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Scot Peterson charged over response to shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School



A former Florida sheriff's deputy faces almost 100 years in jail over charges stemming from his lack of response to a mass shooting at a US high school in which 17 people were killed.

Key points:

• Scot Peterson was school resource officer on the day a gunman entered a Parkland, Florida school and opened fire.
• Mr Peterson never went inside the school during the mass shooting, the Broward County Sheriff's Office says
• Nikolas Cruz, who was expelled from the school, has been charged with murder

Scot Peterson, 56, has been taken into custody on charges of child neglect, culpable negligence and perjury, Broward County State Attorney Mike Satz said in a statement on Tuesday (local time).

The charges, laid over Mr Peterson's response to the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, carry a combined maximum prison sentence of nearly 97 years, he said.

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100 years for NOT using his gun. So the message is clear. Everyone should have guns and everyone with a gun should use it if someone else with a gun is shooting.