MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOL

Twelve jurors and 10 alternates who will decide whether Cruz gets the death penalty or life in prison made a rare visit to the massacre scene.

Nothing had been changed, except for the removal of the victims' bodies and some personal items. The sight was deeply unsettling: Large pools of dried blood still stained classroom floors. It looms ominously over the school and its teachers, staff and 3,300 students, and can be seen easily by anyone nearby. Weinstein, a former prosecutor, said in more than 150 jury trials dating back to the late 1980s, he has only had one. It's why judges order jurors in many trials not to visit the scene on their own.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has been sealed and preserved since the 2018 massacre that left 14 students and three staffers dead.

Jurors aren't allowed to converse with each other - when they retrace the path Cruz followed on Feb. 14, 2018.

School Shooting Florida FILE - Law enforcement officers block off the entrance to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Feb. 15, 2018, the day after a deadly shooting at the school. The panelists and their law enforcement escorts will be accompanied into the building by Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer, prosecutors and Cruz's attorneys. Journalists will not be allowed inside until after the jurors leave, and will not be allowed to carry cameras. And in a typical case, a visit wouldn't even present truthful evidence: After law enforcement leaves, the building or public space returns to its normal use. It's why judges order jurors in many trials not to visit the scene on their own.

School Shooting Florida FILE - Law enforcement officers block off the entrance to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Feb. 15, 2018, the day after a deadly shooting at the school. The panelists and their law enforcement escorts will be accompanied into the building by Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer, prosecutors and Cruz's attorneys. Journalists will not be allowed inside until after the jurors leave, and will not be allowed to carry cameras. And in a typical case, a visit wouldn't even present truthful evidence: After law enforcement leaves, the building or public space returns to its normal use. It's why judges order jurors in many trials not to visit the scene on their own.

Jurors in the trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz have toured the still-bloodstained building where he murdered 17 people four years ago.

A Florida jail guard says school shooter Nikolas Cruz attacked him with little warning.

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Three students were wounded in her class and two were killed: Dworet and Helena Ramsay, both 17. “Nicholas Dworet, handsome boy.”Dworet's brother Alexander was grazed by a bullet in a classroom across the hall, where three students were killed and several more wounded. BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM! Reoven said she and the students crouched on the floor around her desk and wounded students were moaning and crying. Cruz also killed some of the wounded by firing on them a second time as they lay on the floor.

Eyewitnesses to the killings of 17 people by Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz are giving heart-wrenching testimony at his penalty trial.

Jurors in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz are being shown graphic video of him murdering 17 people inside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

The state's case against the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School gunman will result in the jury deciding whether there was an aggravating factor.

Opening arguments began Monday in the penalty phase of the shooter's trial, in which a jury will decide if the gunman will be sentenced to death.

Nikolas Cruz Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz sits with his attorneys, Chief Assistant Public Defender David Wheeler and Assistant Public Defender Tamara Curtis before opening statements in the penalty phase of his trial at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale on Monday July 18, 2022. Cruz previously plead guilty to all 17 counts of premeditated murder and 17 counts of attempted murder in the 2018 shootings. In October, he pleaded guilty to 17 counts of first-degree murder and 17 counts of attempted murder in the 2018 attack. Prosecutors said that Cruz ultimately fired more than 130 shots on three floors of a building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, a school he had attended from August 2015 to February 2017. Cruz was 19 years old when he brought an AR-15 rifle into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and began shooting in the school’s hallways.

Once the trial ends, the 12 jurors and 10 alternates can unload to others — but they won’t receive any assistance from the judicial system. The Cruz jurors will tour the now-abandoned three-story building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland where Cruz, 23, fatally shot 14 students and three staff members and wounded 17. Wolfcale said that during the Malvo trial, other jurors sometimes broke down in the jury room after seeing graphic evidence or hearing emotional testimony. In contrast, about 10% of jurors who served on high-profile, graphic trials reported long-term stress, Hannaford-Agor said. They might not fully appreciate jurors' stress levels.

Once the trial ends, the 12 jurors and 10 alternates can unload to others — but they won’t receive any assistance from the judicial system. The Cruz jurors will tour the now-abandoned three-story building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland where Cruz, 23, fatally shot 14 students and three staff members and wounded 17. Wolfcale said that during the Malvo trial, other jurors sometimes broke down in the jury room after seeing graphic evidence or hearing emotional testimony. In contrast, about 10% of jurors who served on high-profile, graphic trials reported long-term stress, Hannaford-Agor said. They might not fully appreciate jurors' stress levels.

