As Shots Ring Out, a Student Texts: ‘If I Don’t Make It, I Love You’<br />On Wednesday, many students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School held onto their phones for dear<br />life as a 19-year-old gunman, Nikolas Cruz, stalked the grounds and fatally shot 17 people.<br />They come to Parkland to live in the safest community in the county.”<br />Every morning at Stoneman Douglas High begins with an affirmation, which is read over the intercom.<br />“If I don’t make it,” she wrote, “I love you and I appreciate everything you did for me.”<br />One video showed officers with guns drawn, rushing into a classroom full of cowering students.<br />Like many school districts, Broward County’s allows high school students to bring<br />cellphones to school, so long as they don’t interfere with class work.
