Posted on 02/17/2018 8:51:14 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
The brother of the Florida school shooter has been involuntarily committed to a mental health facility, according to a report.
Nikolas Cruzs younger brother, who turns 18 next week, was involuntarily removed from his home on Friday under what is commonly known as the Baker Act, according to the Palm Beach Post.
While an adult may be held and examined for up to 72 hours, the limit for minors is 12 hours.
Both Nikolas Cruz and his brother were adopted by a loving older couple. But Roger Cruz passed away years ago, while their mother Lynda Cruz died on Nov. 1 from pneumonia.
Both Nikolas Cruz and his brother were adopted by a loving older couple. But Roger Cruz passed away years ago, while their mother Lynda Cruz died on Nov. 1 from pneumonia.
Florida shooter cut self on Snapchat over bad breakup in 2016 They were both taken in by Rocxanne Deschamps, a longtime friend and former neighbor, who currently lives in a mobile home in Lantana, Fla., the Palm Beach Post reported.
But she gave the 19-year-old an ultimatum and prohibited him from bringing his gun, writing, Violence and gun not accepted in my house, in a now-deleted Facebook comment.
Deschamps' friend Chad Bennett said Nikolas Cruz chose to keep his gun, and moved in with another family while his younger brother stayed with Deschamps.
That family allowed Cruz to keep his gun in a locked cabinet and gave him the key, family lawyer Jim Lewis said.
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Agree....I moved there a few yrs ago...I had no idea how bad it really is..I spend several months away in Colombia just to keep my sanity
These brothers are both ill.
The Baker Act is a temporary solution- he will be out within hours if he’s not already.
It’s very fuzzy how they are related, if at all.
People in there fifties are not normally able to adopt infants. Roger and Lynda Cruz adopted two infants.
Nik was adopted as an infant (weeks old) and this brother is two years younger. Perhaps the bio mother is a young cousin or niece to Lynda Cruz.
Did this boy come from the same source- same bio mother? (Were there chemical dependence issues?)
knarf wrote: "WTF !!?? The kid didn't DO anything ...And you're locking him up in a nut house ?!!??
Several reports on this shooter identify the fact that both he and his brother were adopted.
Adopted at birth by a loving older couple, Nikolas Cruz seemed to struggle in recent years.... Lynda and her husband, Roger, who died many years ago, adopted Nikolas and his biological brother, Zachary, after the couple moved from Long Island to Broward County....Lynda, who died of pneumonia, adopted Nikolas the day he was born. Family member Barbara Kumbatovich, of Long Island, N.Y., said she heard media reports about the mass shooting in Florida but had no idea the suspect was the son of her recently deceased sister-in-law, Lynda.
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"Bolstering the narrative that many glaring and alarming warning signs about Cruz's emotional state were repeatedly missed, the sheriff's reports shed light on consistent problems with two erratic, violent, and turbulent boys who repeatedly "threw items," were "out of control," "ran away from home," and fought and argued loudly with their mother and each other.Nikolas and Zachary both have mental health issues, including ADHD and OCD, and take medication, officers wrote. Nikolas Cruz had sought treatment at Henderson Mental Health Clinic and had attended a school for students with behavioral problems.
On Aug. 22, 2012, Lynda Cruz called 911 because her sons, 12 and 13 at the time, were "threatening her." In November of that year, officers came because Nikolas had beat up his brother. A few weeks later they returned after he attacked his mother with the plastic hose from the vacuum cleaner, one report says.
One evening in January 2013, officers responded to a call from Lynda Cruz, detailing that Nikolas's behavior was escalating after she took away his video games. The 14-year-old then threw a chair, dog bowl, and glass across the room, screaming that his mom was a "useless bitch," the sheriff's report said. After the teen barricaded himself in his room, deputies briefly handcuffed him and put him in the back of a squad car until a youth emergency services counselor arrived.
Nearly a year later, Nikolas Cruz punched a hole in the wall after his mother took away his Xbox.'
A lot more from the
Malcolm and Christine Roxburgh were neighbors of the Cruz family for many years. It was a wonderful idea. Two older people to have two little boys to look after. They were just kind people. Christine said Lynda asked her daughter, who lives up north, to take the kids when her husband died, but she refused. .....Christine said when the boy didnt want to go to school, he would bang his head against a cement wall.
Baker Act (Florida) under 18YO = 12 hour hold. Adults = 72 hours.
Zach turns 18 next week.
Lantana is in Palm Beach County.
The second family is, from what I heard, the lawyer of the deceased parents. Maybe he was the estate lawyer when they passed.
Schizophrenia is hereditary, unfortunately, and most commonly presents in the late teen years in males, and after the birth of the first child for females.
It can be treated but the side effects of the drugs are so unpleasant many people refuse to take them.
