Students return to Parkland school as shooting probe continues

Students returned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Sunday to see friends and teachers and collect belongings they left behind as they fled a mass shooting nearly two weeks ago. The building in Parkland, Fla., where 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz killed 17 people, remains fenced off, but classes will resume in other school buildings on Wednesday. The shooting investigation has turned into a withering critique of the Broward County Sheriff’s Department, which failed to act on 18 tipster calls reporting Cruz’s increasingly dangerous behavior. Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel has so far resisted calls to resign, and some state lawmakers are calling on Gov. Rick Scott to remove him from office. Israel has ordered an investigation into the response to each call about Cruz, as well as claims that three deputies responding to the Feb. 14 shooting remained outside the school building while Cruz continued his rampage. Last week, Israel confirmed the school’s resource officer, a Broward County deputy, stayed outside the school during the attack. Israel said Sunday he could not confirm reports that other deputies refused to engage Cruz.