That, of course, separated him even further from his peers. She said that when he would get frustrated, he would turn violent, hitting other students and tearing up their assignments and projects. "He didn’t blend in well with the other students. "Nikolas was very quiet, aloof," she said. He had been assigned to special education since kindergarten after being diagnosed with emotional and developmental problems and a speech disability. "He couldn’t stand up for himself," Rodriguez said. Lynn Rodriguez said that when she taught Cruz in 20, he had difficulty staying on task and was "very small" for his age, leading to him being bullied at school, on the bus and by his younger brother at home. Lynda Cruz died of pneumonia four months before the shootings.īefore Browd’s testimony was played, his third and fourth grade special education teacher testified that he was a sad and sometimes violent and disruptive student who didn’t make friends with his classmates. So after three weeks, Lynda Cruz traded in the BMW for another van, Browd said. He was defiant and temperamental, Newnham said. For example, Lynda and Roger Cruz traded in the family’s van for a BMW SUV when their oldest son was 4, but he didn’t like it because he couldn’t stand up and move like he could in the van. In meetings with Newnham, Cruz's adoptive mother Lynda Cruz said she felt frustrated and alone because of her son's behavior. She said his mother didn’t set boundaries for him. He would stand there for a few hours and do this."
"He would stand at the window screaming and crying and I would have to yell at him to get away from the window," Browd said.
An undated photograph of Brenda Woodard, the biological mother of Nikolas Cruz, shown in court (Getty Images) When Cruz was less. She said Cruz would have severe separation anxiety whenever his mother would leave him with her to run errands. Lynda took Cruz home to live with her and her husband Roger. She said that most children will stop if spoken to with a stern voice, but "he wouldn’t." He would lay down and scream and cry, but not like a normal kid," Browd said. "She was a great mom."īut by the time Nikolas Cruz was 4, he was throwing tantrums that went beyond what children normally have, she said. "She was ecstatic, overjoyed," Browd said. Parkland school shooter trial: Jurors see video of Nikolas Cruz's 'cold, calculated and cruel' rampageīrowd said Lynda Cruz was a doting mother when she brought Nikolas home.Just three months later, on 14 February 2018, Cruz travelled to Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland, Florida, armed with. Parkland shooter trial: Officers describe horror they saw after massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas Then, on November 2017, Lynda died, leaving Cruz and Zachary parentless.She said Lynda Cruz had dreamed of being a mother so went through a private attorney to adopt Nikolas and, two years, later his half-brother Zachary. She said Lynda Cruz had four miscarriages before she was able to adopt Nikolas in 1998 when she was 49 and her husband 61. She and Lynda Cruz became best friends while working at a New York insurance company in the 1980s, with they and their husbands moving to Florida at approximately the same time so they could remain near each other. His public defenders played video recorded testimony of Browd, who has health issues that prevented her from coming to court. The Sun Sentinel reports that Zachary has been living with a family friend since his mother, Lynda Cruz, died in November 2017.Trying to overcome the emotional, gruesome and graphic evidence and testimony the prosecution presented over three weeks as it laid out the killings, the defense has spent the first five days of its case trying to show that from the time he was conceived in the womb of a crack-smoking, hard-drinking prostitute he was put on a road that created a killer. Nikolas Cruz could face the death penalty. Zachary Cruz's arrest comes just about a month after his brother, Nikolas Cruz, 19, allegedly shot and killed 14 students and 3 staff members at the Parkland school. "Defendant Cruz surpassed all locked doors and gates and proceeded to ride his skateboard through school grounds," a deputy wrote in his arrest report. after the school day was over and students had been dismissed. The police report said that Cruz was spotted on campus at about 4:30 p.m. Zachary Cruz, 18, had been warned to stay away from the campus, the Herald reported. The brother of the suspect in the killings of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., was arrested Monday for trespassing at the same site.Īccording to a police report quoted by the Miami Herald, "Defendant Cruz stated that he unlawfully entered the school property to 'reflect on the shooting and to soak it in. Zachary Cruz crying as his brother, Nikolas Cruz is arraigned in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
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