In just two months, five families with ties to Thornton Fractional South High School suffered tragedies.

Between a former student getting shot to death, a senior student committing suicide, a former student who died in his sleep after a medical emergency while away at college and a deadly car accident that claimed the lives of the siblings of two current students, it’s been two months of non-stop grieving around the school in Lansing.

“The students couldn’t catch their breath,” principal Lisa Bouler said. “It’s been almost too much to bear.”

School District 215 sponsored a student-led Anti-Gun Violence Rally Saturday morning at the school’s athletic stadium. Despite the main theme of gun violence prevention, issues relating to mental health and suicide issues were addressed as well. The

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