A suspect is in custody after reportedly shooting 17 people dead at a Florida high school and injuring 14 Wednesday.
Police responded to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland after reports of a student opening fire inside the facility.
Footage allegedly shot by a student from inside the school graphically shows shots being fired.
WARNING GRAPHIC: Inside Stoneman Douglas High School, #Parkland Florida Shooting.
Let this sink in and tell me it’s not time for sensible Gun Control. Save your thoughts and prayers. pic.twitter.com/WlJo1W8mKw
— James Parkley (@jnarls) February 14, 2018
A video posted by Sputnik News shows SWAT team members entering a classroom and children putting their hands up.
WATCH: #SWAT team storms classroom during Florida shooting https://t.co/kiRrGkMNQk #Parkland #SchoolShooting pic.twitter.com/w2mrB290ut
— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) February 14, 2018
Another student posted Twitter updates while holed up in a classroom.
My school is being shot up and I am locked inside. I’m fucking scared right now. pic.twitter.com/mjiEmPvGNb
— Aj22000 (@TheCaptainAidan) February 14, 2018
“The Broward County Sheriff’s Office tweeted after 4 p.m. that a shooter was in custody,” reports CBS News.
Footage shows police taking a suspect into custody.
Shooter is now in custody. Scene is still active. #stonemanshooting
— Broward Sheriff (@browardsheriff) February 14, 2018
“Kids were running out full of blood,” one student’s mother, Derval Walton, told the Sun-Sentinel. “Kids were falling in the grass.”
Students are being let out of the school with their hands up in the air. Latest: https://t.co/ePn2aH2aWJ @ERodCBS4 @RickFolbaum #Parkland #Florida pic.twitter.com/SHHlpLgCzi
— CBS4 Miami (@CBSMiami) February 14, 2018
The suspect has been identified as “Nicolas Cruz,” 19, a former student with the “U.S. Army Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program,” The Daily Mail claims.
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/963886267145494528
One student claimed classmates had often discussed that Cruz was a prime candidate to be a future school shooter.
"Everyone predicted it," a student said about the #Parkland shooting. pic.twitter.com/mbzBIw8iUa
— Vic Micolucci WJXT (@WJXTvic) February 14, 2018
CBS Miami reports the shooter used a rifle and may have also had a shogun, and the father of a student described him as “wearing a black vest with a red shirt… and supposedly he pulled the fire alarm and planned it.”
President Trump tweeted his condolences to the school, and Gov. Rick Scott indicated he was en route to Broward County.
My prayers and condolences to the families of the victims of the terrible Florida shooting. No child, teacher or anyone else should ever feel unsafe in an American school.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 14, 2018
Just spoke to Governor Rick Scott. We are working closely with law enforcement on the terrible Florida school shooting.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 14, 2018
More on this as it develops…
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