

He then noted a YouTube comment, which jurors saw during the trial, in which Cruz said: “I don’t mind shooting a girl in the chest.” She was shot four times and she died,” Satz said. Cruz shot her and then went back to shoot her again, putting his gun against her chest. He talked about the death of one 14-year-old girl. “They all knew what was going on, what was going to happen," Satz said.Īs he had during the trial, Satz played security videos of the shooting and showed photos. Satz meticulously went through the murders, reminding the jurors how each victim died and how Cruz looked some in the eye before he shot them multiple times. Giving mercy to Nikolas will say more about who you are than it will ever say about him,” McNeill told the jury. She argued for a sentence of life without parole, assuring them he will never walk free again. McNeill said neither Cruz nor herself has ever denied what he did and that “he knew right from wrong and he chose wrong.” But she said the former Stoneman Douglas student is “a broken, brain-damaged, mentally ill young man,” doomed from conception by the heavy drinking and drug use of his birth mother during pregnancy. The killings, he said, “were unrelentlessly heinous, atrocious and cruel.”


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“It is said that what one writes and says is a window into their soul,” Satz said as the three-month trial neared its conclusion. Satz pointed to Cruz's internet writings and videos, where he talked about his murderous desires such as when he wrote, “No mercy, no questions, double tap.
