MIAMI, United States — Nikolas Cruz, who was 19 at the time, took a legally purchased AR-15 assault rifle into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, his former school, on Valentine’s Day in 2018 and killed 17 students and staff members.
He told the judge he was suffering from a “little anxiety” but understood the charges against him and was pleading guilty of his own volition. Relatives of some of the victims were among the spectators in the courtroom and wiped away tears as a prosecutor recounted the attack in chilling detail.The shooting was the worst school massacre in the United States since the horror at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012, which left 26 dead.
President Joe Biden marked the third anniversary of the Parkland shooting in February with a call on Congress to enact “commonsense” gun law reforms. Expelled from school for disciplinary reasons, Cruz was known to be fixated on firearms — and had reportedly been identified as a potential threat to his classmates.
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