There is a difference between gunshots and firecrackers. Update to this story.
Via Daily Mail:
The parents of some of the students slain in the Parkland massacre have reacted furiously to comments by the former sheriff’s deputy who lingered outside of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School while gunman Nikolas Cruz slaughtered 17 people inside.
Scot Peterson, the ‘Broward Coward’, broke his silence on Monday, saying that he hesitated to enter the school building during Cruz’s shooting spree because he thought it was a childish prank involving ‘firecrackers.’
That explanation failed to satisfy the bereaved parents who say that Peterson is trying to deflect blame.
‘I’m tired of him trying to paint himself as the victim,’ Fred Guttenberg told the Miami Herald.
Guttenberg’s daughter, Jaime, 14, was one of the 17 students and faculty who were killed during the February 14 shootings.
‘He is not a victim. He created victims.
‘He keeps referring to them as his kids. They are not your kids, Scot Peterson. You let them die!’
The 55-year-old Peterson said on Monday that if he had known ‘what I know today,’ he ‘would have been in that building in a heartbeat…it was my kids.’
Peterson said he was only able to track down Cruz’s location toward the end of the shooting rampage.
But Guttenberg says he is not convinced.
‘He keeps mentioning the third floor,’ he said. ‘If he had done his job, this killing wouldn’t have made it to the third floor.
‘Those people who lost their lives, including my daughter, are victims of his inability to do his job; victims of his failure.’
Guttenberg added: ‘This interview makes him even more pathetic than he already was. You failed me and my daughter.