As gun violence increases, a lack of trauma care in rural America puts millions at risk
Gun violence in American is increasing, not only on crowded city streets, but in small towns that don't have access to the trauma care that can save lives.
Gun violence in America is increasing, not only on crowded city streets, but in small towns in remote parts of the country that lack resources to save people from life-threatening gunshot wounds.
It was 2 a.m. in late November 2020 when intruders kicked open the door of Timothy Stephens’ home in Laurinburg, North Carolina, a small farming community that grows cotton and tobacco and raises hogs.
Stephens, then 44, was already awake when the men came in waving guns and demanding money. His son, 2-year-old Tymir, had woken up moments earlier to ask for a glass of water.
As the chaotic scene unfolded, Stephens was shot five times in the abdomen while trying to protect his son from gunfire.
“I gotta live for my baby,” Stephens recalled thinking, he said in an interview.
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