Nikolas Cruz was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for murdering 17 people at a Parkland, Florida high school in 2018.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Nikolas Cruz was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for murdering 17 people at a Parkland, Florida high school in 2018. All sentences will run consecutively, the judge said.
"It was extremely painful to hear all the horrific details of this massacre at our children's high school," Annika Dworet, who with her husband, Mitch, attended every day of Cruz's trial."Just to be in the same room as this monster who killed our son Nicholas and attempted to murder our son Alex. It's unbearable."
When Jennifer Guttenberg, mother of victim Jaime Guttenberg, got up to speak, she started by admonishing Cruz for hiding his face and expressions behind a blue mask, prompting Cruz to remove the face covering."You deserve the opportunity to rot away," David Alhadeff, the uncle of Alyssa Alhadeff, told Cruz via Zoom from his classroom in Maryland."You deserve the opportunity to absorb the look of terror on your face once you leave this courtroom.
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