PARKLAND, Fla. — Jurors in the Parkland mass shooting trial retraced the path of the confessed gunman Thursday morning through the hallways and stairwells of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, an exercise the prosecution says was necessary to truly understand the crime that was committed and the terror experienced by the victims.
The seven women and five men who are sitting on the jury, as well as 10 alternate jurors, were taken to the crime scene under heavy security. They were in the building 92 minutes, entering just before 10 a.m. and exiting just before 11:30 a.m.
“This is the crime scene that he chose,” said prosecutor Jeff Marcus, arguing on Wednesday that jurors should be allowed to enter the classrooms so they could see not only where students died, but where they hid to escape death.
