Day 2 Top Moments

The second day of Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz's sentencing hearing brought more testimony from students and teachers who were at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the 2018 shooting.

After Cruz pleaded guilty to 17 counts of first-degree murder, the jury will now decide whether Cruz will face the death penalty or life in prison without parole.

Here are the top moments from day 2 of the trial:

Jury Watched Surveillance Footage

The jury watched surveillance video from the shooting.

After the judge overruled a motion from the defense, the prosecution presented the footage. Ron Lowther, an electronic surveillance technician for the Broward County Sheriff's Office, was able to isolate Cruz in the videos from from the incident and sequence the footage from each camera in the school to create a continuous progression.

The silent footage was only played for the jury, not the public.

Former Student Identified Cruz as the Shooter in Court

Christopher McKenna, a former MSD student, recalled the moment he ran into Cruz moments before he started shooting up the school.

McKenna was a freshman at the time of the shooting. After passing Luke Hoyer and Martin Duque Anguiano, who were both killed in the shooting, McKenna encountered Cruz.

He said he was "stunned" as he saw a man with a rifle in his hands. Cruz told McKenna to "get out of here" because "things are going to get bad."

McKenna said he then ran out of the building and found Aaron Feis, an assistant football coach at the school, for help. Feis was also killed in the shooting after he went to "check out" the gunshots coming from inside the school.

Prosecutor Michael Satz then asked McKenna if he would be able to identify the man he saw holding a rifle inside the 1200 building on that day. McKenna told Satz he would, and pointed at Cruz when asked if that individual was in the courtroom.

"The one with the glasses," McKenna clarified as he pointed at Cruz, who was seated in court in the midst of his defense team.

Several Shooting Survivors Took the Stand

Several former students who were wounded in the shooting took the stand to recall the events on Feb. 14, 2018.

Many said the day started out like any other, until their fourth period classes were interrupted by the loud popping sounds of gunfire.

At first, many thought it was a drill or something else unrelated to gunshots.

Some student were shot as they ran to take cover under desks and some were hit with gunfire while they huddled in the corners of the classroom.

"I think sometime during my movement is when I was grazed twice," Isabel Chequer said, recalling how she hid behind a filing cabinet. She later said she had been shot in her right foot and left arm.

Daniella Menescal said she did not realize the shooting was real until she felt a sharp pain in her back and saw blood dripping down her white pants as she hid in the corner of the room.

The students recalled seeing their classmates wounded or dead as they waited for police to rescue them. They tried to calm each other down.

Those who were wounded were taken in ambulances to nearby hospitals. The jury was shown photos of their injuries.

Teacher Gets Emotional During Testimony

Dara Hass, an English teacher at MSD High School, began to cry on the stand as she recalled seeing her students shot.

She said the students were quietly working when they heard "pop, pop, pop" sounds, like gunshots. She assumed it was a drill. It was only when Hass turned around and saw her students were shot did she realize it was real.

Hass began to get emotion as she described seeing Alex Schachter dead at his desk.

"It was hazy," she said. "You could smell the sulfur from the gun debris. Debris was flying around. Students were crying. So many students were injured."

Hass said it was difficult to leave the room because she wanted to stay with the students who were shot and couldn't get out.

Student Still Suffers From Her Injuries

Samantha Fuentes told the jury that she still has pain from the injuries she suffered during the shooting four years ago.

While the shots were going off, Fuentes said her vision and hearing "went away briefly," making her feel "very confused and disoriented."

It was only after she went to check the pulses of her two dead classmates that Fuentes realized she had been shot herself.

Fuentes said she had a gunshot wound above her left knee and "multiple other locations of shrapnel" that hit her legs, arm and face.

"I also still have shrapnel just behind my right eye," she said. "That still is there. And I have shrapnel still lodged in all of these parts of my body."

Fuentes said she still feels pain from her injuries.

"I don't have the same range of motion or stamina as I once did when I was more able-bodied," she said. "I get chronic spasms and pain in my legs. Whether it's the weather change or pressure, I can really feel that in my extremities."

Jurors Shown Video of Killings

Jurors on Tuesday were shown surveillance footage captured the day of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

Some recordings were played for the courtroom on Monday, the first day of the penalty phase of Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz's case. Most visuals from the videos shown Monday were not viewed by the public, though there were exceptions. The jurors had watched the videos in full, while the gallery mostly heard audio from the recordings.

