Suspect in Florida school massacre charged with 17 murders

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    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...assacre-charged-with-17-murders-idUSKCN1FZ15J

    PARKLAND, Fla. (Reuters) - A 19-year-old man who had been expelled from his Florida high school was charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder on Thursday, after authorities said he unleashed one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.

    The ex-student, identified as Nikolas Cruz walked into the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on Wednesday and opened fire on students and teachers, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said. Police believe he acted alone.

    Cruz was expected to appear in court Thursday afternoon for a bond hearing, said Constance Simmons, a spokeswoman for the state attorney’s office.

    Cruz was armed with an AR-15-style assault rifle and had multiple ammunition magazines when he surrendered to officers in a nearby residential area, police said. He loved guns and was expelled for unspecified disciplinary reasons, police and former classmates said.

    The shooting in a community about 45 miles (72 km) north of Miami was the 18th in a U.S. school this year, according to gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety, continuing a troubling pattern that has played out over the past few years.

    It was the second deadliest shooting in a U.S. public school after the 2012 massacre of 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut.

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    The deadliest school shooting in U.S. history was at Virginia Tech in 2007, when 32 people were killed.

    “This community is hurting right now,” Israel told reporters Thursday. “We will interview every single student and every person in that school who possibly might know something.”


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    The Florida shooting stirred the long-simmering U.S. debate on the right to bear arms, which is protected by the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Schools across the country have installed electronically secured doors and added security staff, but few legislative solutions have emerged.

    The Broward County sheriff and schools superintendent Robert Runcie urged officials to do more to improve school security.

    “We’ve got to invest resources to make sure that we minimize the occurrence of this ever happening again, because if we don’t it’s not a matter of if, it’s going to be when,” Runcie told a news conference.

    U.S. President Donald Trump said he would meet with governors this year to develop policies to improve school security and address mental health needs.


    Nikolas Cruz appears in a police booking photo after being charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder following a Parkland school shooting, at Broward County Jail in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S. February 15, 2018. Broward County Sheriff/Handout via REUTERS
    “It is not enough to simply take actions that make us feel like we are making a difference,” Trump said at the White House. “We must actually make that difference.”

    FBI WAS TIPPED
    Cruz had recently moved in with another family after his mother’s death in November, according to Jim Lewis, a lawyer representing the family and local media, bringing his AR-15 along with his other belongings.

    The family believed Cruz was depressed, but attributed that to his mother’s death, not mental illness.

    “They didn’t see any danger,” Lewis told CNN.


    Cruz may have left warning signs on social media. Buzzfeed reported that a person named Nikolas Cruz left a comment under a YouTube video that read “I‘m going to be a professional school shooter.” The man who posted the video was alarmed and contacted the FBI, Buzzfeed reported.

    FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert Lasky told reporters on Thursday the bureau received the 2017 tip but said investigators had been unable to locate the person who made the comment.

    “No other information was included with that comment which would indicate a time location or the true identity of the person who made the comment,” Lasky said.

    South Florida remained on edge on Thursday. Miami’s main criminal courthouse building and another Broward school briefly went on lockdown due to security concerns, according to officials and local media. No injuries were immediately reported in either incident..S. attorney general pledges 'going to take action' after Florida shooting
    The first victim of the attack was publicly identified on Thursday as Aaron Feis, an assistant coach on the school’s football team and a school security guard who was shot while shielding students, the team said on Twitter.

    The assailant wore a gas mask as he stalked into the school carrying a rifle, ammunition cartridges and smoke grenades, then pulled a fire alarm, prompting students and staff to pour from classrooms into hallways, according to Florida’s two U.S. senators, who were brief by federal authorities.

    An armed law enforcement officer stationed at the school did not encounter Cruz during his rampage, Israel said.

    Colton Haab, a 17-year-old member of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps at the high school, said he realized the alarms were not a drill after hearing several shots fired and helped barricade fellow students behind curtains made of Kevlar, a material used to make bullet-proof vests.

    “We grabbed two pieces of two-by-four, a fire extinguisher and a chair,” Haab said. “We were going to try to stop him with whatever we had.”

    Additional reporting by Zachary Fagenson in Parkland, Florida, Jonathan Allen in New York, Susan Heavey in Washington and Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee; Writing by Scott Malone; Editing by John Stonestreet and Jeffrey Benkoe
     
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    The Broward County Sheriff a few hours ago already said that Cruz connections to any white supremacist militia to be fake news.

    Just more leftist fake news that so many as usual were trolled and took the bait, hook line and sinker.
     
