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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rachel Sharp

Nikolas Cruz asked if people ‘ate’ corpses and what Lincoln killing ‘sounded like’ in school Civil War lesson

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Nikolas Cruz asked if people “ate” the bodies of dead people and wanted to know what it “sounded like” when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated during a middle school lesson on the Civil War, according to disturbing evidence shown in court.

Jurors at the 23-year-old’s sentencing trial on Tuesday were shown a functional behavioural assessment carried out by school staff when Cruz was in eighth grade at West Glades Middle School in Parkland, Florida.

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