county sheriff s office and the coral springs police department, meaning they couldn t communicate with each other. 39, white male, rotc uniform, burgundy shirt. last seen in the three-story building, north parking lot. reporter: the police spotted the gunman but couldn t relay that critical information. does he know where the shooter is? we don t know, but we re heading in the building, in front of the 13 building, building 13. reporter: these tapes just a fraction of what happened that awful day, a glimpse of confusion, panic, and tragedy that struck parkland. alex joins me now. listening to the voice of the school resource officer not, you know, telling telling deputies not to approach the building, it s pretty stunning. it really is. we ve actually reached out to his attorney multiple times today and they say they re not commenting. they don t see the upside of it. his defense is they initially thought the shooting was coming from outside, and he says that his react
doors. we checked on that victim. that victim was deceased. at that moment, i actually felt sick, but i knew i had a job to do. reporter: the building, they say, riddled with bullet holes. inside, a chilling silence. you would think there should be smoke alarms and screaming. it was eerily silent. very poor visibility, just from the amount of gunfire that had taken place. spent shell casings all over the ground. you could see multiple victims in the hallway immediately that were beyond assistance. reporter: inside classrooms, students and teachers taking cover and calling this 911 center. dispatchers say victims were afraid to speak, so they listened for breathing as a sign of life. if you just have to be quiet, that s okay. as long as i can hear you breathing. white male, burgundy shirt. we are monitoring the subject right now. sergeant mazzei was on the second floor when this came over the road. went from the third floor to
job to do. the building, they say, riddled with bullet holes. inside, a chilling silence. we d think there would be smoke alarms and screaming. it was eerily silent. spent shell casings all over the ground. you could see multiple victims in the hallway immediately that were beyond assistance. inside classrooms, students and teachers taking cover and calling this 911 center. dispatchers say victims were afraid to speak, so they listened for breathing as a sign of life. you just have to be quiet, that s okay. as long as i hear you breathing. white male, burgundy shirt. they re monitoring the subject right now. the sergeant was on the second floor when this came over the radio. he went from the third floor to the second floor. we anticipated engaging him.
scene. pam bondi and rick scott respectively. it s absolutely catastrophic, horrible. and the superintendent of broward schools, the sixth largest school district in the country, said the level of grief is just indescribable. their hearts go out to these 17 families and that no one should send their sons and daughters off to school one day in this country and not have their sons and daughters return home. but crushingly, that is the fact for 17 families, some of whom tonight are still scrambling to try to find out whether some of these still-unidentified five fatalities is in fact their loved one. that s the latest there. the suspect was arrested about an hour and 15 minutes later about a mile and a half down the road from the school. he was described by witnesses as wearing a black hat, burgundy
first court appearance. his arraignment will come later, the judge ordered him held without bond. continuing that, the attorney said he is on suicide watch, and he is now facing charges, at 17 first-degree murder counts. as for the arrest of cruz yesterday, about a mile, mile and a half away from the high school by a responding officer from a nearby town of coconut creek, remember, all kinds of law enforcement officers from all over flooded the scene as soon as the first 911 calls inside the school rang out to the dispatchers that there was an active shooter come up multiple victims down on the ground, and so, fortunately, witnesses, students had given authorities an outstanding description of what the shooter was wearing. black hat, burgundy shirt, black pants. well, the arresting officers spotted a person dressed exactly like that. here is how he described it today. i discovered an individual