Crime & Safety
Florida Shooting Victim's Mom To Trump In Video: 'Do Something!'
"Action! We need it now! These kids need safety now," said the mother a 14-year-old girl who lived and played travel soccer in New Jersey.

A grief-stricken mother who lived in New Jersey and lost her 14-year-old daughter in the Florida school shooting massacre called out President Trump in a video Thursday, demanding "action" on guns (see video below).
Alyssa Alhadeff's mother, Lori, formerly of Woodcliff Lake, decried the lack of security at many schools and the fact that the gunman was able to access her daughter's classroom so easily.
"A gunman, a crazy person, just walks right into the school, knocks down the window of my child's door and starts shooting her! And killing her!" she said as she held a microphone
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"President Trump, please do something!" Lori Alhadeff said in the video. "Do something! Action! We need it now! These kids need safety now."
Alyssa Alhadef was a freshman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Woodcliff Lake school officials confirmed Thursday that Alhadeff and her family lived in the borough from about 2010 to 2014. Read more here: Florida Shooting Victim, 14, Lived In NJ, 'Loved, Well-Respected'
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Her mother was frustrated that Trump appeared to offer few solutions to the increasing number of school shootings that have happened over the past two decades. In his public statements, Trump said the nation needs to do more to address mental health issues, but he didn't address gun control.
"You say, 'What can you do?' You can do you can stop the guns from getting into these children's hands, put metal detectors in every entrance to the schools," she said. "What can you do? You can do a lot. This is not fair to our family, and our children go to school not to get killed."
Here is the video:
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