GOOD AFTERNOON, SOUTH FLORIDA. I’M JENISE FERNANDEZ. >> I’M KRISTI KUEGER,
>>> DAY TWO TO HAVE PARKLAND
SCHOOL SHOOTER ESTOPPAGETY PHASE
TRIAL.
THE DEFINITION IS ARGUING OVER
SHOWING JURORS VIDEO FROM THAT
TRAGIC DAY.
WE AL HEARD MORE DRAMATIC
TESTIMONY FROM WITNESSES.
LET’S GO NOW FROM LOCAL 10 NEWS
REPORTER TREND KELLY.
>> DAY TWO OF THE TRIAL GETTING
UNDERWAY WITH MORE PROSECUTORS
CALLING WITNESSES TO THE STAND.
SOME OF THEM WERE INJURED BY THE
BULLETS.
THEY BEGAN BY GIVING JURORS THE
CHANCE TO SEE SURVEILLANCE VIDEO
FROM INSIDE THE SCHOOL
SUPPOSEDLY SHOWING THE MOMENT
THE SHOOTER WALKED INSIDE WHILE
ARMED.
BECAUSE OF A PREVIOUSLY RULING
BY A JUDGE, THAT SURVEILLANCE
VIDEO WAS NOT ALLOWED TO BE SEEN
BY THE PUBLIC TODAY, INSTEAD IT
WAS SHOWN ONLY TO JURORS AND
MEMBERS OF THE DEFENSE TEAM.
THE SHOOTER BY THE WAY NOT
APPEARING TO WATCH THAT VIDEO,
ESTATE HE CONTINUED TO LOOK DOWN
AND WAS HOLDING HIS HEAD JUST AS
WE SAW YESTERDAY.
THE SURVEILLANCE CAROLYNS WERE
NOT ABLE TO RECORD AUDIO SO
UNLIKE YELLED WHEN THOSE
CHILLING CLIPS OF THE GUNFIRE
WERE PLAYED TODAY’S FOOTAGE WAS
COMPLETELY SILENT.
THE STATE THEN CALL TO THE STAND
SEVERAL STUDENTS WHO WERE IN
THAT CLASS WHEN THAT GUNFIRE
ERUPTED.
ONE OF THE STUDENTS WAS A YOUNG
MAN NAMED CHRIS McKENNA AND
WAS IN HIS FOURTH PERIOD ENGLISH
CLASS.
HE DESCRIBED GETTING UP TO GO TO
THE BATHROOM BUT ON THE WAY HE
BECAME THE FIRST STUDENT TO
ENCOUNTER THE SHOOTER INSIDE A
SCHOOL STAIRWELL.
TAKE A LISTEN TO HOW HE
DESCRIBED THAT CONFRONTATION,
WHAT THE SHOOTER SAID TO HIM IN
THAT MOMENT AND THE DRAMATIC
MOMENT IN COURT WHEN HE
IDENTIFIED THE SHOOTER FOR
JURORS.
TAKE A LISTEN.
>>> I SAW BRANDON AND LUKE, AND
I HIGH FIVED MARTIN AND I WALKED
TO THE STAIRCASE, AND I WALKED
INTO A MAN, HE WAS WEARING A
MAROON SHIRT WITH A T-SHIRT WITH
A BACKPACK, AND HAT ON, HAD A
RIFLE IN HIS HANDS.
I KEPT -- I WAS STUNNED FOR ONE
SECOND AND HE SAID TO ME GET OUT
OF HERE, THINGS ARE ABOUT TO GET
BAD.
>>> SO YOU SAW THE PERSON IN THE
STAIRWELL WITH YOU WOULD YOU BE
ABLE THE IDENTIFY HIM?
>> YES, SIR.
>> DO YOU SEE HIM IN THE
COURTROOM TODAY?
>> I DO.
>> WHICH PERSON ARE YOU POINTING
TO.
>> THE ONE ACROSS FROM ME
>>> SOME VERY DRAMATIC MOMENTS
THERE IN COURT EARLIER.
RIGHT AFTER THAT MOMENT HAPPENED
WE DID HEAR FROM TWO OTHER
STUDENTS WHO WERE IN THAT SAME
CLASS AND THEY DESCRIBED IN
VIVID DETAIL THE MOMENT THE
BULLETS STARTED TO BE FIRED FROM
SOME NEARBY WINDOWS, ONE STUDENT
DESCRIBING IN VIVID DETAIL THE
MOMENT THEY REALIZED A CLASSMATE
HAD BEEN FATALLY WOUNDED IN THAT
SHOOTING.
