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Jaime Guttenberg's family remembers her as a budding dancer. Inset: Her father, Fred Guttenberg, and Jaime share a shake.
AIMING FOR CHANGE
LONG ISLAND NATIVE AND DAD OF MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOL MASS
SHOOTING VICTIM ADVOCATES FOR GUN SAFETY LAWS
By MICHELLE GABRIELLE CENTAMORE
Fourteen-year-old Jaime Guttenberg was beautiful and intelligent. She
commanded a room, whether she was dancing or dazzling her audience with her
vibrant energy and empathetic, kind and mature nature.
“She had a voice that needed to be heard,” says her father, Fred Guttenberg, a
Long Island native who has lived in Florida since 1989.
But on February 14, 2018, Jaime Guttenberg — along with 16 other students and
staff of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida — lost her
life to a 19-year-old gunman who opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle, leaving
behind her father, mother Jennifer, older brother Jesse, and their beloved golden
doodle pups Charli and Cooper.
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