In 2015, over 36,000 people
died from gunfire, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with roughly two - thirds of those deaths being classified as suicide.
Not exact matches
Brown said it was unclear whether he
died from the exchange in
gunfire or a self - inflicted wound.
But when news broke of a mass shooting in a Parkland, Florida, school — which killed 17 people and injured more than a dozen others — Brown said it shocked him: He graduated
from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 1999, and Aaron Feis, a football coach who
died in the
gunfire, was his classmate.
And teens Shadi Najjar and Artem Ziberov, both on the eve of graduating
from high school,
died in a hail of
gunfire.
Knudson, who graduated
from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in 2005, was a neighbor of Aaron Feis, the coach who
died shielding students
from gunfire in the Feb. 14 massacre.
Feis was an assistant football coach at Stoneman Douglas who
died during the shooting, reportedly while shielding students
from gunfire.
He believed football coach Aaron Feis, who
died protecting students
from gunfire, could have stopped the shooting if he was armed.
He knew assistant coach Aaron Feis, who
died shielding students
from gunfire.