CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman has been reporting on school shootings in the U.S. since 1997, starting with a shooting at Pearl High School in Pearl, Miss., two years before the largest school shooting of its time at Columbine High School.

In an effort to honor their memories, Hartman began documenting the bedrooms of school-shooting victims for a multimedia project published by CBS News on Nov. 17, 2024, and featured in All the Empty Rooms, a documentary short releasing on Netflix Dec. 1.

Over the course of about seven years, eight families who lost children in five different school shootings invited Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp into their homes, where they took more than 10,000 photographs. The short film shows Bopp photographing under beds and drawers, making sure he

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