Updated For a few weeks after their daughter Carmen was murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14, 2018, a week shy of her 17th birthday, April and Phil Schentrup could barely. Her mother said He shot her 10 times. She was 16. I was thinking it could've been him or Kyle Laman but Kyle escaped and the body stayed put in the video. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool). Carmen Schentrup was a 16-year-old student who attended Stoneman Douglas high school. Wondering if you can possibly find it or more unleaked videos. Luke Hoyer (1st floor hallway, east end): Multiple gunshot wounds (instant/near-instantly fatal). Healing, for me, is not something that will happen based upon a verdict at the end of the trial, he said. I wasnt in the safe spot. Here are the victims: Alyssa Alhadeff, 14 Alyssa, 14, was. It's all of the above. Died on the golf cart en route to the triage center set up outside the school. Benjamin Wikander: Shot in the right upper arm, Justin Colton: Shot in the lower back and arm, Andrea Kowalski-Rospierski: Teacher, grazed on the cheek by a bullet, Samantha Mayor: Shot once in the left knee/leg. It's definitely not easy. Even when I was in highschool back in the early 2010s, they had to start locking bathrooms for kids sneaking in to do all kinds of shit. Soul-Less Shoes of Death; How They Do It To Us; The Holohoax; You are Being Deceived; Exposing Corona Video; Message to Agencies; CONTACT. Photos of the Schentrup family and their daughter Carmen fill the living room of the family's new home. The family does not like to disagree. A Jury Has Spared The Parkland Shooter From The Death Penalty. It was these intellectual arguments that were most convincing for him personally, Schentrup said. Others have testified for only a few minutes, with Mr. Satz asking minimal questions. Ive spent countless hours looking for videos of the case but I dont think I ever came across that. Cruz previously plead guilty to all 17 counts of premeditated murder and 17 counts of attempted murder in the 2018 shootings. One year after Carmen's death, April Schentrup stands beside a photograph of her daughter that was used during her funeral but now rests in the family's new home. Dr. Iouri Boiko, an associate Broward County medical examiner, said the high-velocity bullets from the AR-15-style rifle caused extensive damage, blowing off body parts and killing victims when their fragments reached internal organs. hide caption. Witnesses heard him crying and praying and asking for his mom. Photos of the Schentrup family and their daughter Carmen fill the living room of the family's new home. April, who worked as an elementary school principal near Parkland, Fla., now advocates for gun reform. Anybody have links to the videos OP references? While he believed that Mr. Cruz deserved death, Mr. Schulman wrote, pursuing that sentence would involve reliving the Feb. 14, 2018, shooting over and over again. Nicholas Dworet (Room 1214): Was killed by a shot to the head. In terms of abdominal gunshot wounds, it really just depends what the bullet hits as it passes through and what sort of bullet. It would be 12 excruciating hours before an FBI agent finally confirmed to the Schentrups that their daughter was among the 17 dead. Since they didnt do what was needed then, let the court get it right this time, she wrote. We let that happen. And he believes its morally wrong for the state to take the life of an individual because that individual took the life or lives of others, he said, quoting a phrase often attributed to Mahatma Gandhi, An eye for an eye makes the whole world go blind., Here's why the Parkland shooter is facing a jury even though he has already pleaded guilty. A makeshift shrine for Carmen Schentrup stands outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. April always wears bracelets in honor of Carmen and the 16 other victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The same search for answers that don't come. Nikolas Cruz, 23,. Scott Beigel (Doorway of Room 1256): Killed instantly by a shot to the chest (at/near his heart according to witnesses). Dr. Boiko described how a fatal graze wound suffered by a third girl fractured her skull and caused brain damage. Injuries (could only find descriptions for 14 of the 17 injured): Anthony Borges: He was shot five times. In memory of Carmen SchentrupCarmen Schentrup My name is April Schentrup. "It's not fair that she's not with us," Jacqueline said. Her father Philip's voice shakes with anger and grief as he speaks of the aftermath. Alyse Young for NPR When I visit the family at their new home, Evelyn is logging in for an orientation session with her new online high school. I looked up and saw Helena Ramsay slump over with her back against the wall, I began smelling and inhaling the smoke and gun powder. So I'm thinking that the moaning and heavy breathing in the 1213 video is actually Maddie since a bullet to the right temple would be near instant? But it feels necessary. (In a grim irony, Alaina who wanted to join the military and had joined the schools Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps program herself liked shooting the same weapon.). Frozen in horror: Notes from inside the Parkland school massacre site. But particularly this one says that one survivor hid directly behind him in the corner and later used his