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Parkland Shooting Research Paper

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The Parkland Shooting occurred at Douglas High School, Florida, United States, north of Miami. The incident occured Wednesday February 14 2018 (Nicole Chavez, 2018, p. 5).

The Parkland shooter is known as Nikolas Cruz. He was an individual who has had multiple police reports regarding his behaviour and his brothers prior to the shooting (Curt Devine, 2018, p. 2). He was shown to be mentally unstable, as well as violent. It was known by the police, and others that he had access to firearms (Jose Pagliery, 2018, p. 1).

In the shooting Nikolas Cruz used a .222 caliber AR-15 rifle (Nicole Chavez, 2018, p. 11). Over the course of the shooting he killed twelve people in the school, and two outside of the school. Two people died in the hospital at a later time from the wounds they received from Nikolas (Nicole Chavez, 2018, p. 13). Nikolas was arrested around 3:40 PM around an hour after the shooting (Nicole Chavez, 2018, p. 38). Douglas High School announced that it would remain closed for the rest of the week following the incident (Nicole Chavez, 2018, p. 50). …show more content…

Nikolas entered the school at 2:21 in the afternoon, and set off the fire alarm to draw people into the open, which is perceived as a way to increase casualties (Nicole Chavez, 2018, p. 9). Nikolas then fired into multiple classrooms, before leaving the property to wander around the nearby areas outside of the school such as McDonalds (Nicole Chavez, 2018, p.

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