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Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts) Wed Feb 14, 2018, 11:04 PM Feb 2018

Nikolas Cruz Identified as the Gunman in the Parkland School Shooting that Left 17 Dead

Written by Janet Shan on February 14, 2018

Police have identified the Parkland school shooting suspect at Nikolas Cruz (Nicolas Cruz), 19, who has been described as “weird and creepy.”

Cruz used a .223 caliber AR15-style firearm in the Florida school shooting that left 17 dead and up to 50 injured. He had “multiple magazines.” of ammunition. Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) said Cruz wore a gas mask and had hand grenades. He set off the fire alarms so the students would come out of the classrooms.

Cruz was expelled from the school last year for disciplinary reasons. He had some preoccupation with guns and had posted some disturbing things online. One teacher said Nicolas Cruz was identified as a potential threat to his classmates last year.

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Student Ocean Parodie told The Daily Beast: “He always had his hair short. He always wore like really patriotic shirts that seemed really extreme, like hating on the Islamic religion. For example, he would say things such as like, he would degrade islamic people as terrorists and bombers. I’ve seen him wear a Trump hat. I don’t know if he ever said anything about women. He didn’t have any friends.”

More:
https://hinterlandgazette.com/2018/02/nicolas-cruz-identified-as-the-gunman-in-the-parkland-school-shooting-that-left-17-dead.html

Why? Parkland Florida High Shooter I’d with seventeen dead and 50 injured
By Christopher Koulouris - February 14, 2018

Nicolas de Jesus Cruz identified as Marjory Stoneman Douglas High shooter. How a former student with prior disciplinary issues took down his former school.

Nicolas de Jesus Cruz a 19 year old Florida man has been identified as the individual suspected of opening fire on a Florida high school on Ash Wednesday, leaving as many as seventeen dead and up to 50 injured.

Local reports told of Cruz a former student entering Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, armed with what appears to be an assault rifle, and began shooting at just after 2pm.

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‘A lot of people were saying it was going to be him,’ he said. ‘A lot of kids threw jokes around saying that he was going to be the one to shoot up the school. It turns out that everyone predicted it. That’s crazy.’