The 12 jurors chosen to decide whether Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz is executed will be exposed to horrific images and emotional testimony, but must deal with any mental anguish alone.

A Florida judge has refused to delay the sentencing trial of Nikolas Cruz in the 2018 shooting at a high school in which 17 people were killed.

Four years after a gunman shot up her high school, a young journalist finds herself writing about mass shootings again. In fact, she says, she never stopped.

The March For Our Lives movement was founded in 2018 after the deadly school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

The gun-violence-prevention organization is gathering supporters again in response to another deadly school shooting.

In similar tragedies over the years, police encountered similar problems during the shootings at Columbine High School in 1999 and at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018.

"My innocent son Joaquin was shot four times with an AR-15. And today, we saw an 18-year-old in Texas was able to carry a weapon and kill kids inside their school."

"My innocent son Joaquin was shot four times with an AR-15. And today, we saw an 18-year-old in Texas was able to carry a weapon and kill kids inside their school."

Deputies protecting Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz had to pull him aside and surround him after members of a jury pool became potentially threatening.

The shooter has plead guilty to all 34 counts of murder and attempted murder after opening fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018.

Federal officials have confirmed that the U.S. Department of Justice has reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with the families of most of those killed and wounded in a 2018 Florida high school massacre over the FBI’s failure to stop the gunman even though it had received information he intended to attack.

The Department of Justice said the settlement "does not amount to an admission of fault by the United States" in its statement.

Over 40 civil cases were filed against the Department of Justice following the 2018 shooting.

Federal officials have confirmed that the U.S. Department of Justice has reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with the families of most of those killed and wounded in a 2018 Florida high school massacre over the FBI’s failure to stop the gunman even though it had received information he intended to attack.

Today, the Department of Justice announced that it has settled the 40 civil cases arising out of the February 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The parties have been in litigation since late 2018, when the survivors of the shooting, and the families of 16 people killed, sued the government for damages. In October 2021, the shooter pleaded guilty to 17 counts of premeditated first-degree murder and 17 counts of attempted first-degree murder. This was the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history. This case was handled by the Justice Department’s Civil Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida.

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Inside the Student Union at the University of Central Florida, students gathered for a remembrance ceremony marking 4 years after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting which left 17 students killed.

Oliver, whose 17-year-old son Joaquin was killed four years ago in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, dropped a banner with a message for President Joe Biden.

President Biden released a statement Monday, saying his administration has put together a comprehensive plan to reduce gun crime.

Four years ago on Monday, 14 students and three educators died in a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The students and staff who were shot and killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas were irreplaceable. The students and staff who were shot and killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas were irreplaceable. #MSDStrong https://t.co/URz1Ge66It — Rep. Val Demings (@RepValDemings) February 14, 2022READ: Monday marks four years since 17 people were killed in Parkland high school shootingGov. We stand with the families and members of the Parkland community as we remember the lives of 17 victims who were taken too soon.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida Parkland, Florida, USA - April 25, 2018: The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The school was the site of a school shooting in 2018 which set off mass protests against gun violence. (wellesenterprises/Getty Images)PARKLAND, Fla. — Monday marks four years since 17 people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. READ: Nikolas Cruz pleads guilty in Parkland school shootingCruz was 19 years old on Feb. 14, 2018 when he brought an AR-15 rifle into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and began shooting in the school’s hallways. READ: On Parkland anniversary, Biden urges Congress on gun controlDeSantis is also asking all Floridians to pause for a moment of silence in remembrance of those victims.

The Broward County, Florida, school district will pay more than $26 million to the families of 17 people killed and some of those injured in the 2018 Valentine's Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

School Shooting Florida FILE- Law enforcement officers block off the entrance to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Feb. 15, 2018 in Parkland, Fla., following a deadly shooting at the school. The families of most of those killed in the 2018 Florida high school massacre have settled their lawsuit against the federal government. Sixteen of the 17 killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland had sued over the FBI’s failure to stop the gunman even though it had received information he intended to attack. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File) (Wilfredo Lee)FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — (AP) — The Broward County, Florida, school district will pay more than $26 million to the families of 17 people killed and some of those injured in the 2018 Valentine's Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Another $1.25 million will be paid in one lump sum to Anthony Borges, who suffered some of the most severe injuries.

