Posted on 02/14/2018 1:49:50 PM PST by Red Badger
PARKLAND (CBSMiami) — A suspected shooter is in custody and as many as 7 people are dead in a school shooting at a Parkland high school.
Authorities have taken a person into custody in connection a deadly school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
BSO confirmed the suspected shooter has been taken into custody and at least 14 people have been injured in the shooting.
Sources told CBS4’s Jim DeFede that as many as 7 people are dead.
A senior official said the shooter used a rifle.
Officers could be seen handling someone in handcuffs at a community at 11735 NW 47th Drive, near the school just before 4 p.m.
A source briefed on the events said the shooter “is possibly a former student.”
The father of a student at the school says the shooter was allegedly “wearing a black vest with a red shirt…and supposedly he pulled the fire alarm and planned it,” according to CBS This Morning.
Margate Fire Dept. said earlier that anywhere from 20 to 50 people might be injured. A number of people could be seen being loaded into ambulances on a stretcher around 3 p.m.
The school was place on lockdown, but students were trickling out in the last couple of hours, many with their hands up and tears in their eyes.
Inside the school, a student shared a picture as they took cover.
NEW: Photo from a student in the school barricaded in a classroom at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High where an active shooter incident is underway pic.twitter.com/rBVrENjtCM
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) February 14, 2018
CBS4’s Rick Folbaum was speaking over text message with a student at the school who was hiding in a closet. She has since been freed.
“All of a sudden there was a really loud noise…..people are crying the closet,” the student wrote to him earlier.
Officers are asking people to avoid the area.
President Donald Trump has been made aware of the school shooting.
“We are monitoring the situation. Our thoughts and prayers are with those affected,” wrote White House Deputy Press Secretary Lindsay Walters.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott issued a statement on the shooting. At last check, he was on his way to Parkland.
I’ve spoken with @BrowardSheriff Scott Israel, @browardschools Superintendent Robert Runcie and FDLE Commissioner Rick Swearingen regarding Stoneman Douglas High School. We’ll continue to receive updates from law enforcement.
— Rick Scott (@FLGovScott) February 14, 2018
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the FBI are responding.
This story is developing. Check back with cbsmiami.com for the latest information.
This doesn’t near the publicity that it should as it’s more PC to blame the guns.
This generation of youth I just do no understand.
99.999% of bipolar people are a danger to no one.
Yes, I was raised in a rural area and boys old enough to drive to school had their rifles and shotguns in the car to go hunting either before or after school.
Sadly, those days are gone forever..................
Another non sequitur pothead response.
Pure EVIL most likely on Mind Altering, Behavior Altering DRUG prescribed by a Doctor and knowledge and acceptance of parents!
Not everyone who advocates a smaller, less intrusive government is a pothead, jerk.
Potheads are so rabid they will sabotage ANY subject to sell their sicko agenda.
P.S. If you read my entire statement, you would realize it DID follow the previous statement by expanding the point that laws don’t “protect” people. They only infringe on the rights of the law abiding and create new crimes.
And totalitarians like you will support ANY law to try to control people, no matter if it is constitutional or not.
I'm interested in immigration status and history, as well as...
-- criminal record, gang history?
-- drug involvement (first, any illegal drugs or street drugs, and second, any history of prescribed drugs, SSRIs and others)?
and, any mental illness history?
Hopefully someone recorded his social media postings, that might give useful info.
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Kind thoughts for the families of the victims and the survivors. Had to be hell.
1. Perp was a prohibited possessor.
2. Gun-free zone did not make any difference whatsoever.
3. Disarmed victims, no weapons of their own, sheep to the slaughter.
4. Media and Dems already started cranking up propaganda about taking guns away from everyone that DIDN'T DO IT.
Amiright?
You ADMIT you promote the pothead agebda.
That wasn't THAT long ago...
Wow. If you think that the parents of every teenager on Ritalin should have their guns confiscated, you are on the wrong forum. Maybe Democrat Underground would suit you better.
Me too! I just posted about hunting before school and driving with our guns to school.
Amen.
Adolescence is already a rough time for youngsters. Young men trying to get by in a feminized environment were quiescence and passivity are praised, an environment were masculine traits are marginalized and scorned, are going to suffer. A sour romance, a rebuke from a lesbian teacher—whatever—could push someone on the edge beyond the point of no return.
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