Maine has become the second state, after Virginia, to adopt a Mass Violence Care Fund. It's a $5 million endowment designed to provide ongoing assistance to mass casualty victims, survivors and their families.
A sign stating"Lewiston Strong!" is displayed outside the Just-In-Time bowling alley, one of the sites of the Lewiston shootings, Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023, in Lewiston, Maine.
After losing his daughter. Samaha said it took him eight years to seek therapy. But like Reema, he came to see just how important it is to have a big circle of people around him.There were 177 families and survivors affected by the Virginia Tech shooting. Samaha said one of the many things they wanted to know was who would help them heal their broken bodies, minds and hearts and who would pay for it.
when he was shot multiple times. He spent two weeks in a coma and another month in the hospital recovering, he'll be undergoing his 20th surgery this week. "The kids both go to daycare every day, my wife had to be out of work to help me," he said."She was my caretaker for the last five and a half months because she was able to work from home for a little bit every once in a while, but for the most part she was out of work as well. So all of our expenses kind of just got put on the back burner."
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