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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Testimony: School shooter witnessed dad's death at age 5

© South Florida Sun Sentinel 2022

Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz's attorneys presented more testimony Monday that the mass killer exhibited violent, disruptive and troubled behavior from his earliest years and, just before his sixth birthday, witnessed his adoptive father's sudden death.

Finai Browd, a close friend of Cruz's late adoptive mother Lynda, said she was told Roger Cruz had been in the family's den with Nikolas and his younger brother Zachary when he came running and crying past the kitchen where his mother was making lunch.

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