Nikolas Cruz, the teenage gunman who slaughtered 17 people in a high school massacre last Wednesday, appeared in court on Monday.
The 19-year-old did not look up once as he sat at the defense table in a red prison jumpsuit.
It was a procedural hearing in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Cruz was joined by his sympathetic public defender Melissa McNeill who last week put her arm around his shoulder as he faced a judge.
She described him as a ‘broken person’.
Gunman Nikolas Cruz appeared in court in Fort Lauderdale on Monday for a brief appearance during which a judge allowed his team to keep files sealed. He did not look up at all and spoke only to his attorney, public defender Melissa McNeill
The hearing was at the request of his defense and was to do with documents which the defense want to keep sealed.
Judge Elizabeth Scherer granted their request and said the document was ‘solely’ to do with them having access to Cruz.
She did not say what the files contained.