'I almost died in the Parkland massacre and one haunting question still lingers'
EXCLUSIVE: Parkland shooting survivor-turned gun control activist Jaclyn Corin reflects on the 10-year anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando.
Jaclyn Corin was delivering Valentine’s Day carnations at the 1200 building of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018, when a gunman, later identified as 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, opened fire at the South Florida campus, killing 17 people and injuring 18 others.
It was that day, Corin, an 11th-grade student who said that had the shooting occurred just moments earlier, she would’ve met Cruz face-to-face, was abruptly thrown into a lifelong community: survivors of mass shootings.
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