@cbsnews: After a school shooting, one of the hardest questions for parents to grapple with is how to handle the room of a child who was killed. Do you box up their belongings or do you leave them untouched? Over the last six years, heartbroken parents across the country opened their doors to CBS News’ Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp, so that others could get a glimpse into some of these rooms – now frozen in time. An unmade bed... A library book 12 years overdue... A backpack – still open – after soccer practice... Step through the bedroom doors of eight American children, who left for school one day and never came home.
“someone’s child left in a hurry, and assumed she’d be back.”
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Heather Benfield :
I cant touch my son's room after his death. Just cant do it
2025-08-30 14:20:41
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EeTee :
I couldn’t touch that room for a long time!!! I think eventually I would…with thousands of tears streaming down my face!!!
2025-09-01 18:03:27
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🪶Crow🪶 :
"No Way to Prevent This," Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
2025-08-30 15:18:20
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Mackey :
It's not that deep
2025-08-31 06:16:32
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ati :
hope everyone remembers these tragedies ARE preventable
2025-08-30 15:06:35
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BRIAR :
Do you think their parents sit in the rooms wishing they still had a mess to clean?
2025-08-31 03:23:54
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Terri Neff :
the most heartbreaking of memorials
2025-08-30 13:23:01
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Destiny Amber Bristo :
I'm laying on my 9 month old floor crying for all these parents this is my biggest fear in life.
2025-09-01 17:22:57
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Jesus Salmeron Herna :
I have no kids but this would K!ll Me😭😭😭😭
2025-08-30 16:06:33
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🇹🇹🫧bubbles (Selena's ver.) :
And yet they banned phones
2025-08-31 05:04:23
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prsly :
completely preventable btw, but the gov cares more about forcing women to have kids than about actually protecting these children.
2025-08-30 23:07:12
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gigi :
most of these mass shooters didn’t even obtain their firearms illegally. so YES gun bans WOULD help 💔
2025-08-31 13:36:58
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the_main_ones_ :
Then a week later, America forgets!🫣
2025-08-30 15:27:50
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Jasmin 🍉 :
I still have my daughter’s car seat. It’s been over a year.
2025-08-30 16:22:39
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adnylers :
I hate all of our politicians
2025-08-30 20:02:51
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Mimi🩷 :
Howw old do i look?!?!!
2025-08-30 13:45:07
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Carmz :
the first room with the wall decor that says “we loved you before you were born”. ugh my heart, f*ck this government
2025-09-01 17:37:58
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Cvt🏳️⚧️ :
This made me think about the shooters parents it must be miserable to loose a kid and feel like you can’t even mourn their death because of what they did
2025-08-30 19:58:45
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Milkman 2.0 :
“Rooms frozen in time”
2025-08-31 19:28:11
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stonie.d:) :
I was holding it together, but I don’t know why that opened tube of toothpaste just made me lose it. I’ll never understand people putting guns over children😢
2025-08-30 15:46:01
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Kathi@Home :
I don't know why, but "a library book, now 12 years overdue" absolutely broke me.....this child would be all grown up now.....but never got the chance
2025-08-31 15:05:12
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Nav :
hahaha
2025-08-30 16:00:43
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Manueeel :
You rent it out!
2025-08-31 00:10:44
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Deeeee :
this is insane. these babies deserved better, BABIES!
2025-08-31 11:34:56
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