Understanding the impact of exposure to community violence requires an understanding of the complex interactions inherent in the community violence experience. While there have been numerous attempts to better characterize the types of community violence experiences that might increase the risk of negative mental health outcomes in children, en bloc, the empirical work conducted in the area of community violence suffers from a lack understanding how event features shape the community violence experience and interact to impact child outcomes. Designed as a first step to aid understanding the complex relationship between community violence exposure and mental health outcomes, the present study investigated the contextual features embedded in community violence events in context of each other to determine which features of the community violence experience contribute to the psychological impact of the event. Findings among a sample of school-aged children demonstrated that specific event features influenced the development of symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Major Depression. Thus, this study provided evidence to support the value of exploring the multiple contextual features of the community violence experience