Officer ‘never’ entered Florida school during shooting, resigns

Feb. 22 (UPI) — The school resource officer at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School resigned Thursday after video showed he didn’t enter the school during the shooting, Broward Sheriff Scott Israel said.
Speaking at a news conference Thursday Israel said video showed Deputy Scot Peterson was on campus, armed and in uniform during the Feb. 14 shooting which left 17 students and faculty members dead. He “never went in” the building.
“A deputy arrived at the west side Building 12, held a position and he never went in,” Israel said.
Peterson was inside another building at the school handling a matter with a female student when the shooting began. Heremained outside the building where the shooting took place for “upwards of 4 minutes,” Israel said. The shooting lasted about 6 minutes.
Israel said Peterson should have entered the building, confronted the 19-year-old shooter Nikolas Cruz and killed him.


Source:  gephardtdaily