Shootings in Sandy Hook, Parkland and Uvalde left parents afraid, but a greater threat is hidden from public view. In the past five years, 621 kids were shot dead in domestic violence incidents at home, a report says. School shootings claimed 75 lives.
, a federally funded tracker launched after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in 2018.
In New Paris, Pennsylvania, on October 31, 2019, a man killed his wife and 12-year-old stepdaughter with a gun he bought that morning. The judge who sentenced him to life in prison called his actions “pure evil.” Brooks told her to go and never look back. “I can always come fly to see you,” she remembers saying that day on the phone, “but the only way you’re coming back here is in a body bag.” They agreed that Cooper and her daughters would spend the night at Brooks’ house before they set off for Atlanta. “I’ll order pizza,” Brooks told her daughter.Pictures on Angelia Brooks' door show Chasity Cooper and her daughter, Doryan Bryant.
Jones was charged with murder and assault. Brooks believes he found out about Cooper’s plan to leave, but her daughters say their final argument was over how messy he thought the house was.Domestic violence is especially lethal for kids “If someone intends to kill their family, they will make targeted shots and make sure they kill,” said April Zeoli, an associate professor of health management and policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
Often, the young victims were collateral damage in domestic violence targeted at romantic partners. Jordyn Lawson, senior director of residential services at Genesis Women's Shelter in Dallas, said her clients are often threatened with guns by their abusers. The children’s father, a licensed security guard with an expired concealed carry permit, was arrested and charged with five counts of murder. Neighbors heard Brown yelling “My babies are dead!” after she discovered the bodies and called 911. She had filed for divorce five months earlier.
“It never surprises me, sadly to say, that in some instances the children are killed. It's to hurt that victim: ‘You will never, ever have power. You will never ever control. And I am willing to annihilate my children, your children to watch you suffer.’” When Kessler didn’t hear from Greyson or his father over the next two days, she filed an emergency order to have the boy removed from his care. “The Mother is justifiably concerned the minor child may be injured in the Father's care,” her petition said.The pandemic exacerbated child domestic violence shootings
Shelter-in-place orders meant to keep the public safe from a potentially deadly virus had the unintended consequence of exposing kids to deadly violence at home. Backes, at University of Central Florida, says that during the COVID-19 lockdowns of 2020 and 2021, kids experiencing abuse “didn't have the school system to flag anything that might be concerning. It wasn't like a teacher could pull a kid to the side and see what's going on.”
A nationwide housing and eviction crisis also has made it increasingly difficult to move, leaving victims stuck with their abusers. People pay their respects at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where a mass shooting on May 24 killed 19 students and two teachers. Texas is also one of 29 states that don’t require background checks on private gun sales. A federal court recently struck down a state law prohibiting 18- to 20-year-olds from carrying concealed guns. And permitless carry took effect there in 2021, so residents can carry guns in public without having been vetted.
Even a public tragedy like Uvalde hasn’t changed that in Texas, where guns remain a political lightning rod. Lawson blames a number of cultural factors for the state’s larger number of domestic shootings of children and higher rates of domestic violence in general. “When you have a situation in which people are in despair, are desperate, don't know what the future holds, don't know how they're going to pay their rent or put food on the table, and you put them in a context where guns are often seen as a solution and they’re readily available, it's easy to imagine how that is where people turn.”
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