Prosecutors presented Cruz’s crimes in graphic detail, with jurors watching footage of the bloodshed and touring the fenced-off crime scene. The defense deferred giving their opening statement at the start of the trial, and will do so as early as Monday. He has pleaded guilty to 17 counts of first-degree murder. 14, 2018 massacre.Ĭruz, then 19, opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and killed 14 students and three staffers in one of the worst mass shootings in the nation’s history. The defense team will highlight several traumas Nikolas Cruz endured as a child, including his mother’s cocaine and alcohol use while pregnant, his alleged sexual abuse by an unidentified “peer” and his adoptive father’s death at age 5.Ĭruz’s lawyers will also bring up his acute mental health problems, bullying he endured at school and his adoptive mother’s passing months prior to the Feb. Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz scrawled ‘666’ on prison cell wall in his own blood
Parkland killer Nikolas Cruz had ‘dreams of killing’ years before shooting, therapist warned School shooting-obsessed sicko charged with dumping dead animals at a Parkland memorialĬourt shown swastikas Parkland shooter drew during class Zachary Cruz, who was hit with six months probation for trespassing at the shooting site after the murders, is expected to answer questions about his brother’s early life. Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun Sentinel via AP, Pool
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AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File Anne Ramsay holding up a photo of her daughter Helena, a victim of the Parkland shooting, at Cruz’s trial on August 4, 2022. Cruz pleaded guilty to killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14, 2018. While their mother put Cruz up for adoption while still an infant, Woodard is expected to tell jurors about her drug and alcohol use while pregnant with him. She has a long criminal history and has served several stints behind bars since her youth.
Woodward, who shares her birth mother with Cruz, is currently behind bars awaiting trial for allegedly car-jacking a 72-year-old woman in Broward County in 2020, and will be transferred from the jail to testify. Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun Sentinel via AP, Pool Zachary Cruz, 22, and Danielle Woodard, 35, will answer questions about Cruz’s childhood. Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz’s siblings are expected to testify on his behalf at his sentencing trial this week. His half-sister, Danielle Woodard, 35, and brother, Zachary Cruz, 22, are expected to be questioned on the circumstances of their infamous sibling’s upbringing. The brother and sister of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz are expected to testify on his behalf this week, when the killer’s defense attorneys unveil their case at his sentencing trial.Īrguing that his troubled childhood warrants some measure of mercy, Cruz’s counsel will lobby jurors in Florida to give him a sentence of life in prison, rather than the death penalty.
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