by Nathalie Sczublewski
Published to The News Service of Florida on Aug. 9, 2018
SUNRISE — Family members whose loved ones were killed during a massacre at a Parkland high school in February slammed the Broward County School board for failing to make schools safe, just one week before classes begin.
by Nathalie Sczublewski
Published to The News Service of Florida on Aug. 8, 2018
SUNRISE — Guy Grace, a school-security official whose Colorado community was rocked by the 1999 murders at Columbine High School, shared school-hardening solutions Wednesday with a commission formed after this year’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
by Nathalie Sczublewski
Published to The News Service of Florida on July 11, 2018
SUNRISE — Problems with the communications system exposed by the response to a mass shooting at a Parkland high school aren’t isolated to Broward County, according to testimony at a meeting held by a commission tasked with preventing future catastrophes.
Published February 19, 2018
CORAL SPRINGS, February 19, 2018 — Parents, teachers and students attended a town hall meeting organized by Everytown for Gun Safety, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense and students at the Coral Springs Center for the Arts in Coral Springs on Monday afternoon.
The meeting was put together as part of the aftermath of a mass shooting in Parkland that killed 14 students and three educators this past Wednesday when a former student entered Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, armed with an AK-15 rifle.
“A week ago from today, if you asked me what the number 17 meant, I would say it’s my age,” said Alex Wind, a junior at the high school. “But now, 17 is more than a number. It’s Alyssa, it’s Scott, it’s Martin, it’s Nick, it’s Aaron, it’s Jaime, it’s Chris, it’s Luke, it’s Cara, it’s Gina, it’s Joaquin, it’s Alaina, it’s Meadow, it’s Helena, it’s Alex, it’s Carmen and it’s Peter.”
Speakers at the town hall included students and teachers from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, leaders in Everytown and Moms Demand Action such as Ashley Cech and her mother Yvonne Cech, a fourth-grade teacher who survived the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL).
Published on February 17, 2018
Chants of “Enough is enough!” reverberated down the street as hundreds of people gathered for a gun-control rally on the steps of the federal courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, in response to a mass shooting at a Broward County high school on Wednesday.
Saturday’s speakers included students and teachers who survived the horrific event at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland — the second-deadliest mass school shooting in the nation’s history — along with state and local elected officials and others.
“I am not here as a candidate for governor, I am here as a mom,” Democratic gubernatorial Gwen Graham said. “And I have had it. I have had it. As a mom I am crushed. Enough. Enough. Enough.”
The League of Women Voters of Florida organized the rally to call for stricter gun control laws after gunman Nikolas Cruz shot dead 17 individuals — including 14 teenagers — using an assault weapon-style rifle.
Published to The News Service of Florida on February 16, 2018.
PARKLAND — U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson and Florida Senate leaders visited Broward County on Friday as the community continued to reel from a mass shooting this week that killed 17 people at a Parkland high school.
Senate President Joe Negron, R-Stuart, Senate Minority Leader Oscar Braynon, D-Miami Gardens, Sen. Lauren Book, D-Plantation, and Sen. Gary Farmer, D-Fort Lauderdale, went to Broward Health, where they met with medical workers who treated victims of Wednesday’s shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, according to Negron’s office.
They also met with family members, hospitalized victims and Broward County schools Superintendent Robert Runcie and saw parts of the high school.
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