Subscribe to one of our news e-mail lists . His videotaped confession was played earlier in the day and the prosecution has since rested. Nathaniel Brazill showed little emotion on the stand during two hours of testimony. He described pulling out a handgun on the last day of classes last May when Lake Worth Community Middle School teacher Barry Grunow would not let him talk to two friends in private.
Lake Worth is the city just south of West Palm Beach.
Brazill had returned to the campus after being sent home earlier in the day for getting in a water balloon fight. Read the Florida law on juveniles being tried as adults Documents in PDF format require Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing. He said he remembers clutching the gun with two hands and trembling with tears in his eyes when he was pointing the gun at Grunow. Why did he have tears, asked his attorney Robert Udell. He said he took off running after the gun fired and pointed the gun at another teacher who was moving toward him.