A former Broward County Sheriff’s Deputy has been arrested on more than ten charges related to his failure to enter a Parkland high school in Florida last year as a gunman killed students inside. Police arrested former deputy Scot Peterson, 56, Tuesday on “seven counts of neglect of a child and three counts of culpable negligence and one count of perjury,” according to a statement released by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to HuffPost. “All the facts related to Mr. Peterson’s failure to act during the [Marjory Stoneman Douglas] massacre clearly warranted both termination of employment and criminal charges,” Sheriff Gregory Tony said in the statement. In a separate statement, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office announced it also fired Sergeant Brian Miller for neglected duties during the shooting. “This will haunt me for the rest of my life,” Peterson told the Today Show in June of last year.

Source: Huffington Post June 04, 2019 19:52 UTC