UTV | Miami: Prosecutors in Florida said Tuesday they will seek the death penalty for Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old who killed 17 people in February in a shooting rampage at his former high school.
“The state intends to seek the death penalty against defendant Nikolas Jacob Cruz,” the state attorney for Broward County, Michael Satz, said in a court filing on the eve of the next hearing in the case.
The charges against Cruz — 17 counts of premeditated murder and 17 counts of attempted murder — are to be read out in court on Wednesday.
It was unclear whether Cruz would be present, a spokesman for the court told AFP.
Cruz walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the south Florida city of Parkland on February 14 and opened fire at students and staff with an AR-15-style semi-automatic weapon, foreign media reports.
