Parkland shooting victim’s parents ‘disgusted’ by verdict calling Nikolas Cruz ‘an animal’

The parents of a young girl killed in the Parkland school shooting said they were “disgusted” after a jury recommended a life sentence for shooter Nikolas Cruz today, 13 October.

“This should have been the death penalty, 100 per cent... I am so beyond disappointed,” said Lori Alhadeff, whose daughter Alyssa Alhadeff, 14, was killed in the shooting.

“I am disgusted with our legal system, I am disgusted with those jurors,” Alyssa’s father Ilan Alhadeff said.

Cruz avoided the death penalty after a jury recommended he should be sentenced to life in prison without parole.

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