![]() ![]() A training supervisor testified that Peterson did not follow protocols for confronting an active shooter. Over two weeks, they presented security videos and testimony of police officers, teachers, security guards and students to argue that Peterson knew where the shots were coming from but chose not to confront the shooter. Prosecutors Christopher Killoran, Kristen Gomes and Steven Klinger rested their case after Curcio finished testifying. Information from those calls was never transmitted to Peterson or other deputies in Broward County. A 911 system sent calls from students and teachers to the neighboring Coral Springs police department, which has a separate communications system. The sheriff’s office antiquated radio system failed when numerous deputies tried to transmit simultaneously. Under cross-examination, Curcio conceded that Peterson and other Broward deputies at the school were hampered poor communication systems. Peterson insists that he didn’t go into the building because the shots’ echoes made it impossible for him to tell where they were coming from. ![]() The bulk of Curcio’s testimony involved his interview with Peterson two days after the shooting, well before the deputy’s actions came into question. Prosecutors say he is guilty of felony child neglect for failing to protect the juvenile students killed and seriously wounded after he arrived at the building, about two minutes into the massacre. Peterson, the school’s assigned deputy, stayed outside the three-story 1200 building where the shootings happened, taking cover nearby. It means doing anything so that kids can find safety,” Curcio said, his voice breaking. That doesn’t mean killing him, it means slowing him down. ![]() “The goal is to stop him (Cruz) from killing people. 14, 2018, that left 14 students and three staff members dead. (AP) - The veteran Florida detective who led the investigation into the 2018 Parkland high school massacre wept on the witness stand Wednesday, saying the school’s assigned deputy could have prevented the deaths of some of the 17 people murdered if he had charged into a building instead of taking cover.īroward County Detective John Curcio, a homicide detective for 25 years and the prosecution’s final witness, had been on the stand for two hours when a prosecutor asked him what Deputy Scot Peterson’s objective should have been during Nikolas Cruz’s six-minute attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. ![]()
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