SHORTLY AFTER THAT TESTIMONY
TOOK PLACE, THE JUDGE DID
DECLARE A RECESS, ALLOWING
JURORS TO GO ON AN EARLY LUNCH
BREAK.
THEY ARE SET TO RECONVENE FOR
MORE WITNESS TESTIMONY AT ONE
P.M.
FOR NOW THAT IS THE LATEST LIVE
FROM THE COURTHOUSE IN DOCUMENT
FORT LAUDERDALE, TRENT KELLY,
LOCAL10 TEN NEWS.
>>> AND LET’S GET LEGAL EXPERT
DAVID WEINSTEIN WITH MORE ON THE
LAST WITNESS ON THE STAND SO FAR
TODAY.
>> THE LAST WITNESS WE HEARD
FROM IS ALEX DUARET AND IF THAT
NAME SOUNDS FAMILIAR THAT’S
BECAUSE HIS BROTHER WAS KILLED.
ALECK DESCRIBED BEING SHOT IN
THE HEAD, FEELING BLOOD AND NOT
ONLY WAS IT SO TOUGH TO HEAR BUT
THIS IS ALSO EXACTLY WHAT THE
STATE WANTS.
>> EXACTLY AND HERE’S ANOTHER
VICTIM HERE, ANOTHER VICTIM WHO
THE DEFENDANTS’ PLED GUILTY TO
ATTACKING AND SHOOTING AND TO
HEAR HIS TESTIMONY AND HIM
TELLING THE JURORS LIVE WHAT
HAPPENED TO HIM THAT DAY, WHAT
HE REMEMBERS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED
TO HIM THAT DAY, IT JUST GOES A
LONG WAY TOWARDS ESTABLISHING
THESE AGGRAVATING FACTORS FOR
THE PROSECUTION AND THEY’RE
LINING UP THESE VICTIMS
METHODICALLY TO GIVE THE JUROR A
REAL FEEL FOR WHAT WAS GOING ON
IN THOSE CLASSROOMS THE DAY THAT
NIKOLAS CRUZ ATTACKED.
>>> AND THERE WERE PICTURES
SHOWN NOT IN OPEN COURT AS TRENT
MENTIONS BECAUSE THE JUDGE
DEEMED THAT SOME OF THE EVIDENCE
WAS TOO GRAPHIC TO SHOW THE
PUBLIC BUT GEORGE W. JURORS WERE
SEE PICTURE OFFENSE GUNSHOT
WOUNDS, FOR EXAMPLE.
ALEX SAID HE HAD BEEN SHOT IN
THE HEAD SO WE BELIEVE THAT
JURORS WERE ABLE TO SEE PICTURE
OF THOSE INJURIES AND ALL OF
THAT IS PART OF THE STATE’S CASE
TO SAY THAT NIKOLAS CRUZ ACTED
WITH MALICE IN A COLD AND
CALCULATED WAY AND THAT GOES TO
THE AGGRAVATING FACTORS FOR THE
17 WHO WERE KILLED.
>> ON TOP OF THAT, THEY ALSO
PLAYED ABOUT 15 MINUTES WORTH OF
VIDEO CAPTURED FROM SURVEILLANCE
CAMERAS SO THESE JURORS HAVE
SEEN EXACTLY WHAT TOOK PLACE
THAT DAY AND THESE LIVE
WITNESSES WHO WERE THERE ARE
TELLING THEM EXACTLY WHAT WAS
HAPPENING TO THEMING WHAT’S
GOING THROUGH THEIR MIND AND
IT’S PAINTING THAT PICTURE FOR
THESE JURORS THAT YES, THE STATE
IS ESTABLISHING AGGRAVATING
FACTORS WE’RE GOING TO BE
FOLLOWING THIS ALL DAY ONLINE,
AS YOU KNOW COURT RESUMES
AMOUNT 1 O’CLOCK, AND CHRISTIE
YOU AND I WERE TALKING ABOUT
THIS, AND THE QUESTION IS WHAT
WERE THE JURORS ESTRANGESES WHEN
THEY SAW THIS VIDEO, BECAUSE WE
WERE NOT ABLE TO WATCH THAT.
WE HAVE A TEAM INSIDE AND WE’LL
HAVE ALL THAT COMING UP WHEN
COURT RESUMES STARTING
A 3 O’CLOCK.
>>> THANK YOU SO MUCH, AND YOU
CAN WATCH THE LIVE SPECIAL
COVERAGE OF THIS TRIAL EVERY DAY
RIGHT ON LOCAL 10.COM, OUR
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