A 15-year-old boy in Florida is very much on the naughty list after he allegedly wrote a letter to Santa Claus threatening a school shooting — but signed another classmate’s name to the postcard. The Tampa Bay Times reports that the teen boy was arrested on Monday, charged with making written threats to kill or …
The delay led officers to believe that the shooter was still in the building when he was actually in a McDonald’s a mile away
A father and son both survived deadly mass shootings that took place within months of each other. CNN reports that Braden Freidkes was attending class last Wednesday when suspected gunman Nikolas Cruz opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, killing 17 people. To the relief of his frantic parents, Braden made it out alive. “We …
A White House petition is urging the government to give a full honors military funeral to a student in his Junior ROTC uniform who was helping get people to safety when he was killed in the Parkland high school shooting. Lin Chen told Sun-Sentinel that her cousin, Peter Wang, 15, was wearing his gray JROTC …
Nikolas Cruz, the teen accused of killing 17 people during a brutal school shooting in Parkland, Florida, on Wednesday, wants to offer a guilty plea in an attempt to avoid the death penalty, according to his lawyer. The Sun Sentinel reports that public defender Howard Finkelstein, who’s representing 19-year-old Cruz, said that a trial would essentially be …
Alleged Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz would verbally and physically abuse his late adoptive mother on a regular basis, multiple police reports have revealed. Police reports obtained by CNN stated that Lynda Cruz had called 911 for various issues involving Nikolas and his younger brother, including “mentally ill person,” “child/elderly abuse,” “domestic disturbance,” and “missing person.” Lynda had …
A Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student who was wounded in the leg and back said she forgives the suspected gunman who shot her and killed 17 people. Bullet fragments are still embedded in Daniela Menescal’s back and leg following Wednesday’s shooting. The junior claimed that she believed it was a drill until the suspect …
He’s now claiming it was all a joke, but South Carolina authorities found nothing about the incident funny after a teen posted a disturbing image on Snapchat that insinuated an additional school shooting, only a day after Wednesday’s brutal massacre at a Parkland, Florida, high school that ended with seven people dead. FOX News reports …
A relative of Nikolas Cruz, the man accused of killing 17 in Wednesday’s Florida school shooting, said she believes that Cruz’s mental health deteriorated last year after his adoptive mother died of pneumonia. Linda and Roger Cruz, an older couple, adopted Nikolas when he was an infant. Linda’s sister-in-law, Barbara Kumbatovic, told The Washington Post …
“If you think you’re going to scam people during this tragedy, you’re not.”
PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — An orphaned 19-year-old with a troubled past and his own AR-15 rifle was charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder Thursday morning after being questioned for hours by state and federal authorities following the deadliest school shooting in the U.S. in five years. Fourteen wounded survivors were hospitalized as bodies were …
Nicolas Cruz, the 19-year-old believed to have killed 17 people when he opened fire at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, was expelled from the school about a year earlier for disciplinary issues, police said. WSB-TV reported that Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said Cruz, 19, was expelled for disciplinary issues but did not elaborate. …