body as a shield: Witness testimony from survivor Aalayah Eastmond describes how she hid behind Dworet during the shooting. He avoided the death penalty by a jury and was sentenced to life . Questions like, how many kids do you have? "And even as devastating as it was, I kept thinking, 'At least one of my children came home that day.' Carmen Schentrup was shot inside Ronit Reoven's classroom. Carmen Schentrup's parents find sleep elusive. Madeleine Wilford: Shot three times, the bullets piercing her chest, torso and right arm. Martin Duque Anguiano, 14, appeared to try to shield himself, based on defensive wounds to the hands, Boiko said. Reminders of Carmen are prominent throughout their home: here, a photo of her striking a sassy pose in her homecoming dress. This year's anniversary comes in the wake of the court's decision to spare the shooter, 24-year-old Nikolas Cruz, from the death penalty, charging him with life in prison without parole for 17 counts of first-degree murder and 17 counts of attempted murder, to which he pleaded guilty. hide caption. They'll be joined by many other Parkland families, as well as clergy and members of their Episcopal church, St. Mary Magdalene of Coral Springs, Fla., where Carmen was a youth group leader. And were not all in opposition. FORT LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami) - The parents of Carmen Schentrup walked into the Broward School Board building Tuesday with heavy hearts and specific complaints about the way the school district. "We've always been private people," Phil explains. It felt like all those 11 bullets were hitting my own body, she said. He signaled his intent for years," Philip says, referring to the shooter. With Carmen's death, I was initiated into a club no one ever wants to joinparents who have had their child taken from them by gun violence. "I just felt this urgency," Lundy says. Sharon Risher, whose mother, Ethel Lee Lance, died in the Charleston church attack, recalled sitting in court during that gunmans trial as a torturous ordeal especially when prosecutors showed her mothers autopsy report. Membership Signup; Member Login, etc. "I went close to get a better gauge and she wasn't moving and she was just laying there," she said. Rumors started spreading like wildfire that Carmen had been shot and was left in the building as other students were evacuated. Editor's note: Daily coverage of the Parkland trial is being provided to all readers as a public service. ", A makeshift shrine for Carmen Schentrup stands outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. He unzipped his jacket during his testimony to show jurors scars from the bullet wounds and from 14 subsequent operations. There are a ton of witness reports about it. They moved mostly for Philip's job; he works for a tech company based here. hide caption. "I think I even tried 'I have one in college, and one here with me, and my other one is in heaven,' " she continues, through tears. It appears he ran to the school and opened the door to the stair well just as Cruz entered the stairwell from the other door and immediately shot him in the head as soon as he saw him. Chris Hixon (first floor hallway, west end): Initially shot multiple times in the leg (s). Last summer, their son Robert, who is in college, joined Evelyn on the Road to Change bus tour, registering new voters and promoting gun violence prevention. "I just felt this urgency," Lundy says. Did you encounter any technical issues? Some of the testimony has been chilling without being graphic: That two victims who were in the hallway tried to get to safety by knocking on their locked classroom door, but were killed before they could get in. The Schentrups' activism is overlaid with the daily struggles of just getting through another day without their daughter. That on the day before the massacre, he had searched online: How long does it take for a cop to show up at a school shooting.. Teen mental health crisis: 'TikTok has completely changed the game',Student who learned to self-harm online worries about others falling down a dark hole. Just staying close. Her parents, Philip and April, speak with soft wonder as they share memories of their daughter, who showed she was gifted from an early age. Meadow Pollack, 16, was shot nine times, at close range, including shots to the head and torso, which damaged lungs and spinal cord. Victims relatives have filled several rows in the courtroom over the past two weeks, listening closely as the lead prosecutor, Michael J. Satz, called dozens of witnesses. ", The blue urn holding Carmen's ashes rests with photos and drawings in a glass cabinet in the family's living room. We had alot of broken security cams/blindspots, alot of kids had sex in the school. Peter Wang, 15 Photo of Peter Wang And other days it's a lot harder.". Carmen Schentrup, 16, suffered five wounds, including a lethal shot to the brain. For Philip Schentrup, whose daughter Carmen was among the students killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., each day brings the same, sharp pain. Carmen Schentrup Was More Than A Victim Of The Parkland Shooting, She Was My Sister Two of my sisters went to school that day, but only one made it back alive. This will not help us heal and get any kind of closure, Michael B. Schulman, whose 35-year-old son, Scott J. Beigel, was killed in the shooting, wrote