The courtroom battle over whether a Florida deputy should have confronted the Parkland school gunman is now centering on what witnesses heard
Former Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School School Resource Officer Scot Peterson sits at the defense table during his trial at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla, on Thursday, June 22, 2023. Broward County prosecutors charged Peterson, a former Broward Sheriff's Office deputy, with criminal charges for failing to enter the 1200 Building at the school and confront the shooter as he perpetuated the Valentine's Day 2018 mass shooting there. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.
Peterson, the school's assigned deputy, insists that because of echoes he didn't know that Cruz was firing inside the three-story 1200 building, even though he moved within 10 yards of its door before taking cover next to an adjoining structure. He has said he thought the shots were coming from outside, perhaps from the football field — more than 100 yards from the 1200 building and 200 yards from where he took cover.
“It was the loudest sound I have ever heard and hope I ever hear in my life,” she said. “I thought it was coming from everywhere around me. It sounded like it was under me, above me, all around me.” Prosecutors pointed out that even though Goolsby didn't precisely know where the shots were coming from, he kept moving toward the sounds, looking in one building's windows to see if the shots were coming from there — something they have pointed out Peterson could have done at the 1200 building to find Cruz.
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