The latest legal news in the Parkland school massacre cases involving gunman Nikolas Cruz and school resource officer Scot R. Peterson.
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 outside government to see such surveillance videos or police and autopsy photos. More
August 1, 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 try to prove he planned it. More
July 27, 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 members four years ago at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. 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, causing extensive wounds to their heads, bodies and limbs. 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 murdered 14 students and three staff members at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School four years ago, showing no signs of stress or nervousness, video played at his penalty trial Thursday showed. Cruz […] More
July 21, 2022
By TERRY SPENCER Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Teachers gave heart-wrenching testimony Wednesday in the penalty trial of Nikolas Cruz, with one recalling how a boy in her Holocaust studies class correctly answered a question seconds before he became one of 17 people murdered during the school shooter’s rampage four years ago. Ivy Schamis, […] 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 is forever branded on the hearts of most. 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 Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. 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. 14, 2018. 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 a jury. 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 fight for their client’s life. More
July 18, 2022
A Florida judge has refused to delay the sentencing trial of Nikolas Cruz in the 2018 shooting at a high school in which 17 people were killed. More
July 1, 2022
A jury of seven men and five women was chosen for a penalty trial to decide whether Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz should be sentenced to death or get life in prison. More
June 28, 2022
The final phase of jury selection in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz has begun. A final 83 candidates remain from about 1,800. More
June 22, 2022
The public defenders representing Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz tried to withdraw from his death penalty trial Monday after the judge ordered them to move forward with jury selection even though one member of their five-member team is sick with COVID-19. More
June 6, 2022
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Jury selection in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz hit a new stumbling block when a potential juror wore a T-shirt potentially prejudicial to his case. More
May 23, 2022
Jury selection in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz entered its second phase Monday with the attorneys asking questions of potential jurors. More
May 16, 2022
Jury selection in the sentencing phase for Parkland gunman Nikolas Cruz was back in court Monday, but once again it was only a brief meeting. The case had been paused since May 2. More
May 10, 2022
Jury selection in the death penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz was delayed Monday by at least a week because his lead attorney is apparently ill. More
May 2, 2022
Judge Elizabeth Scherer reversed a decision she made regarding a dispute over how to handle 11 potential jurors who were prematurely dismissed in the sentencing of the Parkland school gunman, effectively preserving the first two weeks of jury selection in the Nikolas Cruz case. More
April 27, 2022
The judge overseeing jury selection for a man who murdered 17 people at a Florida high school declared that the process will start over Monday. More
April 25, 2022
The jury that will decide whether Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz gets a death sentence will tour the blood-stained, bullet-pocked building where he murdered 17 people four years ago, a judge has ruled. More
April 5, 2022
Jury selection in the deadliest U.S. mass shooting ever to go to trial began Monday with preliminary screening for the panel that will determine whether Nikolas Cruz will be put to death for murdering 17 students and staff members at a Parkland, Florida, high school. More
April 4, 2022
Attorneys for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz and his prosecutors argued over whether jurors who will decide whether he is sentenced to death should be allowed to tour the building where he murdered 17 people. More
March 30, 2022
Jury selection in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz is on track to begin April 4,. More
March 18, 2022
About five weeks before the shooting, an FBI tip line received a call saying Nikolas Cruz had bought guns and planned to "slip into a school and start shooting the place up.” More
March 17, 2022
Four years after 17 students and others were gunned down at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, families and gun control advocates pressed President Joe Biden on Monday to do more to address gun violence. More
February 14, 2022
The penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz will be delayed until April after prosecutors told the judge Wednesday that they needed more time to interview the mental health experts who are expected to testify on his behalf. More
February 2, 2022
The gunman who killed 17 at a Florida high school four years ago had no expectation of privacy when he posted disturbing photographs to a public Instagram account before his rampage and prosecutors can use them in his upcoming penalty trial, a judge ruled at a hearing Monday. More
January 24, 2022
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WPTV) — The upcoming sentencing trial for the man who confessed to killing 17 people at a Parkland high school in 2018 will be delayed until February. More
December 30, 2021
