More than once, Mr. Cruz was identified by those around him as someone capable of carrying out a school shooting. received in early January from someone close to Mr. Cruz suggested that he owned a gun and had talked about carrying out a school shooting. that Mr. Cruz had been adrift since his mother’s death in November. The caller, whose name was redacted on the transcript, said Mr. Cruz had used money from a life insurance policy after his mother’s death to purchase the weapons. Before calling the F.B.I., the woman telephoned Broward sheriff’s deputies in Parkland, worried that Mr. Cruz might kill himself.

Source: New York Times February 23, 2018 21:28 UTC