DETROIT — Oxford High graduate Zoe Touray climbed through the window of her fifth-hour classroom on Nov. 30, 2021, to escape a gunman carrying out an attack inside Oxford High School.
Touray felt helpless and afraid during that moment, and she does not want other victims of gun violence to carry those feelings forward as they rebuild their lives as survivors of mass school shootings.
So last month, the 18-year-old Oxford High graduate launched her own initiative — Survivors Embracing Each Other — to support survivors of gun violence across the nation. She's hosting her first event this Saturday: a special day for survivors of the Robb Elementary School shooting which killed 19 children and two adults in May in Uvalde, Texas.