Bullet holes also show a school wall in Parkland, Florida, where Nicholas Cruz killed 14 students and 3 staff members.
Over four years after the victim’s body was removed, a strand of black hair remains on the floor. Valentine’s Day gifts and cards are strewn about, and shards of glass shatter at the feet of visitors.
These are disturbing notes from a group of reporters who were allowed into the building after the jury completed the walkthrough.
1st floor
Just like Cruz, I entered through the east atrium. In the stairwell where Cruz assembled the gun, he has two dirty white teddy bears and a small Valentine’s Day gift bag.
In the stairwell where Cruz entered and assembled the gun, there was a stuffed white teddy bear smeared on the floor next to a bag containing a Valentine heart, presumably dropped by a fleeing student.
Everywhere you walk in the building there are shards of broken safety glass that smash loudly when you walk over them. They are especially loud and crunchy at the threshold of each door.
Room 1218
Brittany Cinich’s English Classroom: There were no casualties here, but it was here that Cruz first shot. There was a Valentine’s teddy bear on the desk. A poster of the 2017 Stoneman Douglas football was on the wall. A picture of the team and the motto is Faith Family Football. A pink note wishing Happy Valentine’s Day was on the desk next to student Sarah Lewis’s worksheet. A clear plastic drink Her cup was half-filled on her desk, with dark brown sludge inside. On the desk is a Valentine’s Day card that says, “Not only do I like you, but I really, really like you.”
Room 1215
Study Hall led by Spanish teacher Juletta Matlock: There is dried blood outside the door where Luke Hoyer, Martin Duque and Gina Montalt were killed. Just inside the door lay some earphones with long cords on the floor. The book “How to Kill a Mockingbird” remains on the desk. On the wall is a poster entitled “Let’s Guac About It,” with the basic words in Spanish: Padre, Madre, Abuelo, Abuela.” There are Spanish phrases and colored posters.
Room 1213 — Ronit Reoven’s AP Psychology class:
On the far wall from the door is a table with a large pool of blood. This is where Carmen Schentrup died from a bullet wound to his head. She and her children hid behind the teacher’s desk in the southeast corner of the room. A teacher’s landline phone lay on the floor in front of the desk where Maddie Wilford lay wounded. On the wall behind the desk is a photo of what is believed to be the teacher’s family and an 8 X 10 drawing of him of President Trump with the words “We Win Whatever We Do.” On the north wall is a bulletin board with about 20 wallet-sized photographs of students. A pair of white sneakers remains on the floor.
Corridor – Hickson Site
Room 1214 — “The Holocaust Room” – Dr. Ivy Shamis’ Room
The whiteboard has the hashtag #TogetherWeRemember. There are also references to eyewitness testimony. His two yellowed Sun Sentinel newspapers are on the table, the desk has bullet holes, the laptop is left open, and the headphones and water bottle are still on the desk. Thrown on the floor is his planner for the 2017-2018 school year. The bloodstain where Dworet and Ramsay died. Their blood covers the books “Tell Them We Remember” by Susan Barack and “Listen to the Wind” by Greg Mortenson. One desk had a white plug and earbuds on top.Shows the rapid way everything unfolded
The learning goal on the board is “to perceive the world and its surroundings”.
Room 1216
No classroom had more murders and wounds than Dara Hus’s English class. A blue folder with Alaina Petty’s name on it is still on the desk – just behind it – with a large blood stain between the teacher’s desk and the wall. Bullet hole in the wall.
Right next to the bloodstains on the floor where Alyssa Alhadev and Alaina Petty died was a handwritten piece of paper about Malala Yousafzai, “a girl who wanted to go to school,” and the paper read, “A bullet hit her head.” but not her brain,” ending with, “In conclusion, we the people should have educational freedom.”
(Note: Malala is a Pakistani girl shot by the Taliban who has fought to defend access to education for girls and women).
Student-written essays remain on the desk and are never retrieved. “We go to school every day and take everything for granted,” wrote one student. “We cry and complain without knowing how lucky we are to learn.”
Cabinet doors show previous assignments. Tombstones with inscriptions written by students are on display.
“RIP It’s lying clean here.”
“RIP Here’s a funny lie.”
“RIP, this place is nice, isn’t it?”
Next to the shoes on the ground are pink Valentine’s Day stuffed animals and balloons.
Blood pools look old, dark, hard, and flaky.
The desk is covered with a thin layer of dust and the landline phone is upside down on the ground.
