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President Trump is finally talking about gun control three days after a mass shooting that left 17 people dead and injured at least 14 others at a high school in Parkland, Florida. The president was silent about the issue in a speech at the White House on Thursday, where he offered condolences to the families of the students and teachers murdered and said he would meet with lawmakers and others to discuss school safety.
The student survivors of Wednesday's massacre - many not even old enough to vote - have been saturating the airwaves and social media with a resounding message: Something is broken in a country that can't stem bloodshed wrought by guns. "We are children; you guys are the adults," senior David Hogg implored lawmakers on CNN 24 hours after a gunman killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
The shooter tells someone: A study shows that in 81 percent of incidents, at least one person had information that the attacker was thinking about or planning a school attack In the days following the deadly high school shooting in Florida, as Nikolas Cruz's life as a troubled teen began to come into focus, a disturbing truth emerged: People had known where he might be headed. "Everyone called him 'the school shooter,'" Rachelle Jean, 16, an 11th-grader at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., told the Los Angeles Times.
Maria Creed is overcome with emotion as she crouches in front of one of the memorial crosses at Pine Trails Park in Parkland, Fla., Friday, Feb. 16, 2018, that were placed for the victims of the Wednesday shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Creed's son, Michael Creed, is a sophomore at the school.
President Donald Trump visited victims of the shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., and offered thanks to medical personnel and first responders. On Friday night , Trump traveled in a motorcade from Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport to North Broward Hospital in Pompano Beach.
Jimmy Kimmel urged the U.S. government to bring about stronger gun control laws after the latest mass shooting at a school in Florida. Jimmy Kimmel opened his late night show by replaying clips from President Donald Trump's statement about the killings of 17 people by a teenager with an AR-15 assault weapon at a Florida high school - including the part where Trump said "no parent should ever have to fear for their sons and daughters when they kiss them goodbye in the morning."
Nikolas Cruz was purposeful and well armed when he killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Here is a detailed look into the timeline of the massacre.
Nikolas Cruz is seen on a closed circuit television screen during a bond hearing in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. on Feb. 15. The FBI disclosed that it failed to follow up on a tip about the 19-year-old gunman who is alleged to have attacked a Florida high school on Wednesday, leaving 17 people dead and more than a dozen wounded.
Nikolas Cruz,... . Students grieve at Pine Trails Park for the victims of the Wednesday shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Fla., Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018.
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PARKLAND, Fla. - Jimmy Kimmel opened his late night show by replaying clips from President Donald Trump's statement about the killings of 17 people by a teenager with an AR-15 assault weapon at a Florida high school -- including the part where Trump said "no parent should ever have to fear for their sons and daughters when they kiss them goodbye in the morning."
Disciplined repeatedly in school, treated for mental health issues, crushed after his mother died - more signs of unheeded red flags are emerging about the young man accused of murdering 17 students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland this week. Nikolas Cruz, 19, faced a judge Thursday for the first time since authorities say he rode an Uber to his former school at dismissal time with an AR-15 and fired more than 100 shots.
Early Thursday morning - 4:45 a.m., to be exact - I dropped our 15-year-old daughter off at Davis High School for a long-awaited, ag-oriented field trip deep into the San Joaquin Valley. As I walked her into the classroom where heads were being counted and last-minute instructions given, I noted there were 17 students chatting happily about the day ahead that included a 470-mile round trip by van.
Parkland shooting suspect reportedly had ties white nationalist group called Republic of Florida and was reported to FBI last September. #Tucker Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old accused of killing 17 people at his former Florida high school, had scores of run-ins with law enforcement dating back to 2010 -- with one report saying sheriff's deputies responded to his home more than 35 times in just six years.
As families prepared on Friday to bury victims of another U.S. mass shooting, grief mixed with anger amid signs of possible lapses in school security and indications that law enforcement may have missed clues about the suspected gunman's plans. One distraught mother who said she had just spent two hours making funeral preparations for her 14-year-old child expressed disbelief that a gunman could just stroll into school and open fire, and she appealed to President Donald Trump to take action.
BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. - Accused school killer Nikolas Cruz is a "remorseful" and " broken child " whose life came apart after the devastating loss of his mother in November, his attorneys say.
Broward hospital officials say they 'run drills at their institutions to be ready for instances' like the Florida school shooting that left 17 dead and many more injured. Florida Senator Bill Nelson says the latest school shooting in his state is 'the worst of all possible outcomes.'
Hate group says the accused Florida school shooter did paramilitary exercises and got a rifle from members. Ex-students say he wore a 'Make America Great Again' hat in school.
Washington, Feb 15 - A 19-year-old returned to the high school which had ousted him for indiscipline in the US state of Florida and went on a shooting spree, slaughtering 17 students and teachers in one of the 10 deadliest mass shootings in modern US history. Nikolas Cruz escaped after the bloodbath but was caught an hour later in the neighbouring Coral Spring city and charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder, the New York Times said.
CORRECTS SPELLING TO MARJORY NOT MARJORIE Students are evacuated by police from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, after a shooter opened fire on the campus. CORRECTS SPELLING TO MARJORY NOT MARJORIE Students are evacuated by police from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, after a shooter opened fire on the campus.