Lake Worth Middle School shooter shares ‘biggest regret,’ hopes for second chance after prison release
A shooting happened in the final minutes of the final day of school before summer break, just outside a classroom at Lake Worth Middle School.Investigators said one shot was fired by a 13-year-old student, claiming the life of beloved teacher Barry Grunow.
It’s been more than 25 years since the shooting on May 26, 2000. The shooter, Nathaniel Brazill, was ultimately convicted of second-degree murder and aggravated assault with a weapon without intent to kill.
With less than three years left on his 28-year prison sentence, Brazill spoke one-on-one with WPTV anchor Hollani Davis inside Quincy Annex, a correctional institution outside Tallahassee, about the moment that changed his life and his decades behind bars.
“I don’t remember pulling the trigger,” Brazill recalled. “I think the gun went off, and then I ran.”
Earlier in the day, Brazill was suspended for his involvement in a water balloon fight. Investigators said the seventh-grade student left school, went home to retrieve a gun he stole from his grandfather, and returned to campus.
School surveillance video shows Brazill walking down a hallway just moments before he fired a single shot at Grunow.
Brazill told WFLX he wanted to say goodbye to two of his best friends before summer break, but Mr. Grunow would not let him inside his classroom. That’s when Brazill pulled out a 25-caliber handgun and shot Grunow in the head.
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Punk now says he didn't mean to to it. Right.
4 comments:
I never agree with releasing anyone who MURDERED someone. The victim doesn't get to be free, why should the assailant?
I think the evil bastards should be exposed. This is the 25th anniversary and now Brazill says it was an accident. No damn way. He was 13 and the courts are lenient with these child murderers for some reason.
May he rot in jail!
I bet you he'll end up killing somebody else or more people after he's released sounds like he really still needs some mental health help. I don't think they should let him out ever! He killed that wonderful teacher who lived up the road from me and it was just a horrible thing I remember that day when it happened and I used to work at that school too it's just so horrible awful may Barry rest in peace and I hope that they end up keeping him in jail longer!
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