She said the merger could have been completed “with three clicks of a mouse.” The Coral Springs radio calls could have been merged into the Broward system during the shooting, but that required a supervisor’s order and it never came, Oakley said. That meant responding Coral Springs officers knew Cruz’s location, but Peterson and other Broward deputies were never told about those calls. Its police officers worked on a separate radio system from the county and it was transmitting without issues. Oakley said that another major problem during the shooting was that the 911 cellphone calls students and teachers made from inside the three-story 1200 building reporting shooter Nikolas Cruz’s location didn’t go to the Broward County dispatch center, but instead went to Parkland’s neighboring city of Coral Springs. Oakley said, “Deputies could not hear what I was saying and also deputies wouldn’t be able to hear each other.” She had only been on the job for seven months and was on the last shift of her employment probationary period when she found herself handling the initial response to the massacre.ĭeputy Arthur Perry, who arrived at Stoneman Douglas during the shooting, testified Friday that when he tried to use his radio he only got a “bonk, bonk, bonk” noise. Peterson’s primary defense to the felony child neglect charges is that the gunshots’ echo made it impossible for him to pinpoint the shooter and that the radio system’s failure made it impossible for him to hear what most arriving deputies were seeing and hearing. Instead, the deputies got a tone that was the equivalent of a busy signal. 14, 2018 murder of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School - it was known to dispatchers, deputies and administrators that the county’s radio system often failed in Parkland.įrom the first minutes of the shooting, the system repeatedly failed as more and more deputies tried to radio information as they arrived at the suburban Fort Lauderdale school where Peterson was the on-campus deputy. Samantha Oakley told former Broward County Deputy Scot Peterson’s jury that - even before the Feb. (AP) - The Florida deputy on trial for allegedly failing to act during the Parkland school massacre and his colleagues were severely hampered by radios widely known to work poorly in that region, the dispatcher who coordinated the response testified Friday before the defense rested its case.
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