Parkland School Tragedy

The tragic events of February 14, 2018, continue to have ripple effects, especially within the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School community. Five years later, people deal with the trauma of that day in different ways, including creating art inspired by the experience of surviving the mass shooting which killed 17 people. Max Fink found the outlet...

Manuel and Patricia Oliver left in a big yellow school bus to DC ahead of the 5-year anniversary of the Parkland shooting

Fundraising is officially underway for a memorial to honor the 17 victims of the Parkland school shooting in February 2018. The Parkland 17 Memorial Foundation announced Wednesday that they plan to build and maintain an official public memorial for the 17 victims who died in the mass shooting. The announcement comes just one month before the fifth ...

Gordon Weekes’ office came under heavy scrutiny from the families of the Parkland victims during the course of the trial.

Victims’ families get their final say in court prior to the sentencing of the Parkland school shooter. The statements follow a nearly three-month trial, after which a jury of seven men and five women could not unanimously agree on the death penalty for the convicted killer, resulting in a life sentence.

Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz’s two-day sentencing hearing began Tuesday with the families of the 17 people he murdered in Parkland getting their chance after almost five years to address him directly about the devastation he brought to their lives.

Soon the families who lost loved ones at Parkland will have their final say in court on what this tragedy has done to them as moves are already underway to alter the way Florida decides if convicted killers should be executed.  

The 1200 building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was needed as evidence in the sentencing trial of the confessed killer

The stunning jury decision to spare the Parkland mass murderer’s life is still reverberating among the victims and throughout the legal community, especially after everyone saw the visceral outrage from the families Thursday.

Manuel Oliver, the father of Parkland victim Joaquin, was not in court when a jury decided the gunman should get a life sentence and not the death penalty.

From Broward’s top prosecutor to the archbishop, state and local leaders weighed in on the shooter’s life sentence

Whatever the jury decides, at least the end of the trial process, and the relief that it brings, is almost here. 

Attorneys in the sentencing trial of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz presented their closing arguments Tuesday, with the lead prosecutor making his case for a death sentence and the lead defense attorney arguing for a life sentence.