The 19-year-old accused of gunning down 17 people at his former high school told police he carried out the rampage, according to a probable cause report. In an interview with police, Nikolas Cruz said "he was the gunman who entered the school campus armed with an AR-15 and began shooting students that he saw in the hallway and on the school grounds," the document states. "Cruz stated that he brought additional loaded magazines to the school campus and kept them hidden in a backpack until he got on campus to begin his assault."



Cruz has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder in the deaths of students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on Wednesday afternoon. Cruz is on suicide watch, his attorney told reporters Thursday. Public defender Gordon Weekes called his 19-year-old client a "deeply disturbed, emotionally broken" young man who has struggled with significant mental illness and trauma his entire life.




"He's gone through a lot in a very short period of time and that does not minimize the loss of those families, but we have to put that into the proper light," Weekes said, choking back tears in a crowd of reporters. "He has some very difficult decisions to make shortly and we're going to assist him with those decisions." Reports surface of possible warnings The FBI received a report that the former student may have posed a threat before the shooting, a law enforcement source told CNN on condition of anonymity


Authorities said Cruz, after Wednesday's slaughter at his former school, blended in with the students and staff evacuating the school but was arrested in a neighboring community later in the day. In a brief Broward County court appearance Thursday by video from jail, he said nothing except to confirm his name to a magistrate judge, who ordered that he be held without bond. Wearing an orange jail jumpsuit, he nodded when he was told he couldn't post bail. As for his online presence, one report to the FBI, the law enforcement source said, involved someone using Cruz's name commenting on a YouTube video claiming a desire to be a professional shooter. YouTube video blogger Ben Bennight told CNN he warned the FBI in September about the YouTube message. "Im going to be a professional school shooter," read the comment, left by a user with the name Nikolas Cruz.


Rob Lasky, special agent in charge of the FBI's Miami division, acknowledged the report during a news conference in Parkland on Thursday, and said the FBI did a database review, but couldn't identify the person who wrote the comment. The FBI didn't share the information with local authorities, the law enforcement source told CNN.


Meanwhile, officials have been alluding to mental health issues when speaking about Cruz publicly, but not offering details. Broward County Mayor Beam Furr, for example, told CNN Wednesday that the teen "had been dealing with mental health issues." CNN could not confirm the mayor's statements. And Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Thursday he will have conversations with state leaders next week about "how to make sure individuals with mental illness do not touch a gun." "If someone is mentally ill, they should not have access to a gun," Scott said.


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Nikolas jacob cruz..

I wonder why this kind of horrific situation keeps repeating itself in the united states despite their claims of tight security...it's a shame

Some oyinbo children bully each other and the school authority hardly does anything about it, when the victim gets tired of been bullied he snaps and starts shooting

Mariangeles:
I wonder why this kind of horrific situation keeps repeating itself in the united states despite their claims of tight security...it's a shame

Castrate him
pluck out his eyes

cut his left arm and right leg

jail him!

Nowhere is safe anymore... better pray for peace where ever you find yourself

Prettyenit18:
Some oyinbo children bully each other and the school authority hardly does anything about it, when the victim gets tired of been bullied he snaps and starts shooting

Exactly!