(CNN)- Survivors of
the deadly shooting rampage at a Parkland, Florida, high school led thousands Saturday in a March for Our Lives on Washington, delivering their impassioned pleas for stricter gun control law to the nation.
Not exact matches
The families of the Parkland school
shooting victims also released a statement Friday, asking the media not to use the name of the shooter, as they did after the
deadly rampage at Stoneman Douglas High.
PARKLAND, Fla. — The suspect in a
deadly rampage at a Florida high school is a troubled teenager who posted disturbing material on social media before the
shooting spree that killed 17 people and wounded more than a dozen others, according to a law enforcement official and former schoolmates.
Nikolas Cruz is accused of going on the
rampage at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and murdering 17 students and staff members in what was the nation's third
deadliest school
shooting in its history.
The
rampage has become the 17th
shooting at US schools this year, becoming the
deadliest one since 2012 when a shooter opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, killing 20 students and teachers.