Parkland victim's father mourns on Twitter on what would've been daughter's 15th birthday

Jaime Guttenberg would have turned 15 on Friday had a gunman not killed her and 16 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in February.

On her birthday, her father Fred Guttenberg and family took to Twitter to express their grief over never being able to watch her grow up. The family’s also using Twitter as a way to rally for gun safety laws.

In a Twitter DM exchange, Fred told Mashable he needed a place to express his voice and only joined Twitter after his daughter had passed.

“I was not even on Twitter until a few weeks after my daughter died,” said Fred. “I decided to join as I felt I needed to express my voice and Twitter became a way for me to speak for Jaime and for all of the victims of preventable gun violence.” Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Parkland victim's father mourns on Twitter on what would've been daughter's 15th birthday