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Sheriff’s Deputy Who Failed to Act During Parkland Massacre Acquitted on All Charges

June 29, 2023
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A former Florida sheriff’s deputy, charged with felony child neglect and additional counts for failing to act during the 2018 massacre at a Parkland, Florida, high school, has been acquitted of all charges. Scot Peterson, a 60-year-old school resource officer at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. On Feb. 14, 2018, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, a former…

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Sheriff’s Deputy Who Failed to Act During Parkland Shooting Acquitted on All Charges

June 29, 2023
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A former Florida sheriff’s deputy, charged with felony child neglect and additional counts for failing to act during the 2018 massacre at a Parkland, Florida, high school, has been acquitted of all charges. Scot Peterson, a 60-year-old school resource officer at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. On Feb. 14, 2018, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, a former…

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Parkland School Shooting Trial Judge Announces Resignation

May 10, 2023
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Florida Judge Elizabeth Scherer, known for presiding over the Parkland school shooting trial, announced Wednesday that she will resign on June 30. Scherer, 46, did not provide a reason in her May 10 resignation letter to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican. “I am writing to resign from my position as Circuit Judge for the Seventeenth…

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Families of Parkland School Shooting Victims Settle Lawsuit With DOJ

November 23, 2021
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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…

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Parkland School Shooting Suspect Nikolas Cruz Pleads Guilty to All Murder Charges

October 20, 2021
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Nikolas Cruz, the accused shooter in the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, pleaded guilty Wednesday in a Broward County court. Cruz pleaded guilty to 17 counts of murder and 17 counts of attempted murder as a 19-year-old former student involved in the nation’s deadliest school shooting. The accused…

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