The rooms left behind after school shootings
For many parents of children killed in school shootings, bedrooms left behind are a devastating reminder of what was taken. Several parents share an emotional look inside these empty rooms.
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The Empty Rooms | Sunday on 60 Minutes
For seven years, CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp have documented the virtually untouched bedrooms of children killed in school shootings across the United States. These rooms have become memorials to young lives cut short. Anderson Cooper reports, Sunday.
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Documenting the bedrooms of school shooting victims
Over the past six years, the parents of school shooting victims opened their doors to CBS News' Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp, inviting them to see what it's like to live alongside their children's bedrooms, just as they left them. [Explore the interactive at cbsnews.com/rooms.] First aired 11/14/2024.
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"Everything as it was": Explore the bedrooms of kids killed in school shootings
The families of eight school shooting victims opened their doors to Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp, allowing them to document their children's bedrooms.
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Minneapolis community mourns children
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Father of Annunciation Catholic students
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Details on Minneapolis shooter's writings
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What we know about the Minnesota shooter
Investigators are still working to find a motive after a shooter opened fire at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis on Tuesday, killing two kids and wounding more than a dozen other people. CBS News senior coordinating producer for crime and public safety Anna Schecter has more.
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