Florida School Shooting - Page 22

April 24, 2018

Florida sheriff takes zero-tolerance approach to school threats, arrests almost 30 students in 2 months

Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood says he’s had enough.

April 19, 2018

Illinois Dems push bill rewarding schools that replace armed officers with therapists

Democratic lawmakers in Illinois have drawn up a piece of legislation that would give extra cash to schools that reallocate funds toward replacing armed security officers with unarmed social workers and behavior therapists.

April 19, 2018

Nikolas Cruz vomited, hyperventilated during arrest, police say

Nikolas Cruz, the confessed gunman who fatally shot 17 people in a Parkland, Florida school in February, vomited and hyperventilated after his arrest, according to a police report released Thursday.

April 19, 2018

Parkland-area forum on school safety brings angry parents, students

A security forum for parents and students at a Florida school, planned in the wake of the Parkland school shooting, went off the rails Wednesday as audience members shouted each other down and complained about the district's enforcement of policies.

April 18, 2018

Broward sheriff ordered by judge to release additional Parkland response video, report says

A Florida judge on Wednesday reportedly ordered the Broward County Sheriff’s Office to release video clips from a number of security cameras outside the Parkland high school where Nikolas Cruz opened fire on Feb. 14.

April 17, 2018

Dick's Sporting Goods to destroy all unsold firearms pulled from shelves after Parkland shooting

Dick’s Sporting Goods announced it would destroy all of the unsold firearms it pulled off store shelves in February after the Parkland school shooting.

April 12, 2018

Parkland high school teacher, who survived massacre, left loaded gun in public bathroom, police say

A Florida teacher, who survived one of the worst high school shootings in U.S. history, was arrested Sunday after he left a loaded pistol in the stall of a public restroom where a homeless man found it and later fired it, police said.

April 10, 2018

Broward school board votes against participation in program allowing armed district employees

A school board in southern Florida reportedly voted against taking part in a program Tuesday that would permit certain employees in the district, including some teachers, to carry a gun on campus.

April 10, 2018

New Florida gun law leads to first seizure: AR-15 from Army vet charged with attempted murder

Florida deputies confiscated an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle from an Army veteran on Thursday, and the seizure was the first of its kind under the state’s new gun control law enacted following the Parkland school shooting.

April 8, 2018

Parkland massacre survivor says she hid under dead classmate's body

A Marjory Stoneman Douglas student on Saturday said that as one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history unfolded at her high school nearly two months ago, she used a dead student's body to shield herself from gunman Nikolas Cruz.