Six years after US mass shooting, demolition starts on Parkland school building

Court deputies exit vans that transported jurors to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, to view the "1200 building," the crime scene where the 2018 shootings took place in Parkland, Florida, U.S. August 4, 2022. Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun Sentinel/Pool via REUTERS/ File Photo

(Reuters) - More than six years after a gunman massacred 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in one of the worst U.S. school shootings, crews began tearing down the abandoned building on Friday.

The three-story school about 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Fort Lauderdale has stood as an empty reminder of the attack on Feb. 14, 2018, with bullet holes and bloodstains still visible. Video from an ABC affiliate on Friday morning showed construction vehicles starting to rip into one corner of the structure as dozens of onlookers watched.