On Tuesday, the gallery was not able to see the videos or hear the audio that went with them. The footage was taken from 13 surveillance cameras around the school, according to the Associated Press.

The defense argued against allowing the jurors to view the footage, which prosecutors said showed Cruz shooting victims from a close range and occasionally doubling back to shoot wounded people a second time.

The surveillance video was described as "graphic" by reporters in the courtroom.

Comparing the videos shown on Tuesday with those shown on Monday, South Florida Sun Sentinel reporter Scott Travis said the Tuesday video "may not stir the same raw emotions as the cellphone videos where we didn't see the video but we heard sounds of violence."

Angenette Levy, a Law&Crime Network correspondent, reported some of the jurors were covering their mouths with their hands while watching the video.

Student Was Too Late to Save Classmates in Hallway

A former Marjory stoneman Douglas student said she was too late to save her classmates in the hallway before the shooter started firing.

Anna Martines and a friend left their personalization class, similar to a study hall, to make up a test on the second floor of the school. When they were done, the girls returned to their classroom. They spoke to Gina Montalto, who was working in the hallway, before knocking on the classroom door for someone to let them back in.

Martines sat at her desk near the door. Then, two of her classmates, Luke Hoyer and Martin Duque Anguiano, knocked on the door to be let in.

As Martines went to reach for the handle, gunshots went off. She said she was "shocked" and didn't know what was going on.

Martines said she didn't have time to open the door. She saw Hoyer and Anguiano's faces and they appeared scared. Martines said the boys looked like "they had just heard something they had never heard before."

"They were in fear," she said.

Her friend pulled her away from the door to hide under the teacher's desk.

Martines said she heard more shots going off then silence. Then she heard someone in the hallway screaming and asking for help and for someone to open the door. But then there were more gunshots and then silence.

After the fire alarm went off, the gunshots sounded "muffled," Martines said.

Once the SWAT personnel came to evacuate the classroom, Martines ran out of the building across the street.

Court Adjourns for the Day

The second day of Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz's sentencing hearing has ended. The day's proceedings began shortly after 9 a.m. ET and ended at about 3:30 p.m.

Judge Elizabeth Scherer said court will resume at 9 a.m. on Wednesday

Former Student Still Suffers From Injuries

Samantha Fuentes, who was a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School at the time of the 2018 shooting, told lead prosecutor Michael Satz she still has pain from the injuries she suffered on the day of the shooting.

Fuentes was in her history of the Holocaust class in room 1214 that February afternoon. She recalled hearing "just a couple of shots" at first from the hallway behind her.

"Everyone in the room froze," she said.

As the sound continued, Fuentes said she and her classmates realized the sound was gunfire and began moving to find places to hide.

Fuentes said she first ran to the back of the classroom but "realized I messed up" because other students had moved away from the windows and hidden in the corners of the room. As gunshots began firing into the classroom, Fuentes said she crawled across the room to sit near her fellow students near a wooden podium, which she tried to hide behind "as best as possible."

While the shots were going off, Fuentes said her vision and hearing "went away briefly," making her feel "very confused and disoriented."

"So unknowingly, I peeked my head past the podium to look at the door," she said. "That is where I saw [Parkland shooter Nikolas] Cruz standing there after he had finished firing. He was standing at the window at the door."

Fuentes said she then moved back behind the wooden podium and noticed two of her classmates, Nicholas Dworet and Helena Ramsay, had been shot. Both Dworet and Ramsay died from their injuries.

After checking pulses to confirm that neither Dworet nor Ramsay were still alive, Fuentes said she realized she had injuries of her own.

Fuentes said she had a gunshot wound above her left knee and "multiple other locations of shrapnel" that hit her legs, arm and face.

"I also still have shrapnel just behind my right eye," she said. "That still is there. And I have shrapnel still lodged in all of these parts of my body."

Fuentes said she still feels pain from her injuries.

"I don't have the same range of motion or stamina as I once did when I was more able-bodied," she said. "I get chronic spasms and pain in my legs. Whether it's the weather change or pressure, I can really feel that in my extremities."