A South Florida school district will pay more than $26 million to the families of 17 people killed in the 2018 shooting massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

A South Florida teenager is accused of making a school shooting threat against Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

The settlement is over the FBI's failure to act on a tip about the intended attack weeks before the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

The settlement is over the FBI's failure to act on a tip about the intended attack weeks before the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida Parkland, Florida, USA - April 25, 2018: The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The school was the site of a school shooting in 2018 which set off mass protests against gun violence. (wellesenterprises/Getty Images)Family members of those killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, will be receiving $130 million from the U.S. Justice Department over the FBI’s failure to properly investigate the teenager who shot and killed 17 people there. One woman called the FBI to tell them that Cruz was posting threatening messages on Instagram. Attorneys for the families and the department said in a joint court filing Monday, they’ve reached an agreement to settle all the claims at issue in the case.

Families of more than a dozen victims of the 2018 school shooting have reached a settlement with the Justice Department to resolve their lawsuit over the FBI's failure to act on tips about the gunman.

The plea comes more than three and a half years after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, which left 14 students and three faculty members dead.

Nikolas Cruz has pleaded guilty to murder in the 2018 massacre that left 17 dead at a Parkland, Florida, high school.

The boys, both students at Harns Marsh Middle School in Lehigh Acres, are accused of planning a shooting at the school. The boys, ages 13 and 14, are charged with conspiracy to commit a mass shooting, according to Lee County officials. The teacher acted immediately, said Ken Savage, superintendent of the Lee County school district. Florida school shooting: Nikolas Cruz, left, is escorted into court Jan. 27, 2020, for a pretrial hearing. Lee County deputies were very familiar with both boys, Marceno said.

After being accused of hiding during the school shooting that killed 17, a school resource officer will face criminal charges for his actions.

A judge has ruled that the former school resource officer accused of hiding during a Florida mass school shooting will have to convince a jury that he wasn’t criminally negligent.

A Florida judge has refused to close pretrial hearings to the media and public in the case of the man accused of killing 17 people in a 2018 high school mass shooting.

Attorneys for the suspect in a 2018 Florida high school massacre want a judge to bar news outlets and the public from all pretrial hearings.

Parkland shooting survivor says their dad believes it was a hoax after QAnon 'consumed his life'

The embattled Broward County Public Schools superintendent at a top district lawyer who were both indicted on felony charges last week have agreed to step down and the board plans to vote on their replacements as early as Thursday.

Cruz was 19 years old at the time of the Feb. 14 attack on the school.Cruz was charged with 17 counts of murder. His trial is currently in limbo, as his legal team tries to avoid the death penalty sought by prosecutors.Shortly after then-Gov. Rick Scott signed the legislation, the National Rifle Association filed a lawsuit challenging the age requirement, arguing that it runs afoul of the Second Amendment. Ron DeSantis has ordered that flags be flown at half-staff at state and local government buildings on Sunday. The state Capitol will be illuminated in Marjory Stoneman Douglas’ school colors — burgundy and silver — from Sunday through Feb. 21.

President Joe Biden speaks as he meets with Senators from both parties in the White House on Feb. 11, 2021. President Joe Biden on Sunday called on Congress to strengthen gun laws on the third anniversary of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. We will take action to end our epidemic of gun violence and make our schools and communities safer," Biden said. Fourteen students and three staff members were killed in the Parkland shooting. The House passed the Bipartisan Background Checks Act and the Enhanced Background Checks Act during the last Congress.

President Joe Biden used the the occasion to call on Congress to strengthen gun laws, including requiring background checks on all gun sales and banning assault weapons. The president used the occasion to call on Congress to strengthen gun laws, including requiring background checks on all gun sales and banning assault weapons. "For those of us who lost loved ones that day, it's pretty much like any other day. Even before the Parkland tragedy, there was already plenty of anguish in Florida over gun violence. “Today, as we mourn with the Parkland community, we mourn for all who have lost loved ones to gun violence,” he said.

As we approach the third anniversary of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, it’s a good time to reflect on the magnitude of the situation, as well as where it has led us from there.

In this frame grab from video provided by WPLG-TV, students from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., evacuate the school following a shooting there on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018. (WPLG-TV via AP)FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A Florida judge has ruled that a local school district had no responsibility to warn students and faculty at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School of the danger posed by a former student who would later be accused of a mass shooting that killed 17 people. Broward Circuit Judge Patti Englander Henning said Monday that the Broward County school district cannot be held liable for failing to predict actions that were beyond its control, the South Florida SunSentinel reported. AdFamilies of the victims have sued Cruz, who was 19 at the time, as well as the school district, the Broward Sheriff’s Office and on-duty deputies who failed to stop the massacre. “The District had no control over Cruz,” the judge ruled.

