At least two of the Brown University students who were on campus when a deadly shooting unfolded Saturday have survived school shootings before.

One is Mia Tretta, a junior who was shot in the abdomen during a 2019 shooting at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California.

Tretta, 21, was studying for a final exam in her Brown dormitory Saturday when she learned of the attack. She had been planning to study at the Barus and Holley engineering and physics building, where the shooting took place, but had changed her mind because she felt tired, she said in an interview.

“People always think, well, it’ll never be me,” said Tretta, one of five students shot in Santa Clarita, two of them fatally, by a 16-year-old classmate. “And until I was shot in my school, I also thought the same th

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