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Quote:'It's devastating': Cop stayed outside during Florida massacre while students died

An armed school deputy rushed to the Florida high school building where terrified students ran from a killer with an assault rifle, but then sat outside for about four minutes and never went inside.


The school resource deputy for Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School , Scot Peterson, was under investigation for his response to the shooting but then decided to resign his post, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said Thursday.


Two other deputies are also under investigation after a review of prior law enforcement calls involving accused gunman Nikolas Cruz spurred questions on whether the deputies followed the department's policies. 


"It's devastating," Israel said during a Thursday news conference. "I'm sick to my stomach. These families lost children, we lost coaches." 
Israel said surveillance footage captured Peterson responding to the building where the shooting was unfolding. He said the deputy got there within a minute and a half of when the gunfire started. He positioned himself outside the building but never went in, Israel said.


The shooting lasted a total of six minutes. Peterson sat outside the building for four of those minutes, Israel said. In the end, 17 people were killed. 


He should have "went in, addressed the killer, killed the killer," Israel said. 


Modern active shooter procedures were changed after the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, when officers were trained to wait for SWAT officers to respond and take out a threat. 

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Officers are now trained to go toward gunfire because research has shown the presence of law enforcement can slow down a suspect, potentially bringing the death toll down. 



"When we in law enforcement arrive to an active shooter, we go in and address the target and that's what should have been done," Israel said. 


The Broward County Sheriff's Office also released information on more than a dozen calls that involved Cruz and his family. Israel said he placed deputies in two of the calls under investigation because there were questions whether more should have been done. The calls stemmed back to 2008 and all were made prior to last week's shooting.