“He was a cute little baby,” she said of Nikolas. Patricia Devaney-Westerlind, who lived across the street from Lynda and Roger Cruz, said Lynda Cruz kept the family’s 4,500-square-foot home immaculate and that she was nurturing to Nikolas and his younger half-brother Zachary, whom the family also adopted. She said that since the shooting, she sometimes feels a bit guilty, wondering if there was something she could have done “so he could be a better person.” She said Lynda Cruz, his adoptive mother, was loving toward Nikolas and tried to do the best she could, but was slow to admit he had problems.
If a teacher was trying to work with him to get him to use his spoon or not his hand, he would hit the teacher’s hand away.” “If someone else had a toy that Nikolas wanted, he would just go up and grab the toy and hit the child’s hand to get the toy or the object.
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He pushed other kids because he “didn’t know how to express himself,” she said. He would sit in the corner and observe,” Fischer said. She said he would fall down when he tried to run and his head and ears seemed disproportional to his body. She said while the other toddlers could ask for their water cups and use a spoon, Cruz could not. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun Sentinel via AP, Pool)Īnne Fischer, who ran the daycare center Cruz attended from about age 1, said he did not progress as fast as other children and was smaller. Cruz previously plead guilty to all 17 counts of premeditated murder and 17 counts of attempted murder in the 2018 shootings.
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Judge Elizabeth Scherer flips though baby photos of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz as they are admitted into the record during the penalty phase of his trial at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Tuesday, Aug. The defense says that’s because his birth mother was put in a residential drug rehab program when she was six months pregnant, but the damage had been done. Prosecutors say no drugs were found in Cruz’s system at birth. Cruz, 23, pleaded guilty in October to the murders and the trial is only to determine his sentence. They are trying to persuade his jury to sentence him to life without parole instead of death. Cruz’s attorneys began the second day of their defense by building on testimony that his birth mother’s cocaine and alcohol abuse during pregnancy left him severely brain damaged, putting him on a road that led to him murdering 14 students and three staff members at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb.
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