FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — After the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018, the gunman bought a drink at a Subway and then headed to McDonald’s, where he tried to catch a ride with a student who was waiting for his mother.
The actions of confessed gunman Nikolas Cruz in the minutes after the shooting were described in detail by multiple witnesses on Thursday in the penalty trial at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale.
Surveillance videos from the fast-food restaurants were displayed, showing Cruz’s interactions with the Subway store manager and at McDonald’s with student John Wilford, younger brother to then-17-year-old shooting victim Madeleine Wilford.