Unemployed, she became paranoid about spending, keeping her air conditioners' thermostats in the 80s (25 to 30 Celsius) and unplugging unused appliances. That left Lynda Cruz alone in her mid-50s with two sons who would have challenged a much younger couple. He started seeing psychiatrists and psychologists at age 3 and didn't fully talk or become potty trained until 4.Īt 5, just as the gunman entered kindergarten, he witnessed his father suffer a fatal heart attack in the family's den. He was anxious, fell when he ran and couldn't use utensils. Neighbors and teachers testified he hit and bit other children and didn't socialize. She was just the happiest I ever saw.”īut by preschool, the gunman showed extreme behavior. She would go and get him all these sailor outfits. So once she got Nikolas, she felt like her family was complete," friend Trish Davaney-Westerlind testified. Lynda Cruz "had wanted a child, always wanted a child. Roger Cruz, then 61, owned a successful marketing business. Lynda Cruz, who turned 50 shortly after adopting the gunman, was a stay-at-home mom. They adopted the shooter at birth in 1998 and, in 2000, Zachary, who had a different birth father. The defense wants to show that from the gunman's birth to a hard-drinking, crack-smoking Fort Lauderdale prostitute, he never fully received needed help even as he grew increasingly out of control.Īnd nowhere was that more apparent than in the home Roger and Lynda Cruz built in Parkland, an upscale Fort Lauderdale suburb. In an attempt to counter that, assistant public defender Melisa McNeill and her team have made the gunman's history their case's centerpiece, hoping at least one juror will vote for life. Parents and spouses gave tearful and angry statements about their loss.
He showed graphic autopsy and crime scene photos and took jurors to the still blood-stained, bullet-pocked classroom building the gunman terrorized. Teachers and students testified about watching others die. He played security videos of the shooting and showed the AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle that was used. Lead prosecutor Mike Satz's case was straightforward.
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The trial resumes Monday after a week off.
His trial is only to decide whether he is sentenced to death or life without parole. The shooter, 23, pleaded guilty in October to murdering 17 students and staff members at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. In turn, “they were very good at pushing (their mother's) buttons.” “Nikolas was very easily set off and I think Zachary derived some pleasure from pushing Nikolas’ buttons,” testified Frederick Kravitz, one of the gunman's childhood psychologists. Most calls were for fighting, destroying her property, disrespecting her or running away. Lynda Cruz called sheriff's deputies to the family's 4,500-square-foot (420-square-meter) home at least two dozen times between 20 to deal with one son, the other or both.
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