India, Dec. 22 -- A survivor of the Parkland school shooting has died by suicide years after the 2018 tragedy, his family has announced. Donovan Joshua Leigh Metayer, 26, was a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, when Nikolas Cruz went on a deadly rampage, killing 17 students and staff members.

Metayer died following a seven-year battle with schizophrenia that started after the shooting, his sister, Nancy Metayer Bowen, said on Facebook. "On Monday, December 15th, my baby brother, Donovan, committed suicide after a seven-year battle with schizophrenia," she wrote, sharing the link to a GoFundMe launched for her brother.

The GoFundMe described Metayer, lovingly called Donny, as "a radiant child" who "exce...