@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.

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adr.i.an.a_
adriana 🇵🇷 :
“someone’s child left in a hurry, and assumed she’d be back.”
2025-08-30 19:55:35
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hbenfield
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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eileenethompson
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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lurking.crow
🪶Crow🪶 :
"No Way to Prevent This," Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
2025-08-30 15:18:20
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thatbasedsudanese_1
Mackey :
It's not that deep
2025-08-31 06:16:32
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atiqak27
ati :
hope everyone remembers these tragedies ARE preventable
2025-08-30 15:06:35
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decompxzed_ro4dk1ll
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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chaoticdefiance
Terri Neff :
the most heartbreaking of memorials
2025-08-30 13:23:01
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dayburner
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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jesush10
Jesus Salmeron Herna :
I have no kids but this would K!ll Me😭😭😭😭
2025-08-30 16:06:33
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acrellolina23
🇹🇹🫧bubbles (Selena's ver.) :
And yet they banned phones
2025-08-31 05:04:23
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pinkandturqious
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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igigibye
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_
the_main_ones_ :
Then a week later, America forgets!🫣
2025-08-30 15:27:50
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jazzinaomi
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
adnylers :
I hate all of our politicians
2025-08-30 20:02:51
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mimirain23
Mimi🩷 :
Howw old do i look?!?!!
2025-08-30 13:45:07
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colorfulcarmz1
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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mmmoldyyy
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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liamneeson336
Milkman 2.0 :
“Rooms frozen in time”
2025-08-31 19:28:11
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stonie.d
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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kathi0f
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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20.04.1999core
Nav :
hahaha
2025-08-30 16:00:43
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boy_1.der
Manueeel :
You rent it out!
2025-08-31 00:10:44
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sweetenedpoison
Deeeee :
this is insane. these babies deserved better, BABIES!
2025-08-31 11:34:56
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