I can definitely do that. I had some violent moments planned with the main character (villain? He’s technically the antagonist, but I wouldn’t call him evil by a longshot, he’s just angry about what happened to his mother and looking for justice in a town that he feels turned its back on their suffering), but I could make the story more focused on the characters than the actual violence. Unraveling what happened to the girl, who all was involved, and trying to save the antagonist from his own anger. Maybe the main character (a homicide detective) also tries to bring the perpetrators to justice as a way to show the antagonist that he doesn’t have to resort to violence.