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Former Broward Sheriff’s Office Deputy Scot Peterson waited outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School as shots rang out inside the school in 2018.

Opening statements are underway in the trial of a former Florida sheriff's deputy charged with failing to stop the Parkland school massacre five years ago.

Scot Peterson, the school resource officer during the Parkland, Florida mass shooting is on trial for staying outside during the attack.

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(CNN) — Prosecutors in the trial of the former school resource officer who stayed outside a Parkland, Florida, high school while 17 people were massacred called their first witness Wednesday:

A former sheriffs deputy went on trial on Wednesday charged with failing to intervene during the February 2018 shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida.

Scot Peterson is charged with seven counts of felony child neglect for four students who were killed and three who were wounded on the third floor of a classroom building.

Opening statements are underway in the trial of a former Florida sheriff's deputy charged with failing to stop the Parkland school massacre five years ago.

Broward Sheriff's Deputy Scot Peterson had a duty to run toward the sound of gunfire, to find the perpetrator and take him down, or at least to try. But that would have required him to know then what everyone knows now: that one gunman was responsible, and his rampage was limited to the inside of the 1200 building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Scot Peterson was on duty as a school resource officer when a gunman opened fire, killing 17 and wounding another 17. Prosecutors say he never went inside while the shooting was underway.