THIS IS CBS4 NEWS AT 7:00.
WE JUST ARRESTED DEPUTY
SCOT PETERSON, SEVEN FELONY
COUNTS, SEVEN MISDEMEANOR
COUNTS, AND ONE PART PERJURY.
A STUNNING DEVELOPMENT.
MORE THAN 15 MONTHS AFTER THE
MASSACRE AT MARJORY STONEMAN
DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOL, THE RESORT
DEPUTY ACCUSED OF STANDING BY
AND DOING NOTHING WHILE
CHILDREN AND STAFF WERE
MURDERED HAS BEEN ARRESTED.
IN THE CRIMINAL COMPLAINT
AGAINST SCOT PETERSON SAID HE
HAD EXTENSIVE TRAINING FOR
ACTIVE SHOOTER SITUATIONS ,
KNEW WHERE THE SHOOTER WAS, AND
DESPITE THAT DID NOT ACT.
IN A SCATHING STATEMENT
BEFORE THE DEPARTMENT OF LAW
ENFORCEMENT SAID PETERSON DID
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO MITIGATE
THE SHOOTING, AND THAT IS AN
ACTION COST LIVES.
MORE OF THE STORY, WE GO TO
CBS4'S DAVID SUTTER IN
SUNRISE.
Reporter: WE ARE GETTING
DEVELOPMENTS ON THIS.
WE ARE OUTSIDE THE AND AS THE
SCHOOL SAFETY COMMISSION HE
WERE A LOT OF PARENTS WERE
TODAY OBVIOUSLY TRYING TO
CHANGE AND PREVENT THIS FROM
HAPPENING AGAIN. A LOT OF THE
REACTION WE RECEIVED WAS THEY
WERE NOT SURPRISED HERE BY ALL
THIS WITH SCOT PETERSON.
THEY THOUGHT HE ACTUALLY
SHOULD'VE BEEN CHARGED A LOT
SOONER.
NOW SCOT PETERSON IS LOOKING AT
UP TO 100 -- NEARLY 100 YEARS
IF HE'S CONVICTED IN ON THESE
CHARGES.
HE WILL SPEND BASICALLY THE
REST OF HIS LIFE.
ALTHOUGH HE IS $102,000 BOND,
AND IF HE DOES GET OUT OR WHEN
HE DOES GET OUT HE WILL HAVE TO
WEAR A GPS MONITOR.
SCOT PETERSON'S MUG SHOT TAKEN
LATE TODAY AT THE BROWARD
COUNTY JAIL.
THE FORMER SCHOOL RESOURCE
OFFICER CHARGED WITH SEVEN
COUNTS OF CHILD NEGLECT AND
THREE COUNTS OF CULPABLE
NEGLIGENCE AND ONE COUNT OF
PERJURY.
IT STEMS OF NINE-MONTH
INVESTIGATION BY THE FLORIDA
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
ENFORCEMENT.
THEY TURNED A REPORT IN ON
JANUARY ON THE LAST DAY OF
SCHOOL, BROWARD COUNTY TO
DETERMINE DECIDED IT WAS TIME
TO TAKE ACTION.
HE STOOD THERE FOR SOME 45,
48 MINUTES AND DID NOTHING, YOU
KNOW, AS UNFORTUNATE OFFICES,
THE FIGHT WHAT POLICIES OR
PROCEDURES OUR NEIGHBORS HAVE,
WE US WANT TO PROTECT THE
PUBLIC, AND I THINK IT SAYS NOW
THAT YOU WILL BE HELD
ACCOUNTABLE IF YOU DON'T DO
YOUR JOB.
YOU WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE.
Reporter: THE SHOOTER FIRED
140 BULLETS AT MARJORY STONEMAN
DOUGLAS.
75 DAYS THE SHOTS HAPPENED
AFTER PETERSON ARRIVED OUTSIDE
THE BUILDING AND TOOK UPPER.
THE STATE ATTORNEY CHARGING
PETERSON BY THE DEATHS AND
INJURIES THAT OCCURRED WHEN
PETERSON DECIDED NOT TO
CONFRONT THE SHOOTER.
WE JUST ARRESTED DEPUTY SCOT
PETERSON.
Reporter: HIS ARREST
HAPPENING AS THE MARJORY
STONEMAN DOUGLAS MET TODAY.
YOU NEED TO GO TO JAIL, AND
HE NEEDS TO SERVE A LIFETIME IN
PRISON FOR NOT GOING IN THAT
DAY AND TAKING DOWN THE THREAT
AND THAT LED TO THE DEPTHS OF
OUR LOVED ONES, AND HE NEEDS TO
BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS
LACK OF ACTION THAT DAY.
WE ARE OVER A YEAR HERE, AND
THIS IS JUST NOW HAPPENING?
THIS IS LONG OVERDUE.
FOR THE LIFE OF ME, I CAN
EXPLAIN HOW ANYONE CAN STAND
BEHIND A PILLAR FOR 48 MINUTES
WHILE INNOCENT CHILDREN AND
TEACHERS ARE BEING SLAUGHTERED
IN A BUILDING, AND THEN SOMEHOW
THE SIDE THIS WAS A LONG TIME
COMING.
Reporter: REACTION MOUNTING
ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
FRED GUTTENBERG WHOSE DAUGHTER
DIED ON THE THIRD FLOOR
COMMENTING ON TWITTER SAYING I
HAVE NO COMMENT EXCEPT ROT IN ,
SCOT PETERSON.
AND SCOT PETERSON'S CIVIL
LAWYER PUTTING OUT A
STATEMENT.
IT READS IN PART HAVING
REPRESENTED LAW ENFORCEMENT, I
AM SURPRISED TO PUT IT AS
GENERALLY AS POSSIBLE AS WHAT
HAS TRANSPIRED TODAY AND IN THE