Florida School Shooting Building 12 To Be Torn Down?

PARKLAND, FL — Images of the carnage at Building 12 may be seared into the minds of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students but at least they may never have to set foot inside the structure again. Published reports said that the Broward County School District will not reopen the freshman building that was the scene of Wednesday's horrific attack. The Florida legislature is expected to pay for the work.

Speaking to Local 10 News, Broward County Superintendent Robert Runcie said that there were no plans to demolish Building 12.

But the Miami Herald and Sun-Sentinel both reported on Friday that there are plans to raze the three-story structure. The school district did not immediately respond to a request for information.

“This building has to come down,”' Sen. Bill Galvano, R-Bradenton was quoted as saying in the Herald report after visiting the scene of the worst school shooting since a gunman attacked an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.

The Sun-Sentinel report quoted Runcie as saying that the building must come down.

“Parents and students have resoundingly told me they can’t go back into that building regardless of what we do,” Runcie told the publication. “The other piece I heard is that that building will be used as evidence in any type of legal process that goes forward, so we won’t be able to access the building for a while anyway.”

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