It could happen at any time, Rushil Khadilkar knows. Even as he closed out his senior year at Wayzata High School, Khadilkar thought about the possibility that someone might enter his school with a gun and start shooting.
“It’s always in the back of my mind oh, man, is this going to happen in the last week of school?” Khadilkar said.
The fear isn’t unrealistic, and it’s shared by students across the country. After all, in 2023 there were at least 348 school shootings, a record high, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database. Last year’s shootings caused 241 casualties on school property, and more than half that many casualties have already been recorded this year.
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