in 2019 in The South Florida Sun Sentinel. It layers on a whole bunch of other things to it, he said, just having kind of everyone know about it, and maybe not know I was related to it., Schentrup struggles, he said, with the preconceived notions that people have about the shooting. Meadow Pollack (Alcove of Room 1249): Shot initially 4 times when trying to cross the third floor hallway. Anthony Borges, who was 15 at the time of the massacre, testified about being shot five times while he was in the hallway. Carmen Marie Schentrup. She saw your daughter get shot. Though for the survivors and families of the 17 victims, it can seem like aeons. from People: It's only two weeks since Monisha was not with us anymore. Testimony from other medical examiners made some victims relatives cry. That's why we're doing what we're doing. 2/21/01-2/14/18. "We guard ourselves from it, we don't want to think about it. Two years ago, my daughter Carmen was gunned down in the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The Schentrups learned about warnings made to the FBI's tip line weeks and months before, alerting the agency to specific threats the shooter had made; the FBI has admitted those tips fell through the cracks. ", WATCH: In A Post-Parkland America, Teens Talk About Gun Culture, After Daughter's 'Unimaginable' Death, Parkland Family Moved To Action. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. A couple minutes, Boiko said. In a general sense he felt he was opposed to it. I don't really know what they mean yet.". Carmen was a week away from her 17th birthday when Cruz fired his semiautomatic rifle into her AP psychology class. One girl suffered five wounds, including a fatal one to the head. And if we can do some little thing that prevents people from going through that, I think we'll consider this worth the time and effort. The only thing in front of me was Nicholas Dworet. These are the victims of the Florida school shooting, Logically, it doesnt follow for me that we say, murdering someone is this horrible, heinous, awful, terrible thing, and in order to prove that point, were going to do it to someone else., And I understood that if this is something that I felt that I believe that it needed to apply in my personal case and beyond, he said. Half of my class ran to the safe spot which was out of view from the window in the classroom door. Injured student, Meadow Pollack, crawled over to her to shield her after she had already been shot 4 times. "I think part of me just broke," April says, weeping as she recalls that moment. Until Friday, the first week of trial testimony has largely been marked by harrowing accounts from teachers and students who dodged bullets, suffered gunshot wounds and saw their classmates shot dead inside classrooms of the freshman building. Also on Friday, jurors saw the spent AR-15 magazine clips found on the scene. It makes sense that most of the wounded were shot in the arms or legs. Helena Ramsey (Room 1214): Killed by one or two gunshot wounds to the chest area. Following the sentencing of Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz, 24, to life without parole for his massacre of 17 people (14 children) in 2018, parents of the young victims came forward to blast the decision to spare him the death penalty. Carmen, 16, a senior, was in her AP Psychology class in room 1213, near a podium, when she was shot three times and died of her wounds, according to Chief Assistant State Attorney Mike Satz. Whether it's feel, whether it's call, whether it's knock on doors, whatever it is, that they just do something. "We become immune to tragedy," he says. Carmen Schentrup, 16. Alyse Young for NPR At one point, a female juror also wiped away tears. Get all Latest News about cara dune, Breaking headlines and Top stories, photos & video in real time The 16-year-old was a 2017 National Merit Scholar semifinalist. As April breaks down, her children, Evelyn and Robert, lean in close, knitting their fingers around her hand. Several months ago, April Schentrup kept that urn close by, nestled at her feet, as she flew across the country to the family's new home. 6:39 PM EDT, Mon October 10, 2022. She enjoyed spending time with her family and friends and making others laugh. The gunman shot out a window in the class door. The painting, acrylic on canvas, is by Parkland artist Nava Lundy, who created portraits of all 17 Parkland victims and gave them to the families. A third wound blew off part of her shoulder blade. RT @RobSchentrup: Since Carmen's death: over 200,000 Americans have died from gun violence over 380,000 people have been shot and are living with injuries As we mark this five-year milestone, we must reflect on how far we have come and how far we have left to go. Theresa Robinovitz cries after reading her victim impact statement during the penalty phase of the trial of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022. April says when she tells people where they moved from, "They'll say 'Ohhhh! At the time more than two years before the start of the trial Schulman said to secure the death penalty instead, families would have to live through the trauma of a trial and relive the murders of their loved ones. "But again, it just didn't feel right. Was frozen in fear after being trapped in the third floor hallway. 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