Parkland School Massacre

Under Florida law, a death sentence requires a unanimous vote on at least one count. Nikolas Cruz will be formally sentenced at a later date. More

October 13, 2022

The jurors are being sequestered during their deliberations, which could take hours or days — no one knows. They have been told to pack for at least two nights. More

October 12, 2022

Mike Satz said Nikolas Cruz “was hunting his victims” as he stalked a 3-story classroom building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. More

October 11, 2022

The jury will likely decide Nikolas Cruz's fate this week. For the 24-year-old to get a death sentence, they must be unanimous on at least one victim. More

October 10, 2022

Officials launched an investigation last year after receiving a report that Zachary Cruz was being financially exploited by Donovan and Moore. More

October 7, 2022

Nikolas Cruz said he picked Valentine’s Day for the Parkland school shooting because no one loved him; he wanted to ruin the holiday for people. More

October 6, 2022

A person who genuinely scored so poorly on the finger tapping test “would not be able to pull the trigger like that,” neuropsychologist Robert Denney said. More

October 5, 2022

Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz told a psychiatrist he began contemplating mass murder in middle school, researching killers to learn their ways. More

October 3, 2022

Prosecutors showed writings where Nikolas Cruz praised Satan and photos of a drawing he made in his cell with his own blood of a pentagram and the number 666. More

September 28, 2022

Cruz's attorneys never questioned the horror he inflicted, but focused on their belief that his birth mother's heavy drinking during pregnancy left him with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. More

September 26, 2022

The Broward Public Defender’s Office said in a motion that Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer held a longstanding animosity toward lead defense lawyer Melisa McNeill. More

September 19, 2022

Judge Elizabeth Scherer called the decision without warning to her or the prosecution “the most uncalled for, unprofessional way to try a case.” More

September 14, 2022

Fetal alcohol researcher testifies school shooter Nikolas Cruz’s birth mother drank more during pregnancy than any woman he’s ever seen documented. More

September 13, 2022

At 5, tests showed Nikolas Cruz had impairments in 10 intellectual categories including memory, reasoning, language and impulsivity, a doctor said. More

September 13, 2022

Chaos reigned in the home where Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz grew up, testimony in his ongoing penalty trial has shown. More

September 12, 2022

In a failed attempt to bar the admission into evidence several swastikas Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz drew on assignments, his attorneys made an unusual argument Thursday at his penalty trial: he was an equal opportunity killer who shot his victims without regard to race or religion. More

September 1, 2022

Paul Gold, who lived next door to the Cruz family when the future mass killer was 10 to 12 years old, told jurors he knew Cruz had psychological problems from their first meeting. More

August 31, 2022

By Katie McLaughlin FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Court TV) — An open records request has revealed how Parkland Shooter Nikolas Cruz spent some of his time behind bars, and the results are nothing short of disturbing.    Earlier this year, after jury selection began in the penalty phase of the trial, officers discovered dozens of […] 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 one teacher kept them for years, turning them over to authorities immediately after he massacred 17 people. 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 his adoptive father's sudden death. 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 and dreamed of killing others and being covered in blood. 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 and developmental issues but his widowed mother seemed overwhelmed and wasn’t consistent in her discipline or in getting him treatment. 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 physically behind other children, which caused him to isolate himself and hit and bite to get what he wanted, a daycare administrator and former neighbor testified Tuesday at his penalty trial for mass […] 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

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 aggravating circumstances — a death sentence must be unanimous. More

August 15, 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 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida. 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 Thursday. More

August 4, 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 heartrending testimony Monday about how their 2018 deaths at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have affected their lives, detailing lost loves, lost moments and even fading memories.    The sister of student […] More

August 1, 2022