UPDATE: 1 pm ET: WPTV 5 reports that the FBI filed second-degree murder charges against Lewis Bennett on Tuesday. According to the federal complaint obtained by the news station, investigators have accused Bennett of damaging the catamaran from the inside, causing it to flood and eventually sink while he and his wife of three months …
The suspected gunman behind last week’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida, had a bigger arsenal of weapons than previously known: In addition to the legally-purchased AR-15 Nikolas Cruz used to kill 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last Wednesday, the 19-year-old reportedly owned at least nine additional rifles. A law enforcement source reportedly …
By JASON DEAREN, TERRY SPENCER and ALLEN G. BREED, Associated Press PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — The suspect in the Florida school shooting appeared in court Monday for a procedural hearing about how legal paperwork would be handled in the case. Nikolas Cruz said nothing when he made his first in-person appearance in Broward County Circuit Court. …
A woman who pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in her fiancé’s drowning death says she has “to let it go” now that she’s served her time. In an interview televised Friday on ABC News, Angelika Graswald, now 37, gave her first public statement since being released on parole just days before Christmas—having a served a …
The suspected gunman reportedly took an Uber to the school on the afternoon of the shooting
The hero Florida teacher who died saving the lives of students told his fiancée what to do if he were to be killed in a school shooting. According to the New York Post, Scott Beigel’s fiancée Gwen spoke at his funeral at Temple Beth El in Boca Raton, Florida, on Sunday. She said that while …
The Mississippi bail bondsman who alerted federal investigators last year to suspicious behavior by the suspected Florida school gunman is speaking out as the FBI faces accusations that it dropped the ball. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Ben Bennight contacted the bureau in September to report a YouTube comment by someone named Nikolas Cruz — the …
The teen accused of shooting and killing numerous people last week at a Parkland, Florida, high school is also accused of snapping into a violent rage against another teen who dated his former girlfriend. BuzzFeed News spoke to three students who knew accused shooter, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz. All three students said they witnessed the suspect …
“… when you’re 18 you have a right to bear arms, and there was pretty much nothing he could do.”
A 21-year-old Washington State man pleaded guilty Friday to the rape and murder of a 6-year-old girl whose body was found in a muddy bog several years ago, the Kitsap Sun reports. Gabriel Gaeta, who was 17 at the time of the crime, faces 40 years to life behind bars. Authorities say Gaeta sexually assaulted …
The father of a teenage girl killed in Wednesday’s mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, expressed his shock and disbelief at his daughter’s funeral Friday, while the girl’s mother was too grief-stricken to attend. Meadow Jade Pollack , 18, was among the 17 people killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday after Nikolas Cruz, …
By MICHAEL BIESECKER and COLLIN BINKLEY, Associated Press The troubled teen authorities say killed 17 people at a Florida high school excelled in an air-rifle marksmanship program supported by a grant from the National Rifle Association Foundation, part of a multimillion-dollar effort by the gun group to support youth shooting clubs and other programs. Nikolas Cruz, …
