The Florida shooter a
troubled teenager and gun lover
Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/florida-shooting-troubled-teenager-and-gun-lover-9963654
Islam Is Not Terrorist by virtue of Surah Al Maidah, Verses 32 [
5:32 ]. And who is the real terrorist now?
PARKLAND, Florida: Nikolas Cruz, the shooter who opened fire
on a Florida school Wednesday killing 17 people, was a teenage gun lover
previously expelled from the school for disciplinary reasons.
The gunman, 19, showed up at the end of the school day at
his former school - Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland - with a
semi-automatic AR-15 assault rifle and a large amount of ammunition.
Local police later arrested him in nearby Coral Springs.
Born in September 1998, Nikolas Cruz had posted "very
disturbing" messages on social media, according to Broward County Sheriff
Scott Israel, who did not specify their exact content.
Authorities have not released a photograph of the shooter,
and an Instagram account reportedly belonging to him has been suspended.
Cruz was known at school as having problems, according to
several witnesses interviewed by local media.
"There were problems with him last year threatening
students, and I guess he was asked to leave campus," Jim Gard, a math
teacher who had taught Cruz for a semester in 2016, told the Miami Herald.
Gard told CNN that although he had not had problems with
Cruz in class, female students reported Cruz having "problems with other
girls."
Meanwhile a student, who was not named, told local
broadcaster WSVN-7 that Cruz was "a troubled kid" who had firearms at
home and had talked about using them.
"He shot guns because he felt it gave him, I guess, an
exhilarating feeling," the student said.
According to another pupil, Nicholas Coke, Cruz was a
"loner" who left the school and moved to northern Florida following
the death of his mother. He had also undertaken a junior military training
program, according to Pentagon sources who did not offer details.
The shooter had already had "a lot of problems,"
Coke said, recalling an incident during middle school when Cruz kicked out a
window.
Meanwhile another student, speaking to local channel WJXT,
said "everyone predicted" Cruz would carry out such an atrocity.
"Honestly, a lot of people were saying it was gonna be
him," the pupil said.
He added Cruz knew the layout of the school and had some
knowledge of security procedures through participating in fire drills.
"He knows the school layout, he knows where everyone
would be at as of right now," the student said.
"He's been with us in fire drills, he's prepared for
this stuff."
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