A new report in the Sun Sentinel details the critical minutes leading up to and during February’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida; when former student Nikolas Cruz was able to get inside a building at the school and open fire in multiple locations, killing 17 people before escaping the …
By TERRY SPENCER, Associated Press SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — The state commission investigating the Florida high school massacre began discussions Friday on what recommendations it will make regarding student safety, mental health and steps to prevent future school shootings. The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Commission didn’t pass any specific recommendations Friday at its latest gathering …
Before Nikolas Cruz opened fire on students in Parkland, Florida, he told a 13-year-old girl he was distraught over bullying and was contemplating suicide, the Miami Herald reports. Cruz fatally gunned down 17 people and injured another 17 in February at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where he had been a student before enrolling in …
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Helena Ramsay was wise beyond her years, shy until you got to know her and discovered she had a wicked wit. She dreamed of seeing the pink dolphins in the Brazilian rainforest — a dream her mother said was cut short by the gunman who killed Ramsay and 16 others …
The campus monitor also declined to report an emergency code after the shooting began because he wasn’t sure the sound was gunfire
The suspected gunman behind the deadly massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School recorded a chilling video message before opening fire in Parkland, Florida, in February. “I’m your next school shooter of 2018,” Nikolas Cruz says in the video clips released by prosecutors this week. It’s unclear when Cruz recorded the video messages, obtained by …
Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old accused of killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last month, is reportedly being showered with love letters and has had hundreds of dollars put in his commissary account. The South Florida Sun Sentinel reported that an alarming amount of admirers are sending the suspected mass murderer sexually-explicit photos and offers of …
A commitment under the law would have made it more difficult if not impossible for Nikolas Cruz to obtain a gun legally.
By CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — The former student charged with killing 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last month will face the death penalty, prosecutors said Tuesday. Nikolas Cruz, 19, is scheduled for formal arraignment Wednesday on a 34-count indictment, including 17 first-degree murder charges. Cruz’s attorneys have said he would …
The Florida school shooter who allegedly killed 17 people last month spends his time in jail staring blankly and pacing around his cell, WFTS-TV reports. “He was just lost in his mind,” former Broward County Jail inmate Andrew Bryant told the television station. “I don’t think he was looking at anyone, just laying down looking …
As students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School prepare for their first full week of classes following a massacre that left 17 students and faculty members dead, one area park has taken action remove the alleged gunman’s name from its playground area. According to the South Florida Sun Sentinel, the name Nikolas J. Cruz has …
The Broward County Sheriff deputies who reportedly did not enter the school building during a deadly massacre may have been ordered not to, a new report claims. As CrimeOnline previously reported, School Resource Deputy Scot Peterson resigned on Thursday following an internal review that found the armed officer assigned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School …
