According to sources it was stated that Florida court cancelled a hearing scheduled for Tuesday for the 19 year old man accused of carrying out the second deadliest shooting at a public school in US history after a deal between prosecutors and defense attorneys. Meanwhile the suspect's lawyer said prosecutors had been scheduled to seek hair and DNA samples from Nikolas Cruz, who faces 17 murder counts for the February 14 rampage at Marjory Stone man Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, an affluent suburb of Fort Lauderdale.
Meanwhile the sources have stated that the massacre carried out with a legally purchased AR-15 assault rifle, inflamed the long-running US debate on gun rights, which are addressed in the Second Amendment of the US Constitution. Accordingly Cruz's case is due to return to court on Wednesday when a hearing will determine whether he has sufficient assets to pay for his own defense.
Further the shooting has rattled long-drawn political lines on gun rights
in the United States, where Republican officials have often opposed efforts by
gun control advocates to tighten gun ownership laws, partly out of concern
about retribution by the powerful National Rifle Association.
