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The gunshop owner who sold Nikolas Cruz the sporting rifle he used to massacre 14 students at a Florida high school nearly four years ago said the teen claimed he wanted the weapon for hunting.
'Get out of here,' Cruz told a freshman boy on Valentine's Day 2018. 'Things are about to get bad.' The teen testified for state prosecutors Tuesday.
Moving on to the next chapter in their already eventful lives, freshmen during the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting graduated Tuesday, but without nine of their classmates whose lives were taken too soon.
Took a bullet and is dead! i don't know what i do next. my wife is home. we are broken. >> and 35-year-old geography teacher scott beigel is being remembered as a hero. he was killed as he tried to usher students back into his classroom when the shooting started. >> mr. beigel was my hero and he will forever be my hero. i'll never forget the actions he took for me. i'm alive today because of him. >> earlier today 14-year-old alex schacter was laid to rest. he was in the school's marching band and orchestra. this is the start of another difficult week, and this time dotted with a lot of funeral...
Will be laid to rest. let's go live now to florida. we have team coverage. cnn's caylee hartung and mark savage joining us. caylee, you first. you were outside one of the funerals. what can you tell us? >> i am, fred. scott beigel is being remembered at the temple behind me as a hero. but as one man said you'eulogiz him, he is celebrated not just as a hero but for the way he lived. he had the benefit of grandparents local to the area so he never left. he was also a beloved camp counselor at camp starlight in pennsylvania, the camp he attended as a kid, and where he met his current girlfriend g...