A shooting killed their student. Now two California teachers are educating kids about gun violence

Athena Larois and Melanie Swandby, who lost Jacob Gonazalez, 17, in a shooting in 2013, wanted to be more proactive in addressing the issue

Since the beginning of this school year, there have been at least two school shootings in Oakland, California.

A shooting at the end of August in Madison Park academy in East Oakland, allegedly committed by a 12-year-old student, left one classmate injured. Another, at Rudsdale Newcomer high school in East Oakland, left six wounded.