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Parkland School Shooting Hero Released From Hospital

Pablo Gomez, who's wife teaches at the school, visits a makeshift memorial outside the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 students and faculty were killed in a mass shooting on Wednesday, in Parkland, Fla., Monday, Feb. 19, 2018. Nikolas Cruz, a former student, was charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder on Thursday. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Used body to block a door

PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — A student credited with saving his classmates’ lives by using his body to block a door during the Florida school shooting that killed 17 has left the hospital.

The Sun Sentinel reports that 15-year-old Anthony Borges was released Wednesday morning from Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale after nine surgeries.

Borges was shot five times during the Feb. 14 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Among the most seriously wounded survivors, Borges was previously released from the hospital but had to return because of a possible abdominal infection and ulcer in his small intestine. He also lost part of a lung.

Borges emigrated from Venezuela three years ago and played soccer at Fort Lauderdale’s Barca Academy, a youth program operated by Futbol Club Barcelona in Spain.

News Talk Florida: News Talk Florida Staff
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