Sentences with phrase «shooting deaths of students»

Students link arms around 17 desks, one for each of those killed during the Parkland, Florida, shooting, during a walkout demonstration Wednesday, March 14, 2018, at Cheyenne's East High to protest the shooting deaths of students at schools across the United States.

In Miami's Liberty City neighborhood, where the debate over guns is old and fraught, protesting the shooting death of a student proved far more challenging than his classmates expected.

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We are mourning the deaths of 17 students and adults after Wednesday's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla..

In the days following the February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, students who witnessed the deaths of their peers traveled to the Florida State Capitol to demand stricter gun control laws.

«We want to pass something great, and to me the something great has to be where we prevent it from happening again,» Trump said, referring to the shooting deaths of 17 students and faculty members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14.

David Hogg, the student turned anti-gun activist following the shooting deaths of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida in February, has announced he is putting off his college education to work on the 2018 midterm elections.

Meanwhile, police in North Carolina tried to determine whether the shooting deaths of three Muslim students were hate - motivated.

The study looked at more than 150 school shootings between 2013 and 2015 and found that 55 percent of the shootings were on non-college campuses, 66 percent were purposeful, 99 percent were males, 36 percent were students and 59 percent of the deaths were students.

In response to students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School speaking out against gun violence after a gunman shot 17 people to death inside their school, state Sen. Brian Kavanagh (D - Brooklyn Waterfront - Lower Manhattan) had a message of support for the teens.

Parkland students are participating in the national walkout — which is also the 19th anniversary of the shooting deaths of 13 people at Columbine High School in Colorado.

A month ago, hundreds of teenagers ran for their lives from the hallways and classrooms of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 students and staff had been shot to death.

In light of the Aurora, Colorado, shootings, which resulted in the deaths of 12 people and was allegedly carried out by a troubled former graduate student in neuroscience, it's a compelling question.

When shooting the showdowns between police and gang members, Carpenter roped in a lot of film students from USC, who relished in the opportunity to play with fake blood and provided him with many inventive screen deaths.

The service was held in remembrance of Amadou Cisse, a graduate student, who was shot to death at point - blank range.

However, not all of these incidents involved student - on - student violence: they included, for example, 16 accidental deaths and 56 suicides, as well as incidents involving nonstudents, such as a teacher killed by her estranged husband, who then shot himself, and a nonstudent killed on a school playground during the weekend.

James Alan Kearbey, a student at Goddard Junior High School, has been charged with homicide in the Jan. 21 shooting death of James McGee, said Larry K. Vardaman, director of the state detention facility in Wichita where Mr. Kearbey was ordered held in a hearing last week.

As schools chief in Chicago from 2001 to 2008, he was affected by the gun deaths of a 10 - year - old on the eve of her first day of 4th grade, a 16 - year - old boy shot in a city bus on his way home from school, and an 18 - year - old honor student killed outside his high school, among others.

At Oakland High School, a Manhood Development class student wears a hoodie decrying the shooting death of a local teen teachers said was a promising student.

Although students tend to be sympathetic to the demands of their underpaid teachers, the more significant impetus for high school demonstrations like the ones that swept Michigan last Friday was the shooting that resulted in 17 deaths at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High Schoolin Parkland, Fla..

Students spend a total of 54 BILLION hours in public schools in every year, and Americans» odds of dying in a mass shooting in any location are about 4 times less than the odds of choking to death on food.

The course blog, managed by Adam Yogel, has covered the students» learning process in shooting and editing the film but also kept track of relevant news, including the decision by United States fisheries officials to single out loggerhead deaths in this part of Mexico in a January report to Congress on improving international fisheries management.

Following the tragic shooting death of at least 17 students and teachers at a south Florida high school, sales of bulletproof backpacks are on the rise.

The shooting deaths of 17 students and faculty members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School led the Charter Review Commission to call a special meeting Friday...

On Wednesday, March 7, NBA Miami Heat player Dwyane Wade paid a visit to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to meet with and show his support for students after the shooting that resulted in the death of 17 people at the school three weeks prior..

The shooting deaths of 17 students and faculty members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School led the Charter Review Commission to call a special meeting Friday at the request of board member Cynthia Guerra, a former head of the county's Republican Party.

«We want to pass something great, and to me the something great has to be where we prevent it from happening again,» Trump said, referring to the shooting deaths of 17 students and faculty members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14.

In reacting to the shooting deaths of 17 students and staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, the Legislature passed a new budget and related bills that boosted funding for resource officers by $ 97.5 million to $ 162 million in the upcoming academic year.

At many rallies, there was barely a mention of the killer, Nikolas Cruz, the expelled Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student who shot 17 students and staff to death and wounded 17 more.

This was the latest in a string of online death threats throughout South Florida that have followed the deadly shooting last Wednesday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland that claimed the lives of 14 students and three school staff.

But after students at West Boca Raton Community High School gathered outside Tuesday to mark 17 minutes of silence — one for each person shot to death last week at nearby Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — it turned into a protest for gun control.

DKJA student Maddy Ball, whose cousin 14 - year - old Alex Schachter was one of the 17 victims killed in the shooting, read Alex's poem «Life is Like a Roller Coaster,» written two weeks prior to his death.

Sometimes soft - spoken and quietly emotional, sometimes fired up and loudly passionate, Kennedy paid tribute to the 17 killed and 16 wounded in the Feb. 14 shooting in Parkland, praised the eruption of activism among student - survivors, and delivered a searing takedown of those who have repeatedly failed to act to curb gun violence as the toll from gun deaths has continued to grow.

«It's an issue of life and death,» said Alex Wind, a student who survived the February shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

But today, hundreds of South Florida students have walked out of class and are marching in the streets to demand increased gun - safety laws after 17 students and teachers were shot to death last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

Like their peers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., where a gunman last month shot 17 students and faculty to death, the Excel students have strong thoughts and feelings about the impact of gun violence, and the changes they want to see locally and nationwide.

Broward County Sheriff's officials released the names of the students and teachers shot to death on Feb. 14 at the Marjory Douglas Stoneman High School in Parkland, Florida, and police reports document officers seeing «multiple dead» people at the scene.

With 17 of their classmates and faculty shot to death, the students of the school have become celebrity activists, whom many left - leaning Americans have embraced as the new leaders of the nation's gun control movement.

Built in 1882, the home was the site of numerous deaths, including the original owner, the shooting of a 19 - year - old college student in 2004, and the sudden death of a later owner in 2007.