BEFORE TAKEN TO BROWARD HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER FOR TREATMENT. NO WORD YET ON HIS CURRENT
CONDITION.
>>> NOW TO THE PENALTY PHASE
TRIAL FOR THE PARKLAND SCHOOL
SHOOTER.
>> THE JUDGE ISSUING A WARNING
IN COURT TODAY, CHRISTIAN TINA
VASQUEZ IS LIVE AT THE
COURTHOUSE IN FORT LAUDERDALE
WITH ALL THE DETAILS.
>> AND WHAT THAT RELATES TO
WHAT, WHAT YOU’RE MAKING A
REFERENCE TOO THERE IS
PROSECUTEDDERS DECIDED TO INVOKE
THE RULE OF SEQUESTRATION, SO
THAT MEANS STARTING FROM NOW AND
THE JUDGE SAYS THIS IS THE FIRST
TIME ANYONE INVOKED THE RULE ANY
WITNESSES CANNOT BE SITTING
INSIDE THE THE COURTROOM DURING
THIS TIME.
ALTHOUGH THERE IS ONE EXCEPTION
WHICH ARE THE MENTAL HEALTH
EXPERTS.
IN THE MEANTIME JURORS CONTINUE
TO HEAR THE DEFENSE IN ITS CASE
PRESS AS THEY ARE INCLUDING
EVIDENCE THEY WANT THEM TO
CONSIDER ABOUT THE PARKLAND
SCHOOL SHOOTER’S BACKGROUND, HIS
CHILDHOOD.
YOU MAY REMEMBER DURING THE
OPENING STATEMENT YESTERDAY, THE
DEFENSE TOLD JURORS THAT THEIR
CLIENT IS DAMAGED, THAT HE WAS
POISONED IN THE WOMB OF HIS
BIRTH MOTHER BECAUSE OF THE
DRUGS AND THE DRINKING SHE DID
WHILE SHE WAS PREGNANT WITH HIM
AND THERE IS ANOTHER MOM IN CAN
CONVERSATION, THE WOMAN WHOM
ADOPT HIM AND THEY ALSO
POSITIONED WITHIN THEIR OPENING
STATEMENTS THAT PERHAPS SHE
DIDN’T DO THE BEST JOB OF
MANAGING THE OUTCOMES OF BEING
DAMAGED.
>> I THINK THAT SOMETIMES AND A
LOT OF TIMES I SAW HIM THERE WAS
A REAL EXPRESSION OF EMOTION.
>> YOUNG NIKOLAS CRUZ.
>> ALL AREAS IN MY OPINION HE
WAS DELAYED IN SKILLS, HE WAS
DELAYEDED IN LANGUAGE, HE WAS
DELAYED GROSS MOTOR, FINE MORE
MOTOR.
>> HE WOULD ROCK, AND THEN ON
THE WALL HE WE’VE GOT YOUR BACK
ROCKING BACK AND FORTH.
>> USING HIS HANDS.
>> EVEN WHEN HE WAS TWO YEARS
OLD HE WOULD POINT TO GET OUT OF
HAVING TO COMMUNICATE.
>> AS HE STRUGGLED WITH LANGUAGE
DELAYS.
>> THE PUSHING BECAUSE HE
DIDN’T KNOW HOW TO EXPRESS
HIMSELF.
>> SOCIAL SKILLS, CHOOSING TO
ISOLATE SHE SAID.
>> SITTING BY THE DOOR, THE WALL
CLOSEST TO THE DOOR.
>> OR IN OREGON OREGON
CIRCUMSTANCES, LASH OUT.
>> LIKE ONE CHILD SAT NEXT TO
HIM IN A CHAIR AND HE CAN’T KNOW
WHAT TO DO.
HE DIDN’T KNOW HOW TO SOCIALLY
INVOLVE HIMSELF AND THE CHILD
HAS HAD HIS ARM OUT CAN ANYBODY
LAS SPIT ON HIM.
>> DO YOU THINK NICHOLAS WAS A
BULLY?
>> I WOULD NOT SAY NICHOLAS WAS
A BULLY, NICHOLAS JUST DIDN’T
HAVE THE SOCIAL SKILLS.
>> AND SHE SAD HAD THIS TO SAY
ABOUT HIS ADOPTIVE MOTHER LINDA
CRUZ.
>> LET’S HAVE THE PROFESSIONALS
ASSESS HIM.
>> AND THAT TOOK HER A WHILE TO
GET ON BOARD?
>> A LITTLE BIT.
HE WAS IN A LOVING ENVIRONMENT
HOME BUT TRIED THEIR BEST.
>>> AND NOW YOU’RE LOOKING LIVE
FROM THIS IS THE COURTROOM,
SCORSESE RIGHT NOW ARE HEARING
FROM THE WOMAN YOU SEE IN THE
BEHIND, THE DEFENSE WITNESS WHO
KNEW THE CRUZ FAMILY BECAUSE SHE
WAS FRIENDS WITH LINDA CRUZ AND
SHE SAYS BOTH OF HER CHILDREN
WERE THE AGES OF BOTH OF LINDA
AND ROGER CRUZ’S ADOPTIVE
CHILDREN, SO THAT WOULD BE
NICHOLAS CRUZ THE PARKLAND
SHOOTER AND HIS HALF BROTHER,
THEY HAVE THE SAME BIRTH MOM,
ZACHARY CRUZ AND THIS ECHOS WHAT
THEY HEARD FROM THE FORMER
DIRECTOR OF THE PRESCHOOL, THE
WORD LOVING ACTUALLY ECHOED, SHE
THOUGHT THAT LINDA WAS DOING THE
BEST JOB SHE COULD BUT IT DID
TAKE HER A HEARTBEAT TO COME TO
TERMS WITH WHAT SHE SAID WAS
APPARENT TO HER AND OTHER IN THE
NEIGHBORHOOD AS THESE
NEIGHBORHOOD CHILDREN AROUND THE
SAME AGE ARE PLAYING THAT IT WAS
OBVIOUS AND CLEAR THAT NICHOLAS
WAS WAS STRUGGLING WITH THINGS
LIKE LANGUAGE DELAYS AND REALLY
STRUGGLING CAN SOCIAL SKILLS,
SHE JUST DESCRIBED TO JURORS
THAT AS AS ALL THE CHILDREN WERE
PLAYING TOGETHER IN HER HOUSE
NICHOLAS CRUZ WOULD HIDE BEHIND
THE BLINDS SO JURORS ARE HEARING
THIS FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES
BUT IT IS INTERESTING TO NOTE
GIVEN HOW MUCH OF A POINT THE
DEFENSE MADE IN THE OPENING
STATEMENT ABOUT THE TWO MOMS,
THE BIRTH MOM WHICH SHE SAYS
DAMAGED HIM AND THEN YOU HAVE
THIS ADOPTIVE MOTHER WHO MAY BE
DIDN’T DO THE BEST JOB SHE COULD
HAVE BEEN IN ORDER TO MILLIGRAM
AND MANAGE THE IMPLICATIONINGS
OF THAT, SO THEY ARE THREADEN
THAT NUANCE, ALL THIS EVIDENCE
THEY WANT THEM TO BEFORE AT
THING LIFE OR DEATH.
>>> TO STAY ON TOP TO HAVE TRIAL