School shooting suspect to stand trial over alleged attack on prison guard

Nikolas Cruz is facing the death penalty over the Parkland school shootings in 2018 (Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP, Pool)

The suspect in the 2018 killing of 17 people at a Florida high school is finally going on trial — but not for the shootings.

Jury selection begins Monday on charges that Nikolas Cruz attacked a Broward County jail guard nine months after the February 14, 2018, shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.