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Families’ hope for Parkland killer: ‘A name on a tombstone no one visits’

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — With his fate sealed and his life spared, the gunman who took 17 lives stepped into a Broward courtroom Tuesday morning to face return fire.

Tribune News Service · Nov 1, 2022

Uvalde families make last push for shakeup on Election Day

The Uvalde school massacre has cast a long shadow in the midterm elections in Texas, intensifying Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s campaign against Democrat Beto O’Rourke and driving a blitz of television ads

The Independent UK · Oct 28, 2022

‘They did not receive justice today’: Families stunned, angered, disgusted by jury's decision to spare life of Parkland gunman

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It has been 1,702 days since they last looked into the eyes of their child, their spouse, but the families of 17 students and staff killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018 finally got their moment of reckoning.

Tribune News Service · Oct 13, 2022

Harrowing testimony heard in Nikolas Cruz trial as officers describe finding Parkland victims’ bodies

WARNING – GRAPHIC CONTENT: Day five of the trial focused on the accounts of some of the first law enforcement officers who arrived on the scene of the massacre as well as the graphic autopsy findings of some of the victims

The Independent UK · Jul 22, 2022

Law officers describe pleas for help in the aftermath of Parkland mass shooting carnage

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Law enforcement officers described injured Parkland students pleading for help and finding body after body of people who were defenseless, or others who spent their final breaths providing cover for students to escape, during the fifth day of testimony in the penalty trial of the confessed…

Tribune News Service · Jul 22, 2022

Father of Parkland victim shouts objection as Biden ‘celebrates’ new gun law

Manuel Oliver, whose son Joaquin was killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre, interrupted President Joe Biden’s speech Monday during a White House event commemorating the new law aimed at reducing gun violence.

Tribune News Service · Jul 11, 2022

Fred Guttenberg, father of Stoneman Douglas victim, endorses Nikki Fried for governor

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Fred Guttenberg, one of the most recognizable, outspoken parents of children killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre, is endorsing Nikki Fried for the Democratic nomination for governor.

Tribune News Service · Jun 14, 2022

At March for Our Lives rally in DC, frustration mixes with optimism amid renewed push for action

WASHINGTON — Serena Rodrigues remembers how she felt four years ago, during her first March for Our Lives rally in Orlando, Florida, when she took a moment to watch a seemingly endless throng of people march together in support of gun control.

Miami Herald · Jun 11, 2022

Parkland survivor David Hogg shuts down Marjorie Taylor Greene on guns: ‘Don’t have time to help you go viral’

Far-right Republican Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene has come under fire for harassing David Hogg in the past and for pushing false claims about mass shootings

The Independent UK · Jun 6, 2022

‘We don’t trust him’: Gun control advocates look past McConnell for action

WASHINGTON — Advocates seeking new restrictions on the ability to buy guns were inherently skeptical of Mitch McConnell’s initial step to greenlight the bipartisan brainstorming of solutions.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Jun 4, 2022