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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Teachers gave heart-wrenching testimony Wednesday in the...

Teachers gave heart-wrenching testimony 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.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — 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 four years ago.

The gunman who killed 14 students and three adults at a Parkland, Florida, high school in 2018 was "cold, calculative, manipulative and deadly" in carrying out his attack, prosecutor Michael

The sounds of gunfire and children screaming filled the courtroom. Jurors will decide whether the man who killed 17 people in 2018 will be sentenced to death.

Florida teacher Brittany Sinitch weeps as she recalls her students were writing Romeo and Juliet Valentines Day themed letters during the 2018 school massacre.

The evidence on the first day of the trial was brutal and graphic. It was also a taste of what the next few months of the trial will be like.

Florida courtroom as the sentencing trial for the parkland high school gunman nikolas cruz gets under way. this penalty phase comes after months -- a few months after cruz pleaded guilty to 17 counts of murder and 17 counts of attempted murder. and so the jury will now decide really just one question, does he get life behind bars or does healtypenalty. leyla santiago has more. >> reporter: tears wiped, disbelief could not be masked. closed eyes and deep breaths, some forced to leave the courtroo...

Nikolas Cruz's trial for the Parkland school shooting started with disturbing images of what a prosecutor calls a "systemic" mass murder of 17 students and adults.

More than four years after Nikolas Cruz killed 17 people at a Parkland, Florida, high school, the penalty phase of his death penalty trial began Monday in a Broward County