Parkland families unleash grief, anger on shooter
Families of the 17 children and staff members Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz murdered have concluded their first day of confronting him in court. They variously wished him a painful death and called him a coward Tuesday as they got their chance to address him directly before he is formally sentenced to life in prison. Some of the families and 17 also wounded at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine's Day 2018 decried that the jury did not sentence Cruz to death. The 24-year-old Cruz stared back at them from behind a COVID-19 face mask and showed no emotion.
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Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer could not sentence him to death because the jury in his recently concluded trial could not unanimously agree that he deserved execution.
A foundation dedicated to the 17 people killed in the Parkland school shooting has begun raising money and seeking designs for a public memorial to the victims on a nature preserve near Florida’s Everglades.
