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.
Exactly.
I have been saying the same thing for several years.
Bet you a dollar to a donut the stinking media won’t even consider it.
“Nice Airsoft gun he got there. “
Airsoft or barrel tip painted to look so?
My thought too, particularly after learning he had previously made threats.
BINGO!!! Chemical Castration!
Apologies. I’ve got a lot going on now, and so yet another mass murder event sort of annoyed me more than it should I guess. Never mind.
The reality is that those who have mental illness issues DO NOT TURN VIOLENT.
THIS IS THE RESULT OF PURE EVIL. We are dealing with the demonic, pure and simple.
The DRUGS they take makes them violent!
I haven’t heard of ONE person getting EXPELLED from a Public School in DECADES! THAT should have been a huge CLUE!
Your OPINION.
Let us agree to not agree.
We are dealing with “spiritual warfare” here.
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