PARKLAND, Fla. (NEWSnet/AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday toured the classroom building where the 2018 Parkland school shooting occurred.

Following the tour, Harris announced a $750 million grant program to provide technical assistance and training to Florida and the other 20 states that have similar “red flag laws.”

The incident on Feb. 14, 2018, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, killed 14 students and three staff members.

The halls and classrooms inside the three-story structure remain strewn with shoes left by fleeing students, and wilted Valentine’s Day flowers and balloons. Textbooks, laptop computers, snacks and paper remain on desks. Harris was told about each victim.

“Frozen in time,” Harris said, repeatedly. She was accompanied on the tour by victims’ family members, some of them pushing for additional spending on school safety, some backing stiffer gun laws.

Harris, who leads the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, said there are lessons to be learned from the shooting.

“We must be willing to have the courage to say that on every level, whether you talk about changing laws or changing practices and protocols, that we must do better,” Harris said.

At Stoneman Douglas, former student Nikolas Cruz fired about 140 shots from an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle during a six-minute attack. He pleaded guilty in 2021, and in 2022 was sentenced to life in prison.

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