{"id":83246,"date":"2021-10-16T13:31:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T13:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=83246"},"modified":"2021-10-16T13:31:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T13:31:19","slug":"nikolas-cruz-whose-atrocities-sparked-national-gun-control-movement-to-plead-guilty-to-parkland-school-murders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=83246","title":{"rendered":"Nikolas Cruz, Whose Atrocities Sparked National Gun Control Movement, to Plead Guilty to Parkland School Murders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/15\/us\/nikolas-cruz-parkland-shooting-plea.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY <\/a><a href=\" Times:\">Time<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"\" target=\"_blank\">s:<\/a> &#8220;The former student who was accused of shooting and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/14\/us\/parkland-school-shooting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killing 17 people at his high school in Parkland, Fla.<\/a>, in 2018 plans to plead guilty to 17 counts of premeditated murder and 17 counts of attempted murder, one of his lawyers said on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018, killed 14 students and three faculty members, one of the deadliest shootings in American history. Seventeen other people were wounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former student,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/14\/us\/nikolas-cruz-florida-shooting.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nikolas Cruz<\/a>, who was 19 at the time and had a history of mental health and behavior problems, used&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/02\/15\/us\/ar15-mass-shootings-guns.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a semiautomatic rifle<\/a>&nbsp;that he had legally bought to carry out the assault, according to the police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is our intent to enter a change of plea as to both cases to all charges,\u201d David Wheeler, one of Mr. Cruz\u2019s lawyers, said in court on Friday.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times: &#8220;The former student who was accused of shooting and\u00a0killing 17 people at his high school in Parkland, Fla., in 2018 plans to plead guilty to 17 counts of premeditated murder and 17 counts of attempted murder, one of his lawyers said on Friday. The rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83247,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83246\/revisions\/83247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}