Student Grabbed Book to Protect Herself

One former Marjory Stoneman Douglas student grabbed a book to protect herself during the shooting.

Samantha Grady said she did not initially move when she heard gunshots during her fourth period History of the Holocaust class. It wasn't until her friend, Helena Ramsay, tapped her on the shoulder and said, "Sam," that Grady moved to take cover.

Grady and Ramsay could not fit behind a filing cabinet with other students, so they were leaning against a bookcase in one corner of the room. Grady said Ramsay suggested grabbing a book for protection. After grabbing a book, Grady put it back, thinking it would make her a target.

When the gunshots entered the classroom, Grady was injured.

She called 9-1-1 to "explain the situation" and was told to stay on the phone.

When the police arrived, Grady identified that she was among the injured and left.

One bullet scraped the right side of her back and another ricocheted on her chest. As she left the room, she saw that Ramsay and Samantha Fuentes were also wounded. While Fuentes survived the shooting, Ramsay unfortunately passed away.

Student Realized Shooting Was Real After Seeing Blood

One of the students wounded said she thought the shooting was just a drill.

Former Marjory Stoneman Douglas student Daniella Menescal was in the History of the Holocaust class in room 1214 when the shooting began.

After hearing "loud bangs," she and her classmates spread to the corners of the room. Some students moved a filing cabinet to protect themselves.

Menescal said she thought this was a drill so she did not fully cover her body behind the filing cabinet. She was facing the door but not looking in that direction. She continued to talk to her friend until her felt a "sharp pain" in her back. At that point, she moved to take more cover behind a T.V. in front of her.

Then, a friend touched her back and Menescal saw her white pants was full of blood. That is when Menescal realized this was not a drill and saw that her other friends were also injured.

When the police arrived, they asked that the injured students leave the classroom first. When Menescal stood up, she noticed her leg was injured and there was a hole in her shirt.

As she left the classroom, Menescal said she walked over two bodies but did not see their faces.

She was taken to an ambulance and had to borrow a cell phone to call her parents and tell them she was going to the hospital. She was shot in her right leg and lower back.

Survivor Hid Behind Filing Cabinet

Isabel Chequer, a former Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student, recalled hiding in the corner of a classroom alongside her classmates during the 2018 Parkland shooting.

Chequer, who was called to the witness stand by the prosecution in Nikolas Cruz's sentencing hearing, said she was attending a class on the history of the Holocaust in room 1214 at the time of the shooting. Chequer "immediately recognized" the sound of gunshots when she heard them on that February day, and went to hide in a corner across the room from the classroom door.

Chequer said she moved to a different corner of the classroom, one that was diagonal from the door, once she realized her initial hiding space was in view of the door's window.

Some of the students hiding in that second corner had moved a filing cabinet out of the way, Chequer said. She recalled getting behind the cabinet to hide.

"I think sometime during my movement is when I was grazed twice," Chequer said. She later said she had been shot in her right foot and left arm.

Chequer said she and her classmates were "trying to calm each other down" as they began to realize the severity of other students' injuries. Chequer said she "began to freak out" when she realized Helena Ramsay, one of the students in her classroom, had died.

Teacher Tears Up Recalling Students Who Were Shot

Dara Hass, a teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglass High School, took the stand. She started working at the school in 2016, but had been a teacher in the county school district before that.

Hass was teaching in her fourth period freshman English class in room 1216 when the shooting began.

She said the students were quietly working when they heard "pop, pop, pop" sounds, like gunshots. She assumed it was a drill and went to close the blinds.

Then, the gunshots were so loud, Hass said she was shaking. Students were screaming and coming to hide by her desk.

It was only when Hass turned around and saw her students were shot did she realize it was not a drill.

Hass began to cry on the stand as she recalled seeing Alex Schachter dead at his desk. She said everything happened so fast and she called 9-1-1 and her husband to tell him to also call the police.

"The sounds were so loud and [there] were just a lot of them," she said.

As she spoke, some jurors took notes, other listened intently, according to a reporter in the courtroom. Parents had their heads down.

Hass remained quiet as debris flew across the room amid the second round of shooting into the classroom.

"It was hazy," she said. "You could smell the sulfur from the gun debris. Debris was flying around. Students were crying. So many students were injured."

