By Michelle Mairena In the hope of finding peace, safety, and new opportunities for his family, Daoud Nabi fled his home country of Afghanistan with his two sons in 1977. Christchurch, New Zealand, then became his home, the home where his sons and grandchildren would later grow up in the alleged safety of a first…
By Samantha Jimenez “I just wanted to kill Jews,” said suspected Pittsburgh synagogue shooter to a SWAT officer. Another mass shooting is added to the list of many as we now grieve the loss of citizens to a deadly hate crime. A man entered the Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue on Saturday with three handguns…
By Roxana Casanueva A national gaming tournament in which gamers come to compete on the video game Madden was not a victory this year, but a tragedy. On Sunday, August 26th, two young men were killed in this competition in Jacksonville, Florida. Taylor Robertson, 27, and Eli Clayton, 22, were “both great competitors and well-loved…
By Valeria Bula At 3:19 a.m. on Sunday, April 18, 29-year-old Travis Reinking arrived at a Waffle House establishment wearing nothing but a green jacket, and shot and killed six people with an assault rifle – two outside the restaurant, and four inside. Three individuals died at the scene, one at the hospital. The two…
By Gabriella Licona While many students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High march with Emma Gonzalez in Washington D.C., South Florida residents and other survivors gathered in Parkland, Miami Lakes, Miami Beach, and Pembroke Pines to march. Over 30,000 individuals showed up with posters and ready to march in every location. https://twitter.com/_carocaro/status/977733135143235584?s=21 The largest march in…
By Veronica Rarick Yesterday, Gov. Rick Scott proposed a significant move for gun control in Florida in the wake of the deadly Parkland shooting last week. The ideas expressed weren’t up to par with what the student activists want after 17 of their friends and teachers were killed. Scott favored raising the minimum age for…
By Roxana Casanueva On Tuesday, February 20th, 100 students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High will be traveling to Tallahassee and they will have their first protest of their #NeverAgain movement. The students are demanding that Florida legislators use the rest of the annual session to change state mental health and gun laws to prevent any…
By Diana Rodriguez Almost 40 minutes away from Miami Lakes Educational Center, 17 innocent people lost their lives to a mentally ill teen wielding an AR-15 rifle. As if reading “South Florida shooting” on national media wasn’t surreal enough, we may be more familiar with the school than we realize. Our friends may have met…
By Rozany Guzman Seventeen people died in Parkland on Wednesday. It was one of the deadliest mass shootings in history. Teenagers witnessed their friends and teachers get shot. They hid in classrooms, under desks and in closets. They sent text messages to their parents. They prepared for the worst. And today, survivors of the massacre didn’t…
By Rozany Guzman Reports of a shooting in Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School came flooding in to law enforcement around 2:30 p.m. ET. The loud gunshots sent the students and faculty streaming out of the school in a state of panic and confusion. At least 17 were killed in the Valentine’s Day shooting, said Broward…