Never get to walk them down the aisle. Submit your story here. ", "She was best buddies with her little brother and she loved her whole family especially all her cousins," her parents wrote. "I couldn't wait to see her graduate. Theyre trying to catch us off guard.. The teachers' testimony came a day after jurors saw surveillance video. Some parents have struggled to work. My name is Robert Schentrup, and I'm the older brother of Carmen Schentrup, one of the 17 victims of the Stoneman Douglas school shooting. Alex also played guard on a recreational basketball team and was a fan of the New England Patriots and Boston Celtics, his father said. It was very loud. Nicholas Dworet is seen here in this undated file photo. What the 12 jurors and 10 alternates saw inside Building 12 of Stoneman Douglas High, which has been fenced off and unused since the day of the shooting, was a moment frozen in time, a joyful holiday interrupted by a deadly rampage. 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His mother, Annika Dworet, said in court in 2022 through tears, "We have an empty bedroom in our house. Carmen Schentrup and I started our friendship during our freshman year at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Carmen Schentrup, 16. Or some kind of a code red drill. Published: 01:58 EST, 15 February 2019 | Updated: 07:04 EST, 15 February 2019. "I went close to get a better gauge and she wasn't moving and she was just laying there," she said. Dried rose petals were strewn on floors caked in blood. "He always wanted to be the best dad he could be," Corona said. "Every day I live with the fact that Jaime's life was cut too short and that she was unable to show the world her fullest potential," she said. Feb. 14, 2018, was the last morning Gena Hoyer had with her youngest child, her "precious Lukey bear," who loved basketball and chicken nuggets. I was listening to some of the 911 calls released from inside the 1200 building and a student in room 1216 claims that a boy next to her was shot and he was dead. "We loved that she never outgrew our hugs and would hug us before she went to bed," they wrote. Thank you for the clarification. Alyssa Alhadeff was on track to play soccer in college and had dreamed of one day being on the U.S. women's national team, her mother said. Freshman Martin Duque Anguiano was born in a small town in Mexico and dreamed of becoming a U.S. Navy SEAL, his family said in a statement read in court in August 2022. Satz again asked about the significance of the high-powered bullets. "Carmen was a dreamer," her parents said. Alyssa Alhadeff, 15, (right) was eulogized by her mother who said she was a talented soccer player and creative mind. 'Dealing with the fact that I basically died.'. But, for the first time, jurors examined crime scene and autopsy photos of deceased students. A slammed door two days after the massacre sounded just like gunshots, she said. 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? She loved fashion and enjoyed shopping, spa days with Mom and NY Jets games with Dad. My mom and another woman had to come over and pick me up and hold me," said the 17-year-old who was in Reoven's class. I can do this, Tori Gonzalez, Joaquin Olivers girlfriend, said as she took deep breaths on the witness stand. We parted ways with a see you later, not knowing that it would be the last time that we would see each other. Alyssa Alhadeffs father, Dr. Ilan Alhadeff, repeatedly yelled through tears: This is not normal! He said his wife occasionally sprays Alyssas perfume just to try and smell her.. The kids were on top of each other and hugging each other and holding each other, she told the jury. "He yelled from upstairs, 'Mom, thank you for my Valentine card and candy,'" she recalled in court last year. Dworet died one month before his 18th birthday. Alex Schachter was buried in the same cemetery as his mother. The only male victim in that room was Alex Schachter, so its confirmed now that's how he died vs. the original info I got which said he died from a shot to the torso. I went close to get a better gauge and she wasntmoving and she was just laying there, she said. "So Change the Ref is looking for the right ref to make the right calls, that he has to be impartial, he cannot have any connection or any kind of personal interest with any one of the teams," he said. Since they didn't do what was needed then, let the court get it right this time," Carmen Schentrup's mother, April Schentrup, wrote. Phil and April Schentrup are founding members of Stand with Parkland; Phil is also the secretary. "We had no idea how to deal with this," she said. This is it. "I didn't even see the car and I [was] just sort of freaking out and started crying, called my dad, and I was scared. "He dreamed of making the Olympic swim team and going to the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. The 18-year-old now has an internship at the same trauma center she was treated for her injuries and coaches basketball. - Meadow Pollack and Cara Loughran: Meadow was shot 4 times in the hallway on the third floor. Scott Beigel is seen here in this undated file photo. On her birthday, her closest friends and I gathered at a local horse ranch to honor Carmen and her favorite animal, horses. I never thought it would happen here.". "I got up in a panic and I was ready to run," he said. Carmen