‘I needed to see’: victims’ families tour site of Parkland massacre five years on

Bloodstains and broken glass remain where 17 students and staff were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Florida

For more than five years, the bloodstained halls and classrooms where 17 people died in the Parkland school shooting has remained locked away and mostly untouched - not even the victims' families had been allowed inside.

That changed on Wednesday, as heart-wrenching private tours began for relatives of the 14 students and three staff members who died on 14 February 2018. The 17 wounded and their loved ones will also be able to visit the 1200 building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school, now that it is no longer needed as evidence in the trials of the convicted killer and the deputy who was just acquitted of failing to stop him.