Douglas High Students Traveling to Tallahassee to Push for Stricter Gun Laws
Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to “conduct an immediate review” of both the Justice Department and FBI Friday.
He said that an apology would never give families “the answers they desperately need” and said that Mr Wray had to resign. “No one really told us there was going to be a starting line or a starting gun, they just expected us to go”, Haimowitz said.
Wednesday’s school shooting resulted in the deaths of 17 people in total.
More than a month before 17 people were killed at a Florida high school, the Federal Bureau of Investigation got a tip warning that the suspect wanted to kill people and was planning to carry out a school shooting.
The bureau says a person close to Cruz contacted the FBI’s Public Access Line on January 8 to report concerns about him.
A teacher credited with saving dozens of students and teachers during the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, on Wednesday says she is exhausted of politicians offering up words and nothing more after tragedies like the one that occurred at a high school there on Wednesday. “And there’s no question of whether this is the most horrific act ever in Broward County – it is”, he said.
BRIAN MANN, BYLINE: I’m standing outside a new family counseling and support center that’s opened here in Parkland.
According to The New York Times, Israel said his office received about 20 calls in total about the reportedly troubled teen. SEE ALSO: In wake of Fla. school shooting, survivors demand changeIn light of the FBI’s admission that it failed to investigate a tip that the suspect had a “desire to kill” and could be plotting an attack, Alhadeff demanded accountability.
Each one would be scrutinised, he said, without going into detail about the nature of the calls.
Cruz’s mental health was also a matter of public record, as he has been diagnosed with autism and ADHD and had undergone psychological evaluation by state authorities.
In an incredible sign of strength and resilience, many students who survived the tragedy have been speaking out amid their grief and urging politicians to do more than offer condolences.
The Palm Beach Post reports Rocxanne Deschamps said, “He bought a gun and wanted to bring it into my house” in public comments that have since been removed from her Facebook page. Another time, he shot at another neighbor’s chickens. One of the wounded is the son of a Broward County deputy, who is expected to make a full recovery, the sheriff said.