The former sheriff’s deputy accused of failing to respond to this month’s deadly high-school shooting defended himself Monday, saying he believed shots were being fired outside the building where a gunman was actually firing away inside. The allegations that Scot Peterson “was a coward and that his performance, under the circumstances, failed to meet the standards of police officers are patently untrue,” Joseph DiRuzzo, the attorney for Mr. Peterson, who was assigned to the Parkland, Fla., high school where 17 people were...

Source: Wall Street Journal February 26, 2018 21:33 UTC