Gun Violence
Our community is out of control. Maybe gunshots at a local football game will open eyes.
The scene of the shooting is cleaned up and life goes on. We get good at going on, don’t we? We’re not so good at slowing down the violence.
Gregg DoyelIndianapolis Star
INDIANAPOLIS – Outside the locker room, a mother is terrified.
“I want my kid,” she’s telling Ben Davis High School coach Jason Simmons. “I want my kid. I want my kid. I want my…”
Something horrible has just happened outside the stadium, gunshots ringing out in the fourth quarter of Carmel’s game at Ben Davis in Indianapolis on Friday night: boom-boom-boom-boom-boom-boom, six shots in all, fired in about two seconds. Simmons has devoted his career to kids, and he’s a father himself. He has four kids, ages 7 to 17. He gets it. But right now, he’s telling the parents gathered outside the football fieldhouse at Ben Davis, your kids are safe. They're inside brick walls, guarded by armed security.