The brother of one of the Parkland, Florida, high school shooting victims said he is glad that the building where the 2018 massacre took place is being torn down. Demolition began Friday of the 1200 building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where Nikolas Cruz killed 14 students and three adults in a Valentine's Day shooting. Cruz's rampage injured 17 others in what was the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history.
Pollack said the 1200 building is passed by residents every day given its prominent location in the neighborhood, at the intersection of Holmberg and Pine Island, and has had a fence erected around it. 'We don't need the building there to remind us, the building is just a negative thing in our community,' Pollack said. 'Especially for the kids going to school there and the other people that live in Parkland that weren't necessarily affected by the tragedy.