Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz wore a backpack to his Florida university emblazoned with a racial slur

Florida shooter Nikolas Cruz walked all around campus donning an orange backpack emblazoned with a racial slur and a swastika much more than a person calendar year in advance of the mass shooting that left 17 men and women lifeless, a former Marjory Stoneman Douglas Superior College student testified Monday. 

Jurors ended up revealed a photograph that Kyle Horrigan snapped in September 2016, showing the hateful concept scrawled in sloppy black letters above a swastika: "F--- you N-----." 

" I was personally shocked by it, that another person would stroll all over in community with that, significantly a lot less at a school," mentioned Horrigan, who did not individually know Cruz. 

Horrigan, who now will work as firefighter, was known as by prosecutors in the state's rebuttal scenario at the penalty trial in Fort Lauderdale.

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A photo blend of Nikolas Cruz in court Monday Oct. 3, 2022, for his penalty trial and a backpack emblazoned with a racial slur that he once wore to school. (Amy Beth Bennett via G3 Box News/ Regulation&Criminal offense)

Earlier Monday Broward County Circuit Choose Elizabeth Scherer experienced a testy exchange with defense lawyer Tamara Curtis out of the jury's earshot over the admissibility of a letter that Cruz had composed.

Curtis questioned if she could query the witness about the letter.

 "I’m not going to notify you how to do your cross-assessment," Scherer reported following exhaling deeply in exasperation. 

Choose Elizabeth Scherer obtaining a heated courtroom trade with Nikolas Cruz's defense law firm Melisa McNeill Sept. 14, 2022, outside the earshot of jurors. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Solar Sentinel via G3 Box News, Pool)

Jurors ended up performed clips from Dr. Charles Scott's jailhouse job interview with Cruz in which he explained the painstaking organizing he place into the Feb. 14, 2018, massacre that killed 14 learners and three staffers.

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Cruz explained he was motivated by the 1999 Columbian Higher School capturing and selected Valentine's Working day for his rampage due to the fact he has no a single to appreciate. A girlfriend broke up with him 18 months ahead of the attack.

College students are evacuated by police from Marjory Stoneman Douglas Significant College in Parkland, Fla., through the capturing that took put there in February. (G3 Box News/South Florida Solar-Sentinel)

"I examined mass murderers and how they did it," he instructed Scott, a prosecution psychiatrist. Scott mentioned that Cruz is a sociopath who can control his actions but chooses not to mainly because he has no regard for other folks. 

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The trial, which started July 18, will only figure out whether or not Cruz is sentenced to loss of life without having the likelihood of parole. He pleaded responsible to 17 counts of to start with-diploma murder and other prices in Oct of past yr.