Parkland Shooting

Years after the shooting at the South Florida high school, where a gunman killed 17 people and injured 17 more, lawmakers are still grappling with how far gun control laws should go to prevent these kinds of tragedies.

The Parkland and Coral Springs community show support every year at the vigil, upholding their vow to forever honor the memory of those killed in the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

This week on The Florida Roundup, we talked about immigration bills passed this week and how the state plans to enforce the law, and the impact of the sweeping gun control laws passed in the wake of the 2018 school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

The proposals would repeal the state’s red flag law and prevent people under the age of 21 from buying a rifle.

An open carry billed filed for consideration during the 2025 Legislative Session would allow Floridians to openly carry firearms, and it would repeal a “red-flag” law passed after the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland that allows authorities to take guns from people found to pose a “significant danger” to themselves or others.

Former Broward County Public Schools general counsel Barbara Myrick pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor count of attempted unlawful disclosure of grand jury proceedings.

The parents of Luke Hoyer, Alaina Petty and Meadow Pollack each reached $50 million settlements with the shooter. Wounded student Maddy Wilford agreed to a $40 million settlement.

When demolition at the 1200 building of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School began last month, language arts teacher Sarah Lerner was there. She was on campus six years ago too, the day the massacre happened. “It really is ... that last piece of the puzzle, and now we can all collectively move forward," she told WLRN.

Shooter Nikolas Cruz now cannot benefit from movies, books or other media about him.

Parkland. Uvalde. Columbine. Sandy Hook. A supermarket in Buffalo. A church in South Carolina. A synagogue in Pittsburgh. When violence comes to a public place, as it does all too often in our era, a delicate question lingers afterward: What should be done with the buildings where blood was shed?

Six years later, the site of one of the worst school shootings in the nation is getting demolished — but with it, comes mixed feelings in the Parkland community, who want to remember victims while letting go of painful memories.

Demolition of the building where 17 people died in the 2018 Parkland school shooting is set to begin. The three-story building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School had been kept as evidence in the 2022 trial of the killer and last year's trial of a sheriff's deputy who didn't enter it and confront him.