Katrina Yuzefpolsky was 8 years old when nine of her family members were shot and killed by a mentally unstable relative at a Christmas party in Covina, Calif., in 2008. Dressed as Santa Claus, Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, who had been married to Katrina’s aunt, had a seamstress build extra room into his costume to accomodate his firearms. A bullet tore through Katrina’s cheek, but she, her parents and her sister fled the scene and survived.
Now 13, she has just begun discussing the origin of her scar in school, where she was named most likely to become president. If that prediction ever comes true, she said, “I would tell everyone that they’d have to get rid of their guns.”



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