Second Parkland Student Appears To Die By Suicide, Police Say

PARKLAND, FL — Days after a Parkland shooting survivor took her own life, a second student appears to have died by suicide. Coral Springs police confirmed to Patch that officers were called Saturday night and found a youth dead at the scene who was a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

"This is an ongoing investigation but it is an apparent suicide," police said. It wasn't immediately known if the student was enrolled at the school last year. The child's name has not been released.

The tragedy comes after former cheerleader Sydney Aiello died by suicide March 17. She was 19.

Aiello's mother, Cara, said her daughter took her own life after battling survivor's remorse since the Valentine's Day shooting last year. Seventeen students and faculty members were gunned down.

Public officials planned to meet Sunday, The New York Times reported, and discuss efforts to help children and their families.

"It’s important that the community knows right now how to triage this — to make sure they’re checking in with their kids, checking in with their family members," Mayor Christine Hunschofsky told The Times. "It’s important, if people have firearms at home, that they’re locked up and secured, so no one who shouldn’t have access to them is able to gain access to them."

Parkland survivor David Hogg, who has since advocated for tighter gun control laws, again called for government action to prevent gun deaths.

On Sunday, he tweeted: "How many more kids have to be taken from us as a result of suicide for the government / school district to do anything? Rip 17+2."

Hogg later criticized people who say the survivors will "get over it."

"You don’t get over something that never should have happened because those that die from gun violence are stolen from us not naturally lost," he wrote in a follow-up tweet. "Trauma and loss don’t just go away, you have to learn to live with it through getting support."

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If you or someone you know is thinking about suicide, call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 800-273-8255.

Patch reporter Paul Scicchitano contributed to this report.