Authorities had been called 39 times over Nikolas and Zachary Cruz. Reports made ...” describing two erratic, violent, and turbulent boys who repeatedly “threw items,” were “out of control,” and “ran away from home.”
Brianna Sacks
BuzzFeed News Reporter
On Sept. 28, 2016, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office in Florida responded to a 911 call about an 18-year-old who had been fighting with his mom.
Nikolas Cruz and his mother, Lynda, had been fighting over paperwork needed for the high school student to get an ID card, the officer’s report states. It goes on to detail how the teen had been harming himself and had talked about buying a gun. He suffers from mental illness, the deputy noted, and a therapist and an investigator from the Department of Children and Families were also on the scene. “He has been cutting his arms, his mother said, to get attention, as he learned it from an ex-girlfriend,” the report says. “He has mentioned in the past that he would like to purchase a firearm.”
However, Jared Bienenfeld, a therapist with Henderson Mental Health, “deemed Nikolas to be no threat to anyone or himself at this present time,” according to the report. The deputy and the investigator “saw no signs of mental illness or criminal activity and left without incident,” the report concludes.
From 2010 until November 2016, Broward County sheriff’s deputies responded to at least 36 emergency 911 calls from a pleasant-looking, tree-lined suburban home on 80th Terrace, the street in Parkland where Cruz lived with his younger brother, Zachary, and mother, who died last November at the age of 68.
However, despite the repeated calls to authorities for disturbing behavior, Cruz had never been arrested until this Valentine’s Day, when he took an Uber to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, pulled an AR-15 from a black duffle bag, and began gunning down former classmates and teachers, killing at least 17 people.
After concealing himself among the crowd of terrified students fleeing campus, Cruz went to Subway to buy a drink and then to McDonald’s before authorities caught him in a nearby neighborhood. The 19-year-old has admitted to being the shooter and faces 17 counts of premeditated murder.
He purchased his gun legally last year, officials said.
Bolstering the narrative that many glaring and alarming warning signs about Cruz’s emotional state were repeatedly missed, the sheriff’s reports shed light on consistent problems with two erratic, violent, and turbulent boys who repeatedly “threw items,” were “out of control,” “ran away from home,” and fought and argued loudly with their mother and each other.
Nikolas and Zachary both have mental health issues, including ADHD and OCD, and take medication, officers wrote. Nikolas Cruz had sought treatment at Henderson Mental Health Clinic and had attended a school for students with behavioral problems.
On Aug. 22, 2012, Lynda Cruz called 911 because her sons, 12 and 13 at the time, were “threatening her.” In November of that year, officers came because Nikolas had beat up his brother. A few weeks later they returned after he attacked his mother with the plastic hose from the vacuum cleaner, one report says.
One evening in January 2013, officers responded to a call from Lynda Cruz, detailing that Nikolas’s behavior was escalating after she took away his video games. The 14-year-old then threw a chair, dog bowl, and glass across the room, screaming that his mom was a “useless bitch,” the sheriff’s report said. After the teen barricaded himself in his room, deputies briefly handcuffed him and put him in the back of a squad car until a youth emergency services counselor arrived.
Nearly a year later, Nikolas Cruz punched a hole in the wall after his mother took away his Xbox.
Neighbors, classmates, and friends also described an estranged “loner” whose disturbing social media profiles were littered with guns, shooting targets, dead frogs, and a user always dressed in black with his face covered. He also reportedly left comments declaring his desire to shoot and kill people on YouTube, one of which was flagged to the FBI in September.
With a history like that, why would any family take them in their house? Especially when one of the them was bringing a gun.
Perhaps he lost it. His mother passed away in Nov and now his closest relative (brother) just committed mass murder.
Its a 12 hour evaluation. Not sure whats going to happen to him as I have a feeling the family he was staying with doesnt want him there anymore buts, I could be wrong. .
There were some changes to the Baker Act in 2017. The changes were meant to “protect minors”, whatever the hell that means. But if the younger brother meets the criteria, which is supposedly even more stringent now, why in Hades didn’t the older one?
One only has to look at Nikolas Cruz’s eyes. He has Jimmy Kimmel eyes.
How would you even reach such an outlandish conclusion?
Until he posted the You Tube video, what had he had said or done to justify another visit from authorities, arrest or forcible admission to mental health?
Assuming he was serious at that time, “How to you stop someone who has murder in his heart.”
Until he posted the You Tube video, what had he said or done to justify another visit from authorities, arrest or forcible admission to mental health?
Assuming he was serious at that time, “How to you stop someone who has murder in his heart.”
Hey, lets ask the psychiatrist that diagnosed President Trump as a loon and see what she thinks.
Yep....
What country did they come from?
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