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The grief and mourning continue for the 17 students and staff killed on the afternoon of Feb. 14 during a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. But something else is happening among the anguish of the interrupted lives of the victims and survivors. Out of the agony, activism has emerged and students from across South Florida are speaking out together asking for stricter gun controls. Here's a list of grief counseling resources available for the community.

California Man Convicted Of Threatening Relatives Of Parkland Shooting Victims Online

WLRN Public Media | By Jay Weaver

Published October 9, 2019 at 12:16 PM EDT

Young children pay homage to the 17 people who were shot and killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland. They gathered at a memorial at Pine Trails Park in Parkland on Friday, Feb. 16, 2018, two days after the shooting.

Thousands of miles away, a young California man assumed various aliases on Instagram to send intimidating messages to relatives of students killed in the mass shooting at a Parkland high school, a federal jury in Fort Lauderdale found.

Brandon Michael Fleury, 22, of Santa Ana, Calif., was found guilty Tuesday of cyberstalking and sending a kidnapping threat to families and classmates of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School victims who died on Valentine’s Day in 2018. Fleury faces a maximum of 20 years in prison at his Dec. 2 sentencing before U.S. District Judge Rodolfo Ruiz.

According to trial evidence, Fleury used 13 different Instagram accounts under the aliases of alleged Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz, notorious serial killer Ted Bundy and others to target people close to the 17 high school students and staff killed in the mass shooting.

Read more at our news partner, the Miami Herald.