US Gun Violence Spotlights Emotional Health Issue
Jessica Kenny worked as a concierge in the Excalibur hotel-casino. She was at her normal station at the concierge desk as a vendor for Las Vegas.com. In walks 31 year old Edward Brandt who shoots Jessica, critically wounding her and then turning the gun on himself. Jessica is rushed to the hospital where she later dies. Kenny and Brandt had briefly dated but severed ties in 2009. This type of murder suicide plays itself out everyday in America. A deranged gunman walks into his or her workplace, a shopping mall or another public place and opens fire, killing strangers, acquaintances or an estranged spouse, boyfriend or girlfriend. Earlier this year in Cleveland Katherina Allen 42, who had informed her husband Kevin she was leaving him and taking the children two days earlier, was dining in a Cracker Barrel restaurant with the couples two pre-teen daughters. Kevin, thrice divorced with a long history violence stormed into the restaurant and accor...