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Warning about Parkland gunman fell through the cracks

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Mental health experts who treated the Parkland gunman in the years leading up to the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School testified Thursday that they would not have been able to predict the tragedy based on what they knew.

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Nikolas Cruz had dreams of killing people and being covered in blood four years before Parkland, trial hears

School therapists warned in a 2014 letter about Cruz’s ‘paranoid’ and ‘disturbing’ behaviour and detailed that the teenager had an obsession with firearms

The Independent UK

Nikolas Cruz sentencing - live: Parkland shooter’s school warned doctor about his dreams of killing others

The public defence team for Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz began presenting its case in court Monday

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School police didn’t stop Parkland or Uvalde shootings, and often discriminate against students. Why did Biden give them $300m?

Campus police officers are often cited as an effective tool against gun violence. But the data shows they do little to stop school shootings — and often discriminate against students of colour. Josh Marcus reports

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‘This boy did not go bad. He was never right.’ Parkland school shooter didn’t fit in, neighbor says

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A former neighbor of the Parkland school shooter shared bizarre anecdotes about his childhood for jurors Wednesday, describing a boy who always seemed like something was “not right.”

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Nikolas Cruz’s former neighbour acts out how ‘weird’ Parkland shooter ran around house with air gun as a child

Witness told defence team: ‘This boy did not go bad. He was never right’

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Nikolas Cruz sentencing - live: Neighbour recalls ‘weird’ Parkland shooter as his 666 blood drawings revealed

The public defence team for Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz began presenting its case in court Monday

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Nikolas Cruz: What are fetal alcohol spectrum disorders and does the Parkland shooter have one?

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) are conditions caused by an individual being exposed to alcohol before birth

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Who is Zachary Cruz? Parkland shooter’s brother ‘stars in reality show’ and trespassed at massacre site

Zachary Cruz had been expected to testify for the defence in his brother Nikolas Cruz’s sentencing trial

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Nikolas Cruz: Who was the Parkland shooter’s biological mother Brenda Woodard?

Killer’s defence team argues birth mother’s drink and drug abuse ‘poisoned him in the womb’

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Nikolas Cruz sentencing - live: Parkland shooter’s disturbed drawings pleading for death penalty revealed

The public defence team for Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz began presenting its case in court Monday

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Nikolas Cruz has been in contact with Sandy Hook victim’s mother, defence tells sentencing trial

‘Through those conversations ... her and Nick are trying to find a way to prevent this from ever happening again,’ public defender says

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Parkland victims remembered four years on as hero’s widow opens up about the trauma

Chris Hixon was murdered along with 16 other people in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine’s Day 2018. His widow Debbi Hixon tells Rachel Sharp how she hopes the sentencing trial of his killer will finally enable her family to start to grieve

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Nikolas Cruz sentencing: A timeline of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting

Former student finally facing judgement for attack that killed 17 people and wounded 17 others in Parkland, Florida, on 14 February 2018

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Missed warning signs, failings, and lessons learned: What happened during the Parkland massacre

As the sentencing trial continues for Nikolas Cruz, the man who killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018, Rachel Sharp investigates what led up to the massacre and what’s happened since

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Nikolas Cruz sentencing - live: Parkland shooter’s sister brought out of jail to testify at his trial

The public defence team for Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz began presenting its case in court Monday

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Grand jury wants school board members removed over massacre

A Florida grand jury empaneled after a deadly mass shooting at a Parkland high school has recommended that four members of that school board be fired

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Stage set for Parkland gunman’s brother and sister to testify

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The biological brother and sister of the Parkland gunman are preparing to testify for him when the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting case resumes.

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What is the fate of the Parkland shooting site now that jurors have visited it?

PARKLAND, Fla. — On Thursday, jurors for the murder trial of the Parkland shooter visited the site of the shooter’s rampage, where they witnessed dried blood in the same spots some of the victims died along with desks and walls that still had bullet holes.

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Parkland jurors view crime scene of chilling destruction, frozen in time moments after bloodbath

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Parkland’s 1200 building: Jurors view crime scene of chilling destruction, frozen in time moments after bloodbath

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 decides whether mercy should be offered to a gunman determined to…

The Independent UK

Victim’s son delivers heartbreaking statement as prosecution rests in Parkland shooter death penalty trial

“Every Saturday we ran to Dunkin’ Donuts and walked back,” recalled Corey Hixon

Tribune News Service

Parkland jury follows killer’s path through Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

PARKLAND, Fla. — Jurors in the Parkland mass shooting trial retraced the path of the confessed gunman Thursday morning through the hallways and stairwells of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, an exercise the prosecution says was necessary to truly understand the crime that was committed and the terror experienced by…

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The Parkland jury gets a rare view of the school massacre site

Jurors in the trial of Nikolas Cruz toured a building at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The scene was deeply unsettling: Large pools of dried blood still stained classroom floors.

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Jurors in Nikolas Cruz sentencing trial visit site of Parkland high school shooting

Bloodstained building will be demolished when prosecturs are finished using it as evidence

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