US Olympic Figure Skaters Alexa and Chris Knierim Dedicate Program to Florida Shooting Victims
U.S. Olympic figure skating duo Alexa Scimeca-Knierim and Chris Knierim said Wednesday that they skated in honor of the victims of Wednesday's mass shooting at a Florida high school. "We wanted to skate for the 17 children that died in the Florida shooting. And today was much more than about us," Scimeca-Knierim said in an interview after their performance in the pair figure-skating finals on Wednesday. At least 17 people were killed in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on Wednesday. The suspected gunman  a former student at the school who has been identified as 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz  has been taken into custody. The ages of the shooting victims have not yet been released. The incident marked the 18th school shooting so far this year. , Some Olympics viewers took to Twitter to say they had been moved by Scimeca-Knierim's words about the Florida shooting. ,