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Missing Florida teen confirmed dead in Parkland school shooting

Meadow Pollack

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A Broward County father said his 18-year-old daughter Meadow Pollack, who went missing after Wednesday's deadly shooting, has died, according to The Palm Beach Post.

Andrew Pollack stood outside the hospital Wednesday afternoon with a firm grip on his cellphone, anxiously waiting to hear the words “we found her.”

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Pollack and his wife were searching for their daughter Meadow, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. They called her phone so many times Wednesday only to hear it ring and ring and ring.

Pollack planned to go to Lynn University for college.

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Posted by Action News Jax on Thursday, February 15, 2018