Directed by Lisa Davis Larry
The scars left by violence never go away. "When the Shooting Stops" portrays the journeys of four families after violent gun deaths or injuries change their lives forever. Each surviving family member takes a unique path of healing; some toward acceptance, some forgiveness, some actively promoting peaceful conflict resolution, and some having little resolution at all. In a variety of ways, many of them positive, the families give meaning to their own lives and to the life that was lost to violence.
The four families include: filmmaker Lisa Davis Larry's family involving her grandfather, Charles Caplin, a store owner killed during an armed robbery; Colonel (Ret.) and Mrs. Wilbert Bryant, the parents of Lisa Bryant, a cum laude Princeton University graduate and Army officer, who was shot and killed by an Army sergeant at Fort Bragg, North Carolina; the Hawkins family who lost two adult sons, Joe Hawkins and Gerald Roberts, in separate shootings; and the family of Gilbert Salinas, who survived a permanently debilitating shooting at a party, and his wife, Cindy who is herself a survivor of a drive-by shooting at age 12 while retrieving her mail.
Although violent news stories of shooting victims and grieving families can be seen every day, the personal stories of the families' recoveries are rarely made known. "When the Shooting Stops" puts faces, personalities, hopes and dreams to the survivors of gun violence, providing insights and actions that help the healing process while revealing the true cost of violence.
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