He Was Considered The Youngest School Shooter| The Murder of Kayla Rolland
February 29th, 2000, turned out to be the worst day of Buell Elementary School, mainly for six-year-old Kayla Rolland.
To be an American nowadays, we have to continuously worry about the injustices of African-American men and women at the hands of police brutality, but also when we are going to have to post the following #prayers tweets and Instagram posts whenever there is a shooting amongst us. Shootings, specifically school shootings, have been lingering around the United States for many decades, and taking action seems to take longer than it should. It becomes the forefront when subjected to the dangers of an unstable individual, but then it gets pushed aside until the next school shooting. This has become a repetitive, toxic cycle that needs to cease.
Let’s jump back twenty-two years ago. The day is February 29th, 2000, a leap day. This particular day was supposed to be like any other in the two of Mount Morris Township, Michigan, which is about an hour away from the state’s capital, Lansing. For the students at Buell Elementary School, everything was going to be, although tiring, fine and dandy, and then they returned home to their loved ones to rest to start the day over again. However, everything wasn’t…
