HAMPSTEAD, NC (WWAY) — More than 50 students, some accompanied by their parents, gathered Monday evening at Topsail High School to hear from Scarlett Lewis, whose 6-year-old son Jesse was killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
Lewis spoke about transforming tragedy into purpose through the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement, a nonprofit she founded months after the shooting in memory of her son.
The organization offers a free kindergarten-through-12th-grade program centered on social and emotional learning, resilience, compassion and connection…