Parkland school shooter, Nikolas Cruz, to plead guilty to killing 17 students and staff members in 2018 with assault rifle in the US
Now 23, Cruz was charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder and 17 counts of attempted murder for those he wounded in the attack.
"It is our intent to enter a change of plea as to both cases, to all charges," attorney David Wheeler told a judge on Friday, indicating that Cruz would drop his initial innocent plea both for the murders and for physically attacking a jail officer after his arrest. The Valentine's Day attack was the country's worst school massacre since the horror at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012, which left 26 dead.
The shooting stunned the country and sparked new efforts, led by students from the school itself, for tougher gun controls -- although the polarized US Congress has yet to enact meaningful gun reform.Cruz bought the weapon legally, despite having been in local records as having a history of mental health problems.
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