Officer Who Raced to Parkland Massacre Scene Testifies Against Deputy Who Stayed Outside
U.S. News & World Report PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) A police officer who rushed into a high school building during the 2018 Parkland shooting testified Friday that a sheriff's deputy outside confirmed that the shooter was upstairs.
The former Broward County deputy, Scot Peterson, is on trial for failing to confront the shooter who killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High. He has insisted since he spoke to investigators two days after the massacre that he couldnt tell where the gunshots were coming from, and that he thought they may have been fired outside.
On the third day of Peterson's trial, Coral Springs officer Richard Best related what he says Peterson told him outside the classroom building, WPLG-TV reported.
I said, Hey brother, what do we got? Best told the jury. He said, Gunshots second or third floor.
Peterson, 60, could be sentenced to nearly a century in prison if convicted.
It is understood that the longer you wait, the more damage is being done, Best said. Every time you heard a gunshot, somebody might be dead.