Schentrup, 16 Peter Wang, 15 Geography teacher Scott Beigel was killed after he unlocked a classroom for students to enter and hide from Cruz. I didnt know how to get excited for the team when my kid wasnt on the floor. Months after the shooting, Lori Alhadeff won a seat on the county's school board. Manuel Oliver said the nonprofit's name came from a conversation he had with his son a few months before he died. She dreamed of curing ALS after watching two people close to her suffer from the neurodegenerative disease . Born in the age of the smartphone, Parkland students also vent and grieve through social media. She was a child of promise and potential who sought to help people with incurable diseases by studying biochemistry in college. Many Marjory Stoneman Douglas students arrived on campus Thursday wearing headphones and the burgundy #MSDStrong T-shirts that have become an emblem of the tragedy. As it came close to hour seven, the news started reporting: 12 dead, five unidentified and 15 injured. Feb. 14 rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, Frank DeAngelis, who was principal of Columbine. "Through those walls, I noticed that there's probably my old self just sitting there in that corner still thinking about if I'm going to live or die. "That's been really hard knowing that we were the very few who saw her in her final moments, and we couldn't do anything," said De Oliveira, 18. Plaintiffs in this action are Philip and April Schentrup, whose daughter, Carmen Schentrup, was a 16-year-old high school student on the afternoon of February 14, 2018, when Cruz executed her in Room 1213 at MSDHS. They. The teen said when the first responders first felt her pulse, she didn't have one. She was a Girl Scout, a church volunteer, a soccer player and Color Guard member who "earned top-notch grades," The Miami Herald reported. An undated photo of Luke Hoyer, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Cara Loughran is seen here in this undated file photo. "Coach Hixon, for me, was a father figure," wrestler Karlos Valentin said, the Sun Sentinel reported. Court is set to begin at 8:30 a.m. EST. At that point I started to hear the whimpering and the moans and groans of the kids who were shot, she testified. Carmen Schentrup is pictured in this undated photo. She described her son as humble, witty and great with children. "We had to redefine what normal was.". Never rejoice in their having children of their own. One friend took to Twitter to mourn her death , writing, "Your familyis forever in my hearts and . Carmen Schentrup was shot inside Ronit Reoven's classroom. But how long does it take to truly be fine? She, too, was a target at the end of a shooter's barrel, this one at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. Nineteen years after that mass shooting, those survivors have hit the lows and highs of grief and acceptance, and have settled into a new normal from the tragedy. Texts sometimes ping at 1 or 2 a.m. "Is anyone up?". He's evil. They were running away from the gunman. "People ask when it's going to get back to normal and it doesn't," said DeAngelis, who retired in 2014. "I knew that she was probably gone," Reoven said. "My job is to protect my children," Guttenberg said at a vigil, his voice cracking. Nicholas Dworet. And then, then I did get shot. I didnt know how to be the parent of a kid who didnt play. Florida school shooting victim Carmen Schentrup would have turned 17 years old on Wednesday, and her classmates and survivors of the massacre marked her birthday by flooding the state capital to . I hope this isn't real. Today, he wonders what his funeral would have been like. Carmen Schentrup was a National Merit Scholarship finalist who loved playing the piano. She was shot in the head. Every time we spoke, our curious minds obsessed over the intricate and astonishing universe and our determined personalities were ready to change the world for the better. So did several defense lawyers. High grades and school involvement were a huge part of Gina's life. Fred Guttenberg has since become a national advocate for gun safety. "I had thought he was behind me but he wasn't," Friend said. Kaplan described Pollack as empathetic, inclusive and strong. She hasn't cried in recent days. At about the third week, she came to understand there was nothing she could have done to prevent the outcome. Schentrup was "mature beyond her years," her parents said, yet "still a kid at heart.". Count 10 of 17 in the penalty phase is for the murder of Carmen Schentrup who Nikolas Cruz killed on Feb. 14, 2018, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, according to Scherer. A 15-year-old Army Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps cadet who dreamed of attending West Point but died helping classmates escape. His father, Max Schachter, remarried, and his two sons instantly gained a loving mother and two adoring sisters, Schachter said in his eulogy, which was published in The Washington Post. Family members and classmates held onto the little hope that perhaps she had been sent to the hospital and was in surgery, recovering, but just unidentified. When I got the results, it read Invasive Ductal Carcinoma followed by a lot of NEGATIVE testing., Sit down before you fall down: Unsung hero sobs at new Mercedes surprise, Like a farewell she had foreseen: Parkland