Nikolas Cruz will be presented to a jury for his sentence to be fixed. The prosecutors confirmed that they would ask the death penalty.
Le Monde with AFP
“I’m really sorry what I did, I wear the weight every day.” Nikolas Cruz, author of a killing in a Florida high school in 2018, apologized, Wednesday, October 20th In front of the families of his victims massaged in a court near Miami, after pleading guilty of the seventeeres he committed with an assault rifle.
vaulted body, head down, the 23-year-old man, who had 19 the day of the killing, said a little assured voice, in a crowded courtroom:
“It makes me do nightmares, I have trouble living with myself sometimes. (…) If we had to give me a second chance, I would do everything in my power to help others. “
Addressing the families of the victims, he said, “I think it’s up to you to decide where I go, if I saw or die, not the jury.” Some relatives of the seventeen people killed By Nikolas Cruz were in the room. They listened to, blocked eyes, the glazing story of the events made by the prosecutor. The shooter will now have to be presented in front of a jury for his sentence to be fixed. Prosecutors confirmed they would require the death penalty.
Nikolas Cruz had opened fire on Valentine’s Day with a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School of Parkland, of which he had been excluded in the previous year for “disciplinary reasons”.
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This shooting is the worst massacre committed in the United States since the Sandy Hook School killings, in Newtown in Connecticut, when twenty-seven people had perished.
Despite his psychiatric history, Nikolas Cruz had been able to legally buy an assault rifle. He had preceded his crimes from the recording of a video, in which he said:
“that today begins my massacre. May all frightened children run to hide. Faced with the anger of my power, they will learn who I am.”
“I am nothing, I am no one, my life is nil and has no sense,” he added, saying that he would go a little later in his old school in Uber vehicle armed with An AR-15 rifle.
Parkland’s drama had aroused immense emotion. Historic mobilization was conducted by several surviving high school students and the relatives of victims.
She had culminated on March 24, 2018 when a walk had brought together 1.5 million people across the country, that is, the largest national event for a better firearms supervision of all the history of the United States, causing some the possibility of legislative evolution.
nothing was nothing. On the contrary, firearms have increased in recent years in the United States, especially during the Pandemic of Covid-19. The shootings with many victims remain a scourge in the country, but the blockages at the conference, under the influence of the weapons lobby, make it unlikely any major advance on the subject.