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WATCH: Parents of Sandy Hook victims promote video with powerful message

In this handout crime scene evidence photo provided by the Connecticut State Police, shows a damaged door of the Sandy Hook Elementary School following the December 14, 2012 shooting rampage, taken on an unspecified date in Newtown, Connecticut. A second report was released December 27, 2013 by Connecticut State Attorney Stephen Sedensky III gave more details of the the Newtown school shooting by Adam Lanza that left 20 children and six women educators dead inside Sandy Hook Elementary School after killing his mother at their home. (Photo by Connecticut State Police via Getty Images)
In this handout crime scene evidence photo provided by the Connecticut State Police, shows a damaged door of the Sandy Hook Elementary School following the December 14, 2012 shooting rampage, taken on an unspecified date in Newtown, Connecticut. A second report was released December 27, 2013 by Connecticut State Attorney Stephen Sedensky III gave more details of the the Newtown school shooting by Adam Lanza that left 20 children and six women educators dead inside Sandy Hook Elementary School after killing his mother at their home. (Photo by Connecticut State Police via Getty Images)
By Brianna Chambers
Dec 8, 2016

A powerful PSA with an important message and an unexpected twist shows the importance of paying attention to signs of someone who is in crisis or potentially planning violence.

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The video produced by the Sandy Hook Promise, a group of parents and spouses of victims of the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, shows Evan, a student who is searching for a friend. 

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