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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Johanna Chisholm

Parkland school reopened so jury can view untouched scene before ruling on Nicholas Cruz’s death trial

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The judge presiding over the deadliest mass shooting ever to go to trial ruled that the jury will be granted permission to tour the blood-stained school building in Parkland, Florida where shooter Nikolas Cruz murdered 17 people, the Associated Press reported.

The defence for 23-year-old Mr Cruz tried to argue that a tour of the facilities was unnecessary, given the fact that their client had plead guilty and, as they argued, there was sufficient video and photographic evidence from the massacre that occurred at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on 14 February 2018.

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