A Florida sheriff's deputy's response to the 2018 Parkland school massacre was hampered by a radio system that collapsed.
and his colleagues were severely hampered by radios widely known to work poorly in that region, the dispatcher who coordinated the response testified Friday before the defense rested its case.jury that — even before the Feb. 14, 2018 murder of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — it was known to dispatchers, deputies and administrators that the county's radio system often failed in Parkland.
Oakley said, “Deputies could not hear what I was saying and also deputies wouldn't be able to hear each other." She had only been on the job for seven months and was on the last shift of her employment probationary period when she found herself handling the initial response to the massacre. That meant responding Coral Springs officers knew Cruz's location, but Peterson and other Broward deputies were never told about those calls. The Coral Springs radio calls could have been merged into the Broward system during the shooting, but that required a supervisor's order and it never came, Oakley said. She said the merger could have been completed “with three clicks of a mouse.”
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