Parkland

The 2018 Parkland high school massacre will be reenacted twice with the firing of about 140 blanks on campus as part of families’ lawsuits against the former sheriff’s deputy they accuse of failing to stop the gunman, a judge ruled Wednesday.

After more than five years, victims’ families toured the halls and classrooms where 17 people died in the Parkland school shooting before the building is demolished.

When Florida prosecutors charged former Deputy Scot Peterson for his alleged inaction during the 2018 Parkland school massacre, they faced a major hurdle: no law precisely fit.

A Broward jury has acquitted former Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School resource officer Scot Peterson on all counts.

Closing arguments are scheduled Monday in the trial of a former Florida sheriff’s deputy accused of failing to confront the Parkland high school shooter.

A former Florida sheriff’s deputy didn’t follow his extensive training on how to stop an active shooter when he didn’t confront the killer who murdered 17 people at a Parkland high school, a former training commander testified Thursday.

The Florida judge who oversaw the penalty trial of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz should be publicly reprimanded for showing bias toward the prosecution, failing to curtail “vitriolic statements” directed at Cruz’s attorneys by the victims’ families and sometimes allowing “her emotions to overcome her judgement,” a state commission concluded Monday.

In a prosecution believed to be a national first, a former Florida sheriff’s deputy is about to be tried on charges he failed to confront the gunman who murdered 14 students and three staff members at a Parkland high school five years ago.

The Florida judge who gained a national profile while presiding over the Parkland school shooting trial announced Wednesday that she is resigning on June 30 to pursue unspecified career opportunities.

Families in Parkland have taken the grief they’ve felt on their shoulders over the last five years and turned it into action.