Julie Johnson

Originally published through UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism news site.

SAN FRANCISCO — As the sun went down one recent evening, images of oozing wounds, knives sticking out of eyes, brains on the sidewalk and lifeless bodies in blood puddles flashed on a projection screen in the softly lit chapel of Bryant Mortuary in the Western Addition.

Guests weren’t congregating for a Halloween show or macabre funeral.

It was a gathering of “Scared Stiff,” an anti-gun violence program that aims to show young people the brutal and un-censored reality of gun violence.

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