After several minutes, Hass saw the arm of a police officer punch through the door window and the officer told everyone to evacuate.

Hass said it was hard to leave the room because she wanted to stay with the students who were shot and couldn't get out.

As she left, Hass encountered William Olsen, who was covered in blood, and took him to an EMT. Another student, Samantha Fuentes, got Hass' attention because she too was injured an needed an EMT immediately.

Prosecutor Michael Satz showed her photos of her students who were killed. Hass began to tear up again as she identified Alex Schachter, Alyssa Alhadeff and Alaina Petty. Satz showed the photos to the jury, but did not make them public.

Nikolas Cruz had his head in his hands for the duration of Hass' testimony.

Another Survivor Takes the Stand

Court is back in session after breaking for an early lunch.

Before the break, the prosecution called former Marjory Stoneman Douglas students to the witness stand to describe their memories of the day the shooting occurred.

For its first post-lunch witness, the prosecution called Kheshava Managapuram, another former student who survived the shooting, to take the stand.

Survivor Points, Identifies Cruz As Shooter

Christopher McKenna, a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, identified Nikolas Cruz as the gunman he saw in the hallway before the shooting at his school began on February 14, 2018.

McKenna was called by the prosecution to testify during the second day of Cruz's sentencing hearing.

McKenna told the courtroom he had run into Cruz on that day near the stairs of the 1200 building after excusing himself from class to use the bathroom. Cruz had told him, "Get out of here. Things are about to get bad," according to McKenna.

After reviewing the path he took out of the building and across campus, McKenna was asked by lead prosecutor Michael Satz if he would be able to identify the man he saw holding a rifle inside the 1200 building on that day. McKenna told Satz he would, and pointed at Cruz when asked if that individual was in the courtroom.

"The one with the glasses," McKenna clarified as he pointed at Cruz, who was seated in court in the midst of his defense team.

Victims' Families Spared From Watching Shooting Videos

Family members of victims are again present in the courtroom Tuesday.

Families were shown getting emotional during witness testimony from survivors recalling the moment the shooter fired into classrooms.

Families were spared from watching footage of the murders Tuesday.

Surveillance video of the shooting was not shown to the the public or on the T.V.s in the courtroom. The silent footage was only played on the jury monitors.

On Monday, some family members got upset after a video depicting the shooting was played at high volume in the courtroom. Someone shouted for the video to be shut off then walked out of the courtroom crying.

Survivor Recalls Moment He Was Shot

The next witness to take the stand is former Stoneman Douglas High School student Alexander Dworet. He was in room 1216 on the day of the shooting.

Dworet said it was a "regular day" until he heard "loud bangs." At that moment, he did not think it was anything out of the ordinary. Dworet said he thought it was possibly the band banging drums in the hallway.

He did not realize he was in danger until he felt a "hot sensation" on the back of his head. Dworet said he reacted as quickly as possible to take cover in the corner.

Dworet said he was trying to think that what was happening was not real.

"I was trying not to process what was going on," he said.

Then he felt a trickling down his head to his chest. When he touched the middle-back of his head, Dworet said his hand was covered in blood.

That is when he realized something was wrong, but he still did not want to believe it was a shooting.

"I was trying not to freak out," he said. "I realized something was wrong but didn't want to believe it was real."

The people around him asked if he was okay or if he thought he was going to die.

Dworet saw that his classmate Alex Schachter was dead at his desk. He said Schachter was half in he seat, bent over his desk. There was a pool of blood around him and his body moved as though he was "taking his last breath."

"That's when it started getting more real," Dworet said.

Nikolas Cruz returned to shoot into their classroom once again. At the time, Dworet thought the shots were coming through the wall.

Dworet said it felt like a long time, maybe 15 minutes, between the first and second round of shots. He said he later learned that it was "not that long."

When the police came to the classroom, the officers told everyone to put their hands up, run out of the classroom and don't look back.

As Dworet left the building, someone noticed he was bleeding and brought him to the ambulance to be treated before heading to the hospital.

Lunch Break

Court is taking an extended lunch break. Day two of the sentencing trial is scheduled to resume at 1 p.m. ET.

Survivor Who Was Shot Takes Stand

The prosecution called another former Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student, William Olson, to the witness stand Tuesday following testimony from former student Christopher McKenna.