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    This is according to a white supremacy group called ROF.
     
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    They (RoF) are trolling for free publicity and it looks like the fake news MSM has took the bait and are giving them free publicity.

    It's a tactic used by radical political organizations, left and right wing hate groups and by street gangs.
     
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    The shooting was not far from me, and they say the boy was autistic which is unusual. He was also adopted, but how old and what was his experiences growing up?

    The one thing though that is never mentioned about school shooters, even though the police are fully aware of it is that all of them go on to sites connected with the occult.

    Seems the real problem is being overlooked since it's not politically correct.
     
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    Occultists are too busy making sigils and rocking out for that ****, leave us be
     
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    So you are claiming he shot only non-white kids?
     
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    Cruz was a beta male cream puff, he only weighed 135 pounds butt naked.

    What militia would allow a cream puff to join their ranks ?
     
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    Occult is a real problem you got to be kidding me not to mention that the Constitution does no allow any religion believes to be interfere with by the government even those you call the occult.
     
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    One thing we should consider doing is the raising of the legal gun buying age to the same age needed to buy beer.

    That might be of some small help and it can not hurt to do so.
     
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    Ill second that if the enlistment age is also raised.

    If you can volunteer to kill/die for your country, u can have a gun and a beer.
     
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    The brain development to be a useful member of the military while under the tight control of the military leadership is not the same as the judgement needed to used either a firearm or alcohol in an independent manner.

    But if you would wish to raised the age of complete adulthood back to 21 I would have no problem with doing so however even when 21 was the legal age of adulthood the military could draft them in at an early age.

    In fact during the civil war you had drummer boys of around 14 on the battlefields.
     
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    So why was nearly everyone shot white? Huh? Explain your theory why a white supremacist targeted white teens and teachers.
     
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    from what I saw on tv most of the kids who were interviewed were Hispanic, not white
     
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    Since when is being a Hispanic a race first of all and does your view of Hispanics not being white mean that I am in a mixed race relationship with a Cuban/Puerto Rican girlfriend?

     
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    Puerto Ricans 80.5% white? Phooey.
    That's my tribe and we sure as well neither look upon ourselves as that nor does society look at us that way.
     
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    The army accepts folks up to 40 iirc, and the other branches allow at least into the late 20's.I highly doubt our combat readiness would suffer if we raised the enlistment age to 21.
     
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    Well so in order not to get my KKK membership card along with my Trump supporter card revoke you mean that I will need to kicked my hot Cuban/Puerto Rican girlfriend out of my home?

    Damn her she look white to me but not having taken the Trump course in detecting secret non whites I seem to be in error.

    Thanks for setting me straight before I did something stupid as in mixing my white English and Scandinavia superior blood lines with a non-white.

    Hell it bad enough that the English Royal family will be doing so in a few months.
     
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    Like school staff with concealed carry pieces and permits. :blowkiss:

     
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    This is just sad. No matter how you slice it or debate it.
     
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    We have to ban Nazis, do you want to wake up one day and find yourself sharing this board with some guy who's just killed a school full of children? How long would our privacy protections last if somebody like that was on here? Howsabout if your boss found out?

    But-but. Alt. right aren't Nazis, They just defend 2nd amendment rights and erect statues to general's of the White Supremacist side in the Civil War.

    Alt right are race based nationalists, they themselves say so. They are, thus and, by definition, Nazis, because that's what Nazis are; Nationalists who base their nationalism on race. Naziism was a worldwide movement, It had particularly strong branches in America (it can be reasonably argued to be founded here,) and in Argentina, Paraquay, Arabia and some African and Asian nations They saw themselves as Aryan "supermen". They saw other races as basically, a waste of skin, fit to be slaves until it is time for them to be annihilated and their ultimate demise necessary because having slaves will make the true masters "decadent"

    Make no mistake, Nazis want to KILL 87.5% of humanity. I don't mean convert or convince or transform and I sure as hell don't mean change their minds. I mean kill as in cut them if they stand and shoot them if they run. I mean put in gas chambers and crematora. man, woman and child. I mean converted to wet sand in the swamps outside of Auschwitz.

    There's no way in hell you can say that's a legitimate political opinion,

    Vote for us, help us to kill your own self and your children, (or your neighbor's)

    They should be illegal, everywhere, people like this don't need political recognition or discussion, they need serious mental help (and maybe to make their contribution to the 100 scalps, but that's just a movie)
     
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    If you ban the neo nazis and KKK you have to ban ANTIFA, the New Black Panthers and Black Lives Matter also
     

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