Who is Ivy Schamis? Former Parkland school teacher recalls moment Nikolas Cruz murdered two of her students
James Bradley
Published Jan 21, 2026
FLORIDA’S FORT LAUDERDALE: The third day of Nikolas Cruz’s preliminary has begun. The admitted Parkland school shooter’s capital punishment will be chosen by a jury. On Monday, July 18, the punishment period of Cruz’s preliminary’s initial assertions initiated. The jury’s decision should be consistent to kill him at the finish of the preliminary, which is booked to last numerous months.
In his introductory statements, examiner Mike Satz alluded to the shooting as a “determined, methodical… mass homicide.” He said, “Three days before to the shooting, Cruz posted a video saying, “I go by Nik. I’ll be the following shooter at a school in 2018. I plan to utilize an AR-15 and some tracer rounds to take out no less than 20 individuals.
It will be a huge event, and you will remember me on the off chance that you see me on the news. You’re all going to die, and I can hardly stand by.
Ivy Schamis, a teacher, wailed as she depicted the time Cruz started shooting in her homeroom, killing two of her understudies as they were concentrating on the Holocaust on Tuesday, July 20, day 3 of the preliminary. One of her understudies, the skilled swimmer Nick Dworet, had quite recently gotten an inquiry right when the slaughter began.
Who is Ivy Schamis? As indicated by The 74, Ivy Schamis educated a Holocaust history course at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. She delighted in drawing matches between current undertakings and Nazi Germany, and February 2018 filled in as a sobering update that such fiendishness actually exists.
As per Schamis, the Holocaust’s lessons were brought into the study hall that day. “A total critic broke into our group and killed two of our schoolmates while we were examining the way in which we will handle scorn.”
Before the shooter started discharging his self loading rifle through the glass on her homeroom entryway, the class heard shots in the first-floor foyer of the three-story structure. A close to home Schamis, an educator at the school for a long time, affirmed at the preliminary, “It was really seconds after the fact that the barrel of the AR-15 basically trapped our study hall.
“It quickly went through the glass board and began shooting all once again the spot. It was a thriving clamor. truly appalling These youngsters who truly ought not be going through this continued to ring a bell.
MOMENTS AGO: Ivy Schamis was teaching a class about the Holocaust when #NikolasCruz shot inside. They were discussing Jesse Owens, & Adidas & Puma, when they heard shots. “The students flew out of their seats trying to find cover in a very small room.”
— WPEC CBS12 News (@CBS12) July 20, 2022
The understudies valiantly took care of the circumstance, taking cover behind furniture without panicking, Schamis reviewed. Both Dworet and Helena Ramsay, both 17 years of age, died eventually. At the point when their photos were shown to Schamis, she began crying. She wailed, “That is my young lady, Helena Ramsay.” “What a wonderful kid, Nicholas Dworet.”
Alex Dworet, the brother of Nicholas Dworet, was harmed in the attack. On July 20, he expressed during his declaration, “I had a sensation on the rear of my head, a warmed sensation. “I can in any case feel it streaming across my chest and down the rear of my head.” Alex said, “I actually didn’t have any desire to acknowledge it was a gunfire. I wished to stay created.
On February 14, 2018, Cruz, who was 19 at that point, started shooting at his past school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in South Florida, killing 14 understudies and three staff individuals. Regarding the episode, he conceded culpability to 17 charges of first-degree murder last October.