![]() “I’ve worked with some other very damaged kids and certainly to the best of my knowledge none of them have ever acted out like this,” Kravitz said. Prosecutor Jeff Marcus asked Kravitz is there was anything about Cruz when he was 8 that would have indicated he would eventually commit mass murder. Under cross-examination, Kravitz conceded that Cruz’s mother did get him further psychiatric and psychological treatment and might have been reluctant to keep her son’s appointments with him because of the $87 per visit copay her insurance required. Lynda Cruz died in November 2017, about four months before the shooting. “Pokemon, a dog and more Pokemon,” Kravitz said. He said he asked Cruz what his three wishes would be. He said Cruz had some signs of obsessive-compulsive disorder - for example, he always had to have exactly eight chicken nuggets. ![]() “He was extremely fearful his mother would forget to pick him up (at school) and he would be stuck there,” Kravitz said, even though that never happened. Kravitz said Cruz had a fear of abandonment because of his father’s death and his adoption and had an active “bad imagination.” He once saw Cruz running around the house with an air gun, his limbs flailing wildly - a move he demonstrated for the jury. Steven Schusler, who lived across the street from the Cruzes from 2009 to 2015, said that when Nikolas Cruz was 10, his landlord called Cruz “the weird one” to his face, causing the boy “to curl up” like a salted snail. “He stood out like a sore thumb,” he said. When he was 8, he acted like a 6-year-old, at best, Kravitz said. Testimony has shown that his birth mother was a street prostitute who abused cocaine and alcohol and as a toddler he was developmentally delayed, often violent towards other children and teased and bullied for his small stature, unusual appearance and odd behavior. 1 after contracting the flu, leaving an Allstate Life Insurance policy in which Nikolas Cruz possibly stands to collect 25,000, Finkelstein said. The defense has focused on the mental and emotional problems Cruz exhibited from his earliest days. ![]() If one juror votes for life, that will be his sentence. The defense is trying to overcome the prosecution’s case, which featured surveillance video of Cruz, then 19, mowing down students and staff with an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle as he stalked a three-story building for seven minutes, photos of the aftermath and a jury visit to the building.įor Cruz to receive a death sentence, the jury must be unanimous.
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