School Shooting Suspect Nikolas Cruz Appears In Court

Tuesday night was totally normal, they said. “But I don’t know where he’s at, ‘” he said.

Despite their knowledge of Cruz’s mental state, the Sneads stand by their belief that Cruz had a right to own guns. The assessment by the Department of Children and Families revealed that Cruz was investigated by authorities following a video of him cutting himself on Snapchat.

The parents said they were alright with the teenager storing guns in the house as they long as they were kept in a gun safe. The report does not say if deputies had any further contact.

In Broward County, deputies went to the Cruz family home there nearly 40 times between 2010 and January 2017, CNN reported, citing public documents.

Guerra, Cruz’s middle school classmate, would occasionally run into Cruz at Douglas and at the Dollar Tree, where Cruz worked, and said Cruz would tell him how he hated the school. He was being treated for depression, had a behavioral disorder and had been taking medication for the ADHD, the report said.

Simovitch declined to comment on the probate motion, but confirmed to ABC News that she was retained by Deschamps prior to the high school shooting to assert Deschamps’ interest in the estate on behalf of Lynda Cruz’s younger son.

Cruz came under DCF’s supervision and care because he was classified as a vulnerable adult due to mental illness.

Despite Cruz’s behavior, the report concluded the “final level of risk is low”.

DCF closed the investigation six weeks later after finding no evidence Cruz was being mistreated. “That’s well before this tragedy occurred”.

Kimberly and James Snead described the 19- year-old as immature, quirky and depressed – but pleasant and growing happier and giving no clues of the horror he was about inflict as he plotted the massacre.

But what if I told you we’ve found the answer?

“We knew he had troubles and a couple of issues, but I’ve raised three boys, and I thought we could help”, James Snead told The New York Times on Sunday.

Once she regained her composure, she said she yelled to Cruz, “Really, Nik?”. He’d apologize a lot. Snead, however, indicated that he wasn’t anxious about the teenager having access to guns.

According to CNN, Cruz was able to buy 10 rifles over the past year.

Though they don’t know how many weapons Cruz owned – and acknowledge there were a few, including pellet guns – they had asked him to provide paperwork proving the guns were purchased legally.

Judge Elizabeth Scherer agreed to uphold the ruling to keep the documents sealed but stressed she was in favour of transparency wherever possible. But James now believes there were actually two keys – and Cruz had the other. However, he responded briefly to someone on the defense team. Cruz was cuffed, and looked toward the floor for most of the time, seemingly trying his best to stray away from the camera’s presence during the court order appearance. Last week, he went before a bond court judge and was denied bond. It is easy to wish death on Nikolas Cruz after his actions, and those wishes are understandable. But Broward County state attorney Michael Satz issued a statement in response to the public defender’s remarks, saying: “This is certainly the type of case the death penalty was designed for”.

And Snead maintained his feelings have not changed since the high school murders.

FBI Director Christopher Wray said the agency, which received an average of 2,101 calls to the tip line each day in 2017, was still reviewing its missteps on the January tip.