Sorrow is reverberating across the country Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021, as Americans joined a Florida community in remembering the 17 lives lost three years ago in the Parkland school shooting massacre. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)Three U.S. senators have introduced a school safety bill named for two of the students killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting almost three years ago on Feb. 14. Senators Rick Scott, Marco Rubio, of Florida, and Sen. Ron Johnson, of Wisconsin, introduced the Luke and Alex School Safety Act of 2021. “The Luke and Alex School Safety Act will ensure that the Federal School Safety Clearinghouse remains a resource our schools can access in the future. AdJohnson introduced the Luke and Alex School Safety Act of 2019 to create the Federal School Safety Clearinghouse.

click to enlarge Photo by Monivette CordeiroThe Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to take up cases in which parents of victims of the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School alleged negligence by a mental-health facility that provided services to accused shooter Nikolas Cruz. Justices issued two orders declining to take up appeals filed by Andrew Pollack and Shara Kaplan, parents of slain student Meadow Pollack, and Royer Borges and Emely Delfin, parents of seriously injured student Anthony Borges.The Supreme Court did not explain its reasons for the decisions The parents went to the Supreme Court after the 4th District Court of Appeal ruled in May that Henderson Behavioral Health, Inc., cannot be held liable in the shooting.The parents alleged that the mental-health facility was negligent, at least in part, for failing to prevent Cruz from being mainstreamed into the public-school system and for failing to warn about dangers posed by Cruz, a former Marjory Stoneman Douglas student at the time of the shooting.But in the Pollack case, the appeals court said the “theories of liability are undermined by Florida law establishing that a criminal attack on third parties by an outpatient mental health patient is not within the foreseeable zone of risk created by the mental health provider. Florida law does not recognize a duty of mental health providers to warn third parties that a patient may be dangerous.”Meadow Pollack was one of 17 students and faculty members who were killed Feb. 14, 2018, at the Parkland school, while Anthony Borges was one of 17 others who were wounded. Cruz is awaiting trial on murder charges.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A Florida school district wants the families of students and staff slain in a 2018 high school massacre to turn over their social media posts from that period, saying it needs them as part of its defense against the families’ lawsuits accusing it of negligence. The district cited multiple lawsuits in which judges found social media postings were relevant for the defense, including lawsuits against local governments. “Such postings are clearly relevant,” school district attorney Eugene Pettis wrote in a motion demanding the posts, according to the South Florida SunSentine l. “Defendants are entitled to discover whether the plaintiffs have made any comments on social media regarding” the shooting. Cruz had a long history of emotional and behavioral problems and his social media posts have been presented as evidence. In addition to the school district, Cruz, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office and its former deputy, Scot Peterson, who was stationed at the school, and others are facing multiple lawsuits.

TAVARES The Lake County School Board began reviewing board policies Monday, giving staff direction on where it would like to see edits in the coming year. In that case, board members opted to make sure policy for early warning systems covered all students, and didnt stop at high school. The relatively tame review is just the start of the boards annual process, which will continue in the coming weeks to cover every aspect of running a school district. Graduation rates and state assessment scores have been on an upward trend as the district and School Board have continued to hone policies. School Board member Marc Dodd commented at the end of the meeting about how smoothly it had gone compared to previous policy reviews.

For the first time since the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting in 2018, Florida lawmakers failed to pass legislation addressing school safety. The measure (HB 7065) incorporated several recommendations from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission and a statewide grand jury impaneled last year to investigate whether school districts were complying with school safety laws enacted after the Parkland shooting. Votes on policy issues, such as the school safety measure, concluded shortly before midnight Friday. Senate President Bill Galvano, who pushed a sweeping school safety measure in the weeks following the 2018 shooting in Broward County, blamed the bills failure to pass this year on differences between the two chambers. A lot of these issues, the school districts are starting to address them on their own.

At the Florida Capitol in Tallahassee, Giordano crossed paths Thursday with Lori Alhadeff, who lost her 14-year-old daughter Alyssa in the Parkland school shooting. Giordano and Alhadeff are linked over their grief of losing children and working to get lawmakers to make schools safer, albeit in different ways. Alhadeff was back to urge lawmakers to require panic buttons at schools to more quickly summon for help. Ron DeSantis, public schools would be required to have a tub or other large container filled with cold water at the sidelines during all games and practices. The proposed law would also require schools to train personnel on how to recognize signs of heat-related ailments, including potentially deadly heat strokes, and to take life-saving actions.

