Feb. 14 marked the fifth anniversary of the MSD High School shooting in Parkland in 2018, which left 17 people dead, including 14 students and three school faculty members. Since that day, there have been over 900 mass shootings at K-12 schools in the U.S.
For more than four years, Maggon and other alumni awaited a court decision regarding one of the deadliest mass shootings in American history. But Nikolas Cruz, who shot and killed 14 students and three staff members and injured 17 others, narrowly escaped the death penalty in a recent jury recommendation.