Before a school shooting, something usually happens — the shooter tells someone
In the days following the deadly high school shooting in Florida, as Nikolas Cruz's life as a troubled teen began to come into focus, a disturbing truth emerged: People had known where he might be headed.
"Everyone called him 'the school shooter,'" Rachelle Jean, 16, an 11th-grader at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., told the Los Angeles Times. "It was like, he was off."
One neighbor of Cruz's noted: "He was bad news. We all knew he was bad news."
Online, the accused gunman is thought to have posed with guns on social
