NEWARK, Calif. — Most people — including the several hundred who filled a gymnasium in this sleepy Northern California suburb Monday afternoon — know Steve Kerr as the two-time champion coach of the Golden State Warriors, his latest role in his three-decade career in professional basketball.
But when Kerr took the microphone at Newark Memorial High as part of a town-hall-style event held in the wake of the recent shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Florida, he stood before the group featuring students from several area high schools as something else: a victim of gun violence.