After weeks of harrowing testimony in the penalty trial of school shooter Nikolas Cruz, his defense team wants jurors to know more about the «person responsible for all that.
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After weeks of harrowing testimony in the penalty trial of school shooter Nikolas Cruz, his defense team wants jurors to know more about the «person responsible for all that pain and all of that suffering.» Public defender Melisa McNeill said in her opening statement Monday that jurors would hear about the «damaged and wounded» 23-year-old’s grim start in life and dysfunctional upbringing, Fox reports. She said Cruz was born to a homeless sex worker who continued using alcohol and cocaine while she was pregnant with him. Cruz, she said, was «poisoned in the womb and because of that his brain was irretrievably broken through no fault of his own.
