Trump Visits Emergency Workers Who Responded to School Shooting
- Stops made on way to planned visit to Mar-a-Lago resort
- Rampage at Parkland, Florida, school this week killed 17
President Donald Trump accompanied by first lady Melania Trump, right, arrives at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Fla., Friday, Feb. 16.
Photographer: Andrew Harnik/AP Photo
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President Donald Trump visited medical staff and patients at a Florida hospital on Friday to thank them for assisting victims of the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida.
Trump, joined by First Lady Melania Trump, also stopped at the Broward County sheriff’s office to meet with law enforcement officers, including a detective and his son, Will Olson, who was shot in the massacre on Wednesday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, according to a White House statement. Seventeen people were killed and at least 14 others were injured.