They had been possibly the 3 maximum heartbreaking words of testimony but on the sentencing trial of Parkland killer Nikolas Cruz.
A Florida prosecutor on Thursday requested the shy particular wishes son of slain athletic director Chris Hixon if there was once one thing he sought after to inform jurors about his father.
“Yeah,” Corey Hixon stated nervously sooner than taking a look to his mom, who joined him at the stand for beef up.
“I leave out him.”
With the ones phrases, the shattered boy leaned into his mother for a hug and started to sob.
Asked if there was once a distinct reminiscence he held pricey about his father, Hixon stated it was once a easy one.
“Every Saturday we ran to Dunkin’ Donuts and walked again,” he stated, finishing his transient however devastating flip at the stand.
The testimony left a number of of Cruz’s protection legal professionals dabbing their eyes.
As he has incessantly all through the trial, Cruz put his head in his palms and regarded down because the boy spoke.
Hixon, an army veteran, was once remembered as a supportive and devoted staffer at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School.
He was once killed after confronting Cruz all through the Feb. 14, 2018 rampage.
Prosecutors rested their case Thursday, hoping jurors will view Cruz’s homicide of 17 other folks — 14 children and 3 lecturers — as warranting the loss of life penalty quite than lifestyles in jail.
The case will adjourn for one week sooner than the protection gifts its case.
Cruz’s attorneys are anticipated to argue that his worrying upbringing is a mitigating issue within the mass capturing and {that a} lifestyles time period is suitable.
