The reenactment of the 2018 mass shooting at a Florida high school will take place as part of a civil lawsuit.
of criminal charges accusing him of inaction during the shooting, but the civil case against him that makes similar accusations is proceeding.Family attorney David Brill said the live rounds would be fired into a ballistic bullet trap that is commonly used at gun ranges and by law enforcement labs to catch the ammunition safely.Peterson’s attorney, Michael Piper, said the agreement will mean only one reenactment rather than two as initially proposed.
“We think this is the best way to approach it,” Piper said. “We don’t want to put the community through that twice.” The building, left virtually untouched since the shooting, will be demolished once the legal action is completed, school officials said. The reenactment would be based on school surveillance videos of the massacre that show second-by-second the actions and locations of Peterson and shooter Nikolas Cruz during the six-minute attack in which some 140 rounds were fired.
Victims and family members have taken grim tours of the building since the criminal trials ended, with the last visit to take place Thursday, officials said.Peterson, 60, insists that echoes prevented him from pinpointing where the shots were coming from and that he would have charged inside if he had known Cruz’s location. He retired shortly after the shooting, but was then retroactively fired.last year after his jury could not unanimously agree that he deserved the death penalty.
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