(Trends Wide) — Some families of those killed in the 2018 massacre at a Parkland, Florida, high school will have the opportunity, beginning Wednesday, to visit the site where their loved ones lost their lives, the Florida County State Attorney’s Office said. Broward.
At their request, some families and some of the surviving victims will be given private, individual tours of the interior of the 1200 building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the office said. The building was the scene of the deadliest US high school shooting, killing 17 people, including 14 students, and wounding 17 others on Valentine’s Day.
Gena and Tom Hoyer, the parents of slain student Luke Hoyer, plan to take the private tour, according to their attorney David Brill.
“As Gena put it convincingly: ‘It’s going to be agony, but I need to go to where my sweet Lukey Bear took his last breath and went to heaven. He brought him into this world and as a mother I need to be where he left off,'” Brill said in an email to Trends Wide.
The tours will take place at the site of a massacre that sparked a wave of student-led protests against the scourge of school shootings in America, a scourge that continues. There have been about 200 shootings on school campuses since the Parkland killings, according to a Trends Wide tally.
The tours also come after a jury last week acquitted Scot Peterson, the school resource officer who was left outside during the attack, of felony child neglect, negligence and perjury.
Prosecutors, law enforcement and victim advocates will conduct tours of the crime scene, which has been preserved since the shooting, for families who want to see it before it is altered, the state attorney’s office said.
Public access will not be allowed during visits, which are expected to take place over a couple of weeks.
After the tours are complete, custody of the building will be returned to Broward County Public Schools, which will handle the “process for all other staff members and alumni who were present on the day of the mass shooting,” he said. the state attorney’s office.
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(Trends Wide) — Some families of those killed in the 2018 massacre at a Parkland, Florida, high school will have the opportunity, beginning Wednesday, to visit the site where their loved ones lost their lives, the Florida County State Attorney’s Office said. Broward.
At their request, some families and some of the surviving victims will be given private, individual tours of the interior of the 1200 building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the office said. The building was the scene of the deadliest US high school shooting, killing 17 people, including 14 students, and wounding 17 others on Valentine’s Day.
Gena and Tom Hoyer, the parents of slain student Luke Hoyer, plan to take the private tour, according to their attorney David Brill.
“As Gena put it convincingly: ‘It’s going to be agony, but I need to go to where my sweet Lukey Bear took his last breath and went to heaven. He brought him into this world and as a mother I need to be where he left off,'” Brill said in an email to Trends Wide.
The tours will take place at the site of a massacre that sparked a wave of student-led protests against the scourge of school shootings in America, a scourge that continues. There have been about 200 shootings on school campuses since the Parkland killings, according to a Trends Wide tally.
The tours also come after a jury last week acquitted Scot Peterson, the school resource officer who was left outside during the attack, of felony child neglect, negligence and perjury.
Prosecutors, law enforcement and victim advocates will conduct tours of the crime scene, which has been preserved since the shooting, for families who want to see it before it is altered, the state attorney’s office said.
Public access will not be allowed during visits, which are expected to take place over a couple of weeks.
After the tours are complete, custody of the building will be returned to Broward County Public Schools, which will handle the “process for all other staff members and alumni who were present on the day of the mass shooting,” he said. the state attorney’s office.