At the Florida Capitol in Tallahassee, Giordano crossed paths Thursday with Lori Alhadeff, who lost her 14-year-old daughter Alyssa in the Parkland school shooting. Giordano and Alhadeff are linked over their grief of losing children and working to get lawmakers to make schools safer, albeit in different ways. Alhadeff was back to urge lawmakers to require panic buttons at schools to more quickly summon for help. Ron DeSantis, public schools would be required to have a tub or other large container filled with cold water at the sidelines during all games and practices. The proposed law would also require schools to train personnel on how to recognize signs of heat-related ailments, including potentially deadly heat strokes, and to take life-saving actions.

But the measures (HB 23, SB 70) have been crafted to require that the alarms be on a mobile phone application that connects with law enforcement. The partnership already is being used by a dozen Florida school districts, allowing teachers and school staff although, not students to connect with first responders for everything from a school safety threat to medical emergencies. Florida supporters of the mobile phone app warn that other alarm models would cost millions more to install and take years to get up and running. Looking to quell the controversy, Rep. Chris Latvala, R-Clearwater, is now proposing an amendment which could be taken up Thursday by the House that would drop the mobile app requirement from the statewide panic alarm measure. But the mobile phone app has its supporters.

FORT LAUDERDALE A California man who is on the autism spectrum was sentenced Monday to more than five years in prison for cyberstalking families of Parkland school shooting victims. Fleury was convicted by a jury in October of three counts of cyberstalking and one count of transmitting a kidnapping threat. On Fleury's electronic devices, authorities also found thousands of saved images of Bundy, images of the targeted victims and screenshots of the messages that he had sent the victims. Meanwhile, Cruz, 21, faces the death penalty if convicted in the Parkland shooting. His lawyers have said he would plead guilty in exchange for a life prison sentence, but prosecutors have rejected the offer.

A California man was sentenced Monday to more than five years in prison for cyberstalking families of Parkland, Florida, school shooting victims. Fleury was convicted by a jury in October of three counts of cyberstalking and one count of transmitting a kidnapping threat. On Fleury's electronic devices, authorities also found thousands of saved images of Bundy, images of the targeted victims and screenshots of the messages that he had sent the victims. Meanwhile, Cruz, 21, faces the death penalty if convicted in the Parkland shooting. His lawyers have said he would plead guilty in exchange for a life prison sentence, but prosecutors have rejected the offer.

In arguing for dismissal, Cowart contended that the photo and caption did not threaten to kill or injure the student, identified in Fridays ruling by the initials Z.M., and that the law governing the issue violated his constitutional right to free expression. While the circuit judge dismissed the charge, the appeals court said Z.M. testified about feeling threatened.It was undisputed that the Snap was a photograph of a scoped AR-15 rife with an extended, large-capacity magazine and was captioned, Show and Tell@ NM on Monday, said the six-page ruling by appellate judges Jay Cohen, F. Rand Wallis and John Harris.The state noted that Z.M. testified under oath that he felt on edge after receiving the Snap and did not believe that the Snap was a joke; he was concerned, especially given the recent school shootings in the country, and believed Cowart was going to bring a gun to the school and shoot it up the following Monday. The reasonableness of Z.M.s alarm was further supported by the fact that several other NMHS students who saw the Snap were also concerned and contacted the school resource officer regarding the matter.

A Florida Senate committee begins work on improving school security and oversight following a critical grand jury report on how districts are implementing law approved after Parkland. Ron DeSantis, concluded that many school districts still had security plans "held together with nothing more than chewing gum, duct tape and hope." Many of the issues mentioned in the grand jury report are addressed in the bill advanced Tuesday. But the legislation provides no additional money to school districts, which have been complaining about the cost of the security measures since they were proposed in 2018. One change proposed by a Polk County university instructor, Robert Pincus, would have lawmakers require school districts to have school counselors devote at least 80 percent of their day to actual counseling.

Many school district and county leaders in Central Florida said they're working to have multiple armed guards in the high schools. Below is a county-by-county breakdown of how schools are budgeted for the SRO program. The starting salary for a guardian is $32,000 while the starting salary for a deputy is $36,000. The SRO budget for 2019-2020 not yet finalized but is expected to be about $5 million. The total budget for the SRO program is $8.3 million, which includes training, salaries, purchasing vehicles and more.

Walkouts were reported Wednesday at Hagerty High School, Lake Mary High School, Oviedo High School, University High School in Orange City and Lyman High School, among other schools across the state. Video showed students sitting on the ground outside of University High School in Orlando chanting "What do we want? Officials from Volusia County Schools said more than 2,000 students participated in a walk out at University High School in Orange City. Seminole County School DistrictWhile the district isn't organizing the event, officials have been made aware and school administrators have been notified. The principal at University High School in Orange City estimates more than 2,000 students participate.