The re-enactment of the school massacre, one of the deadliest in US history, was part of a civil action filed against Scot Peterson, a police officer stationed outside the Parkland, Florida, high school when the gunshots started on Feb. 14, 2018.
Lawyers for the victims’ and survivors’ families who brought the lawsuit said surveillance video and the re-enactment would show Peterson heard the 70-plus gunfire but avoided engaging the gunman.
On Friday, gunfire rang out again at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, as part of a reenactment of the sh00ting that ki!!ed 14 students and three faculty members five years ago.
The re-enactment of the school massacre, one of the deadliest in US history, was part of a civil action filed against Scot Peterson, a police officer stationed outside the Parkland, Florida, high school when the gunshots started on Feb. 14, 2018.
Lawyers for the victims’ and survivors’ families who brought the lawsuit said surveillance video and the re-enactment would show Peterson heard the 70-plus gunfire but avoided engaging the gunman.
“That reenactment will hopefully help us obtain justice in the court system, which has so far eluded our families,” Tony Montalto, whose daughter Gina was killed in the incident, said at a news conference on Friday.
In June, a Florida jury acquitted Peterson of criminal charges related to the shooting, including child maltreatment, culpable negligence, and perjury. Peterson said he waited outside because he couldn’t figure out where the gunshots came from.
According to his lawyer, Michael Piper, many witnesses testified in the criminal case that they saw gunfire coming from all over campus. Judge Carol-Lisa Phillips of Broward County Circuit Court has yet to rule on whether the audio and video records of the re-enactment would be allowed at trial. In the action, the plaintiffs are seeking undisclosed damages.
The Sun Sentinel claimed that gunfire was heard coming from the Parkland campus about lunchtime on Friday. According to the newspaper, ballistic experts were supposed to fire up to 139 live rounds to reproduce the sounds emitted from the structure during the 2018 incident.
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The Parkland tragedy sparked a movement among children and parents of gun violence victims to lobby for tighter gun legislation. Still, most measures they demanded d!ed in state legislatures and the United States Congress.
Mass shootings have become all too regular in the United States. According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been 423 in 2023, the most at this time since 2016. A mass sh00ting is defined as four or more individuals being shot or ki!!ed, not counting the shooter.
Nine members of Congress and family members of victims toured the school building before the re-enactment. Following the re-enactment, the building will be demolished.
It has stayed chiefly unchanged since the incident in 2018, with bloodstains and gunshot holes still visible. Nikolas Cruz, a former student at the school who was 19 at the time of the massacre, pled guilty and was sentenced to life in pr!son without parole in 2022.
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