HISTORICAL FACTS: 14 - The Untold Story

Gun dealer: Parkland killer said he wanted rifle to go shooting with friends

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — When the Parkland killer was asked why he wanted to buy an AR-15-style rifle, he said it was to go shooting with his friends over the weekend, a former gun shop owner testified Tuesday.

Tribune News Service · Jul 26, 2022

Florida school shooter's AR-15 rifle shown to his jurors

Jurors in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz have now seen the AR-15 rifle he used to murder 17 people

The Independent UK · Jul 25, 2022

Jurors get first glimpse at AR-15-style rifle used to kill 17 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Jurors got their first look Monday at the semi-automatic rifile that was used to kill 17 people and injure 17 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Tribune News Service · Jul 25, 2022

Graphic Parkland videos withheld from courtroom view, but jurors must endure every detail

Editor’s note: Prosecutors seeking the death penalty against confessed Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz are tasked with convincing a jury to vote for execution over a life sentence. They are presenting graphic testimony to the jury, some of which comes in the form of video that is being withheld from…

Tribune News Service · Jul 23, 2022

Medical examiner, police share precise and painful details about the Stoneman Douglas victims

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Jurors in the penalty trial of the confessed Parkland gunman listened to law enforcement officers describe carnage during the fifth day of testimony: injured students pleading for help, and body after body of people who were either defenseless or spent their final breaths providing cover for…

Tribune News Service · Jul 22, 2022

Harrowing testimony heard in Nikolas Cruz trial as officers describe finding Parkland victims’ bodies

WARNING – GRAPHIC CONTENT: Day five of the trial focused on the accounts of some of the first law enforcement officers who arrived on the scene of the massacre as well as the graphic autopsy findings of some of the victims

The Independent UK · Jul 22, 2022

Officers describe horror they saw after Parkland shooting

Florida law enforcement officers have told a jury about the horror they found inside a high school after 17 people were massacred there four years ago

The Independent UK · Jul 22, 2022

Nicholas Goldberg: Why the jury is stacked against the Parkland shooter — and why you should care

Nikolas Cruz is a mass murderer. He killed 14 students and three adults at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Valentine's Day in 2018, and he has confessed and pleaded guilty. Now it's time to sentence him.

Los Angeles Times · Jul 22, 2022

Parkland shooting - live: Jury mulls death penalty for Nikolas Cruz as trial set to resume on Monday

Deadliest mass shooting in US history ever to make it to trial goes before a jury

The Independent UK · Jul 22, 2022

Fried, Crist face off in debate as DeSantis looms large

Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried and U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist have held their first and only debate before the Democratic gubernatorial primary

The Independent UK · Jul 22, 2022