Video of Nikolas Cruz, the shooter who took the lives of 17 people at Parkland, Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, shows him saying that he planned the mass shooting for years.
Dr. Charles Scott interviewed Cruz for the prosecution, and during the interview the shooter said that he had thought about the mass murder while in middle school, according to The Associated Press.
The video was played on Monday during his trial where it will be decided whether he gets a life sentence without parole or the death penalty.
Cruz told Scott that he had extensive knowledge of other mass shootings that have shocked the nation. He named the Columbine High School and Virginia Tech University shootings among those that had fascinated him since childhood.
In order to shape his own plans, Cruz said he researched those shootings and the killers who planned them.
Scott’s interview is an attempt to refute Cruz’s defense that his birth mother’s heavy drinking damaged his brain, leading to him committing the mass murder.
Cruz pleaded guilty to the 2018 murder last year.
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