FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The deepest wounds of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School don’t show up on surveillance video, crime scene photos or autopsy pictures of the 17 who were slain.
They are written on the faces of the family they left behind. Those family members continued to tell jurors their stories Tuesday as the penalty phase trial of the Parkland gunman continued in a Broward County courtroom.
The victims were remembered as “best friends” of their parents, as aspiring lawyers and athletes, as the generation that was going to change the world. Their futures, their plans, the milestones of their lives were erased on Feb. 14, 2018, by a gunman they never met, a gunman who, in court Tuesday, never raised his head to acknowledge the presence or the pain of their families.
