PARKLAND, Fla. _ Family and friends remembered Meadow Jade Pollack as a princess whose smile lit up the room. They were angry with the cruelty of her death that was no fairy-tale ending.
They gathered at Temple K'ol Tikvah in Parkland on Friday afternoon for her funeral. A committal service was to follow at the Garden of Aaron Star of David Memorial Gardens in North Lauderdale.
"You killed my kid," her father Andrew Pollack told the congregation at the funeral. "'My kid is dead' goes through my head all day and all night. I keep hearing it over and over."
She was one of 17 students and adults killed Wednesday when a gunman opened fire on campus at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
"This is just unimaginable to think I will never see my princess again," her father said. "This piece of s_killed my kid, and I wasn't able to do anything about it."
Several speakers talked of Pollack's love of animals and her concern for others.
Rabbi Brad Boxman said she was a star with "a smile like sunshine."
"I believe that God is crying with us, that God is wailing with us," Boxman said. "Do something to honor her."
Those at the service included Gov. Rick Scott, U.S. Reps. Ted Deutch and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, County Commissioner Michael Udine.
Pollack was the youngest in her immediate family and of 10 grandchildren, family members said.
She is survived by her parents, Andrew Pollack and Shara Kaplan, her brothers Huck and Hunter, and her grandmother Evelyn Pollack, all of Parkland.
Pollack had planned to attend Lynn University after graduating. A funeral also was held Friday for another shooting victim, Alyssa Alhadeff.
