Category: Nikolas Cruz

Judge: Florida School Shooting Victims’ Families Can Testify

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—A judge rejected an attempt Monday by Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz’s attorneys to bar the parents and other relatives of his 17 victims from testifying before the jury about the trauma the murders have brought to their lives. Cruz’s public defenders wanted Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer to have the victim impact statements…


Families of Parkland School Shooting Victims Settle Lawsuit With DOJ

Families of nearly all of the victims of the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, have reached a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department over the FBI’s handling of tips involving the gunman. “The parties hereby advise the Court that they have reached an agreement to settle all of…


Survivors and Families of Parkland Victims Reach $25 Million Settlement With Broward County School District

Survivors and families of the victims killed in the 2018 Florida high school shooting have reached a $25 million settlement with the Broward County school district in a lawsuit that had accused it of negligence, the South Florida SunSentinel reported. A total of 17 people were killed and 17 were wounded in the massacre at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High…


Florida School Gunman Cruz to Plead Guilty to Murder, Lawyer Says

Nikolas Cruz will plead guilty to murder in the 2018 mass shooting that killed 17 students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, his lawyer told a judge on Friday. Cruz’s attorney told a judge his client will plead guilty next week to all charges in what was the deadliest U.S….


Florida School Massacre Suspect’s Jail Brawl Trial Delayed

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—The trial of the suspect in the 2018 Florida high school massacre for fighting a jail guard was delayed on Monday because his lead lawyer on the case has been hospitalized. Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer ruled that jury selection in Nikolas Cruz’s trial on jail battery charges will now begin on Tuesday and…


Florida School Shooting Suspect Faces Trial for Jail Brawl

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—The suspect in the 2018 killing of 17 people at a Florida high school is finally going on trial—but not for the slayings. Jury selection begins Monday on charges Nikolas Cruz attacked a Broward County jail guard nine months after the Feb. 14, 2018, shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland….


Judge Won’t Close Hearings in Florida School Shooting Case

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. —A Florida judge refused Tuesday to close pretrial hearings to the media and public in the case of the man accused of killing 17 people in a 2018 high school mass shooting. Broward County Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer rejected a motion by defendant Nikolas Cruz’s lawyers claiming that intense media coverage jeopardizes…


Florida High School Shooting Defendant Wants Hearings Closed

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—Attorneys for the man accused of killing 17 people at a Florida high school in 2018 want a judge to close all future hearings to the media and the public to ensure a fair trial. A motion filed Thursday by lawyers for Nikolas Cruz says news coverage of pretrial hearings could instill bias…