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Closing Parkland’s open wound: The dismantling of a crime scene

Demolition begins on the 1200 Building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, the site of the Feb. 14, 2018, massacre where 17 people were killed and 17 others injured. The northeast stairwell and a portion of Scott Beigel’s third floor classroom are exposed in this image. Beigel was one of the adults who were killed. (Amy Beth Bennett / South Florida Sun Sentinel)
Demolition begins on the 1200 Building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, the site of the Feb. 14, 2018, massacre where 17 people were killed and 17 others injured. The northeast stairwell and a portion of Scott Beigel’s third floor classroom are exposed in this image. Beigel was one of the adults who were killed. (Amy Beth Bennett / South Florida Sun Sentinel)
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A piece at a time, it's finally coming down. The stairwell he used to prep his weapon, then later to walk from the second to the third floor, is gone, torn out like a gangrenous limb. The classroom a teacher died to protect is reduced to rubble. Soon the whole building will be. We can never forget what happened here, any more than we can allow this site to remain as Parkland's final open wound.

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