FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The reenactment of a 2018 mass shooting at a Florida high school will take place early next month as part of a civil lawsuit and will use live ammunition.
Circuit Judge Carol-Lisa Phillips on Thursday endorsed an agreement reached by attorneys for victims' families and former Broward Deputy Scot Peterson to conduct the reenactment Aug. 4 at a three-story classroom building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
A ballistics expert for the families testified that live rounds make a different sound than blanks.
A key issue in the lawsuit is what Peterson could hear during the shooting on Valentine's Day 2018, in which 17 people died and 17 more were wounded with an AR-15-style rifle.
