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Stories about kids, guns and how to stop the violence. Precious Lives, created by 371 Productions, is a 2-year, 100-part weekly radio series about gun violence and young people in the Milwaukee area. The series applies a public health lens to each story to help listeners understand the full scope of the problem: who are the victims and the shooters; how are the weapons obtained; and what can we change about the environment that contributes to violence in Milwaukee?

#059 Precious Lives: Robbery Trauma Leads Milwaukee Prosecutor to Leave Job to Heal

Michael Sears, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Nicole Sheldon says therapy and yoga helped her work through the trauma of being robbed outside her Bay View home.

Homicide prosecutors go to work and face grieving families. Often, before the weight of the loss has sunk in. After former homicide prosecutor Nicole Sheldon got robbed at gunpoint, the details of her cases reminded her of her own trauma.

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