Nikolas Cruz had a fixation with guns, blood and murder in the years before the Feb. 14, 2018, Parkland school shooting that left 17 dead, according to trial testimony.

Nikolas Cruz, 23, in court Monday, Aug. 22, 2022, at his penalty trial. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun Sentinel via AP, Pool) Schusler was describing the first time he met Cruz around 2010.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (CBS12) — A former neighbor described what some might call verbal abuse about 10-year-old Nikolas Cruz at his sentencing trial, Wednesday afternoon. Steven Schusler ...

Here’s what we know: Nikolas Cruz, the now 24-year-old who admitted to killing 17 people in Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February 2018, has avoided the death penalty.

Few Americans outside law enforcement ever see the most graphic images from mass shootings because most of the killers die during or immediately after the attacks, so they never make it to court.

Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz's AR-15 style rifle shown to his jurors. ... it is rare that such photos are seen outside of law ... Cruz told Zecchini he was going to his music lesson.

In opening statements of Nikolas Cruz’s death penalty trial, his defense laid out their plan to persuade the jury to spare his life. They planned to present him as a disturbed, mentally ill ...

Nikolas Cruz appears in court for a status hearing before Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Monday, Feb. 19, 2018. Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP.

A jury delivered a sentence of life in prison Thursday for Parkland school killer Nikolas Cruz, after he murdered 14 students and three teachers in one of the deadliest and most merciless mass ...

Nikolas Cruz analyzed the tactics used during prior mass shootings — including the 1999 Columbine massacre — years before killing 17 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018.

Press members observe the image of the Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz through the Media Room's displays at the courtroom at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Oct. 20, 2021.