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.

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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Austin Walters died from an overdose in 2021 after taking a Xanax pill laced with fentanyl, his father said. A new law named after Austin and aimed at preventing deaths from fentanyl has resulted in its first convictions in Georgia, prosecutors said. (Family photo)

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