Jury Acquits Former Sheriff’s Deputy Accused of Failing to Protect Students in Parkland School Shooting

A jury on Thursday acquitted a Broward sheriff’s deputy accused of failing to protect students during the 2018 Parkland school shooting.

Jurors deliberated for 19 hours over four days in the case of former Broward County Sheriff’s Deputy Scot Peterson, who remained outside a three-story classroom building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the gunman’s six-minute attack on Feb. 14, 2018.

Peterson, 60, was charged with seven counts of felony child neglect for four students killed and three wounded on the 1200 building’s third floor. Peterson arrived at the building with his gun drawn 73 seconds before the gunman reached that floor, but instead of entering, he backed away as gunfire sounded. He has said he didn’t know where the shots were coming from.

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