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Twelve jurors and 10 alternates who will decide whether Cruz gets the death penalty or life in prison made a rare visit to the massacre scene.

PARKLAND, Fla. — Jurors in the Parkland mass shooting trial were taken to the crime scene Thursday, a scene that is as much a time capsule as it is a towering piece of evidence in a criminal case that...

Jurors in the Parkland trial toured the school building where shooter Nikolas Cruz killed 17 students and staff members on Valentine's Day in 2018. Withered roses and an abandoned teddy bear lay in the hallway next to large pools of dried blood. Nothing had been changed, except for the removal of the victims' bodies, because it was considered a court exhibit.

The scenes of the massacre have been kept as they were the day of the massacre, with blood and signs of chaos

Roses brought to honor love on that Valentine’s Day in 2018 lay withered, their dried and cracked petals scattered across classroom floors still smeared with the blood of victims gunned down by a former student more than four years ago. Bullet holes pocked walls, and shards of glass from windows shattered by gunfire crunched underfoot…

The seven-man, five-woman jury and 10 alternates will be transported 30 miles from the courthouse in downtown Fort Lauderdale to the school where the massacre unfolded

Jurors in the Parkland trial viewed the scene of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Thursday. In one corner of one room, books lay on the floor, caked in dried blood. One was titled “Tell Them We Remember.”

In an extremely rare visit to the sealed-off crime scene, jurors in the sentencing trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz toured the still blood-spattered rooms of a three-story building.

Jurors in the Parkland trial viewed the scene of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Thursday. In one corner of one room, books lay on the floor, caked in dried blood. One was titled “Tell Them We Remember.”

Jurors in the trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz toured the still blood-spattered rooms of a three-story building at Parklands Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Thursday, an extremely rare visit to an intact crime scene sealed off since he murdered 14 students and three staff members four years ago.