AT 11.30AM ON Tuesday 24 May, Salvador Ramos entered Robb Elementary School in Texas and opened fire. The gunman, 18, who shot his grandmother in the face before heading to the school, killed 19 children and two teachers and injured 17 others. For the watching world, it was yet another US horror story; the latest act of gun violence to take the lives of innocent children. For Melissa Willey, it was the nightmare she has already lived for years.
‘Those parents of the victims – I know what they’re going through,’ she tells Grazia from her home in Maryland. ‘Heartbreak, sadness, anger… It’s still with me.’
Melissa’s daughter, Jaelynn, was shot in the head by Austin Rollins, 17, in March 2018, just weeks after her 16th birthday, while in class…