PARKLAND, Fla. _ He looked like a typical teenager.
That was Coconut Creek patrol officer Michael Leonard's first thought when he came upon Nikolas Cruz on a suburban street.
Leonard was cruising through an area about a mile from the Parkland school. He had heard the description of the shooting suspect crackling on his police radio.
"It was just myself. A couple of people were walking dogs," he said.
Then he spotted a young man on the street.
"He looked like a typical high school student," Leonard said.
He was wearing clothes that matched the description on Leonard's police radio.
"Could this be the person? Is this who I need to stop?" Leonard said he thought to himself
So he pulled his patrol vehicle over and confronted the man outside the Pelican Pointe community.
"He complied with my commands and was taken into custody without any weapons," the officer said.
"This is what we train for. We hope it never happens."
