"We were very much looking forward to having her join our community.". Helena Ramsay was killed on her fathers birthday. His head is clouded with thoughts of the shooting he misses having a clear mind. The teen said when the first responders first felt her pulse, she didn't have one. Carmen was intelligent beyond her years. She found herself crying at the kitchen sink. Daniela Menescal (Mike Stocker / Sun Sentinel ). She was the sun and I was the moon: Carmen Sol and Carmen Lunar. She was 16. School Shooting Florida 5 Years. The prosecution team that is seeking the death penalty for Nikolas Cruz, the Parkland school shooter, started to call witnesses after Assistant State Attorney Michael J. Satz delivered his opening statement on July 18. Have I been in a car accident? No one had the heart to tell me. The prosecutors seeking the death penalty for the Parkland school shooter started their rebuttal on Sept. 27 in Broward County court. "We had no idea how to deal with this," she said. She volunteered at a local project called The Friendship Initiative as a buddy for children with special needs. "What if we were able to maneuver the desk? While absenteeism was expected to be high Thursday, many attended to show support and participate in activities. "The morning after, it was pretty shocking," Cullen said. Student Ben Wikander, 17, had been shot in the arm. Was Luke dressed in black shorts that day? She doesn't want to remember her that way, but instead as the genuine and intelligent girl she was. She doesn't want to remember her that way, but instead as the genuine and intelligent girl she was. The convicted killer faces the death penalty or life in prison without parole. "Once one memory of the event occurs, all of them kind of join together.". Apparently according to this article Chris Hixon was shot multiple times in the legs initially and then later shot again in the chest and abdomen (he was apparently conscious and able to acknowledge the officers but wasn't able to respond to their questions due to his injuries). They had known each other for years, sharing classes and walking to the bus together. "Some may be willing to share and others aren't. Interactive graphic: Understanding the choices jurors made on the verdict form, A court representative reads the Schentrup familys victim impact statement. Tori Gonzalez, the girlfriend of Joaquin Oliver, said the two of them were soul mates. Miller, now 34, was a junior at Columbine on April 20, 1999, when she ducked beneath a table in the school library as two teenagers killed a student hiding nearby. Bullet holes pocked the doors and walls. Alaina Petty, a victim of the Feb. 14, 2018, mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., is pictured in an undated family handout photo. "He always wanted to be the best dad he could be," Corona said. We were ushered back into our classrooms and we huddled together, scared and worried for the safety of our friends, for another two and a half hours. She was also interested in environmental and humanitarian issues, participating in her school's Model U.N. club and, after learning about the decline of bee populations, drafted a list of bee-friendly plants to grow in the Coral Springs community garden. Miller finds it healing to talk about Columbine and met with Parkland students and teachers to discuss their road ahead. Another shredded her right arm. At that point I started to hear the whimpering and the moans and groans of the kids who were shot, she testified. "And then he never called me.". "She never got her braces off. She, too, was a target at the end of a shooter's barrel, this one at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. Nineteen years after that mass shooting, those survivors have hit the lows and highs of grief and acceptance, and have settled into a new normal from the tragedy. Stoneman Douglas psychology teacher Ronit Reoven replays the what-ifs in her head. It was a new role for me, and I didnt like it. ", Laurie Thomas, the girls' soccer coach, said Alyssa Alhadeff was the "voice of our team. Plaintiffs in this action are Philip and April Schentrup, whose daughter, Carmen Schentrup, was a 16-year-old high school student on the afternoon of February 14, 2018, when Cruz executed her in Room 1213 at MSDHS. The teen took extra time getting dressed for school the next morning and proudly held her flowers and card in the car when his father drove him to school. Editor's note: This story originally was published in 2018 and has since been updated. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting. Benjamin Wikanders radial nerve was damaged so badly that he still must wear an arm brace. "He was such a sweet guy," wrestler Ray Corniel said, according to the newspaper. Do not sell or share my personal information. Since the year of the Parkland shooting, the number of gun violence incidents at schools has climbed rapidly, data show. All of the kids here are. The 18-year-old became the most critically-wounded survivor of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 14 students and three staff members dead. His father, Max Schachter, remarried, and his two sons instantly gained a loving mother and two adoring sisters, Schachter said in his eulogy, which was published in The Washington Post. "I think about it every day. "So then I'm playing all the what-ifs, and it's killing me because really there was nothing we could do. Carmen Schentrup, a dedicated, accomplished and straight-A student "was going to change the world," her parents said in a statement on Facebook. Reoven then saw another teen, Carmen Schentrup, lying motionless on the floor. I lost purity. They. We celebrated with cake and released balloons with words of love for her. And he gave me a kiss, 'I love you too.' "Every day I live with the fact that Jaime's life was cut too short and that she was unable to show the world her fullest potential," she said. Homeowner finds gruesome animal skeleton hidden behind cupboard for 30 years - so can you guess what it is? Ten minutes before dismissal, the fire alarm rang for the second time that day. Like, I don't wanna die,' as she sat on her classroom floor. That showed all the way to the end.". 