Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
| Stoneman Douglas High School shooting | |
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| Part of school shootings in the United States | |
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The main entrance to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2008
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 Parkland
Parkland (Florida)
Parkland
Parkland (the US)
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| Location |
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School 5901 Pine Island Road Parkland, Florida, U.S. |
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26°18′19″N 80°16′06″W / 26.3053°N 80.2683°WCoordinates: 26°18′19″N 80°16′06″W / 26.3053°N 80.2683°W (shooting) 26°17′23″N 80°17′14″W / 26.2897°N 80.2871°W (arrest) |
| Date | February 14, 2018 2:21 – 2:27 p.m. (EST, UTC−5) |
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Attack type
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School shooting, mass shooting |
| Weapons | AR-15 style semi-automatic rifle (Smith & Wesson M&P15) |
| Deaths | 17 |
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Non-fatal injuries
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17 |
| Perpetrator | Nikolas Cruz |
| Charges | 17 counts of first-degree murder 17 counts of attempted first-degree murder |
On February 14, 2018, a mass shooting occurred at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Seventeen people were killed and seventeen more were wounded, making it one of the world's deadliest school massacres. The perpetrator, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, was identified by witnesses and arrested shortly afterward. He confessed, according to the Broward County Sheriff's Office. He was charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder and 17 counts of attempted murder. Police and prosecutors have not yet offered a motive and are investigating "a pattern of disciplinary issues and unnerving behavior".
The sheriff's office received a number of tips in 2016 and 2017 about Cruz's threats to carry out a school shooting. The Federal Bureau of Investigation learned that a YouTube user with the username "nikolas cruz" posted a message in September 2017 about becoming a school shooter, but could not identify the user. In January 2018, a direct complaint of a death threat by Cruz was not forwarded to the local FBI office by the FBI tip line.
After the shooting, some Stoneman Douglas students began campaigning for gun control legislation and founded the advocacy group Never Again MSD. On March 9, Governor Rick Scott signed a bill that raised the minimum age for buying rifles in Florida to 21, established waiting periods and background checks, allowed for the arming of qualified teachers and the hiring of school police, banned and barred some potentially violent or mentally unstable people from possessing guns. The National Rifle Association immediately filed a lawsuit that challenged the federal constitutionality of the age requirement clause.
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