LM Jan 2024

Shooter moved easily from floor to floor in the school building; but video surveillance had a 20-minute delay and was not real-time.

Bullet holes in classroom doors remain marked and labeled. Shooter never actually entered a classroom.

Coach Taylor actually spotted the shooter, but failed to alert anyone.

Parkland ... cont’d.

From the time Cruz was dropped off by an Uber driver at 2:19 p.m. to when he escaped the building eight minutes later before being apprehended by police at 3:37 p.m., a series of failures confronted law enforcement. The School Resource Officer stayed outside of the building for 48 minutes. None of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office deputies went inside when they arrived. The 911 cell phone calls students and teachers made from inside the three-story building didn’t go to the Broward County dispatch center, but instead went to Parkland’s neighboring city of Coral Springs.That meant responding Coral Springs officers knew Cruz’s location, but the SRO and other Broward deputies were never told about those calls.

Hurricane-resistant windows thwarted shooter in third floor stairwell from injuring students outside as they fled.

6 LM January 2024