Junior ROTC cadet killed in Parkland shooting is honorary West Point 2025 grad

Peter Wang, honored as a member of the 2025 West Point class, was just 15 when he was killed in the 2018 mass shooting in Parkland, Florida.

• May 23, 2025

A Parkland survivor's plan to guide a "new generation" into politics

Parkland student-turned-activist David Hogg is helping launch an organization aimed at ensuring young people have an "inside game" in U.S. politics.

• Aug 9, 2023

Parkland shooting sheriff's deputy found not guilty on all counts

Scot Peterson was the only armed school resource officer at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when the shooting started.

• Jun 29, 2023

Parkland judge allowed "emotions to overcome her judgment," panel says

Judge Elizabeth Scherer should be publicly reprimanded for showing bias toward the prosecution, a state commission concluded.

• Jun 6, 2023

Rick Scott wants to use $80 billion from IRS for armed guards at schools

Also, in response to the Uvalde shooting, a bill is pending in Texas that would let schools offer stipends of up to $25,000 to staffers who also become armed campus "sentinels."

• Apr 26, 2023

Florida Senate OKs easier path to imposing death penalty

The vote came in the wake of the uproar after Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz got a life sentence because the jury couldn't agree unanimously on sentencing him to death.

• Mar 31, 2023

David Hogg on the movement against gun violence, five years after Parkland

On Feb. 14, 2018, a gunman murdered 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida. The co-founder of March for Our Lives talks about his life since, including death threats against himself and his family.

• Feb 12, 2023

Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg felt guilt after Uvalde, Texas mass shooting

Preview: In an interview airing February 12 on "CBS Sunday Morning," the co-founder of the advocacy group March For Our Lives said, "We came out and we literally said, 'Never again.' … Obviously, that didn't work."

• Feb 10, 2023

Parkland gunman sentenced to life in prison, called a "monster"

Those who spoke went to a lectern about 20 feet from the 24-year-old gunman, stared him in the eye and let out their anger and grief.

• Nov 2, 2022

Parkland victims' families address gunman: "I pray that you are tormented"

After the victims' families and the 17 people the gunman wounded get their chance to speak, Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer will formally sentence him to life in prison without parole.

• Nov 1, 2022

Parkland prosecutors call for probe after juror says she felt threatened

Prosecutor Carolyn McCann said during a brief hearing that they are not trying to invalidate Thursday's jury vote.

• Oct 14, 2022

"Justice wasn't served": Parkland families outraged as shooter is spared death sentence

The jury foreman said the jurors were divided.

• Oct 14, 2022

Parkland parents say they're "disgusted" with jurors after they spare shooter's life

"The monster's going to go to prison and in prison, I'll hope and pray he receives the kind of mercy from prisoners that he showed to my daughter and the 16 others," said Parkland father and activist Fred Guttenberg.

• Oct 13, 2022

Parkland school shooter spared the death sentence by Florida jury

The gunman killed 14 students and three staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018.

• Oct 13, 2022

Jury to start sentence deliberations as Parkland shooter faces possible death

The jury, which will be sequestered starting Wednesday, will decide if the gunman will get a death sentence or life behind bars.

• Oct 11, 2022

Parkland school shooter may have talked himself into a death sentence

The jury will likely decide his fate this week. For the 24-year-old to get a death sentence, the jury must be unanimous on at least one victim.

• Oct 10, 2022

Parkland judge rejects motion to replace her after testy exchange with defense

The motion, filed on Friday, alleged that the judge revealed longstanding animosity toward the defense that threatened the fairness of the trial.

• Sep 19, 2022

Defense in Parkland trial suddenly rests case, drawing heated rebuke from judge

Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer called the decision without warning to her or the prosecution "the most uncalled for, unprofessional way to try a case."

• Sep 14, 2022

Judge rules jurors can see swastikas drawn by Parkland school shooter

The shooter's attorneys argued that showing the Nazi symbol violates his right to a fair trial because there is no evidence that the massacre was driven by bigotry.

• Sep 1, 2022

Parkland school shooter's struggles started early, witnesses say

It was the second day of testimony for the defense in the trial.

• Aug 23, 2022

Parkland school shooter's sister testifies for defense in penalty trial

"We must understand the person behind the crime," attorney Melisa McNeill told the jury.

• Aug 22, 2022

Parkland school shooter's brain exams to be subject of court hearing

Called a "quantitative electroencephalogram" or "qEEG," its backers say it provides useful support to such diagnoses as fetal alcohol syndrome, which Cruz's attorneys contend created his lifelong mental and emotional problems.

• Aug 14, 2022

Parkland jurors see blood, bullet holes and roses at massacre scene

Twelve jurors and 10 alternates who will decide whether Cruz gets the death penalty or life in prison made a rare visit to the massacre scene.

• Aug 5, 2022

Parkland gunman jurors visit still-bloodstained school building

Jurors aren't allowed to converse with each other - when they retrace the path Cruz followed on Feb. 14, 2018.

• Aug 4, 2022

Grieving father erupts at Parkland school shooter's trial

A grieving father erupted in anger as he told jurors about the daughter school shooter Nikolas Cruz murdered along with 16 others four years ago.

• Aug 2, 2022

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