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‘Frustrated, angry and heartbroken’: Shevrin Jones, Charlie Crist, Parkland parents voice rage at Sunrise gun control rally

SUNRISE, Fla. — As Florida State Sen. Shevrin Jones stood onstage in Sunrise, reading aloud the names of 31 victims gunned down May 14 at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and Tuesday at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, he burst into tears. He blamed the influence of gun…

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Obsession with guns. Dysfunctional families. Many parallels exist between Parkland and Uvalde shooters

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A young man with a troubled home life, who felt bullied at school and developed an obsession with guns, easily walked onto a school campus where he murdered students and staff with a legally purchased AR-15 style rifle.

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'Please send the police now': Urgent pleas don’t always mean the cops rush in. Just look at Parkland and Uvalde

Move toward the gunfire and take out the shooter.

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"It might happen again": Uvalde's kid survivors tell their stories

"It's messed up that these kids have to go on CNN, or MSNBC, or whatever it is, and talk about death."

Axios

How the NRA evolved from backing a 1934 ban on machine guns to blocking nearly all firearm restrictions today

The mass shootings at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket and an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, just 10 days apart, are stirring the now-familiar national debate over guns seen after the tragic 2012 and 2018 school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, and Parkland, Florida.

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Sandy Hook and Parkland families react to Texas shooting as father shares pain outside Florida court

‘They f*****g failed our kids again, okay? I’m done. I’ve had it. You know, how many more times?’

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Texas school shooting invades trial of Parkland murderer

The mass shooting at a Texas elementary school have invaded jury selection at the penalty trial of Florida’s campus killer

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‘I’m in physical pain with what they’re going through.’ Parkland father reacts to Texas massacre

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Parkland families have become spokespeople for a cause they didn’t sign up for.

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Survivors of Parkland and Columbine shootings share their outrage over Uvalde tragedy

Both survivors share their criticism of how, even years after shootings at their schools, no changes have been made to address mass gun violence in America.

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Father of Parkland massacre victim slams gun control inaction as Texas shooting ‘pulls me back to a moment that is unfathomable’

Tuesday’s massacre in a Texas elementary school pierced parents such as Fred Guttenberg, father of Parkland shooting victim Jaime Guttenberg.

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School shootings have increased recently; the violence in Texas is among the deadliest

School shootings have been on the rise recently, but the scale of carnage Tuesday at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, is by far the worst since the 2018 attack at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.

Los Angeles Times

Parkland shooting trial gets new start date

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. —The official start date for testimony in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas mass shooting trial has been pushed back to account for the two-week delay caused by a key lawyer’s apparent illness this month.

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Jury selection in trial of confessed Parkland school shooter enters second phase

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Jury selection in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting case entered the second of three phases Monday, with lawyers looking to weed out those whose views on the death penalty are too inflexible to be part of a fair trial.

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Parkland mass shooting trial jury selection postponed again

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Jury selection in the penalty phase of the Parkland mass shooting case was postponed for another week Monday after the lead defense attorney was unable to come to court.

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The Independent UK

For Parkland survivor, a long road to recovery from trauma

Eden Hebron witnessed a gunman kill a close friend and two other students on Feb. 14, 2018, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida

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Former Parkland sheriff will head much smaller police force

The Florida sheriff ostracized for his agency’s response to the Parkland massacre that left 17 people dead will again be heading a law enforcement agency

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Jury selection postponed in Parkland mass shooting case

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Jury selection in the Parkland mass shooting case was postponed Monday until next week, after the lead defense attorney and two other lawyers could not make it to court.

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In reversal, judge salvages 2 weeks of jury selection in Parkland mass shooting trial

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The judge in the Parkland mass shooting case reversed course Wednesday, preserving the first two weeks of jury selection after tossing them earlier this week.

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Prosecutors and defense clash over motion to block the death penalty in Parkland mass shooting case

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A judge’s willingness to strike more than 200 jurors from consideration in the Parkland mass shooting trial was an error so significant, according to lawyers for the defendant, that the state should no longer be permitted to seek the death penalty.

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Judge scraps 2 weeks of jury selection in Parkland mass shooting trial

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The judge in the Parkland mass shooting trial pulled the plug on jury selection Monday, then started over with a new panel of potential jurors to decide the fate of confessed killer Nikolas Cruz.

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Did judge just scrap two weeks of jury selection in Parkland mass shooting trial?

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The judge in the Parkland mass shooting trial appeared to start the jury selection process from scratch Monday, scrapping two weeks of work and telling more 200 jurors who survived the first round of screening that their services will no longer be required.

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Judge rules that jury selection must start over in trial of Parkland gunman Nikolas Cruz

Nikolas Cruz murdered 17 people and wounded 17 others in the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

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Jury selection in Parkland mass murder trial is about to get more interesting

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The judge in the Parkland mass shooting trial has screened more than 1,200 potential jurors to decide the fate of confessed gunman Nikolas Cruz, focusing on a single question — who has time to sit on a four-month trial without suffering some kind of hardship, financial…

Miami Herald

Parkland father visits White House weeks after being detained by police for protest

WASHINGTON — Parkland father and activist Manuel Oliver wore the shoes his son Joaquin Oliver had planned to wear to prom to the White House on Monday as he attended President Joe Biden’s speech about new steps to curb gun violence.

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Entire panel of jurors released when 8 distraught people balk at deciding fate of confessed Parkland killer

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A judge dismissed an entire panel of 60 jurors Monday afternoon after too many became visibly upset at the prospect of deciding the fate of the Parkland mass shooter.

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