Florida high-school students return to class two weeks after deadly shooting
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- Students returned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday, two weeks after a mass shooting killed 17 people.
- The students were accompanied by uniformed police officers, parents, and supporters.
PARKLAND, Fla. (Reuters) - Students returned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday, bearing white roses and wearing white ribbons to commemorate the 17 people killed there two weeks ago in the second deadliest public school shooting in US history.
The mood was subdued as roughly 3,000 teenagers walked past hundreds of uniformed police officers to resume classes at the school in the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Parkland. The building where most of the victims died will remain closed indefinitely, however.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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