Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz speaks to defense attorney Gabe Ermine during a pretrial hearing at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale July 14, 2021, on four criminal counts stemming from his alleged attack on a Broward jail guard in November 2018. Photo: Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool
Accused Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz rushed at a jail guard and was briefly able to wrestle him to the ground during a 2018 altercation before he was subdued, according to a video shown in court.
Cruz, making his first in-person court appearance since before the pandemic, sat quietly in an orange jump suit and shackles during the 30-minute hearing over battery and assault charges stemming from the Broward County Jail altercation. It happened nine months after the Feb. 14, 2018, shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland that left 17 dead and 17 wounded.
