Cruz will be officially sentenced by Scherer on Nov. 1. Immediately following the verdict, Dr. Ilan Alhadeff — whose daughter Alyssa was killed in the school shooting — slammed the decision.

Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz will be sentenced to life without parole for the 2018 massacre of 17 people at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Accused Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz’s lawyers gave him colored pencils and part of a Pokémon coloring book to soothe him after he burst into tears in court Wednesday, according to reports.

Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz will be sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murders of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018.

Jurors on Thursday recommended a life sentence for Nikolas Cruz, who last year pleaded guilty to killing 17 people and injuring 17 others in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Nikolas Cruz had a fixation with guns, blood and murder in the years before the Feb. 14, 2018, Parkland school shooting that left 17 dead, according to trial testimony.

Officials have identified the Florida school shooting suspect as 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who had been expelled for disciplinary reasons.

Troubled. Depressed. That’s how some students and police investigators describe Nikolas Cruz, 19, the suspect in the mass shooting at a Parkland, Fla., high school that left 17 dead on Wednesday.

Nikolas Cruz, 19, made his first court appearance Thursday afternoon after being charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Cruz is accused of killing 17 people on Feb. 14. Judge Elizabeth Scherer has determined that Florida shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz is indigent -- meaning financially unable to afford a private ...