The prosecutor of the Parkland, Fla. mass school shooting recalled the coldness and cruelty of the gunman in his opening statement today. Some parents wept. Others sat stoically. One woman who lost her daughter fled the courtroom.
at a Parkland, Fla., high school detailed for jurors Monday how Nikolas Cruz coldly mowed down his victims, returning to some as they lay wounded to finish them off with a second volley.
The prosecutor’s presentation went over how Cruz shot each of the 14 students and three staff members who died and some of the 17 who were wounded. Some were shot sitting at their desks, some as they fled and some as they lay bleeding on the floor while Cruz methodically stalked through a three-story building for almost seven minutes with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle.in October to murder and attempted murder and is contesting only his sentence.
Among the first witnesses was Danielle Gilbert, a junior who was in psychology class when the shooting began. The teacher told students to get behind her desk. As Gilbert left, she broke down in sobs. Her father put his arm around her and led her from the courtroom. Nine other gunmen who killed at least 17 people died during or immediately after their shootings, either by suicide or police gunfire. The suspect in theIt wasn’t clear if anyone was in the courtroom to support Cruz, who sat at the defense table between his attorneys. He mostly looked down at a pad of paper with a pencil in his hand, but he did not appear to write. He would sometimes look up to stare at Satz or the jury, peer at the audience or whisper to his lawyers.
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