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Disgraced Parkland Deputy Heard Shots Inside School Building, Told Cops To Stay Away

Students are evacuated by police from Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on Feb. 14 after a shooter opened fire on the campus on Feb. 14.
Sun Sentinel
Students are evacuated by police from Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on Feb. 14 after a shooter opened fire on the campus on Feb. 14.

Roundly vilified for not entering a Parkland high school during a mass shooting, Broward Deputy Scot Peterson insisted publicly that he believed that gunfire was happening outside on campus — not from inside the building.

But internal radio dispatches released by the sheriff's office Thursday show Peterson immediately fixated on Building 12 and even radioed that gunfire was happening “inside.”

And, just as school shooter Nikolas Cruz was fleeing the building after killing 17 people, Peterson warned his fellow officers to stay away — even as wounded students and staff lay inside.

Read more at our news partner, the Miami Herald.

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