How to Cope When Tragedy Strikes Your Hometown

How to deal when violence hits too close to home

Image courtesy of the Fredericton Police Force

Six years ago, our provinces’ version of a metropolitan, Moncton, New Brunswick, dealt with a terrible tragedy: A young man in army fatigues shot three Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers to death and proceeded to hold the city hostage by hiding in the woods. Eventually, he surrendered himself, but the damage had been done.