Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis/photo by Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis/photo by Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons

DeSantis made the announcement Wednesday, flanked by family members of the 17 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students and staff gunned down last Valentine's Day. Seventeen other people were injured in the massacre, which the governor called “one of the worst days that we've had in the history of Florida.”

The statewide grand jury “is something that is real,” DeSantis said at a news conference inside the Broward County courthouse.