Previous school shootings throughout the country had prompted Stoneman Douglas (and other schools) to practice active shooter drills, and the school had employed an armed officer on campus. The devastation felt by the Florida community-once considered the safest city in the state-was immeasurable. Peterson was arrested in June 2019 and faced charges of neglect of a child, culpable negligence and perjury. “He looked like a typical high school student, and for a quick moment I thought, ‘Could this be the person who I need to stop?’” said Officer Michael Leonard in an interview after arresting Cruz.īroward Sheriff's deputy school resource officer Scot Peterson, who was assigned to the school that day, would later be accused of retreating during the shooting while victims were still under attack. He was apprehended shortly thereafter after being spotted by a Broward County police officer. The gunman successfully left the campus, running to a Walmart at 2:50 p.m, stopping at a Subway restaurant to get a drink and eventually heading to McDonalds. At 2:28 p.m., just seven minutes after entering the building, he ditched the rifle in another stairwell and left the school, attempting to blend in with the crowd of escaping students. In all, Cruz’s attack lasted less than four minutes and left 17 dead.
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Only hurricane impact-resistant glass in the windows kept the death toll from growing.
Many began broadcasting the horror on social media through video and live posts.Īccording to the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Cruz left the hallways and went to the faculty lounge, where he set up a bipod-like a tripod on which to rest the gun-reloaded his weapon and began firing, like a sniper, at the fleeing students outside. Others remained holed up, hiding in classrooms, closets and bathrooms, desperate to reach their parents. He was on the second floor for less than a minute, firing but hitting no one, before going to the third floor where he killed his last six victims, and injured four more in the final 45 seconds of the attack.
In just under two minutes, he murdered 11 people and injured 13 others. Cruz exited the stairwell into a first-floor hallway, firing a stream of bullets down the corridor, shattering windows and shooting through doors.
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