![]() ![]() He said he ran past an unarmed security guard who told him there was an active shooter and that an assistant football coach had been shot. “It was just instinct.” He said officers are told to get to the shooter because every gunshot is potentially another death. “My training is that you run toward the sound of gunshots,” he said. ![]() He dropped the hose and ran toward the buildings, even though he was unarmed and dressed in shorts and a T-shirt. And though he then heard the fire alarm go off, he only began to suspect gunshots when he saw panicked students running from the building. He said he heard loud bangs, but having worked as a school police officer, he just thought a student had set off firecrackers. His son played for the school team and Heinrich was a volunteer groundskeeper at the school, where his wife teaches physical education. Heinrich testified he was watering the baseball field about 200 yards (meters) away from the 1200 building whe the shooting began. If convicted, Peterson could be sentenced to nearly a century in prison. He insists he did not know where the shots were coming from. He never entered the building, taking cover nearby. Peterson is not charged in connection with the 11 deaths on the first floor, before he reached the building. He is charged with failing to confront shooter Nikolas Cruz before the gunman reached the 1200 building’s third floor, where six of the victims died. Heinrich, testifying for the prosecution, conceded he never got within 200 yards (182 meters) of where former Broward Deputy Scot Peterson had taken cover on the opposite side of the building and never saw the deputy. But it wasn’t until he interviewed a wounded student minutes after the shooting started that he knew for certain. Jeffrey Heinrich, testifying a second day in the trial of a deputy accused of not stopping the shooter, said he first thought the shots were coming from in or near the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High classroom building where the 17 murders occurred. ![]() (AP) - An off-duty police officer who was on the baseball field at Florida’s Parkland high school during the 2018 massacre testified Thursday he mistook gunshots for fireworks before realizing what was happening and approached the school unarmed.Ĭoral Springs Sgt. ![]()
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