Terrified Children, Parents Heard On Parkland Shooting 911 Calls

Elsewhere, one person dialled 911 on behalf of another parent, who was speaking on the phone with her daughter.

Mom: “Can you play dead?. Can you play dead?” the mother said as police entered a classroom. “Students and staff have the right to teach and learn in an environment free from the worry of being gunned down in their classrooms”.

The first calls show the operators’ confusion, such as when a male inside the school, possibly a student, whispers, “There’s shots at Stoneman Douglas, Someone is shooting up the school at Stoneman Douglas”.

“Yes, I hope so too”, the operator adds.

Family members of those killed at a Florida high school are being asked to meet Gov. Rick Scott as he considers whether he’ll sign a sweeping gun and school safety bill.

Schools Superintendent Nancy Taylor said she and high school Principal Mary Gans chose to make an excused absence for the entire day an option after hearing from some parents.

The appropriation includes more than $69 million for mental health assistance in schools, more than $25 million for replacing a building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas and $98 million for hardening security of school buildings.

But he again expressed some reservations about arming school staff.

School resource officer Scot Peterson, who officials say waited outside the school building as the shooting unfolded, initially oversaw his colleagues’ response to the shooting.

Hogg’s mother, Rebecca Boldrick, says she contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation this week because threats against her family have continued to appear on Facebook. “I want to be the last father ever to bury a kid”.

Another terrified mother called 911 after receiving a text message from her son.

And in another call, a woman has called authorities to report that her son contacted her about a possible shooting, and is told the police are at the scene.

According to the timeline of events released by Broward County Sheriff’s office, moments before the shooting stopped, Peterson said, “Make sure I have a unit over in the front of the school, make sure no one comes inside the school”. “Everybody needs to be quiet in that room”. “The idea that they were just going to put a bill on the floor full of Democratic ideas, was never going to happen”, he said.

Signed in November 2013, this 16-page document basically turned police officers into social workers. In a one-page filing in Circuit Court in Broward County, Mr. Cruz’s lawyers said he would stand mute. When you consider the incidents of questionable officer-involved shootings, that have left the African-American community particularly frustrated, when there wasn’t a gun or weapon present by an assailant, there is room for a conversation here.

“If we want to prevent future atrocities, we must look for solutions that keep guns out of the hands of those who are a danger to themselves or others, while protecting the rights of law-abiding Americans”, Chris W. Cox, executive director of the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action, said in a statement.