Middle School and Monterey Trail High School. The park is located in a residential area along Auberry Drive and is in the vicinity of Edward Harris Jr. Two male students, ages 16-years-old and 17-years-old, were at Fales Park. The students suffered non-life-threatening injuries from the gunshot wounds. Two students were shot after school on the afternoon of Friday, September 30, 2016. I want America to be done with this.I’m Ed Smith, an Elk Grove Injury Attorney. "My worst nightmare is that I will have to write a third one. "It did recharge me, because now I can talk about solutions and kids doing something," says Cullen, who is doing plenty of media appearances this week to mark the anniversary of Parkland and discuss his second book about school shootings. Traveling, visiting, calling and texting with the students throughout 2018, Cullen watched the movement unfold and has hopes for a safer America. They registered voters and got credit for increasing young-voter turnout in Florida by 68 percent. Using Martin Luther King Jr.'s Six Principles of Nonviolence, they quickly learned that "nonviolence seeks to defeat injustice, not people" and launched a massive Road To Change bus trip to meet with black and Latino students victimized by gun violence in Chicago and concerned students in Naperville, and throughout areas typically resistant to changes in gun laws, including stops in Texas, Alabama, Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, Utah and North Dakota.
Within six weeks of the shooting, they organized a massive March For Our Lives in Washington, with similar marches across the country. They were the subjects of nasty tweets, mocking memes, outright lies and death threats. The kids received a $500,000 donation from George and Amal Clooney and other donations from Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg and other celebrities, and they were blasted by critics as "crisis actors" and pawns for some gun-grabbing agenda. … Are they really doing this themselves?" "These kids are so articulate and so amazing. "'Wow! Something is going on here,'" Cullen remembers thinking. Elk Grove Village native and best-selling author Dave Cullen tells that story in his new book, "Parkland."Ī few days later, Cullen was in Parkland, meeting with Hogg, Emma Gonzalez, Jackie Corin, Cameron Kasky, Alfonso Calderon, Alex Wind, Delaney Tarr, Ryan Deitsch, Sarah Chadwick and other students, who were all over social media with #NeverAgain and a call for action. "The uprising had begun."Īfter a gunman killed 17 people at his high school in Parkland, Florida, student David Hogg immediately responded with a call to action. He watched a live feed where 17-year-old student David Hogg "called out Adult America for letting our kids die," Cullen says. The morning after the shooting, Cullen was at CNN headquarters in New York. "This generation had grown up on lockdown drills - and this time, they were ready." "There were no vacant stares from the Parkland survivors," Cullen writes. He thought, "I'm never doing this again," but by the time of the Parkland shootings, things were different. "I looked like one of those president's before-and-after photos where I aged in five days," Cullen says, recounting the frustration, the grind and the weariness that followed Sandy Hook. He wrote dozens of articles and went on the air to talk about shootings that killed 32 students in 2007 at Virginia Tech University, or 20 children and six teachers in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. Even 10 years out, when I finished Columbine, we couldn't imagine the trajectory." "I knew it was horrible, but I didn't know it was a precursor of things more horrible. "America was suffering from collective post-traumatic stress disorder when I started that book," Cullen says, noting that he also was still struggling with his own secondary PTSD from covering Columbine.
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