KY school shooting

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(02-15-2018, 12:05 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Inter agency communication is always an issue, sadly it often happens at the personal level, as in, "I know a guy who works homicide for X".  As for this incident, I'd be very interested in seeing what steps were taken to address this obviously troubled person.  Most interesting, were the guns used his and if not WTF were his parents thinking?

His parents had passed away.  He was turned in by his grandmother (if I heard correctly on NPR this morning.)  The story said something about how no one who lived with him thought he was violent.

Edit: I don't think this is the story I heard this morning but it provides some details:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/14/585908507/what-we-know-about-the-florida-school-shooting-suspect

Quote:Even as officials gain a clearer understanding of how the shooter conducted the attack, law enforcement is opening its investigation into a still more difficult question: why.

"We have already begun to dissect his websites and social media that he was on," Sheriff Scott Israel said at a news conference Wednesday evening, "and some of the things that have come [up] are very, very disturbing."

Cruz's parents are both deceased. His mother, Lynda Cruz, died of pneumonia less than four months ago at age 68, and his father, Roger Cruz, died when Nikolas and his biological brother, Zachary — also adopted by the Cruz family — were much younger, according to The Sun Sentinel.

Barbara Kumbatovich, a sister-in-law of Lynda's who lives on Long Island, N.Y., tells the newspaper that the brothers moved in with a family friend after their mother's death on Nov. 1.

"I know [Lynda] had been having some issues with them, especially the older one. He was being a problem. I know he did have some issues and he may have been taking medication. [He] did have some kind of emotional or difficulties," Kumbatovich told the paper.

The family that took Cruz into their home "got him a job at the local dollar store. They didn't see anything that would suggest any violence," Lewis said, according to The Washington Post.

"He was depressed, maybe a little quirky. But they never saw anything violent," the attorney said.

Police do not yet know the specific reason for Cruz's expulsion, besides the fact that it was tied to a disciplinary issue. Lisette Rosenblatt, the mother of a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, told All Things Considered that her daughter was familiar with Cruz from previous aggressive incidents.