A Florida sheriff's deputy who made headlines after he reportedly failed to confront the gunman during the Feb. 14 school massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is receiving a monthly state pension of $8,702.35.
Scot Peterson, the 55-year-old officer who resigned and retired after the MSD incident, began receiving payments in April.
People were outraged with surveillance video appeared to show Peterson outside MSDHS as the gunman killed 17 people inside with an AR-15 assault-style rifle. Broward Sheriff Scott Israel said Peterson should have gone inside. President Donald Trump called Peterson a coward.
Peterson later said he thought the shots were coming from outside the building.
Pension payments are based on the 32 years he worked and the average of his five highest-paid fiscal years.