The three-story classroom building where the 2018 mass shooting at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School claimed the lives of seventeen people is set to be demolished by a crew on Friday.
Families of the deceased have been allowed to witness the initial strikes and, if they so desire, take part in the demolition themselves.
Before the 3,300 pupils at the school return from summer break in August, officials want to finish the weeks-long project. When the incident occurred, the majority were in primary school.
The structure had been maintained so that it might be used as proof in the shooter’s 2022 sentencing trial. Despite touring the rooms marked with bullet holes and bloodstains, the jury decided not to execute him.
His sentence is to serve out his remaining years without the possibility of release.
After a major massacre, Broward County is hardly the only county to demolish a school. Following the massacre in 2012, Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut was demolished and rebuilt.
Following the massacre there in 2022, Texas officials closed Robb Elementary in Uvalde and want to demolish it. Following the shooting in 1999, the library at Columbine High School in Colorado was demolished.
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Over the course of the past year, the relatives of some of the victims have given tours of the facility to Vice President Kamala Harris, members of Congress, officials from schools, police officers, and over 500 other invited guests from throughout the nation.
They primarily showed how better safety features, such as doors that lock from the inside, better alarm systems, and bulletproof glass in door windows, could have prevented fatalities.
