Prosecutor Jeff Marcus argued the videos are needed to prove the “heinous, atrocious and cruel” nature of the killing. “The question is whether it’s (necessary) to prove an aggravator,” Wheeler said. Jurors watched several surveillance videos on Tuesday.ĭefense lawyer David Wheeler argued against the introduction of Tuesday’s video, saying it has value as evidence but it is prejudicial, meaning it’s so horrific that it will overwhelm the jury emotionally. As he stood to point at the defendant in the courtroom, Cruz looked back at him.
He also identified Cruz in surveillance video that only jurors saw. He said he ran to a friend’s house and called his dad, who worked in law enforcement at the time. I was in the golf cart driving to the 1300 building,” he said. After he was warned, he ran to the senior parking lot, where he saw Aaron Feis, a campus monitor who was later killed in the mass shooting. Jurors also heard from a student who was warned by killer Nikolas Cruz to “get out of here” because “things are going to get bad.”Ĭhristopher McKenna, who was a freshman at the time, testified he passed Cruz in a hallway preparing a rifle. I don’t know how I got there.”Īt this point, Olsen realized he too had been shot. “I ended up on the floor in front of the teacher’s desk. I hear them get farther away,” he testified.
He looked in front of him and saw the lifeless body of his classmate Alex Schachter, a 14-year-old.Īnother shooting victim from the same class, William Olsen, also testified he saw that Alex Schachter was not moving.
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