Parkland

Manuel Oliver, the father of a Parkland shooting victim, was arrested Thursday in Washington D.C. after he and his wife were removed from a hearing on gun regulations.

Manuel Oliver, the father of a 17-year-old Parkland shooting victim, was arrested Thursday on Capitol Hill after he appeared to shout at a Republican lawmaker who was speaking during a hearing on gun regulations.

Boxing champion Gervonta Davis was arrested in Broward County on a charge of domestic violence causing bodily harm.

Parents, wives, children, and siblings of the 17 people murdered by Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz got their final chance to verbally thrash him face-to-face Wednesday before he was sentenced to life behind bars.

One of the 12 jurors in the Parkland school shooting sentencing trial said a fellow juror was adamant about giving the gunman a life sentence from the moment deliberations began.

Family members of the victims of the Parkland school shooter expressed their disappointment over the jury’s decision Thursday to give him life behind bars instead of a death sentence.

More than four-and-a-half years after 17 people were killed and 17 others were wounded in the Parkland school shooting, a jury has determined that the man responsible should spend the rest of his life behind bars.

The jury in the sentencing trial of Parkland school gunman Nikolas Cruz will begin deliberations Wednesday, nearly six months after the proceedings began.

The judge in the Parkland school shooting sentencing trial has denied a motion by the gunman’s defense attorneys to remove herself from the case.

NBC 6 investigator Tony Pipitone has more on the explosive exchange between lawyers of Nikolas Cruz and Judge Elizabeth Scherer.

The defense team abruptly rested its case in the Parkland school shooter sentencing trial Wednesday, triggering an outburst from Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer. “We’re not playing chess,” she said. “I just want to say this is the most uncalled for, unprofessional way to try the case.” As soon as the jury was about to enter the courtroom Wednesday...

A clinical neuro-psychologist’s study of the effects of alcohol on fetal mice is the defense team’s latest attempt to secure a life sentence for the Parkland school shooter. Dr. Paul Connor testified via a remote video link Monday that using any substance during pregnancy can impact the fetus. “We do know nicotine, cocaine, heroin, all of those can have...

A dozen Broward jurors and 10 alternates got a preview Monday of what’s to come in the defense of convicted Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz. For nearly 90 minutes, lead defense attorney Melisa McNeill’s opening statement focused on his life story and all those who failed him. She paraphrased an Irish poet who said the beginning holds the clues to…

Attorneys for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz are about to present their case for why they believe he should be sentenced to life in prison and not death.

The prosecutor seeking to sentence Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz to death let the facts speak for themselves as he presented his case over the last three weeks.

Roses that had been brought to honor love on that Valentine’s Day in 2018 lay withered, their dried and cracked petals scattered across classroom floors still smeared with the blood of victims gunned down by a former student more than four years earlier. Bullet holes pocked walls and shards of glass from windows shattered by gunfire crunched eerily underfoot at…

Video shows Nikolas Cruz in Subway, McDonald’s shortly after murdering 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

The sentencing trial for the man who killed 17 people and wounded 17 others in the Parkland high school shooting more than four years ago began Monday with opening statements from the lead prosecutor and emotional testimony from some of the teachers and students who witnessed the shooting. Jurors are deciding whether Nikolas Cruz will be sentenced to death or…

The father of a Parkland school shooting victim interrupted President Joe Biden on the White House lawn Monday during an event meant to celebrate a new law aimed at reducing gun violence.

The 12 jurors chosen this past week to decide whether Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz is executed will be exposed to horrific images and emotional testimony, but must deal with any mental anguish alone.