student honors her best friend, a victim, on her birthday. Student Kelsey Friend told ABC News that Beigel unlocked a classroom door during the gunfire and ushered students inside. With several kids bleeding profusely, Reoven used a baby blanket to tie a tourniquet on one injured girl with the help of another student. Cruz opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County, Florida on February . It has been five years since the massacre at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School claimed 17 lives, an observance that is different from previous ones. Perhaps she is in denial, she thinks. . They're not alone. I couldn't wait to see her have her first boyfriend, and yes, I had my dad speech all worked out for whoever that boy was gonna be.". I lost innocence, she said of the shooting. Her dream was to find a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, a neurological disease that affects muscle movement. As victim after victim spoke, many people in the courtroom gallery wept. The crime scene visit capped 12 days of often gruesome video and autopsy evidence in an agonizing trial in which the jury will decide if Mr. Cruz, 23, who has pleaded guilty, should be sentenced to death or life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. "He died saving many people. (Mike Stocker / Sun Sentinel ). There, the sound of a car one day, possibly backfiring, drove her to tears. Outside the school, angel stakes for each of the 17 victims bordered the school's landscaped sign. "She led the team on and off the field.". 'I saw her face above the covers with a tube down her throat. ((Source: Schentrup family)) You are an amazing daughter, sister, and friend. Hundreds gathered in Coral Springs for the funeral of Carmen Schentrup, 16, the National Merit Scholarship finalist who died in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. ABC News' Meredith Longo contributed to this report. She said the injury is tied to being hunched over in hiding for so long during the elementary school shooting. Sam Fuentes suffers from chronic pain and spasms in her legs and no longer has the same range of motion she once did. They said their daughter dreamed of visiting Germany, so she taught herself the language. And he didn't get the chance to," Friend said, noting that her teacher was lying on the floor. He was a former student and was also a security guard at the school where he had worked for eight years. . "And then he never called me.". Samantha Mayor was shot in the knee and appeared stable. The teen helped rebuild areas of Florida after the state was hit by Hurricane Irma in September 2017. The shooting changed his relationship with his son, who was supposed to wait for Jaime and drive her home after school that day. In this type of love, how others view us is more important than how we actually feel. Like Menescal, he keeps coming back to images: the blood and bullets on the floor; the walking wounded getting up for help; fellow student Luke Hoyer's body in the hallway outside his classroom. Now the resilient teen and former basketball player is speaking out about the trauma she deals with and is recalling the horrific day one year ago Thursday, saying she wants to move forward. Her parents, Philip and April, speak with soft wonder. "His presence could change a room," she said. No child should have to look down at a friend lying in a coffin and watch as their family kisses them goodbye. ", "The kids in this community loved him, adored him," Israel said. Cruz, 23, has previously pleaded guilty to murdering 14 students and three staffers in the rampage. Thanks for contacting us. All of the kids here are. When we got up from behind the desk, two bodies of my classmates laid there, lifeless or unconscious. My two boys played for him," said Scott Israel, who was Broward County sheriff at the time of the shooting. Helena's best friend, Samantha Grady, was grazed by a bullet during the massacre. As for her grief, Schulman said, "I am still trying to learn to live with this every day, and it's not getting any easier.". Rumors started spreading like wildfire that Carmen had been shot and was left in the building as other students were evacuated. Editor's note: This story originally was published in 2018 and has since been updated. Carmen Schentrup, 16, was an accomplished musician who took all AP-level courses her senior year. Victim of school shooting in Parkland, Florida She has been cremated and ashes will be given to her family here is the obituary Carmen Schentrup passed away on February 14 . "Once one memory of the event occurs, all of them kind of join together.". She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award. "I'm so thankful he was there to help everybody," she said, calling him a "really amazing teacher.". Carmen SCHENTRUP. She always looked for ways to help others.". Families lamented that they would never see their children graduate from high school or college. Gina Montalto "was a smart, loving, caring, and strong girl who brightened any room she entered," her mother, Jennifer Montalto, wrote on Facebook. My understanding from the reports I've seen seem to indicate that at first Gina was certified as deceased, but another EMS person found a pulse and she was evacuated to hospital where she died later that evening. 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