WOODBRIDGE -- Students at Potomac Senior High School are focused on how to prevent a mass shooting at their school.
About 200 gathered in the school’s Woodbridge auditorium at 3401 Panther Pride Drive on April 20, the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre in Colorado, to talk about the threat of shootings, as well as mental health issues.
“We named this assembly 'It Could've Been Us' because every school that has faced the tragedy of a shooting didn't think that they would be the school to experience that,” said Lyndy Minitrez, the school’s Student Council President. “ Any school could face that situation. ‘It Could've Been Us’ is a statement that makes you realize that we can make proper steps to prevent death and injury due to mass shootings within both our schools and communities.”
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