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.
