Couple who took in Florida massacre gunman speak out

After last week’s school shooting in Parkland that killed 17 people, a lot of focus has fallen on the home where the confessed shooter was living.

The family that took in Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz said they knew he was lonely, depressed and a bit odd but saw no warning signs of a coming massacre.

“Everything everybody seems to know, we didn’t know”, James Snead said.

“I knew he had issues in the past”. Why didn’t that set off enough warning bells to take action?

A person described as close to Cruz called an Federal Bureau of Investigation tip line on January 5 to report concerns about him, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

In a marathon series of furious tweets from Mar-a-Lago, Trump vented about Russian Federation, raging at the FBI for what he perceived to be a fixation on the Russian Federation investigation at the cost of failing to deter the attack on a Florida high school.

And last September a comment left on social media said, “I’m going to be a professional school shooter”. “We must actually make a difference”. His lawyers have said he will plead guilty if prosecutors agree not to pursue the death penalty.

A 19-year-old armed with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle killed 17 people during Wednesday’s rampage, which has reignited calls for changes in permissive United States gun laws. “If this kid was missed, there is no system”. Upon learning that we were in possession of records involving Cruz as an adult, DCF immediately started the process to ask a court to allow the release of all records in the spirit of full transparency.

Members of the Florida state patriot guard riders arrive at the funeral services for slain Marjory Stoneman Douglas student Carmen Schentrup, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018, at St. Andrews Catholic Church in Coral Springs, Fla. But the agency said Friday that agents failed to investigate.

In documents filed in probate court the day after the mass shooting, Deschamps’ attorney, Audra Simovitch, petitioned to have Deschamps appointed a personal representative of Lynda Cruz’s estate, claiming an interest in the estate “as a family friend … who is caring for a 50% minor beneficiary”, meaning Cruz’s younger brother. He told reporters he also met with some of the victims who are still hospitalized.

DCF investigators anxious the assessment by the mental health clinic in Broward may be “premature”.

The report does not say if deputies ever contacted Cruz about the incident, or if they found any weapons.

“Now is the time to get on the right side of this, because this is not something that we are going to let sweep under the carpet”, she said on Meet the Press. Despite Cruz’s behavior, the report concluded the “final level of risk is low”.

“While he was chasing me down the street, he also called me a n–r multiple times”, Enea said.

Snead supports gun ownership rights, and he argues letting Cruz keep the weapon was correct. Negron sponsored a 2011 bill that Republican Gov. Rick Scott signed into law that banned cities and counties from regulating gun and ammunition sales. “To me, the depression was more stemmed from loss – losing his mother, not from all the things they said about him being bullied, or by – things that happened in school” she says, adding that with the gun safe, “everything’d be locked up, it really didn’t concern me”.

An administrator at Henderson Behavioral Health declined to answer questions and hung up when contacted for an interview Sunday.

Roxcanne Deschamps declined to comment through the door of her trailer earlier this week.

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But the issue gained notice after more than 58 people were killed in October at a country music festival in Las Vegas, where authorities said the shooter was armed with 14 AR-15s with bump stocks along with other firearms.

“Neighbors and classmates knew he was a big problem”. Shortly before that, Cruz briefly lived with a family in the nearby town of Lantana, Florida.

About two months later, an unidentified caller told police that Cruz had been collecting guns and knives.

“We’re travelling to our state capital to make sure that none of these people that we grew up with – that we’ve known our whole lives – die in vain”, Julia Salomone, 18, said confidently. “You can’t watch him every day”.