Oct. 1 when Stephen Paddock opened fire on an outdoor country music concert from the window of his room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, killing 58 and wounding hundreds more.
Kruse and Solano ran for their lives as the rat-a-tat-tat of gunshots ripped through the crowd.
see the rest @freep.com/story/news/2018/03/04/las-vegas-shooting-survivors-gun-violence-parkland/381107002
