Jury reaches verdict on Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz sentence
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A jury reached a verdict on Nikolas Cruz, who pleaded guilty to murdering 14 students and three staff members at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018.
Cruz, 24, pleaded guilty last year to the murders of 14 students and three staff members at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018 – a date that he said he picked so the school would never celebrate Valentine's Day again. Louis Casiano is a reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to louis.casiano@fox.com.
Cruz fired volleys from an AR-15-style semi-automatic down hallways and into classrooms for about seven minutes, returning to those who lay wounded to kill them.
Cruz said he purchased the rifle almost exactly a year before the shooting and began to seriously plan it about seven months in advance.