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Nikolas Cruz sentencing - live: Neighbour recalls ‘weird’ Parkland shooter as his 666 blood drawings revealed

The public defence team for Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz began presenting its case in court Monday

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Nikolas Cruz: What are fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and does the Parkland shooter have one?

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) are conditions caused by an individual being exposed to alcohol before birth

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Parkland gunman’s childhood on display in courtroom, in testimony and photos

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The Parkland school shooter was a child once, a baby-faced kid who posed for pictures with his family and smiled dutifully, a little boy enrolled in day care like so many other children his age.

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Testimony: Florida school shooter was intellectually slow

A preschool administrator and a neighbor both say that as a toddler, Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz was intellectually and physically behind other children

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Chilling jailhouse drawings show Nikolas Cruz saying he wants to ‘go to death row’ and be ‘buried with a woman’

Among the 30 pages of disturbing notes and sketches are images of the devil, words appear to be written in blood and pictures appearing to depict the Valentine’s Day 2018 shooting. WARNING: Disturbing content

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Who is Zachary Cruz? Parkland shooter’s brother ‘stars in reality show’ and trespassed at massacre site

Zachary Cruz had been expected to testify for the defence in his brother Nikolas Cruz’s sentencing trial

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Nikolas Cruz: Who was the Parkland shooter’s biological mother Brenda Woodard?

Killer’s defence team argues birth mother’s drink and drug abuse ‘poisoned him in the womb’

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Nikolas Cruz sentencing - live: Parkland shooter’s disturbed drawings pleading for death penalty revealed

The public defence team for Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz began presenting its case in court Monday

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Rep. Mike Garcia, facing tough reelection in California, compares Biden administration to Nazi regime

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Florida school shooter was damaged even before birth, defense attorney says

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — His actions were indefensible. Inexcusable, his lawyer said Monday.

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Nikolas Cruz’s sister says brother came from ‘polluted womb’

Cruz’s legal team are arguing that he suffers from foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) and other anti-social behavioural disorders caused in part by his mother drinking and taking drugs while pregnant

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Nikolas Cruz has been in contact with Sandy Hook victim’s mother, defence tells sentencing trial

‘Through those conversations ... her and Nick are trying to find a way to prevent this from ever happening again,’ public defender says

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Nikolas Cruz’s team says his brain is ‘irretrievably broken’ because of mother’s drinking as he fights death penalty

Defence says there is ‘no defence for this crime’ but Nikolas Cruz’s ‘choices’ all began with the ‘choices’ made by his biological mother Brenda Woodard

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Attorney: Florida school shooter was a 'damaged person'

The lead attorney for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz told the jury in his penalty trial Monday they have witnessed “things that will haunt them for the rest of their lives,” but they now need to learn what led him to massacre of 17 people four years ago before they…

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Parkland victims remembered four years on as hero’s widow opens up about the trauma

Chris Hixon was murdered along with 16 other people in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine’s Day 2018. His widow Debbi Hixon tells Rachel Sharp how she hopes the sentencing trial of his killer will finally enable her family to start to grieve

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Nikolas Cruz sentencing: A timeline of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting

Former student finally facing judgement for attack that killed 17 people and wounded 17 others in Parkland, Florida, on 14 February 2018

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Missed warning signs, failings, and lessons learned: What happened during the Parkland massacre

As the sentencing trial continues for Nikolas Cruz, the man who killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018, Rachel Sharp investigates what led up to the massacre and what’s happened since

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Nikolas Cruz sentencing - live: Parkland shooter’s sister brought out of jail to testify at his trial

The public defence team for Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz began presenting its case in court Monday

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As his defense launches, Parkland shooter still fixated on blood, murder, revenge

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz still fantasizes about murdering people he hates. He smeared the devil’s “666″ on his cell wall recently, in his own blood, and drew disturbing sketches using a red Atomic FireBall candy. He’s glad he can wear a mask in court, he…

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Stage set for Parkland gunman’s brother and sister to testify

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The biological brother and sister of the Parkland gunman are preparing to testify for him when the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting case resumes.

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School shooter's brain exams to be subject of court hearing

The judge in penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz will soon decide whether the jury will be told about some brain exams his lawyers had conducted on him

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Parkland shooter's prosecutor had bloody facts on his side

The prosecutor seeking to sentence Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz to death let the facts speak for themselves as he presented his case over the last three weeks

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The painful legacy of a building: Parkland massacre site holds haunting, horrific memories

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Just pretend it’s not there.

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Stoneman Douglas shooting site won’t come down until next year at the earliest

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The Parkland building where a teenage gunman shot and killed 17 people will continue to stand at least until next year, even though the jury deciding the gunman’s fate has already finished its tour of the crime scene.

Miami Herald

What is the fate of the Parkland shooting site now that jurors have visited it?

PARKLAND, Fla. — On Thursday, jurors for the murder trial of the Parkland shooter visited the site of the shooter’s rampage, where they witnessed dried blood in the same spots some of the victims died along with desks and walls that still had bullet holes.

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