Parkland

ABC News (PARKLAND, Fla.) — Last month, Vice President Kamala Harris toured Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, site of a 2018 mass shooting, with families of the 17 victims of the massacre and vowed to do more to curb gun violence. Fred Guttenberg, who lost his daughter Jaime in the shooting, was […]

Grant Faint/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Parkland, Florida, high school massacre will be reenacted in the same building on Friday as a part of a lawsuit against former school officer Scot Peterson, who is accused of retreating while students were being shot. Peterson has said he couldn’t decipher where the gunfire was coming from […]

Emily Shapiro/ABC News (UVALDE, Texas) — For 19-year-old Sam Schwartz, arriving in Uvalde, Texas, “was unlike anything I’ve ever seen.” “Getting off that bus and walking to that memorial, there were 21 crosses around the fountain,” he told ABC News, calling it the “most deeply disturbing thing I’ve ever seen.” Schwartz’s visit this week was […]

Mint Images/Getty Images (PARKLAND, Fla.) — Jury selection is set to begin Wednesday in the trial of a former school resource officer charged with felony child neglect for allegedly failing to confront the Parkland school shooter. Scot Peterson was assigned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland as a school resource officer when a gunman opened […]

Paul Morigi/Getty Images for March For Our Lives (WASHINGTON) — The parents of Parkland victim Joaquin Oliver are bringing their new “children’s book” to Washington, D.C., to try to shine a light on gun control in a fresh and provocative way. Patricia Oliver, whose 17-year-old son, Joaquin, was among the 17 students and staff killed […]