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Brittany Wallman

Parkland gunman’s childhood on display in courtroom, in testimony and photos

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The Parkland school shooter was a child once, a baby-faced kid who posed for pictures with his family and smiled dutifully, a little boy enrolled in day care like so many other children his age.

But still, he was a problem. He got into fights, barely spoke and sometimes acted like an animal.

“I should have done a little more, to make him a better person,” said Anne Marie Fischer, former director of Young Minds Learning Center, the preschool attended by Nikolas Cruz.

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