WASHINGTON, March 24 (Xinhua) -- Another student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, U.S. state of Florida, has died in "what appears to be a suicide," CBS News reported Sunday, citing a police spokesman.
It is the second time within a week that a student from that school, where a shooting massacre on Feb. 14, 2018 killed 17 students and staff members, died by suicide.
A Coral Springs Police spokesman told CBS News that the student, who died Saturday night, was a juvenile and no further information will be released, adding that the death is still being investigated.
Sydney Aiello, a survivor of the school shooting, died at home last weekend in Coconut Creek, Florida, suffering a gunshot wound to the head, according to local authorities. Her funeral took place on Friday.
Aiello suffered from survivor's guilt and had recently been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, according to CNN, citing her mother, Cara.
Aiello had been on campus the day of the mass shooting, but was not in the building where the attack took place, Cara said.
The cheerleader graduated from the high school a month after the shooting, but struggled to attend college classes because she was afraid of being in a classroom, according to media reports.
Police said there is "no indication at all" so far that the second student's death is linked to the shooting or to Aiello's suicide. It has not been confirmed if the second student was in Marjory Stoneman Douglas at the time of the shooting.
The shooting that shook the nation was carried out by former Stoneman Douglas student Nikolas Cruz, then 19. He was indicted on 17 counts of murder.
The death of the second student came the night before the one-year anniversary of the March For Our Lives, a demonstration organized by Marjory Stoneman Douglas students and alumni that called for changes in gun-related policies.
The rally in Washington D.C. on March 24, 2018, drew hundreds of thousands of participants and inspired similar events across the rest of the United States.
"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," David Hogg, a prominent student activists from the school, tweeted Sunday morning.
"Stop saying 'you'll get over it,'" Hogg wrote in another tweet. "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."
