UPDATE: FBI Was Informed Of Nikolas Cruz’s Dangerous Intentions Before He Killed 17 People In High-School
Investigations following the mass shooting that took place at an high school in Florida leaving 17 people dead and more critically injured, it has been discovered that the FBI had earlier been warned about Nikola Cruz (the shooter) intention to be a mass shooter.
YouTube video blogger Ben Bennight reportedly contacted the FBI in September 2017 about a comment left on one of his videos by a user with the name Nikolas Cruz, which read: “I am going to be a professional school shooter.”
FBI agents went to Bennight’s office for an interview shortly after he reported the comment to them. But Robert Lasky, the FBI special agent in charge of the Miami division, said investigators were “unable to further identify the person who actually made the comment.”
FBI would have found it difficult to secure a grand jury subpoena to obtain the user’s identity from YouTube “based on the scant information available.” As the comment did not identify a specific time or location of a possible shooting, it would be difficult to convince prosecutors that there was an “imminent threat.”
Other warnings about Cruz have come to light. The teachers from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where the attack took place, had been warned by school authorities about Cruz, who was “not allowed on campus with a backpack.”
Yesterday Cruz made his first appearance in court, charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder. The sheriff’s department said Cruz had confessed to the shooting and told investigators he “shot students in the hallways and on the grounds of the high school”,
