A relieved mother who reunited with her son at the Florida high school where a shooter armed with a AR-15 rifle killed 17 and injured 50 spoke out in fury on Wednesday.
‘Nothing is going to change. Nothing! Not one thing is going to change because this country has gone bananas!,’ the unnamed mother to a teen boy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland told the West Palm Beach News.
Her son, a theater student, explained to the reporter about how he had been inside the school’s theater room rehearsing at the time the teens heard the fire alarm go off, for the second time that day.
The student said after the alarm: ‘What happened was, four students stepped out, we heard three gunshots, and we all ran inside.
A Florida mother (right) who reunited with her son (left) spoke furiously after the school shooting took the lives of 70
‘Nothing is going to change. Nothing! Not one thing is going to change because this country has gone bananas!,’ the unnamed mother told the West Palm Beach News
Her son, a theater student, described how he heard the fire alarm go off Wednesday afternoon
‘There’s two rooms in the theater room. I went inside one of them, and five minutes passed and our teacher said she wanted everyone in the back room where we were safe,’ he recalled of the moment, nervously.
‘An hour passed… there were 70 kids and there was a book keeping room where the SWAT team came and we ran. We just ran…,’ he said.
‘It was scary. It was crazy.’
The teen did not have his cell phone with him at the time to contact his parents.
He said he was able to reach them by using others students’ phones.
Police and emergency crews are seen gathered at the scene of the high school (left). The mom and teen spoke Wednesday afternoon after the shooting
Mom to the teen said that while she is relieved to have gotten the text from her son that he is safe, she feels for the victims
‘I didn’t have my phone but I was trying to text my parents to tell both of them that I’m OK and i’m safe. I was texting from multiple phones,’ he told WPBF.
‘As soon as I got out, I called them, telling them I was OK.’
The teen revealed he was worried even more that something may have happened at his sister’s middle school.
‘Thank God nothing happened there. It’s very tragic.’
Mom to the teen said that while she is relieved to have gotten the text from her son about his safety, she feels for shooting victims everywhere.
The gunman was identified as Nikolas Cruz, 19 (pictured) who students said was ‘obsessed’ with weapons
Students are evacuated by police from Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018
The gunman opened fire on several innocent students, killing 17 and injuring at least 50 others
‘My point is, and this is what everyone needs to hear in America… what is it going to take to make a change in this country?!,’ she shouted.
She went on: ‘If they didn’t do it for the four and five year-olds and they’re not doing it for our 14 and 15-year-olds. Who are they going to make this change for?!
‘We can’t let this go on… not more of our children can die anymore.’
The gunman said to be ‘obsessed’ with weapons, Nikolas Cruz, 19, stormed into Douglas High Wednesday afternoon when he opened fire on several innocent students.
Cruz has been taken into custody.
The high school is currently on lockdown as investigation ensues.
People gather waiting for word from students at Coral Springs Drive and the Sawgrass Expressway just south of the campus following following a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida