Connecticut reacted swiftly in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting to start working on ways to prevent future tragedies.

One of the key elements was having a commission establish standards for how schools are built, designed and renovated in order to be safe from a possible intruder.

Those recommendations were in addition to some of the strictest gun ownership and purchasing laws in the country, which included banning certain weapons.

The standards, adopted in 2014, established that schools needed to limit how people could enter the school and provided specific instructions for the construction of vestibules that needed to be closed to the public.

The standards also created guidelines for the use of closed-circuit surveillance cameras on school grounds.

Gov. Dannel Malloy said on Friday that those laws have kept students, staff and faculty safe since the Sandy Hook shooting, and implored other states to adopt similar standards.

"There are some states that have followed our lead, and there are other states that refuse to make their citizens safer," Malloy said.

Some towns, like East Haven, are considering having police remain on patrol on school grounds for the foreseeable future, something Malloy said is something that should be decided by individual communities.

"We don’t run people’s decision making in that regard. I think that has been left to local governments," Malloy said.

All Avon public schools were placed on soft lockdown Friday morning after a sticky note with what appeared to be a threatening message was found, but police said there was no threat.

Authorities said a member of the cleaning staff at Quest Diagnostics on West Avon Road was concerned about his young children after the school shooting in Florida and had written down something he saw in a television report because he wanted to get a translation to see what it meant.

Police said they responded to Quest Diagnostics after finding a sticky note with the message “Our (expletive) school is getting shot up,” and they determined that the man had seen it in part of a newscast that reported on a Snapchat video of classmates hiding.

The man told police he wrote the caption down to translate it because he was worried about his young children and did not know what the message meant, according to police.

Police saw a translation app the man had used on his phone, which they said confirmed the man’s claims.

Avon’s interim superintendent, JeanAnn C. Paddyfote, released a statement Friday morning about issuing the lockdown.

“We would like to inform you that the Avon Police Department became aware of a generalized threat found in the community. The threat was not specific to any school. However, as a precaution, we are placing the schools in a soft lockdown. The Avon Police Department will have a presence at all the schools,” the statement from Paddyfote said.

A follow-up message the superintendent sent to parents said police recommended that the lockdown be lifted.

The 13 Russians and three Russian entities mentioned in the indictment revealed Friday by Special Counsel Robert Mueller detailed the alleged strategies used for identity theft, Hillary Clinton impersonators and a small army churning out social media posts, NBC News reported.  

According to the federal court records, the Russian group, the Internet Research Agency, had a monthly budget of $1.2 million to fuel what the indictment called "information warfare," NBC News reported. 

The indictment also gave specifics on how the operation was divided into departments including, data analysis, graphic designers, finance and an information technology.

According to the indictment, here is how they did it.

Residents are concerned about the Town of Madison’s plan to sell the Academy School to a developer that would transform the historic building and the baseball fields behind it into new housing units.

During the NBC Connecticut Connect-a-thon on Thursday, three viewers called about the proposal. 

The former Academy School building near the Town Green has been vacant since the school shut down in 2004.

Town leaders are considering four proposals from different developers leaders before they select one for taxpayers to vote on during a referendum.

"Once this is gone, it's gone, it’s never coming back," Kathryn Hunter, who called NBC Connecticut, said. 

Hunter said she admits the town does not have the money to fix up the boarded up building that continues to deteriorate, but she does not want to see a developer taking over the property behind the school.

"I want to preserve the fields behind us and the playground for community use," Hunter said. "All four proposals I point out would be the highest density development in downtown Madison."

NBC Connecticut asked First Selectman Tom Banisch if he considered what the redevelopment would do to the small town feel in Madison.

"One of the things we told developers when we went out for proposals was you must maintain the character of the town," Banisch said.

The number of housing units in the proposals range from 20 to as many as 79, Banisch said.

One developer wants to transform the front of the school building into a theater and another would build a septic system big enough to handle downtown’s wastewater problem, Banisch added.

“To put five acres on the grand list in downtown Madison, I think the opportunity is there for significant grand list growth,” Banisch said, acknowledging the hope is for the town to make money of this deal.

But Hunter isn’t sold that the town she’s lived in since the early 2000’s will benefit.

“We should crunch the numbers and decide that we’re going to make enough money off this before we hand the deed to the developer,” Hunter said.

When philanthropist Daniel Hand gifted his academy to the town in 1884, one of the conditions was that the building remain an educational facility.

Banisch told NBC Connecticut that no longer applies as of the late 1950’s.

“I believe we have an ethical and moral obligation to honor Daniel Hand’s legacy and hold this property in trust for community and public use,” Hunter said.

The four proposals from the developers trying to purchase the Academy School property can be read here.

The public hearing on the future of the historic school building is at 7 p.m. Thursday Feb. 22 at the Polson Middle School at 302 Green Hill Road.

The comprehensive campaign detailed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller in the 37-page indictment revealed the extensive efforts made by 13 Russians and three Russian entities to undermine the U.S. democratic process using social media in the 2016 presidential campaign, NBC New reported.

The indictment how the conspiracy stretched from the St. Petersburg, Russia into American backyards to sway support towards President Donald Trump through using fake identities, troll social media accounts, buying ads and paid American citizens to hold anti-Clinton rallies.

NBC News listed some of those social media accounts mentioned in the federal indictment. 

An off-duty trooper was caught on camera taking down a shoplifting suspect being sought after by Enfield police. 

"One example why Connecticut State Troopers drive their cruisers off-duty," the state police department wrote on Facebook. 

On Thursday evening, an off-duty trooper was on his way to play basketball when he stopped at a convenience store in Enfield to buy a Gatorade. While he was parking his car, he heard chatter on the scanners that Enfield police were looking for a shoplifting suspect who was wearing a black-hooded sweatshirt, Connecticut State Police said. 

While the trooper was getting out of his car, he saw the suspect described walking and turned on his cruiser's emergency lights before identifying himself as a state trooper. The suspect fled and nearby cameras caught the moment when the trooper chasing the wanted man before taking him down in a nearby parking lot, police said. 

The trooper handcuffed the suspect and turned him over to Enfield police when they arrived to the scene.

Special counsel Robert Mueller charged 13 Russians and three Russian organizations for allegedly interfering in the U.S. 2016 presidential elections with the intention of promoting President Donald Trump’s candidacy by posting as American activists, creating Facebook groups and organizing fake rallies.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said at a press conference Friday that the Russians "allegedly conducted what they called 'information warfare' against the United States," with the goal of "spreading distrust against candidates and the political system in general." 

Charges listed in the 37-page indictment include conspiracy, wire fraud, bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, and they are the most direct allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 election that put Trump in the White House. It also marks the first criminal charges against Russians believed to have secretly worked to influence the outcome.

Rosenstein said his team has not had communication with Russia about the indictments and would go through normal channels for the extradition of those indicted. However, the U.S. government has no extradition treaty with Russia. In the past, Russia has not cooperated with these requests, so it's unlikely those charged will ever face trial.

The Justice Department has for years supported indicting foreign defendants in absentia as a way of publicly shaming them and effectively barring them from foreign travel.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov rejected the indictments on Saturday and dismissed them "just blabber."

"I have no response. You can publish anything and we can see those indictments multiplying," he said at the Munich Security Conference.

Moments later at the conference, U.S. national security advisor M.R. McMaster disagreed with Lavrov and said the "the evidence is now incontrovertible" of Russia's interference."

The indictment said some of the defendants communicated with "unwitting individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and with other political activists to seek to coordinate political activities." But Rosenstein said that "there is no allegation in this indictment that any American was a knowing participant in this illegal activity."

He added that "there is no allegation in the indictment that the charged conduct altered the outcome of the 2016 election."

Trump used that to claim vindication on Twitter, pointing to the assertion that the charged conduct in the indictment did not affect the election results. He reiterated his claim Friday that there was "no collusion" and that the "Trump campaign did nothing wrong."

The indictment, brought by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia on Friday, states that "from in or around 2014 to the present, defendant knowingly and intentionally conspired with each other (and with persons known and unknown to the Grand Jury) to defraud the United States ... for the purpose of interfering with the U.S. political and electoral processes, including the presidential election of 2016."

In his Friday tweet, Trump called attention to the 2014 beginning of the operation, highlighting that it was "long before I announced that I would run for President."

But the indictment does not resolve the collusion question at the heart of the continuing Mueller probe, which before Friday had produced charges against four Trump associates, including former national security advisor Michael Flynn and former Trump Campaign manager Paul Manafort.

Mueller is also investigating possible links between Russian meddling and members of Trump's campaign. 

The Russians charged, the indictment says, used and transferred the social security numbers and birth dates of unknowing Americans. They then used those identifications to open PayPal accounts, create fake driver's licenses and post on social media accounts using the victims' identities.

In a statement obtained by NBC News, PayPal said it is working with authorities and did so to identify and stop improper and possibly illegal activity.

"PayPal is intensely focused on combatting and preventing the illicit use of our services," the company said.

The social media pages and groups created by those charged were designed to attract U.S. audiences, among them YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. They supported the presidential campaign of then-candidate Donald Trump and disparaged Hillary Clinton. The Russians used their fictitious online personas to distribute derogatory information about Clinton, to denigrate other candidates such as Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Florida Sen. Mario Rubio and to support Trump and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. 

Cruz and Rubio ran against Trump in the Republican primary; Sanders opposed Clinton in the Democratic primary.

They used election-related hashtags such as #MAGA, #Trump2016, #TrumpTrain, #IWontProtectHillary and #Hillary4Prison.

They began to promote allegations of voter fraud by the Democratic Party, including through ads they had purchased on Facebook. One post, on an account they controlled called "Stop A.I.," alleged that "Hillary Clinton has already committed voter fraud during the Democrat Iowa Caucus."

In June 2016, defendants and their co-conspirators, posing online as Americans, communicated with an American affiliated with a Texas-based grassroots organization. They learned from that person that they should focus their activities on “purple states like Colorado, Virginia & Florida.”

"This indictment serves as a reminder that people are not always who they appear to be on the internet," Rosenstein told reporters. "The indictment alleges that the Russian conspirators want to promote discord in the United States and undermine public confidence in democracy. We must not allow them to succeed."

Trump echoed Rosenstein's call in a White House statement, saying, "It is more important than ever before to come together as Americans. We cannot allow those seeking to sow confusion, discord, and rancor to be successful. It’s time we stop the outlandish partisan attacks, wild and false allegations, and far-fetched theories, which only serve to further the agendas of bad actors, like Russia, and do nothing to protect the principles of our institutions. We must unite as Americans to protect the integrity of our democracy and our elections."

The indictment also said that those charged staged political rallies inside the United States, posing as Americans and U.S. grassroots groups. The defendants allegedly staged rallies both in support of then-president-elect Trump and opposed to him in New York on the same day.

Pro-Trump rallies took place in June and July 2016 in NYC, as well as in August 2016 in Florida. A "Support Hillary" rally took place in July 2016 in DC.

Ahead of a Florida rally, the Russians paid one person to build a cage on a flatbed truck and another to wear a costume portraying Clinton in a prison uniform. But they also organized some rallies opposing Trump, including one in New York after the election called "Trump is NOT my president."

The Internet Research Agency, a notorious Russian troll farm registered with the Russian government as a Russian corporate entity in July 2013, obscured its conduct by operating through a number of other Russian entities. It employed hundreds of individuals, including those who created fictitious personas. More than 80 people were involved in what was at times referred to as the “translator project,” which focused on the U.S. population. The organization’s strategy by May 2014 was to interfere with the 2016 presidential election with the goal of “spread[ing] distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general.”

The organization was funded by catering and management companies controlled by defendant Yevgeniy Viktorovich Prigozhin, a wealthy St. Petersburg businessman often referred to as "Putin's chef" in the media because his organizations had hosted dinners for Russian President Vladimir Putin and foreign leaders.

Prigozhin was quoted in Russian state media responding to the indictments, saying, "Americans are really impressionable people. They see what they want to see. I greatly respect them. I’m not upset at all that I am on this list. If they want to see the devil, let them see him."

As Mueller's investigation picked up steam, the Russians destroyed evidence of their activities, with one of those indicted sending an email in September 2017 to a family member that said the FBI had "busted" them so they were covering their tracks. 

That person, Irina Viktorovna Kaverzina, wrote the family member, "I created all of these pictures and posts, and the Americans believed that it was written by their people."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

A fire broke out at a barn in Mansfield on Friday night. 

Tolland dispatch said crews were responding to the barn on the 400 block of Warrenville Road.

Mansfield fire responded while Willimantic, UConn and Ashford fire department all assisted. 

No other information was immediately available. 

As the country mourns the seventeen lives lost in a Florida school shooting, one former teacher of the accused shooter is speaking out. NBC10's Rosemary Connors spoke to him to get a glimpse into the suspected shooter's past.

Officials from the Mexican government and the state of Oaxaca were traveling to Pinotepa Nacional, the epicenter of the 7.2-magnitude earthquake that rocked Mexico City and six other states, when their helicopter went down Friday. 

The Interior Secretary, Alfonso Navarrete Prida, and the Governor of Oaxaca, Alejandro Murat were onboard the military aircraft in addition to various officials from both administrations. Navarrete Prida and Murat survived the crash and only suffered "slight concussions," according to a tweet by the Interior Ministry. 

Navarrete Prida told media that they were able to get out of the helicopter on their own two feet, despite the fact that there were fatalities and people wounded in the accident. 

"There are people who have died, a public servant is fine, the governor of the State, the General of the area, Unfortunately, I understand that there are people who have lost their lives, and medical and rescue teams have already arrived," he said at the time. 

"We were accompanied by military personnel, personnel from the State Government and Civil Protection, and there was also some Secretary of the Interior staff."

Through its Twitter account, the Interior Ministry reported that two of the people waiting for the arrival of that delegation that would supervise the situation in the area after the earthquake were killed.

Journalists traveling in the helicopter say that at least three bodies were lying in the field that was enabled as a landing area.

Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto said the crash took place while the helicopter was landing.

Details about those killed were not available.

Figure skater Nathan Chen finally demonstrated the brilliance his fans were waiting to see, Alpine skiing witnessed a stunning upset and South Koreans added to their gold medals. Here are the Pyeongchang Games by the numbers.

6 Coming off a disappointing short program, Nathan Chen finally showed dominance in Pyeongchang, mastering his six quad jumps in the men’s free skate final. His performance earned him a 215.08, a personal best. However, it wasn’t enough to overcome the deficit from his 17th-place finish the day before, and his cumulative scores gave him a him fifth-place finish.

1:21.11 A world champion snowboarder shocked the skiing world in Pyeongchang with a stunning win in the women’s super-G. Ester Ledecka of the Czech Republic, 22, beat the defending champion, Anna Veith of Austria, with a time of 1 minute 21.11 seconds. Tina Weirather of Liechtenstein finished third. What went through Ledecka's mind at the moment that she saw she had won? "Is this a kind of mistake?" she said. At a news conference afterward, she kept her goggles on, telling reporters she was wearing no makeup. NBC commentators said that she had borrowed skis from Mikaela Shiffrin, who skipped the event. Lindsey Vonn’s much awaited return to the Olympics ended with a disappointing mistake when she went too wide on a turn. Vonn, who had missed the Sochi Games due to injury, tied for sixth.

1  John-Henry Krueger squeaked into the 1000-meter semifinal and ended up on the podium Saturday, his silver the first medal Americans have taken in speedskating since the 2010 Winter Olympics. In his Olympic debut, he stayed at the front of the pack for the first several laps of the final round, allowing him to avoid a crash that wiped out the three skaters behind him. Canadian Samuel Girard won gold while South Korean Seo Yira took bronze.

3 South Korea won its third gold medal of the Games, a short track speedskating medal in the women’s 1500 meters. Choi Min-jeong shot away to victory in the last couple of laps, an especially welcome win after she was disqualified in the 500-meter final earlier in the Games.

13 Norwegian Marit Bjoergen became the most decorated female Winter Olympian ever last Saturday, and tied fellow Norwegian Bjoern Daehlie as the most decorated cross-country skier of all-time on Thursday. Now she has moved into a tie with another fellow Norwegian Ole Einar Bjoerndalen as the most decorated Winter Olympian with her 13th medal when Norway claimed gold in the women’s 4x5km cross country relay on Saturday.

116 Mexico's cross country skier German Madrazo finished last in the men's 15km cross-country race Friday at the Winter Games, placing 116th. Madrazo, 45, waved a Mexican flag as he crossed the finish line nearly 26 minutes behind gold-medal winner Dario Cologna of Switzerland. Cologna was waiting for him as were the cross country skiers from Colombia, Morocco, Portugal and Tonga. The Tongan skier, Pita Taufatofua, who has marched bare chested and oiled up in the opening ceremony in last two Olympics, is a newly minded cross-country skier himself. Taufatofua finished in 114th place.

4-0 Russia’s men’s hockey players overpowered the United States 4-0 Saturday in Pyeongchang. Russians Nikolai Prohkarkin and Ilya Kovalchuk each scored twice. The NHL is not participating in the Olympics, a disadvantage the Americans, particularly are feeling. The U.S. finished the group phase of the Olympic tournament with a win, a loss and an overtime loss.

Shannon Ho, Noreen O'Donnell, Asher Klein and Cathy Rainone contributed to this article.

It’s not too late to get a flu shot. That’s the message health officials in Connecticut are putting out to the public.

Health officials were in East Hartford Saturday morning offering free vaccines to anyone who hasn’t got one this season.

Flu shots were available to anyone 4-years-old and up.

It takes two weeks to acquire immunity from the vaccine. Experts say the flu should start peaking in a week, but the season is expected to last at least until May, possibly June.

Close to 5,000 cases of the flu have been documented in Connecticut since last August, including 77 deaths. That’s the highest number since the state started keeping track five years ago.

The flu has hit all age groups, though the elderly and baby boomers have been most impacted by the potentially fatal strain of the disease.

This year’s vaccine covers four strains, and health officials estimate it is 20 to 30 percent effective.

Although the effectiveness of this year’s vaccine against the most prevalent strain is lower than previous years, health officials say getting the shot could mean the difference between getting a minor illness or being hospitalized. Those who get the vaccine tend to see less severe symptoms and recover faster.

North Haven police are warning residents about a phone scam targeting parents and their children.

Police said that a potential victim receives a call claiming that the victim’s child, or grandchild, has been involved in a car accident with a person who is wanted for murder and now threatening to harm the child if a ransom is not paid.

A member of the North Haven Police Department received the call on Friday and remained on the phone with the caller for several minutes before realizing something was wrong. As a result, the department is warning people to be wary of any calls they receive from people demanding money.

Reports of similar fraudulent calls have been received across the United States. In some cases, the scammer will play audio of a child’s voice, leading their target to further believe their loved one is in danger. The scammers require targets to stay on the phone while traveling to the bank to withdraw ransom money that they’re then directed to drop off at a separate location.

Anyone who receives this type of call is advised to call police immediately.

After a gunman stormed Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in South Florida Wednesday and killed 17 people, a student who survived the massacre said suspected shooter Nikolas Cruz could have been stopped if a teacher had a firearm as well.

Colton Haab is a junior at Stoneman Douglas and a second lieutenant in the school's JROTC program, which Cruz was also a member of. He told Fox News Saturday morning that training and arming teachers on campus would be a "big beneficial factor into school safety."

Haab specifically mentioned assistant football coach Aaron Feis, who was shot to death while selflessly shielding students from bullets. Feis was also a school security guard.

"If coach Feis had had his firearm in school that day, I believe that he could have most likely stopped the threat," Haab said.

Even without a firearm, many have hailed Feis as a hero in those harrowing moments. And Haab, too, was able to help students during the shooting.

As a JROTC member, Haab is familiar with the shooting team's equipment and put it to use when Cruz sprayed bullets through the halls of his school.

Haab told the AP that he helped usher about 90 students into the room where cadets train with pellet rifles. Haab moved the Kevlar sheets used as a backdrop for target practice away from the wall and told everyone to hide behind them. As it was, the shooter never approached the ROTC rooms.

The JROTC marksmanship program uses air rifles special-made for target shooting, typically on indoor ranges at targets the size of a coin. Records show that the Stoneman Douglas JROTC program received $10,827 in non-cash assistance from the NRA's fundraising and charitable arm in 2016, when Cruz was on the squad. The school's program publicly thanked the NRA Foundation on its Twitter feed.

Haab told the AP he sees nothing negative about the NRA's contribution to the ROTC program. In fact, he said, the equipment the group funded could have helped save the students' lives if the gunman had targeted them.

Still, Haab told Fox there needs to be "a little bit more" gun control. However, he added, "I don't think that we're gonna get gun control in such a quick enough response."

The Associated Press contributed to this response.

Three people were hurt when a pickup crashed into a home in Danbury early Saturday.

Fire officials said the truck slammed into a home on Garfield Avenue around 4 a.m.

The driver and two people in the home were taken to the Western Connecticut Health Network Danbury Emergency Department with what appeared to be minor injuries.

Fire crews and building officials remained on scene to assess the stability of the building and clean up the damage. The American Red Cross was called in to assist the occupants of the home.

The cause of the crash is under investigation.

Chanting "enough is enough" and waving signs emblazoned with messages like "No more silence, end gun violence," hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the Federal Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale Saturday to rally for stronger gun control laws in the aftermath of the deadly Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.  

The protest, which aimed to improve firearm safety legislation, called on the Florida Legislature to act in the name of gun regulation.

Survivors of the shooting that killed 17 people spoke with passion during Saturday's rally in front of the federal courthouse, and pleaded with lawmakers to change the nation's gun laws.

One student, Emma Gonzalez, angrily criticized politicians who take campaign contributions from the National Rifle Association. She challenged them to stop taking money, leading the crowd in a call-and-response chant.

"They say a good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun," she said, and the crowd chanted, "We call BS."

She also said adults who knew that the shooter was mentally ill should have done more to prevent him from having a weapon.

From a mosaic of public records, interviews with friends and family and online interactions, it appears that the alleged gunman Nikolas Cruz was unstable and violent to himself and those around him — and that when notified about his threatening behavior, law enforcement did little to stop it.

Because of the lack of gun legislation, senior Delaney Tarr said "People that I know, people that I love have died, and I will never be able to see them again."

"They will never be able to attend homecoming, to attend prom, to go to college, to receive those national meritts scholarships, to school on their school's swim team. I just want to know, where's the common sense in that," Tarr said.

One victim, Nicholas Dworet, had committed to swim for the University of Indianapolis. Another victim, Carmen Schentrup, was named one of 53 National Merit Scholarship Program semifinalists, in September.

Florida Sen. Gary Farmer of District 34 took the podium Saturday and said that "the discussion of sensible gun safety laws has been absent and silenced in Tallahassee and in Washington D.C. for for too long."

“This is the result of the stranglehold that the NRA has over Tallahassee and Washington DC and too many legislators,” he continued.

One parent, Kiara Finn of Miramar, told NBC 6 that her 5-year-old daughter Tarin asked if the gunman was coming to her school, and "if anybody can just come into her school and shoot them."

Finn said her message to legislators is "enough is enough," and that there is no  reason for an assault rifle.

Ahead of the protest, the Miami Gun Show -- one of the largest gun shows in the state -- opened Saturday morning less than 50 miles from Stoneman Douglas. 

The Florida Gun Shows organizers say they want to acknowledge the City of Parkland and its citizens, as well as the students and teachers who were murdered in the vicious attack.

"There’s no disrespect or insensitivity intended by this long-planned gun show,” the organization said. "We demand and enforce strict gun safety and encourage training for those who wish to own firearms."

In addition to Saturday's rally, the mass shooting sparked calls for more protests, walkouts and sit-ins across the United States.

Organizers behind the Women's March, an anti-Trump and female empowerment protest, called for a 17-minute walkout on March 14 to "protest Congress' inaction to do more than tweet thoughts and prayers in response to the gun violence plaguing our schools and neighborhoods."

The Network for Public Education, an advocacy organization for public schools, meanwhile, announced a "national day of action" on April 20, the anniversary of the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado, in which two students opened fire on their classmates, killing 12 students and one teacher.

The organization is encouraging teachers and students to organize sit-ins, walkouts, marches and any other events to protest gun violence in schools.

"The politicians sit on their hands as our children and their teachers are murdered in their schools," Diane Ravitch, the group's president, and Carol Burris, its executive director, said in a post online.

The Associated Press' Sudhin S. Thanawala contributed to this report.

One firefighter was injured when multiple departments responded to battle a barn fire in Mansfield Friday night.

The Mansfield Fire Department confirmed crews responded to the area of 436 Route 89 for the fire. The structure was fully involved when firefighters arrived.

One firefighter suffered injuries during the call and was taken to the hospital. That firefighter has since been treated and released.

The Mansfield fire marshal is investigating the cause of the fire.

No other details were immediately available.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High Sophomore Emma Gonzales had a message for president Donald Trump and for other politicians on their failure to enact sensible gun laws: "BS." Gonzales was one of several survivors to speak at a rally held outside the Federal Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to speak out against the gun lobby.