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Juros Ended First Day Of Deliberations For Parkland School Resource Officer Who Stayed Outside During Shooting

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Jurors Ended First Day Of Deliberations For Parkland School Resource Officer Who Stayed Outside During Shooting (PHOTO: AOL)

Jurors have ended their first day of deliberations in the trial of Scot Peterson a former Parkland school resource officer who remained outside during the February 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

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Juros Ended First Day Of Deliberations For Parkland School Resource Officer Who Stayed Outside During Shooting (PHOTO: ABC57 News)

Trial For Parkland School Resource Officer Who Stayed Outside During Shooting

Monday, prosecutors urged the group to find the 60 years old Scot Peterson guilty on all counts, contending his alleged inaction contributed to the deaths of six victims and the injuries of four others in the mass shooting.

Abc7 Chicago reported that Peterson’s attorneys have argued the former deputy did nothing wrong and couldn’t the location of the shooter or the gunshots were coming. Seventeen people died in the mass shooting at Parkland School five years ago.

Both prosecutors and Peterson’s attorneys agreed to draw a juror who, according to the state, had attended the penalty phase in the trial of convicted Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz and learned that the victims’ advocates in the prosecution’s office. The juror was substituted by an alternate.

The state has accused Peterson of failing to confront the shooter according to his active shooter training, instead taking cover for more than 45 minutes outside the school’s three-story 1200 building during the invasion, which remains the deadliest high school shooting in US history.

Scot Peterson Pleaded Not Guilty

CNN news reported that the closing arguments concluded Monday afternoon before jurors started their deliberations and stated that while Peterson stood at those doors, every student and every teacher on the third floor was still alive, according to Assistant State Attorney Kristen Gomes.

Gomes also said that Peterson had to choose at that moment to go in or to run but he chose to run.

Peterson has pleaded not guilty to 11 charges, including seven counts of felony child neglect and three of culpable negligence derived from each of the 10 victims fatally shot or injured on the 1200 building’s third floor.

Teacher Scott Beigel and students Cara Loughran, Meadow Pollack, Joaquin Oliver, Jaime Guttenberg, and Peter Wang all died during the mass shooting, while teacher Stacey Lippel and students Kyle Laman, Marian Kabachenko, and Anthony Borges survived at that moment.

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