This article lists examples of individuals who were victims, survivors or witnesses of two school shootings, independent mass shootings or massacres. According to AI, the odds are 1 in a billion that an individual could be involved in two independent school shootings.

Many of the survivors and families of the victims have called for gun control. 

One of the examples involves a German journalist an photographer, Richard Gutjahr, who photographed the Nice, France truck massacre in July 2016 that killed 86 people, and one week later, he was present at a shooting event in Munich, Germany. 

John Pelletier was the incident commander during the Route 91 concert massacre in Las Vegas in 2017 that still has many unanswered questions. He later became the Police Chief of Maui. Police blocked the roads during the 2023 Maui fires and many blame them for increased fatalities.

Note: The Need To Know News is not claiming that the shootings did not happen or that no one was killed or hurt, but instead we point out the low probability and aim to further question the circumstances of the events. We have reported on all of these shootings and our previous articles may be found on our website.

Summary by JW Williams

Example # 1

A researcher on social media recently revealed that Erika Kirk (then Erika Frantzve) was a friend of a woman named Jessica Ghawi, also known as Jessica Redfield, who was reportedly shot to death in the Aurora Colorado theater mass shooting on July 20, 2012. Just seven weeks earlier, Jessica had been at another mass shooting at Eaton Center mall in Toronto on June 2, 2012. She wrote, "I can't get this odd feeling out of my chest. This empty, almost sickening feeling won't go away. I noticed this feeling when I was in the Eaton Center in Toronto just seconds before someone opened fire in the food court. An odd feeling which led me to go outside and unknowingly out of harm's way. It's hard for me to wrap my mind around how a weird feeling saved me from being in the middle of a deadly shooting." (Read her full blog post here)

Her parents sued an online ammunition supplier. The alleged shooter, James Holmes was reported to have over 6,000 rounds of ammo when he killed 12 people.