Olson was one of the students who was shot during the 2018 shooting at the school. He spoke about his memory of that day when called to the stand by the prosecution in Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz's sentencing hearing.

Before the shooting began, Olson said his class was working on either an essay or a similar activity when "all of a sudden, I hear a bunch of loud noises in the hallway."

Olson said he did not immediately understand what the noises were.

"After two seconds, I think everyone realized it was gunshots," he said.

Olson said he looked over and noticed Alex Schachter, one of his classmates, was "not moving." Schachter was one of the 17 people fatally shot that day.

Olson said that, after another few seconds, he was on the floor in front of his teacher's desk, though he could not recall how he got there.

"While I'm laying in front of the desk, I realize there's blood all over me," Olson said.

Olson said he heard the gunshots getting farther away, and eventually he heard more sound as law enforcement officials arrived to escort students out of the classroom.

Olson said he briefly went to a medic station that had been set up outside the school but then saw the mother of a student he knew and went over to her, so that he could call his own mother. Once his mother arrived, Olson said they went to the hospital.

A photo of the injuries Olson had on his arm from being shot was then shown to the jury, according to reporters in the courtroom.

Cruz Told Survivor to 'Get Out of Here'

The prosecution in Nikolas Cruz's sentencing hearing called former Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Christopher McKenna to the witness stand Tuesday morning.

Now in college, McKenna was a freshman when the shooting occurred in 2018.

McKenna told lead prosecutor Michael Satz that he was in class in the 1200 building when he asked to use a bathroom pass at about 2:21 p.m. It had been a "normal day" until that point, McKenna said.

McKenna then recalled leaving his classroom and passing two other students, whom he identified as Martin and Luke, in the hallway. McKenna said he high-fived Martin as he passed and then walked to the staircase, where he said he encountered a man who had "a rifle in his hands."

McKenna said he was "stunned."

"He said to me, 'Get out of here. Things are about to get bad,'" McKenna said.

McKenna said he then ran out of the building. Once outside near the school's north side gates, he ran into Aaron Feis, who was an assistant football coach at the school. Feis was one of the 17 people who later died in the shooting.

McKenna said Feis instructed him to get into a golf cart, and Feis then drove McKenna to the 1300 building.

"That's when I heard the fire alarm go off, when I was standing right in front," McKenna said. "I was hearing shots."

As Feis left to "go check it out," McKenna started seeing students running from the 1300 building. McKenna said he ran with them until they were off campus.

Break

Court is taking a 15 minute morning recess.

Jury Watches Surveillance Video from Shooting

The prosecution's first witness of the day is Ron Lowther.

Lowther works for the Broward County Sheriff's Office as an electronic surveillance technician. He retrieves and processes video evidence, including the surveillance videos from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on the day of the shooting.

Lowther was able to isolate Nikolas Cruz in the videos from the incident and sequence the footage from each camera in the school to create a continuous progression.

The silent surveillance video was played in court to the jury.

According to pool reports from inside the courtroom, jurors covered their mouths with their hands "like you do when you find something upsetting" as they watched Cruz move through the school, murdering students and teachers.

There is privacy glass over the monitors so the public cannot see the footage.

Judge Denies Defense's Motion on Surveillance Videos

Before the jury was brought into the courtroom, the defense made a motion to the judge.

The defense claimed the release of surveillance videos from the shooting violates Nikolas Cruz's constitutional rights and creates an unfair prejudice because "guilt has already been established."

The prosecution said the videos establish aggravating factors because they depictions of one murder aggravate factors of the other murders.

Judge Elizabeth Scherer said the surveillance videos are relevant because they depict the shooting in the manner by which it happened, from every angle.

She said the videos do not violate Cruz's rights nor do they present any unfair prejudice. The motion was denied.

Watch: Day 2 of Sentencing Hearing

The second day of Nikolas Cruz's sentencing hearing is now underway in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

A jury is hearing sentencing arguments for Cruz, who pleaded guilty last fall to 17 counts of first-degree murder in the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The jury will be deciding whether Cruz will be sentenced to death or life in prison without the possibility of parole.

The first day of the penalty stage in Cruz's case concluded at about 4:30 p.m. ET on Monday. The second day of proceedings began Tuesday morning and can be streamed live here or below.