As jury deliberations are set to begin this week in the 2018 Parkland high school massacre, shooter Nikolas Cruz may have talked himself into a death sentence.
FORT LAUDERDALE — It’s possible Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz talked himself into a death sentence.
“All of this made Cruz himself perhaps one of the state’s best witnesses,” said David S. Weinstein, a Miami defense attorney and former prosecutor who has been monitoring the trial. Scott and Denney interviewed him separately for several hours. In each, Cruz sat across the table, handcuffed, a sweater draped over his chest. He sometimes asked for a pen and paper to add diagrams and drawings to his explanations.
“It was just a thought. I was reading books,” Cruz said. “It would come and go. It would pop up in my mind.” When Cruz attended Stoneman Douglas, guards frequently checked him for weapons because of his erratic and sometimes violent behavior. When he was expelled a year before the shooting, a guard predicted he would eventually return and shoot people.
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