'I was so thankful that she didn't die. 2/21/2001 - 2/14/2018. Fred Guttenberg has since become a national advocate for gun safety. "He would always tell his parents that when he grew up, he would buy them a house," his family said. This syndrome is so similar to being shot and carrying a bullet inside you. R. Kelly has received. "Two counselors saw me and they came over and comforted me because they knew I was going through trauma.". Only when she saw the blood did Daniela Menescal grasp what it meant. Carmen Schentrup is pictured in this undated photo. In the past week since the shooting tormented our school, the media has swarmed us. A photo of Meadow Pollack, one of the seventeen victims who was killed in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, sits against a cross as part of a public memorial, in Parkland, Fla., Feb. 17, 2018. The moans of the wounded. "And I sent my kid to school. We were trying to hush each other, there was some whispering. "When running out into the hallway, I step on glass, bullet shells, and blood. I was listening to some of the 911 calls released from inside the 1200 building and a student in room 1216 claims that a boy next to her was shot and he was dead. This is so heartbreaking to read, even after more than a year. Family members and classmates held onto the little hope that perhaps she had been sent to the hospital and was in surgery, recovering, but just unidentified. Dried rose petals were strewn on floors caked in blood. Carmen, you are a bright, beautiful, young woman bursting into the world. Carmen was a 16-year-old senior. Everyone wrote on a coffee mug with heartfelt messages to our favorite coffee addict that we plan to give to her family. 'Dealing with the fact that I basically died.'. He was struck twice in his right leg, once in his left leg and twice in his torso. "I teach psychology, so I know PTSD is going to be something out of this, anxiety is going to be something, I know," she said. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Linda Beigel Schulman, said in court in August 2022, said the Drake School of Irish Dance in South Florida, where Loughran was a member, Manuel Oliver told ABC News' "Nightline" months after the shooting, which was published in The Washington Post, Carmen Schentrup, a dedicated, accomplished and straight-A. This story was submitted to Love What Matters byCarmen Lo, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Born in the age of the smartphone, Parkland students also vent and grieve through social media. You are a gift from God and into His arms you return. They blast their chilling first-hand accounts of classrooms under fire to massive audiences. Over four days of profoundly emotional testimony, they shared painful and intimate details that laid bare how their internal lives remain shattered and how massacres like Parkland leave families with years of unresolved sorrow. This Broke Me: Parkland Trial Reveals Depths of Families Sorrow, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/05/us/parkland-shooting-trial-victims-families.html. Family members and classmates held onto the little hope that perhaps she had been sent to the hospital and was in surgery, recovering, but just unidentified. She was one of 10 Douglas students to. Schentrup was "mature beyond her years," her parents said, yet "still a kid at heart.". Rumors started spreading like wildfire that Carmen had been shot and was left in the building as other students were evacuated. Carmen Schentrup died February 14, 2018 in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida. The family no longer gathers for Chinese New Year because celebrating holidays has become too painful. ", "The kids in this community loved him, adored him," Israel said. ", Family of Parkland shooting hero Anthony Borges sees outpouring of support, Wounded teen returns to school after helping cops nab Parkland shooter, Tracking change since the Parkland school shooting | Graphics, epesantes@sun-sentinel.com, 954-356-4543 or Twitter @epesantes. But then, our confusion became panic. I didn't respond. Schentrup, who was an 18-year-old freshman at the University of Central Florida when his sister was killed, remembers her as a brainy and ambitious teenager, someone whose focus was doing well in. ", Student Ben Wikander and teacher Ronit Reoven (Mike Stocker / Sun Sentinel ). 'I want to move forward, I want to do all these things, but it's like my gears are stuck,' she said. He wonders whether he'll be the happy kid he was before Feb. 14. Some say they are no longer defined by the shooting that derailed their lives. Video was taken showing a happy-go-lucky Maddy moments before the shooter opened fire last year. She never got her braces off, said Meghan Petty, Alaina Pettys sister. I was in disbelief but mostly feeling guilt," she said in a recent post. [60] Helena's best friend, Samantha Grady, was grazed by a bullet during the massacre. Students said that Peter held the door open for others while they fled, Alex Schachter, 14, (left) was described by his father Max as a 'sweetheart of a child' who 'just wanted to do well and please his parents'. FILE - This 2017 photo made available by Phil Schentrup shows his daughter, Carmen Schentrup. What is unfathomable is Jaime took a bullet and is dead," he added, his voice trembling. Alaina Petty was awarded the U.S. Army's Medal of Heroism after her death. Carmen Schentrup, 16. On the day he would have become an adult, Dworet's classmates marked his birthday at the March for Our Lives rally in Washington, D.C. The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. Rebecca Bogart, 17, from Room 1214, said it's been hard to find peace since that day not even in her usual spot in the Everglades, where she has always gone to catch the sunsets and unwind. Gina Montalto "was a smart, loving, caring, and strong girl who brightened any room she entered," her mother, Jennifer Montalto, wrote on Facebook. ", But the parents who lost children, he said, "really never got over it.". She was a child