For nearly 30 minutes after Nikolas Cruz dropped his assault-style rifle and escaped Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, police officers thought they were seeing his actions live on the school’s security system.
They soon realized the images were tape delayed. Coral Springs Police Chief Tony Pustizzi told the Sun Sentinel the delays made a chaotic situation even more confusing for responding authorities.
The 19-year-old suspect Cruz was captured an hour later in a neighborhood about 2 miles from the school where 17 people died Feb. 14.
The newspaper reports transmissions show that police initially couldn’t get to security cameras.
Broward Sheriff Scott Israel said at a news conference he didn’t know about the security system delays but would look into it.