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RSS Feeds`My kid is dead. It goes through my head all day and all night´: Anger bubbles over at funerals for Florida shooting victims
(The Star Television)

 
 

17 february 2018 16:33:10

 
`My kid is dead. It goes through my head all day and all night´: Anger bubbles over at funerals for Florida shooting victims
(The Star Television)
 


PARKLAND, FLA.—As families began burying their dead, authorities questioned whether they could have prevented the attack on a South Florida high school where a gunman took the lives of 14 students, the athletic director, a coach and a geography teacher.At funerals and in the streets of Parkland, a suburb on the edge of the Everglades, anger bubbled over at the senselessness of the shooting and at the widespread availability of guns. A rally to support gun-safety legislation was scheduled for Saturday at the federal courthouse in Fort Lauderdale.Read more: Six friends shattered by Florida shooting forge new bondFlorida school shooter has confessed to massacre that killed 17, police sayIn the U.S., the latest mass shootings all have something in common: the AR-15During a funeral Friday for 18-year-old Meadow Pollack, her father looked down at his daughter’s plain pine coffin and screamed in anguish as Gov. Rick Scott and 1,000 others sat in Temple K’ol Tikvah.“You killed my kid!” Andrew Pollack yelled, referring to Nikolas Cruz, who is accused of gunning down Meadow and 16 others. “My kid is dead. It goes through my head all day and all night. I keep hearing it. This is just unimaginable that I will never see my princess again.”He briefly paused as mourners, punched by the rawness of his words, began to wail.“I wasn’t able to do anything about it. I have always been able to protect my family,” he said. “Our kids should be safe.”Not long after that funeral, the FBI said it received a tip last month that Cruz had a “desire to kill” and access to guns and could be plotting an attack, but agents failed to investigate. The governor called for the FBI director to resign.A person who was close to Cruz called the FBI’s tip line on Jan. 5 and provided information about Cruz’s weapons and his erratic behaviour, including his disturbing social media posts. The caller was concerned ...


 
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