of promise and potential who sought to help people with incurable diseases by studying biochemistry in college. According to new info released today, Gina Montalto was killed by a near contact distance gunshot wound to the chest. We parted ways with a see you later, not knowing that it would be the last time that we would see each other. After first hearing the explosions outside in a hallway, Schamis said Cruz then fired directly into her classroom through a door window. On or before February 14, 2014, the FBI knew that Nikolas Cruz had the desire and capability to carry out a mass school . At 17 years old, the enormity of the Feb. 14 rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High is hard for her to grapple with. The track coach had thrown himself on top of the kids to stop the bullets from hitting him. "He died saving many people. '", Luke wore a cross every day, and Gena Hoyer requested to get it from his body so she could wear it to his funeral. Many Marjory Stoneman Douglas students arrived on campus Thursday wearing headphones and the burgundy #MSDStrong T-shirts that have become an emblem of the tragedy. Carmen Schentrup's parents find sleep elusive. She described her son as humble, witty and great with children. Student Kelsey Friend told ABC News that Beigel unlocked a classroom door during the gunfire and ushered students inside. She was involved in her church youth group and different . The sentencing phase of the trial began Monday and is expected to last several months. To this day, I still hear from many of them," Schulman said. Satz again asked about the significance of the high-powered bullets. I thought it was that drill. Florida school shooting victim Carmen Schentrup would have turned 17 years old on Wednesday, and her classmates and survivors of the massacre marked her birthday by flooding the state capital to . She took in the bullet-riddled laptops, the shattered glass and then, just a few feet away, the image that will always stay with her: the bodies of her two classmates, Nick Dworet and Helena Ramsay, nestled together, his head on her lap. Sam Fuentes suffers from chronic pain and spasms in her legs and no longer has the same range of motion she once did. [Nick's brother] Alex will never have a brother to talk or hang out with. Carmen pushed herself to do her best in school, piano, and learning new things, such as German. Memories of Carmen Schentrup lying lifeless on the classroom floor torment De Oliveira. If you need help with the Public File, call (954) 364-2526. She was a Girl Scout, a church volunteer, a soccer player and Color Guard member who "earned top-notch grades," The Miami Herald reported. Count 10 of 17 in the penalty phase is for the murder of Carmen Schentrup who Nikolas Cruz killed on Feb. 14, 2018, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, according to Scherer. Wang "was pointing the door open for other people to escape, and then he was struck by the bullets," friend Aiden Ortiz told ABC affiliate WPLG. Farm Heroes Saga, the #4 Game on iTunes. Meadow Pollack "was an old soul with an understanding of the world far beyond her years," her mother, Shara Kaplan, said in court last year. I was just shaking. After class, I walked with her halfway to her next class which unknowingly became her place of death later that day. As for her grief, Schulman said, "I am still trying to learn to live with this every day, and it's not getting any easier.". Like Menescal, he keeps coming back to images: the blood and bullets on the floor; the walking wounded getting up for help; fellow student Luke Hoyer's body in the hallway outside his classroom. "I said, 'Love you.' Dr. Frank Ochberg, a psychiatrist and expert on PTSD, worked with survivors after the Columbine shooting. "He was the epitome of what a hardworking husband and father should be. She described in detail how one student, Nicholas Dworet, 17, had just excitedly answered a question she posed in class just moments before the chaos began. May His divine embrace now hug you where we cannot. The rare trial of a gunman in a mass shooting has underscored how massacres shatter families and communities over time. It's something that I can't control.". We had to step over bodies to get out," she said. Aaron Feis, 37, drove his golf cart towards danger and even though he had heard the gunshots and he was. ", "She was best buddies with her little brother and she loved her whole family especially all her cousins," her parents wrote. He was struck twice in his right leg, once in his left leg and twice in his torso Samantha Fuentes: Was shot multiple times in both legs and sustained shrapnel wounds to her legs and face. "Meadow was a lovely young woman, who was full of energy," said university spokeswoman Jamie D'Aria, according to WPLG. Nicholas Dworet is seen here in this undated file photo. Carmen served as president of her acapella group. Meadow Pollack, 18, (right) was preparing for college, Cara Loughran, 14, (left) loved Irish dancing and the beach. The injuries of three students? Rumors started spreading like wildfire that Carmen had been shot and was left in the building as other students were evacuated. She enjoyed spending time with her family and friends and making others laugh. But the courtroom felt perhaps most somber as parents, siblings, grandparents and friends found it difficult to stay composed remembering their loved ones and describing life without them. She never had her first kiss. Alex Schachter was just 4 years old when his mother died. Before the shooters left, they yelled they would return to kill everyone else. The bullets went through Meadows body and also killed Cara. I wanted it quiet, but I needed it loud.". FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer announced on Oct. 13 that a divided jury recommended life in prison without the possibility of parole as punishment for the Parkland school shooter on count 10 of first-degree murder. We had a training in the auditorium in January, she said. They will never again go for a drive blasting very loud music. 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