- Parkland high school shooter Nikolas Cruz was sentenced to death Thursday morning for the murder of 14 students and 3 teachers in one of the worst and most violent mass shootings in American history.
- A panel of seven women and five men decided Cruz’s sentence in just one day, after a three-month grueling criminal trial.
- Cruz, a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, walked into the three-story educational institution on Valentine’s Day 2018 and began shooting fellow students and teachers with an AR-15 rifle, but without any apparent premeditated targets.
