Parkland Teacher Brittany Sinitch Broke Down In The Courtroom Tuesday As She Recalled How Her students Were In The Middle Of Writing Romeo And Juliet Valentine s Day Cards To Each Other When She Heard A Loud Bang Echo From The Hallway

Parkland teacher Brittany Sinitch broke down in the courtroom Tuesday as she recalled how her students were in the middle of writing 'Romeo and Juliet' Valentine's Day Cards to each other when she heard a loud bang echo from the hallway.
'We were having so much fun until I heard what I described as just the loudest noise you could possibly imagine,' Sinitch told a courtroom filled with families of the slain students.  
Witnesses present when school shooter Nikolas Cruz entered Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are painfully reconstructing for jurors the the 2018 Valentine's Day massacre that left 14 students and three staff members dead.
Sinitch said that immediately after hearing the first shots ring out she ran to turn off the classroom lights and urged her students to hide away from the viewpoint of the classroom window door.
'Almost instantly, I called 911,' she said.

'They couldn't hear me over the sound of the gunshots; it was so loud,' she said on the stand.
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.Sinitch was one of three witnesses present in the three-story Freshman building that spoke at Cruz's penalty trial at the Broward County Courthouse o
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