A student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida has died in what appears to be a suicide, police said. It is the second time in one week that a student from the school, which was the site of a mass shooting last year, died by suicide.
Calvin Desir was a 16-year-old sophomore at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where a former student armed with a semi-automatic assault rifle killed 17 students and staffers.
“My family is grieving over the loss of a wonderful and amazing son, brother, nephew, and friend. We are raising money to support all funeral cost for my brother. He was a fellow student at Stoneman Douglas with strong aspirations of one day becoming an engineer, which inspired him to always find new projects around the house to challenge his skills,” she wrote.
“I can tell you firsthand that he was one of a kind, very soft-spoken, and never once hurt a fly. If you ever asked him to do the simplest task, he was right on it. His selflessness and quick action to help others is something that we all deeply admired,” she continued.
“Calvin Desir was truly special to us all and will forever live on in our hearts. We love you Calvin!”
Coral Springs Police spokesman Tyler Reik told CBS News the student (Desir) died in an "apparent suicide" Saturday night. The spokesman said the student is a juvenile and no further information will be released. The death is still being investigated.
Nora Rupert, a school board member at Broward County Public Schools, told CBS News the student was a male sophomore.
The death comes just one week after a Parkland shooting survivor, 19-year-old Sydney Aiello, died by suicide. Aiello's mother told CBS Miami that her daughter struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder and survivor's guilt in the year after the shooting that left 17 people dead. Aiello was a friend of Meadow Pollack, one of the students killed in the attack.
Reik told CBS News there is "no indication at all" so far that the second student's death is linked to the school shooting or to Aiello's suicide. He also said it was not confirmed if the second student attended Marjory Stoneman Douglas at the time of the shooting.
The student's death came the night before the one year anniversary of the March For Our Lives, a demonstration against gun control that was planned by Marjory Stoneman Douglas students. The rally in Washington drew hundreds of thousands of participants and inspired similar marches around the world.
David Hogg, one of the most prominent student activists from the school, tweeted Sunday morning: "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"