FBI admits it failed to act on tip on Florida school shooter

Dividing that sum by the number of shooting victims in the United States so far this year, Gonzalez asked: “Is that how much these people are worth to you, Trump?”.

“Incredible job and everybody is talking about it”, Trump reportedly said, after a meeting at the local sheriff’s office.

Nikolas Cruz (19) is charged with committing multiple murders on Wednesday at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, a Miami suburb.

“Him coming here is absolutely absurd, and he’s a hypocrite”, Mark Bogen told CNN in an interview following Mr Trump’s tweet.

Math teacher Jim Gard told The Miami Herald the school sent out a email warning teachers that Cruz shouldn’t be allowed on campus with a backpack.

The tipster also said Nikolas Cruz owned guns, was acting erratically and had made disturbing social media posts.

The FBI received a specific report in January that the suspect in the Florida school shooting could be plotting an attack, but agents failed to investigate the tip, the agency said Friday. “The FBI has admitted that they were contacted last month by a person who called to inform them of Cruz’s ‘desire to kill people, ‘ and ‘the potential of him conducting a school shooting'”.

The FBI on Thursday said they had conducted “checks” at the time, but were unable to identify the person behind the comment.

This makes a total of seven schools in Durham on lockout since the mass school shooting in Florida Wednesday.

At the briefing, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said his office received about 20 calls about Cruz. He also discussed different firearms with the group chat and wrote, “I think I am going to kill people”. “The FBI’s failure to take action against this killer is unacceptable”. “. The families will spend a lifetime wondering how this could happen, and an apology will never give them the answers they desperately need”.

One distraught mother who said she had just spent two hours making funeral preparations for her 14-year-old child expressed disbelief a gunman could stroll into school and open fire, and she appealed to President Donald Trump to take action.

USA authorities have come under mounting scrutiny for failing to act on a series of warning signs. He told CNN he immediately contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI has acknowledged getting that tip as well but failing to connect it to the accused gunman. About 100 of the tips are considered “actionable”. “We know better. We deserve better”.

Cruz confessed to “shooting students that he saw in the hallways and on the school grounds”, according to a probable cause affidavit. While the Enough walkout from the Women’s March appears to be the most organized, plans for several other similar demonstrations are circulating on social media. Reports noted that he “suffered from mental illness” and had sought treatment at a clinic.