A Florida jury found Scot Peterson—a former school resource officer at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida—not guilty of negligence and other criminal counts, after prosecutors said he failed to confront a 19-year-old shooter who killed 17 students and teachers in one of the biggest school shootings in the U.S.
A jury in Florida found a school resource officer in Parkland, Florida, not guilty of failing to ... [+]
Peterson had pleaded not guilty to 11 counts, including negligence, felony child neglect and perjury, and faced a maximum sentence of nearly 100 years in prison for allegedly failing to apprehend the 19-year-old gunman in February 2018.
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Nikolas Cruz, a former student at the school who was found guilty in October of carrying out the massacre, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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