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A jury is set to determine if the suspect in the 2018 Parkland school shooting will face the death penalty in a high-profile trial that is expected to last several months. The suspect, identified as 23-year-old Nikolas Cruz, was 19 years old at the time when he fatally shot 14 students and three staff members at his former school.
Florida teacher Brittany Sinitch weeps as she recalls her students were writing 'Romeo and Juliet' Valentine's Day themed letters during the 2018 school massacre.
Thursday's abbreviated court session focused on Cruz's attempted escape after the Feb. 14, 2018, shooting and his arrest, about an hour after he fled the campus.
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.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- The prosecutor seeking the death penalty for the gunman who massacred 17 people at a Parkland, Fla., high school detailed for jurors Monday how Nikolas Cruz coldly mowed down his victims, returning to some as they lay wounded to finish them off with a second volley.