Personal Narrative Essay: Murder-Suicide In High School

I went to the local high school in my town and I took traditional art classes. I realized how much I loved art and how it was helping me cope inside my house. I decided to enter the two-year Commercial Art Program with the county’s vocational technical high school share time program. I knew then I wanted to be an artist and my father firmly let me know college was never going to happen for me. I envied the American dream consisting a loving father, mother, sibling and pet. I had all of that, but it was more of an American nightmare.
January 18th, a cold winter night my father came home. When I opened my bedroom door my father was standing in the hallway with a stone cold glass stare. He said nothing to me and went into the bedroom. My father closed the bedroom door and my mother started screaming, Irving no! Bang! Bang! I stood between my parents’ bedroom door and the bathroom frozen in space and time. I was in Salvador Dali’s The Persistence of Memory painting of melting
Furthermore, the Violence Policy Center reported sixty-six children and teens less than 18 years of age were survivors who witnessed some aspect of the murder-suicide. “Although research indicate 90% of domestic violence involves a male perpetrator and female victim.” Surveys of domestic violence murder cases disposed in the courts in urban areas found that among African American marital partners, fifty-three percent of the victims were wives. Consequently, post-homicide difficulties experienced contribute to traumatic outcomes and affecting family responses included children being orphaned following a shooting, dealing with the bereavement process, multiple moves, feeling stigmatized, dealing with media, and legal