Emma González, 18, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, at North Community Park on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018. González became a viral sensation after videos of her impassioned speech at an anti-gun rally in Fort Lauderdale flooded social media. Now, she is helping to lead the #NeverAgain movement with her fellow classmates. "It’s funny. I didn’t even have a Twitter account before two hours ago and it was trending on Twitter all day yesterday," González said. "I have become somewhat of a spokesperson for this, but we’re all saying the same thing. That's why we teamed up together like this because we know each other, we love each other very much and we all agree on the same stuff. We’re happy that all of us are still alive and we’re gonna make sure it stays that way for the people in our neighboring communities. For our neighbors, our cousins, this generation, not the next generation because the next generation will never have to worry about this because of us."
Lisa and David Mizen outside of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Friday, Feb. 16, 2018. Their son Lewis, 17, was on lockdown, hiding in a closet, at the high school on Wednesday afternoon. After seeing police rush to the school and checking a local message board website that posted about an active shooter situation, Lisa texted her son. "I texted him and said this is real," recalled Linda, who said her son wasn't sure if it was a drill or not. "The difficulty then was we're at home watching it live and we know there's an active shooter on campus. We knew he was in a closet, but we couldn't get ahold of him," recalled David. "We couldn't breathe. It's suffocating not being able to do anything." Lisa added, "I mean it's awful because here we are 3 days later and I actually feel guilty because I keep crying. I keep crying for no reason and our son's home."
Jaclyn Corin, 17, a junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, at North Community Park on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018. In the wake of the shooting at her school, Corin has organized a trip with 100 of her fellow classmates to speak with lawmakers in Tallahassee on Tuesday about enacting stricter gun laws. “The action has been so quick,” said Corin. “And that’s necessary because this is a fresh and open wound and we can’t let it close up. We need to do something about it before it just disappears like it always has.”
David Hogg, 17, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, at North Community Park on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018. Hogg has been vocal in the recent days about not returning to school until changes are made to gun laws. "How can we?," explained Hogg. "If we’re going to school and our government expects us to be okay with the possibility of dying, while trying to make the world a better place, how is that, in any way shape or form, okay? And that’s why I’m not going back to school until any legislation is passed. I want to see that done within the next 3 days."
Leonnardo Oliveira, 15, outside of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Friday, Feb. 16, 2018. Oliveira was on the second floor of the freshman building when Nikolas Cruz opened fire. As he was being escorted from the building, he saw his coach, Aaron Feis, lying dead on the floor. “It’s horrible,” Oliveira said, recalling how these past few days have been after the attack. “The scenes come back every single day in my head. I don’t think I’m gonna feel like a normal day. Never.”
Ethan Trieu, 17, outside of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Friday, Feb. 16, 2018. Trieu, now a senior, was friends on and off with Nikolas Cruz since the sixth grade, but hadn't been in contact with him since his junior year. "I wish that, as a friend, I could have gotten even more closer with him," said Trieu. "He needed a friend to cope with and he had no one. Everyone is focusing on the guns right now, but the community itself had a problem too. We couldn’t help him."