FILE - In this Thursday, June 6, 2019, record photo, erstwhile Broward Sheriff's Office lawman Scot Peterson appears successful the courtroom for a proceeding astatine the Broward County Courthouse successful Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Peterson who is accused of hiding during a South Florida schoolhouse shooting that near 17 radical dormant said aft a proceeding Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021, that helium ne'er would person sat idle if helium had known radical were being killed. Peterson, 58, appeared successful court, wherever his lawyer argued to disregard kid negligence charges against him, the Sun Sentinel reported. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool, File)

FILE - In this Thursday, June 6, 2019, record photo, erstwhile Broward Sheriff's Office lawman Scot Peterson appears successful the courtroom for a proceeding astatine the Broward County Courthouse successful Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Peterson who is accused of hiding during a South Florida schoolhouse shooting that near 17 radical dormant said aft a proceeding Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021, that helium ne'er would person sat idle if helium had known radical were being killed. Peterson, 58, appeared successful court, wherever his lawyer argued to disregard kid negligence charges against him, the Sun Sentinel reported. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool, File) (© South Florida Sun Sentinel 2019)

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – The erstwhile schoolhouse assets serviceman accused of hiding during a South Florida schoolhouse shooting that near 17 radical dormant said aft a proceeding Wednesday that helium ne'er would person sat idle if helium had known radical were being killed.

Former Broward County Deputy Scot Peterson, 58, appeared successful court, wherever his lawyer argued to disregard kid negligence charges against him, the Sun Sentinel reported. After the hearing, Peterson mislaid his composure and fought backmost tears arsenic helium described however his beingness has changed aft the shooting astatine Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School successful Parkland.

“I didn’t bash thing determination to effort to wounded immoderate kid determination connected the scene,” Peterson said. “I did the champion that I could with the information. I did the champion ... I’ll ne'er hide that day. You know, not lone kids died, I person friends that died. And ne'er for a 2nd would I beryllium determination and let anyone to die, knowing that carnal was successful that building! Never!”

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Nikolas Cruz, who was 19 astatine the clip of the February 2018 shooting, has been charged with 17 counts of first-degree execution and faces a imaginable decease sentence.

Prosecutors person said that Peterson failed to travel to the rescue arsenic Cruz was making his mode done the school’s hallways. The instrumentality that he’s accused of breaking specifically applies to caregivers, but defence attorneys are arguing that a instrumentality enforcement serviceman doesn't acceptable the ineligible explanation of a caregiver.

Prosecutors are arguing that schoolhouse resources officers are inherently antithetic from different instrumentality enforcement officers and should beryllium considered caregivers.

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