A struggle ensued, that continued outside the suspect’s car. It moved just outside the view of the dashcam video Lord shared with NBC Connecticut Investigates. That’s when Lord shot the suspect multiple times, according to investigators.
Lord explained, “He was behind me, choking me from behind. So I reached back under my left armpit and fired several shots.”
He said the PTSD from the incident lasted years.
“It’s a tie between the incident itself and my visit to the attorney’s office, where I was told, pending the investigation I could be arrested for manslaughter. And that I was potentially, the perpetrator, in this situation.”
experience after such a traumatic event. it is very personal. but there s certainly that people are really, it s a bit slow to recover for something so huge. reporter: about how many staff members have been through this counseling? has there ever been anyone who hasn t wanted to talk about what happened? well, i think that our approach has been that everybody responds in a different way, and healing happens in a different way. what we re doing is providing a place and time that they can talk about it with peers around people who are have seen similar traumatic things. and that forcing people to talk is not where it s at but at least offering that moment and those times to be able to express your feelings can be really helpful to people. doctor, how does the bombing event compare to other traumatic events that you ve had to do peer counseling for? i think this has to be up there with really one of the
stalk you, but inside you. willing and writh. feel smaller inside my might. die all of you. dr. keith ablow is a psychiatrist and member of the fed cal a-team. he has experienced handling school safety. dr. ablow. do you want to take a crack at that message? i believe that at this point one lesson here is that it s okay and probably appropriate whether it s through peer counseling of facebook profiles, or someone at the school receiving this information and highlighting these concerning messages and acting object them. maybe this is a fortunate thing that people tend to use social
aboard that would help them in the most positive way. it struck me watching the board of advisers interacting with the junior and senior that they were doing quite a bit of counseling and to me they weren t even beginning to touch on high level board level issues. so i wonder about the purpose of the board and composition and those kind of things it i think your question is spot on. you sit on a lot of advisory boards. how do you come up with an advisory board? i think i agree with wayne which is we normally look at where our greatest weaknesses are and what kind of skill sets we could bring in and then we actually look at mentors that we have within our network that are willing to get involved and really have a deep set of skills and normally that s how we get the best boards. it gives us more diversity. i think it normally generates much higher level conversations than peer counseling that wayne talked about. what do you need, jeff, to get someone on your advisory
crime, you knew her in life. tell us a little about her. chelsea is one of those girls when she walks in the room, you feel a ray of sunshine. she is quirky, she makes kids laugh. if there s an awkward moment, she had this ostrich dance she would do. i know that they ve said she s a straight-a student, but she had four ap classes with as in all of those. she did community service. she was in the symphony, peer counseling, she is was an athlete. she did it all. she s missed. thank you, traci. traci barker-ball. joining us alex michael son, reporter/anchor for xetv. he covered the court. and jane velez-mitchell, host of