Parkland school shooting

The prosecution and defense in the trial of a Broward sheriff’s deputy accused of not preventing some of the Parkland school shooting murders gave wildly divergent opening statements. NBC6’s Tony Pipitone reports

Opening statements are underway in the trial of a former Florida sheriff’s deputy charged with failing to stop the Parkland school massacre five years ago. Prosecutor Steven Klinger told the six-member jury Wednesday that Broward County Deputy Scot Peterson could have stopped the deaths of six of the 17 people murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. Klinger...

NBC6’s Tony Pipitone reports from outside of the courthouse where former school resource officer in the Parkland shooting Scot Peterson is on trial for child neglect and other charges.

A former Broward sheriff’s deputy is being 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.

A jury of four women and two men will decide if Scot Peterson is guilty of child neglect, culpable negligence and perjury

A Florida commission says the judge who oversaw the penalty trial of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz should be publicly reprimanded for showing bias toward the prosecution. The Judicial Qualifications Commission said Monday that Circuity Judge Elizabeth Scherer sometimes allowed her emotions to overcome her judgement and violated several rules governing judicial conduct in her actions toward Nikolas Cruz’s attorneys....

The Florida judge who oversaw the penalty trial of Parkland school shooter 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.

Jury selection continues in the trial of Scot Peterson, the former Broward deputy accused of not confronting the Parkland school shooter.

Prosecutors and the attorney representing former Broward County Deputy Scot Peterson began choosing a jury Wednesday in his trial. Peterson is charged with failing to confront the Parkland school shooter.

The trial of a former Florida sheriff’s deputy charged with failing to confront the Parkland school shooter is underway. Prosecutors and the attorney representing former Broward County Deputy Scot Peterson began choosing a jury on Wednesday. The prosecution says Peterson committed child neglect when he failed to enter a classroom building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018 and...

Defense attorneys for former Parkland school resource officer Scot Peterson have filed two motions in the criminal case against him stemming from the February 14, 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Jury selection is set to begin Wednesday in the case of a fired Broward sheriff’s deputy charged with failing to confront the gunman who five years ago murdered 17 at the Parkland high school he was assigned to protect. NBC6’s Tony Pipitone reports

A former Florida sheriff’s deputy charged with failing to confront the Parkland school shooter says he is eager for his trial to begin. Fired Broward County deputy Scot Peterson told reporters on Monday that he believes the trial will show he did everything he could during the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas. A gunman murdered 17 during his six-minute...

The former resource deputy who failed to protect students and teachers during the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas is speaking out Monday. NBC6’s Tony Pipitone reports.

The Broward County judge who presided over the Parkland school shooter’s trial is stepping down.

Patricia Oliver, the mother of Parkland victim Joaquin Oliver, talks about the children’s book she wrote that pushes for gun reform. NBC6’s Xochitl Hernandez reports

Teachers who taught inside the 1200 building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School may be given an opportunity to access their classrooms if they want to retrieve personal items before it’s demolished.

Teachers discuss the possibility of being able to return to their classrooms for the first time since the Parkland massacre. NBC6’s Ari Odzer reports

NBC 6 anchor Cherney Amhara has more on the case involving the deputy who was on campus the day of the tragic school shooting.

Defense attorneys for former Parkland school resource officer Scot Peterson have filed two motions in the criminal case against him stemming from the February 14, 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.