Anthony Rizzo went back home to Parkland, Fla., where the Chicago Cubs first baseman spoke at a vigil after 17 people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Rizzo left Cubs camp in Mesa, Ariz., late Wednesday following the tragedy at his alma mater. On Thursday night, Rizzo once again made a call for change, as the latest school shooting was the 18th of the year in the United States.
“While I don’t have all the answers I know that something has to change before this is visited on another community and another community, and another community,” Cubs player @arizzo44 says at Florida vigil.
He’s a graduate of the high school where the shooting took place pic.twitter.com/gKcHp5S0ty
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“We see this on TV too often… We ultimately get immune and move on to something else, but then it happens in our town,” former student says at Florida school shooting vigil pic.twitter.com/R6u9oYX3Xh
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The Cubs' Anthony Rizzo, a graduate of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, fought through tears as he delivered a heartfelt speech at a vigil held for Wednesday's shooting victims. pic.twitter.com/ZJcdgqMkRy
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Rizzo’s former football coach, Aaron Feis, as well as Jaime Guttenberg, a relative of Rizzo’s agent, were among the 17 killed in Parkland.
