"We didn't see this side of him."Ĭruz reportedly legally obtained the rifle allegedly used in the shooting in 2017, USA Today reported. "We had this monster living under our roof and we didn't know," Kimberly Sneadtold the publication. They claimed they did not know he was dangerous. The couple told the publication only James Snead had the key to the safe and had no idea how Cruz obtained a spare. The couple allowed Cruz to have the guns, which included an AR-15, two other assault rifles, BB guns and pellet guns, if they were locked in a safe, the couple previously told the Sun-Sentinel in an exclusive interview in February. Unfortunately, although I did everything I could, I was not able to stop this tragedy from taking place."ĭuring the time of the attack, Cruz was staying with James and Kimberly Snead at their home in Parkland. I also wanted to protect Nikolas from himself. "I wanted to protect not only my own children but also anyone else who might be at risk of being harmed. "I did everything I could to warn law enforcement about what could happen," Roxanne Deschamps said during a press conference in March. A next-door neighbor who reportedly took Nikolas in for a month after his mother died said she had warned police about his behavioral problems and his guns, the New York Daily News previously reported. Lynda Cruz died of pneumonia in November 2017, leavingbehind Cruz, 19, and his brother Zachary, 17. Documents obtained by the Associated Press in March stated two school counselors and a school resource officer said Cruz had reportedly told a classmate he wanted to purchase a gun and wrote the word "kill" in a notebook. This is not the first time school officials have said they had concerns over Cruz's mental health. "This is not a situation where there wasn't yeoman's work being done by a whole bunch of people to try and get this guy off the path that he was on," Gualtieri said. Gualtieri said mental health and school counselors had about 140 contacts with Lynda Cruz to help him, but she would interfere, the Associated Press reported. Gualtieri, who is in charge of the commission, said there were school counselors who did their best to try to help Cruz with his behavioral and emotional issues, according to the Sun-Sentinel. Taimy ALvarez/Sun Sentinel/TNS via Getty Images A commission review board claims Cruz's mother, Lynda Cruz, was an 'enabler' who allowed Cruz to have guns despite his behavioral and emotional issues. If he wants a gun, he can have a gun.'"įlorida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz quickly glances up at the prosecutors while in court before Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer for a hearing to move forward the death penalty case Friday afternoon, April 27, 2018, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. "To the point where at one time when they said that he wanted to buy a gun and the counselors from the school said he shouldn't have a gun, his mother said, 'I don't care. "His mother was an enabler, and his mother contributed to this significantly," Gualtieri said at the meeting. The commission is currently reviewing the school shooting that took place February 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where Nikolas Cruz allegedly entered the school with an AR-15 rifle and killed 17 people.īob Gualtieri, Pinellas County Sheriff and chairman of the commission, told those who attended the commission review meeting of the shooting at the BB&T Center in Sunrise, Florida, on Tuesday that Cruz's deceased mother, Lynda Cruz, enabled him and allowed him to have a gun the Sun-Sentinel reported. The mother of the suspect in February's mass shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school allowed him to have a gun and was an "enabler," the chairman of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission alleged on Tuesday.
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