Prosecutors can call the accused killer in the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, “murderer” or “school shooter” during his trial but must avoid pejoratives like “animal” and “that thing,” a judge ruled on Friday. Attorneys for Nikolas Cruz had asked that their client only be referred to by his name …
On Monday, a Florida court ruled that a school district was not obligated to notify faculty, students, and students’ parents about the suspected Parkland gunman’s actions before the 2018 mass shooting that killed 17 people. In her decision, Broward Circuit Judge Patti Englander Henning wrote that the Broward School District cannot be held legally liable …
A judge on Thursday delayed the trial for Parkland school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz, who had been scheduled to go on trial in January. Cruz’s legal team told Broward County, Florida, Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer that the case was moving forward far too fast for them, citing the 1,000 witnesses identified by prosecutors plus millions …
A new report in the Sun Sentinel details the critical minutes leading up to and during February’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida; when former student Nikolas Cruz was able to get inside a building at the school and open fire in multiple locations, killing 17 people before escaping the …
A federal judge ruled last week that police and school workers “had no legal duty to protect students,” in a lawsuit filed on behalf of 15 pupils present during the devastating deadly mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Dough High School in February. As CrimeOnline previously reported, a former student of the school, Nikolas Cruz, is …
By TERRY SPENCER, Associated Press SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — The state commission investigating the Florida high school massacre began discussions Friday on what recommendations it will make regarding student safety, mental health and steps to prevent future school shootings. The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Commission didn’t pass any specific recommendations Friday at its latest gathering …
Before Nikolas Cruz opened fire on students in Parkland, Florida, he told a 13-year-old girl he was distraught over bullying and was contemplating suicide, the Miami Herald reports. Cruz fatally gunned down 17 people and injured another 17 in February at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where he had been a student before enrolling in …
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Helena Ramsay was wise beyond her years, shy until you got to know her and discovered she had a wicked wit. She dreamed of seeing the pink dolphins in the Brazilian rainforest — a dream her mother said was cut short by the gunman who killed Ramsay and 16 others …
The campus monitor also declined to report an emergency code after the shooting began because he wasn’t sure the sound was gunfire
The suspected gunman behind the deadly massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School recorded a chilling video message before opening fire in Parkland, Florida, in February. “I’m your next school shooter of 2018,” Nikolas Cruz says in the video clips released by prosecutors this week. It’s unclear when Cruz recorded the video messages, obtained by …
Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old accused of killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last month, is reportedly being showered with love letters and has had hundreds of dollars put in his commissary account. The South Florida Sun Sentinel reported that an alarming amount of admirers are sending the suspected mass murderer sexually-explicit photos and offers of …
A commitment under the law would have made it more difficult if not impossible for Nikolas Cruz to obtain a gun legally.
