via Mark Guarino, The Washington Post- A disgruntled employee, who fatally shot five people and wounded five officers at an Illinois warehouse Friday, severely beat a woman years ago in a domestic violence incident that turned him into a felon — and should have kept him from buying a gun. Two decades before police said Read More >

via Robyn Sidersky, The Virginian Pilot– The first time she was hit, she said, the argument was over a text from an ex.  Sitting on the edge of the bed, Neisha Himes reached down to get her purse to make a quick exit.  Suddenly, she said, he was right there. He hit her with a Read More >

“Relationship violence is a combination of a number of different tactics of abuse that are used to maintain power and control — which are the words in the very center of the wheel. The center is surrounded by different sets of behaviors that an abusive partner uses in order to maintain this power and control. Read More >