Officers from the Coral Springs (Fla.) Police Department allege some Broward County Sheriff’s deputies waited outside during the shooting.
While one Broward County Sheriff’s Office deputy has resigned after it was revealed that he did not go in and confront a gunman who killed 17 people at a Florida high school, a local police department says he wasn’t the only deputy to hang back, according to the Orlando Sun-Sentinel newspaper.
The Coral Springs Police Department alleges at least three other deputies waited outside instead of rushing into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. as Nickolas Cruz, 19, gunned down fellow former students and staff on Feb. 14.
Video shows that Deputy Scot Peterson, resource officer assigned to the high school, waited for about four minutes outside the building as Cruz conducted his assault, Broward Sheriff Scott Israel said. Peterson should have immediately gone inside, confronted and killed the suspect, Israel said.
But Coral Springs officers who arrived at the school following reports of the shooting have said other deputies were still outside and never entered the school, according to the newspaper.
“If we find out, as we did with Peterson, that our deputies made mistakes and didn’t go in, I’ll handle it like I always have,” Israel said. “I’ll handle any violations of policy or procedures or whatever accordingly.”
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