Alex Schachter’s Desk – A blood stain on the other side of the silver bar that connects the plastic sheet to the desk.
west stairwell
Near the western stairs where Hickson was shot is a discarded shoe.
2nd floor – hallway quotes
Corridor quote between rooms 1221 and 1229
“Dream as if you were to live forever, live as if you were to die today.” -James Dean
Further down the hallway it is written:
“Don’t live in the past, but always shape it with Leah.” – Anonymous
Room 1230
A large heart-shaped box of chocolates for Valentine’s Day on the desk.
Another open pen and pencil case.
Room 1232
Calculators remained on desks, spiral notebooks remained open for math subjects, and students worked on algebra problems.
Room 1231
clustered desks
A photo of the Class of 2018 students in a casual setting (not a formal photo).
Third floor
Room 1256, Scott Beigel’s classroom:
Entering the hallway from the east staircase, the first thing you see is a much smaller pool of curdled blood than the others, where Scott Beigel’s body fell in front of 1256 Classroom. Unlike the other rooms, his door window is intact. Beigel died with the door open. His body prevented the door from closing. The children hiding in front of the room were defenseless, but Cruz refused to enter.
The plastic world map is about the size of a placemat on most desks. Three wall clocks were placed face down by the door. On Beigel’s desk was a worksheet comparing Christianity and Islam. On the whiteboard are notes about the medal winners of the 2018 Winter Olympics. A deflated Valentine’s Day balloon lay on the ground.
Room 1255, Stacy Rippel’s Classroom:
The door is pushed open, showing that Cruz has shot in the door, like the others, with “No Bully Zone” hanging inside. The creative assignment for the day is written on the whiteboard, ‘How to write the perfect love letter’.
The teacher’s desk is on the left, and you can imagine the students crowding behind it. The desks are a mess, and some are pushed against each other as testimonies describe them as they madly rushed back to get back inside. On one desk lies an enviable Valentine’s Day spread: a large gift bag with tissues, a box of round candy wrapped in silver, and a heart-shaped box.
As you make your way down the hallway, dry and cracked rose petals mix with glass shards, giving the scene a cinematic feel. there is. A sign above the fountain has a quote from Yoda from Star Wars. “Do or do not. There is no try.”
Beneath the fountain are three large pools of dried blood, marking where authorities dragged the bodies of Carla Laurent, Meadow Pollack and Joaquin Oliver. A faint trail of blood follows the corpses of the girls from the alcove where they were shot and collapsed. A pool of blood is observed in the alcove outside in 1249, when Pollack and Laurent died. stayed in Cruz then came back and shot them again.
ROOM 1249, Ernie Rospierski
I have an unfinished chess game. A friend of Peter Yang’s testified that they were playing a game when the fire alarm went off.
Room 1250
Valentine’s Day balloons, flower petals and stuffed polar bear.
One of the most disturbing sights is the alcove outside the bathroom where Joaquin Oliver died. There is a large pool of blood and holes from bullets fired at him at point-blank range. Most of the blood, however, is from Cruz when he catches up with Oliver in the alcove and opens fire. Evidence suggests that Oliver was conscious after being hit. He could not run when the others fled. He heard Cruz coming. He hears gunshots at Pollack and Laurent. He knew he was next. From the testimony we can see that he raised his hand to defend himself. His two bullets in the wall show how futile the attempt was.There’s a strand of black hair on the floor near where his body would have been. A heart-shaped paper Valentine’s Day decoration (which was probably a card) had a crumbling corner and was probably bloody.
Moving down the hall towards the west wall, bullets were scraped against the south wall. This indicates that Cruz was targeting the fleeing student and not just randomly firing in front of him.
You can see the front corner of the stairwell where Peter Wang was shot down while running down the hallway. The walls are drawn in squares that resemble search quadrants. It is stained with black specks of blood and a yellow-greenish substance, and testimony describes it as a brain problem. Circles are drawn around the pin-sized holes in the wall, marked “Fragment D” and “Fragment F.”
There are six bullet holes in the window above where Wang died. Cruz tried to blow out the window to shoot the fleeing students.
Jaime Guttenberg was hit outside the stairwell but collapsed inside. There is very little blood where she fell. The bullet never left her body.
In the teacher’s lounge, there are four bullet holes in the windows facing the 1300 building. Another windowpane next to it has another bullet hole. These overlook the courtyard and the parking lot where the students were fleeing.
A poster next to the window reads:
“Is it typical or is there a problem?
Note: Be alert if a student shows signs of trouble.
Talk: talk to students
Take Action: Share Observations with School Mental Health Staff
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Source: www.cnn.com
