We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. A shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida, left at least 17 people dead, officials said Wednesday, and the suspect -- believed to be a former student -- was in custody. "UPDATE: Eagles’ Haven opens tomorrow, March 25; 9am-7pm Monday through Friday and 10am-4pm Saturday and Sunday. As shocking as mass shootings are, they are responsible for only a small portion of all gun deaths in the US.

New video and details emerge from Parkland shooting - YouTube In Orlando, Florida, in June 2016, a gunman killed 49 people and wounded dozens more at a gay nightclub.And in Parkland, Florida, a gunman killed 17 people and wounded 17 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School exactly one year ago — on February 14, 2018. Rick Scott, his hands clutched over his chest.The FBI was alerted six months ago after a YouTube user named "Nikolas Cruz" posted a comment stating "I'm going to be a professional school shooter" on the video site, Cruz's mother died in early November and he had been staying with a local family — whose son is a junior at Douglas, the family's attorney told "He lived here without any concerns or issues for almost three months, and they are shocked and horrified by the allegations being made," the lawyer, Jim Lewis, said, adding that his clients are fully cooperating with investigators.The general store chain Dollar Tree confirmed that Cruz had worked at its Parkland branch.The gunfire began outside the school and continued inside, where 12 of the victims were killed, Israel said.All of those victims have been identified, he said, but no identities will be made public until the families have been notified.Brandon Minoff, a senior at the school who said he had two classes with Cruz two years ago, said that while it was "surreal" to hear Cruz named as the suspect, "I wasn't surprised. "My daughter, who was there in the freshman hall where the shooting took place — she's in shock right now, and she's being taken out by SWAT," Leffler said.
How to make indoor air safer (but not necessarily safe) during the pandemic.A "war game" that tried to simulate the 2020 transition ended in violence. I'm hoping now that as a community, we recognize that the threat is very real.Ryan Petty, father of a high school student killed in the Parkland, Fla., mass shootingRyan Petty, the father of Alaina Petty, a freshman killed in the February 2018 high school shooting, calls the two new deaths "heartbreaking." A candlelight vigil was held last year for the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Seventeen students died in one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history. In 2016, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 39,000 people died of gun-related injuries. Because of the suicides, Director Sarah Franco said it is opening ahead of schedule now with a critical message: "What we're asking parents to do," she says, "is on a daily basis to sit down with their children who are of middle or high school age to ask them if they have any thoughts of dying or any thoughts of suicide or hurting themselves. "On Sunday, school officials, mental health professionals, parents and others held an emergency meeting on how to respond to the suicides and reach others who may be at risk. That definition differs from others, which may require that four or more people are killed, or exclude certain shootings, such as gang-related and domestic events.America is a big outlier among developed countries when it comes to gun deaths, in large part because it has so many guns, making it easy to carry out an act of violence.

"What we're asking parents to do is on a daily basis to sit down with their children who are of middle or high school age to ask them if they have any thoughts of dying or any thoughts of suicide or hurting themselves.

Mass shooting deaths represented less than 2 percent of all gun deaths in the US that year — 451 of nearly 39,000 overall gun deaths.

In Parkland, people were hit hard by news from Connecticut that the father of one of the 20 children killed in Sandy Hook took his own life. Mar 22, 8:01 PM.

""I got paired with him for a project, and he started talking to me about his life — how he was held back twice, expelled from two private schools. This weekend, a post to his Twitter account read "17 + 2" with a broken heart. Shortly after her graduation, she shared a post about suicide prevention on her Facebook page with a hashtag, "asking for help is not a weakness. "He was outside and inside the school," Israel said.Relieved parents like Lisette Rozenblet, whose daughter attends the school, also said she was told that a fire alarm was pulled about the time the shots began. A candlelight vigil was held last year for the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Seventeen students died in one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history.The community of Parkland, Fla., is reeling from the news this weekend that two young people took their own lives.
Sign up for the "Coronavirus is in the air. In the videos, Cruz appears to describe his personal feelings, his enthusiasm and plan for the shooting, his hatred of people, and how it will make him notorious.

A first-hand account of Parkland coming together to mourn the 17 lost lives in the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.Let our news meet your inbox. 17 killed in mass shooting at high school in Parkland, Florida