‘When my brother died, it separated us’: the grief and trauma pulling apart siblings of homicide
When André Robinson Jr was shot and killed in Oakland in 2020, his family was upended – how do siblings navigate the fallout from violent
When André Robinson Jr was shot and killed in Oakland in 2020, his family was upended – how do siblings navigate the fallout from violent loss?
The Robinson family once looked forward to Sundays. It was the day they would gather with dozens of their closest relatives and friends to eat, laugh and catch up.
“Sunday was the day that we cherished the most,” said RoShanda Robinson, the oldest child in the family. But in the fall of 2020, these get-togethers abruptly stopped.
A day that used to include bountiful meals and booming laughter suddenly became a painful reminder of life-changing loss. Continue reading...
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