Keegan Gregory was a freshman at Oxford High School when he had to watch students lose their lives in the 2021 school shooting.
As he continues battling the trauma associated to that day, he and his family decided it was best for him to receive treatment at a Florida facility, the same place where students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School went after the 2018 mass shooting.
Gregory read a powerful impact statement during the trial of the Oxford High School shooter on Dec. 8, 2023.
“On that Tuesday, I walked into the school as a normal ninth grader, yet I walked out an entirely different person,” the now-17-year-old said in court. “It was and always will be the most terrifying moment of my life.”
On the day of the shooting in 2021, Gregory became trapped in a school bathroom with the shooter and Justin Shilling. He could only watch as Shilling was murdered.
“I was right there when he was shot and killed, yet I couldn’t do anything about it,” Gregory said in his impact statement.