(CNN) - Police have released the arrest report for the Parkland, Florida school shooter accused of killing 17 people on Valentine's day.
Police say Nikolas Cruz left his rifle and escaped the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school campus.
More than an hour later, a Coconut Creek officer saw someone matching the description of the suspect. The officer, who wrote the arrest report, says he pointed a gun at Cruz.
He said Cruz was calm, understood, and complied with his orders to lie face down in the grass and not move.
Cruz was handcuffed and brought to his feet to face witnesses brought there to ID the shooter.
When witnesses confirmed he's the shooter, the report says he became weak and needed help holding himself up.
At that point he started hyperventilating and throwing up a clear liquid. Emergency workers were called as a precaution.
Cruz had pleaded not guilty to 17 counts of pre-meditated murder and 17 charges of attempted murder.
His public defender says Cruz is willing to plead guilty in exchange for avoiding the death penalty.
