Murders and mass killings carried out by minors depict an especially terrifying type of true crime.
By Katie McLaughlin FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Court TV) — An open records request has revealed how Parkland Shooter Nikolas Cruz spent some of his time More
August 31, 2022
During his middle school years, Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz frequently cursed at teachers and made threats, and his drawings of gunshot victims were so disturbing that... More
August 30, 2022
Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz's attorneys presented testimony that the mass killer exhibited violent, disruptive and troubled behavior from his earliest years and, just before his sixth birthday, witnessed... More
August 29, 2022
Four years before Nikolas Cruz murdered 17 people at a Florida high school, therapists at another school wrote a letter to his psychiatrist saying he was fixated on guns... More
August 25, 2022
A psychologist who treated Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz when he was 8 years old testified Wednesday that Cruz was a “peculiar child” who had many behavioral... More
August 24, 2022
By TERRY SPENCER and FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz as a toddler was intellectually and More
August 23, 2022
Melisa McNeill, Cruz's lead public defender, is expected to give her opening statement Monday, having deferred its presentation from the start of the trial a month ago. More
August 22, 2022
A 14-year-old boy accused of stabbing a man in the chest during an argument at a party in June has been charged as an adult. More
August 16, 2022
Soon, it will be Cruz's attorneys arguing why he should be spared, hoping to convince at least one juror their mitigating factors outweigh the prosecution's... More
August 15, 2022
Police said the bodies of Kassandra Sweeney and her two sons, ages 4 and 23 months, were found in their home on August 3, 2022. More
August 12, 2022
The prosecutor seeking to sentence Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz to death let the facts speak for themselves as he presented his case. More
August 8, 2022
Court TV Field Producer Emanuella Grinberg was one of five journalists who participated in the jury tour of the preserved crime scene of the 2018... More
August 4, 2022
Jurors in the trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz are expected to walk through the still blood-spattered rooms of Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on... More
August 4, 2022
U.S. District Court Judge Geoffrey Crawford denied Nathan Carman's request to be released and ordered him held without bail. More
August 3, 2022
“My first-born daughter, daddy's girl was taken from me!” yelled Dr. Alhadeff, the father of victim 14-year-old Alyssa Alhadeff. More
August 3, 2022
By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Family members from three of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz's 17 victims gave More
August 1, 2022
Since most of the worst U.S. mass shooters were killed by themselves or police during or immediately after their attack, it is rare for anyone... More
August 1, 2022
The video has been held by law enforcement and school officials who have not yet released it citing privacy concerns. More
July 28, 2022
.Broward County sheriff’s Detective Nick Masters read hundreds of searches and comments Cruz made starting seven months before the Feb. 14, 2018, massacre as prosecutors... More
July 27, 2022
Federal prosecutors say Vermont man Nathan Carman, charged with killing his mother at sea in 2016 in a plot to inherit millions, should remain behind... More
July 26, 2022
Jurors in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz got their first view Monday of the AR-15-style rifle he used to murder 17 students and staff... More
July 25, 2022
Prosecutors on Friday showed jurors photos of the horrific damage the bullets fired by Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz's AR-15 rifle did to some of his 17 victims,... More
July 22, 2022
By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz walked casually into a sandwich shop minutes after he More
July 21, 2022
When the shooting began at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Mario Jimenez’s son was in the classroom next door. The 10-year-old saw his teacher and... More
July 20, 2022
By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Teachers gave heart-wrenching testimony Wednesday in the penalty trial of Nikolas Cruz, More
July 20, 2022
By: Judge Ashley Willcott BROWARD COUNTY, Fla (Court TV) – The Parkland School Shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine's Day in 2018... More
July 20, 2022
Jurors in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz viewed graphic video Tuesday of him murdering 17 people as he stalked through a three-story classroom building at... More
July 19, 2022
Some parents wept as prosecutor Mike Satz described in his opening statement how Cruz killed their children at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb.... More
July 18, 2022
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz has begun. It's the deadliest U.S. mass shooting to go before... More
July 18, 2022
The State will push for Cruz, who is now 23, to be put to death for his crimes, while the defense team is expected to... More
July 18, 2022
