Student Survived Brown University Tragedy, Years After Parkland High School Shooting

A college sophomore survived the shooting tragedy at Brown University — years after she was a student during the mass shooting at Parkland High School in Florida in 2018.

Zoe Weissman was at the Rhode Island-based college on Saturday, Dec. 13, when a gunman opened fire, leaving at least two people dead and nine others injured. (A suspect is currently in custody.)

Years prior, Weissman, 20, was a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where gunman Nikolas Cruz killed 17 people and injured 18 others. Cruz, 27, was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole in November 2022.

Reacting to being a part of two school shootings, Weissman told MS NOW, “I’m really angry. I’m really angry that this is happening to me all over again. And I’m just in shock.”

“I think, mentally, I feel like I’m 12 again. This feels exactly how I felt in 2018,” she added, referring to the Florida incident.

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Brown, an Ivy League school, first announced that there was an active shooter near Barus & Holley, a computer lab and engineering building on campus, shortly after 4 p.m. local time on Dec. 13.

University President Christina H. Paxson described the tragedy as “a day that no university community is ever prepared for.”

Of the nine people injured in the incident, one was in critical condition, six were in critical but stable condition and two were stabilized, a Brown University Health spokesperson said, per NBC News. Providence Mayor Brett Smiley later said in a news conference on Dec. 14 that one person had been discharged, according to the outlet.

The identities of the deceased and injured have yet to be made public as of Dec. 14.

Weissman told MS NOW that classes were not in session at Brown University, but students were “out and about” taking finals before the end of the semester.

Josh Estrella, the communications director for the mayor of Providence, told PEOPLE that the shelter-in-place order for the Rhode Island college has been lifted as of Dec. 14.

Weissman explained that her situation of surviving multiple deadly school shootings was not unique to her.

“There’s already students who survived the school shooting in Oxford in Michigan, and then went to Michigan State and survived another school shooting,” she said to MS NOW.

“This isn’t a new phenomenon, and we’re going to get to a point where there’s [more] people like myself who survived two of these,” the college student added.