Seven security guards were in the school at the time, each at an entry point of the locked building, and 1 of them notified police.
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Prosecutors in Parkland shooting call for probe into juror threat
The motion calls for law enforcement to interview the unnamed juror after she told the state attorney’s office about what ‘she perceived to be a threat from a fellow juror while in the jury room.’
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Parkland school shooter gets life sentence without parole
Nikolas Cruz pleaded guilty a year ago to murdering 14 students and three staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in 2018.
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Six adults wounded in shooting at school in California
Authorities say 6 adults were shot and wounded at a school campus in east Oakland, California.
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Rockland man heard voices ‘telling him to do a school shooting’
ROCKLAND — Local police said they could file a criminal charge in the coming days against a man who told them that he “had voices in his head telling him to do a school shooting but he is able to keep the voices at bay.” Brandon Luzzi, 62, had seven firearms and a flare gun […]
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Indiana teacher who stopped attack says he had to save students
NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A suburban Indianapolis teacher who was shot while tackling and disarming a student inside his classroom said Monday that his swift decisions “were the only acceptable actions” to save his seventh-grade students. Jason Seaman, speaking publicly for the first time since the shooting Friday, thanked the Noblesville community for its support […]
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Patriots’ Edelmen alerts police to school shooting threat
BOSTON — A social media message to New England Patriots receiver Julian Edelman has led police to a teenager who posted a threat about shooting up his school. The New York Times reports Edelman received a message from a concerned Instagram follower late last month who told him about the threat to “shoot up” a […]
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Officer's response praised as Maryland school shooting ends quickly
GREAT MILLS, Md. (AP) — In the latest school shooting in America, the gunfire was over and done with in less than a minute. This time, the shooter, a 17-year-old student, was killed. Authorities said a 16-year-old girl who had some type of relationship with the shooter was critically injured, and a 14-year-old boy also […]
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'Picture of education in fear' as Parkland students return with armed guards
PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Students and teachers passed through tight security cordons of dozens of officers as classes resumed Wednesday for the first time since a troubled teenager with an AR-15 killed 17 people, thrusting them into the center of the nation’s gun debate. The armed police, designed to make Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School […]
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Donald Trump: ‘I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon’
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump told the nation’s governors on Monday that he would have rushed in to aid students and teachers during the deadly mass shooting at a Florida high school. “You don’t know until you’re tested but I think I really believe I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a […]