In this file photo taken on February 21, 2018 memorials are seen on a fence surrounding Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida
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Miami (AFP) – US police have released the name of a second Parkland school shooting survivor who took his life last weekend, days after the suicide of another student.

Police in nearby Coral Springs told AFP Wednesday that Calvin Desir, 16, died Saturday of an apparent suicide.

Desir was one of the survivors of a shooting rampage on Valentine’s Day last year at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when a former student walked in with an AR-15 assault rifle and killed 17 people.

Desir’s family published a page on GoFundMe in which they wrote that Desir had always hoped to become an engineer and had a knack for finding “new projects around the house to challenge his skills.”

A week before, another survivor of the massacre, 19-year-old Sydney Aiello, took her life.

Her mother told a local television station that Aiello had been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder and with “survivor’s guilt” following the shooting.

Coral Springs police were scheduled to hold a town meeting on mental health and suicide prevention Wednesday evening.

“We simply cannot let the events of that day take the lives of any more of our children,” police wrote on the invitation to the meeting.

As Parkland was mourning, the authorities said the father of a child killed in the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, had apparently committed suicide.

Jeremy Richman, 49, lost his six-year-old daughter, Avielle, in the Sandy Hook shooting which left 20 children and six staff members dead.

Richman had visited grieving families in Parkland less than a week ago, said Ryan Petty, the father of a slain Parkland student.

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