Parkland school shooter’s death penalty trial: Detective reads ominous comments, searches
Digital evidence shows Nikolas Cruz’s obsession with massacres, killing women, rifles (Warning: expletives)
A detective read lists of Nikolas Cruz's writing and searches online before the 2018 Valentine's Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The Broward County prosecution team that is seeking the death penalty for the Parkland school shooter called Broward Sheriff’s Office Detective Nicholas Masters on July 27 to testify in court about the digital evidence his team uncovered.
Masters, a member of the South Florida Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, read about 20 pages of comments and searches that detectives believe Cruz wrote after receiving data from Google. The document contains expletives and language about violence.
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