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RSS Feeds`All I heard was Get on the ground! Get on the ground!` Florida school shooting leaves 17 dead, former student in custody
(The Star Food)

 
 

15 february 2018 13:06:49

 
`All I heard was Get on the ground! Get on the ground!` Florida school shooting leaves 17 dead, former student in custody
(The Star Food)
 


PARKLAND, FLA.—A former student opened fire at a Florida high school Wednesday, killing at least 17 people and sending scores of students fleeing into the streets in the nation’s deadliest school shooting since a gunman attacked an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.Frantic parents rushed to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to find SWAT team members and ambulances surrounding the campus as classes prepared to dismiss for the day. Live footage showed emergency workers who appeared to be treating the wounded on sidewalks.Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said the suspect, who was previously expelled for disciplinary reasons, had at least one semi-automatic AR-15 assault rifle and “countless magazines.” “It’s catastrophic. There really are no words,” Israel said on Twitter.Most of the fatalities were inside the building, though some victims were found fatally shot outside, the sheriff said.The 19-year-old suspect was taken into custody without a fight about an hour after he left the scene, authorities said.“It is a horrific situation,” said Robert Runcie, superintendent of the school district in Parkland, about an hour’s drive north of Miami. “It is a horrible day for us.”The attack Wednesday was the eighth-deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, with seven of the 10 deadliest shootings happening since 2007.Doctors said 16 people wounded in the deadly shooting are being treated at area hospitals.Read more:Florida school shooting suspect was a former student who had been expelled‘Mom and Dad, there have been shots fired’ — in Florida, parents receive chilling texts from trapped childrenIn the U.S., the latest mass shootings all have something in common: the AR-15 assault rifleDr. Evan Boyar at Broward Health North told reporters that eight victims and the suspect had been brought to his hospital. Boyar said two victims died, three were in critical condition and th ...


 
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