After putting up with her boyfriend's abuse for almost two years, she finally left him. The next day he showed up at her job, pulled out a gun, and squeezed the trigger in front of a restaurant full of dinner guests. By the time I made it home from college, the police had already found him. Instead of putting him in prison for life, the judge decided his mental health played a part in his behavior and sentenced him to five years in a mental health facility.
