FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The justice system no longer has a need to preserve the 1200 building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, which has remained standing for five years as a reminder of the Parkland mass shooting that destroyed many families. Now come the summer preparations for this fenced-off site to finally be demolished.
The 1200 building is where a shooter murdered 17 students and staff, and wounded another 17 on Valentine’s Day 2018. The people who still have to look at the site of such tragedy have long wanted it gone. “It’s time for the building to go. It’s absolutely time,” Eric Garner, who teaches broadcast journalism and film at Stoneman Douglas, said Friday. “It is a daily reminder.”
The building now could soon be turned over to the Broward school district, after the trial against Scot Peterson, the school resource officer who had faced criminal charges, concluded Thursday with his acquittal.
