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Authorities testified Tuesday that about 30 pages of hate letters and sketches filled with Satanic symbolism, including the number '666' in blood, were found in Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz's cell on May 8.
Jean Marque-Puche, a Broward County Jail deputy, testified in Ft. Lauderdale court that Cruz had multiple dark drawings in his cell concerning the February 14, 2018, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre where he killed 17 and wounded 17 others.
The gruesome drawing showed a stick figure in a classroom shooting another labeled 'teacher' and students, Marque-Puche explained to the 12-person jury.
In the letters, it was uncovered the gunman wrote an anonymous person 'sexually humiliated [him] on f****ng Instagram' which is the 'main f****ng reason why [he] shot up Stoneman Douglas,' according to The Palm Beach Post.
Marque-Puche was asked to read one of Cruz's many letters to which he pleads for his family to forgive him for his horrid actions and he would like 'to die a slow and painful death.'
Cruz also admitted to writing 666 on the wall with his blood and requested to be buried with a woman, who was unidentified to the jurors, according to Marque-Puche.
The jury will determine later this year whether Cruz will be subjected to death or life in prison.
Jail officials uncovered about 30 pages of letters and sketches in Nikolas Cruz's jail cell revealing hateful symbols, including the drawings in relation to the February 14, 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre. Pictured: Cruz in court on September 27
Cruz also admitted to writing 666 on the wall with his blood and requested to be buried with a woman, who was unidentified to the jurors. Pictured: Cruz with his legal team on September 27
Sgt. Gloria Crespo showed jurors on Tuesday the weapon Cruz used in the massacre that had swastikas
