(14 Jun 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Parkland, Florida, U.S. – 3 February 2023
1. Various of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School sign and building
2. Various of memorial outside of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
STORYLINE:
A crew is scheduled Friday to begin tearing down the three-story classroom building where 17 people died in the 2018 mass shooting at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
The victims’ families have been invited to watch the first blows and hammer off a piece themselves if they choose. Officials plan to complete the weekslong project before the school’s 3,300 students return in August from summer vacation. Most were in elementary school when the shooting happened.
The building had been kept up to serve as evidence at the shooter’s 2022 penalty trial. Jurors toured its bullet-pocked and blood-stained halls, but spared him a death sentence. He is serving a term of life without parole.
Broward County is not alone in taking down a school building after a mass shooting.
In Connecticut, Sandy Hook Elementary School was torn down after the 2012 shooting and replaced. In Texas, officials closed Robb Elementary in Uvalde after the 2022 shooting there and plan to demolish it. Colorado’s Columbine High had its library demolished after the 1999 shooting.
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