When 19-year-old perpetrator of mass murder in Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Parkland, FL, showed up at school armed to the teeth and took the life of 17 people, it was not a big surprise to the staff of the school, his former classmates and comrades.
It turns out that Nicolas Cruz has long been gunning for the school where he was expelled for discipline problems. School friend killer Brent black said in an interview with ABC that he promised to «shoot up a school» in the last year, when I was a student.
«About a year ago I met him this morning upset,» recalls guy. «I said, «what’s wrong with you» and he said, «Mmm, I don’t know. I swear to God, someday I’m gonna shoot this school!». According to black, later, Cruz came to him and apologized for what was said. However, apparently, aggressive thoughts won’t leave him.
Students often joked about the fact that Cruz can hold fire. «It is all foreseen,» said one of them in an interview on WJXT.
«Everyone predicted it,» a student said about the #Parkland shooting. pic.twitter.com/mbzBIw8iUa
— Vic Micolucci from WJXT (@WJXTvic) February 14, 2018
The staff of the institution also took Cruz as a threat — he was even banned from going to class with a backpack.
The propensity for aggression and obsession with guns were noticed in the publications of a troubled teen, which he did on social networks. His account in Instagram (which at the moment is already removed) is full of aggressive reviews, photos, knives, guns and ammunition. Striking the phrase «Allahu Akbar», which the young man and his friends apparently used as a kind of greeting.
With regard to weapons of mass murder, rifles AR — 15 then the young man bought it legally — this information was confirmed by the publication of the Sun-senlinel attorney Jim Lewis.
Mental problems
Nicolas Cruz and his brother Zachariah was raised by step-parents. Elderly childless wife from long Agenda adopted boys in early childhood.
According to one of the relatives of the family, Linda and Roger Cruz have always wanted kids and raised them in love, but Nicholas still had developed an emotional disorder, sometimes requiring medical treatment.
Another relative on condition of anonymity told the Sun-senlinel that the boy was diagnosed with autism.
Death of parents
Psychological problems Cruz has worsened after the death of his mother, who died from pneumonia on 1 November. Because adoptive father died of a heart attack, when the brothers were younger, they were left orphans. Close to the killer, people noticed that he was depressed after the loss.
When Linda Cruz died, the boys took to himself friends of the family in the County of palm beach, but the crews did not like his new home and he is before thanksgiving was asked to come to a former friend at school. The friend’s parents agreed to take the orphan and gave him my room. At the time of moving, he had a rifle AR — 15. The owners of the house asked Cruz to keep her in a special closed room for weapons, but was not forbidden to take the key.
