Anonymous ID: 236de8 March 24, 2019, 12:25 p.m. No.5866131   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Death of second Parkland student being investigated, police say

 

Police say, ‘It hasn’t been confirmed as a suicide’

Second death of a Parkland survivor in about a week

Police in Florida said on Sunday a male student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school had died.

 

The school, in Parkland, was the site of a shooting on 14 February 2018 in which 17 people were killed and 17 wounded.

 

The South Florida Sun Sentinel newspaper quoted Tyler Reik, a spokesman for Coral Springs police, as saying that “out of respect for the family … we are not going to release the name. It’s a juvenile.”

 

Reik reportedly added: “I know he attended Stoneman Douglas. I can’t tell you if it’s related to the Parkland shooting. We don’t know the reasoning behind it. It’s still an ongoing investigation. It hasn’t even been confirmed as a suicide.”

 

The Miami Herald reported that a police source said the death was an “apparent suicide” and happened on Saturday night.

It was the second death of a Parkland survivor in about a week. Sydney Aiello, 19, a survivor of the shooting who was given a diagnosis of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD, died last weekend. Her funeral was held on Friday.

 

On Sunday David Hogg, the Parkland pupil who became a prominent leader of the March for Our Lives movement for gun control reform, tweeted: “How many more kids have to be taken from us as a result of suicide for the government / school district to do anything? Rip 17+2.”

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/24/parkland-student-second-death