Student protests for gun reform Students across the U.S. walked out of their schools Wednesday, on the one-month anniversary of the deadly shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida killed 17 people. The students are demonstrating against the U.S. response to gun violence. ...
learned that the young man accused in the Florida attack, Nikolas Cruz, was widely known to be mentally troubled yet had access to weapons, including the assault-style rifle used to kill 17 students and staff members last Valentine’s Day at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. ...
In Rio Rancho, New Mexico, a student at V. Sue Cleveland High School fired a shot in a hall and ran away, authorities said. He was soon captured. No one was hurt. The former student accused of opening fire with an AR-15 assault rifle in the Parkland attack, Nikolas Cruz, now 20,...
and another teacher stenciled his name on the fluorescent green cover. She placed them on his desk and asked her students to write down their memories of Luke. When the school year ended, she'd deliver it to the Hoyers. Maybe by then, they'd be ready to read it. ...
A Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student challenged Rubio to say if he would accept donations from the National Rifle Association in the future, and Rubio wouldn't say no. Rubio said "once you look at how easy it is to get around the loopholes, you'd literally have to start banning...
Coconut Creek police officer Michael Leonard, who arrested Cruz, said Thursday that Cruz looked like a "typical high school student" when he spotted him walking away from the school. Leonard said his department was responding to the shooting when he saw someone matchin...
The massacre that ripped apart 17 families in Parkland, Florida, five years ago on Valentine’s Day ignited a wave of student-led protests and bipartisan legislation to combat the plague of school shootings devastating the country. The gunman, Nikolas Cruz, has been sentenced...