Broward Sheriff's Deputy Scot Peterson had a duty to run toward the sound of gunfire, to find the perpetrator and take him down, or at least to try. But that would have required him to know then what everyone knows now: that one gunman was responsible, and his rampage was limited to the inside of the 1200 building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Broward Sheriff's Deputy Scot Peterson had a duty to run toward the sound of gunfire, to find the perpetrator and take him down, or at least to try. But that would have required him to know then what everyone knows now: that one gunman was responsible, and his rampage was limited to the inside of the 1200 building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
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Four minutes and 15 seconds. That’s how much time elapsed between Deputy Scot Peterson’s arrival outside the 1200 building of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and the last shots fired by homicidal gunman Nikolas Cruz on Valentine’s Day 2018. A jury will soon decide whether those minutes will cost Peterson his freedom and reputation for not confronting the shooter.
Former Broward County deputy Scot Peterson believes his upcoming trial will show he did everything he could during the violent Parkland school shooting.