Maple Tree Cancer Alliance Employees Try To Cope After Dayton Shooting

By Bobby Allyn

Published August 9, 2019 at 4:30 PM EDT

Several Maple Tree Cancer Alliance employees were out on the town in Dayton last week to celebrate an intern's hiring. Now they're trying to cope with the intern's death in Saturday's mass shooting.

Bobby Allyn

Bobby Allyn is a business reporter at NPR based in San Francisco. He covers technology and how Silicon Valley's largest companies are transforming how we live and reshaping society.

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