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The Parkland high school shooting was a mass shooting that occurred on February 14, 2018, when 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz opened fire on students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, part of the Miami metropolitan area, Parkland, Florida, killing 17 people [note 2] and injuring 17 others.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas (April 7, 1890 – May 14, 1998) was an American journalist, author, women's suffrage advocate, and conservationist known for her staunch defense of the Everglades against efforts to drain it and reclaim land for development.
On February 14, 2018, Cruz opened fire on students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, murdering 17 people [note 1] and injuring 17 others. [ 62 ] [ 63 ] [ 64 ] Cruz, a former student at the school, fled the scene on foot by blending in with other students and was arrested without incident approximately one hour and twenty ...
References to the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High are now in history books at Florida’s public schools, a shock to some families who say the pain is too fresh for the tragedy to ...
U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona visited the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School building, where the 2018 shooting — the deadliest in Florida — took place, and spoke with some of ...
The Parkland 17 Foundation’s seven-member board narrowed down the list of about 50 designs it received after a nationwide call to the six finalists.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is a public high school in Parkland, Florida, United States.Established in 1990 as part of the Broward County Public Schools district and named after the writer Marjory Stoneman Douglas, it was the only public high school in Parkland, serving almost the entire city as well as a small section of neighboring Coral Springs.
The Everglades: River of Grass is a non-fiction book written by Marjory Stoneman Douglas in 1947. Published the same year as the formal opening of Everglades National Park, the book was a call to attention about the degrading quality of life in the Everglades and remains an influential book on nature conservation as well as a reference for information on South Florida.