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Broward Sheriff's Office Received 2 Calls That Nikolas Cruz Was A Potential School Shooter. [TR]
BuzzedFeed ^ | February 23, 2018 | Tasneem Nashrulla Cora Lewis

Posted on 02/24/2018 4:17:07 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Full Title: The Broward Sheriff's Office Received Two Calls That Nikolas Cruz Was A Potential School Shooter. They Never Contacted Him.

The sheriff's office received at least 18 calls about Cruz's violent behavior and arsenal of weapons from 2008 to 2017. One warned he was "a school shooter in the making," and another said he "planned to shoot up" the school.

The Broward County Sheriff's Office had received two calls — one as recently as November 2017 — informing them that Nikolas Cruz was a potential school shooter who possessed an arsenal of weapons, according to call records provided to BuzzFeed News.

Neither of the calls led to any direct intervention by the sheriff's office. Information from one of the calls in 2016 — warning authorities that Cruz planned to shoot up his high school — was forwarded to the school resource officer, Scot Peterson. Peterson resigned following the revelation that he stood outside the building and did not attempt to stop Cruz from opening fire on students and teachers Feb. 14.

These tips are among at least 18 calls the sheriff's office received from 2008 to 2017 about Cruz's violent behavior, mental health issues, and possession of weapons and hate-related symbols. The sheriff's office found that Cruz's reported behavior did not violate any policies.

On Nov. 30, 2017, a caller told the sheriff's office that Cruz was a "school shooter in the making" and that he was collecting guns and knives, records show. The caller was concerned that Cruz "will kill himself one day," adding that he wanted to join the army and that his weapons were being kept at a friend's house.

A deputy contacted the caller, located in Massachusetts, but no report was initiated. After the shooting, the deputy told authorities that he had referred the caller to the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office.

Katherine Blaine — the cousin of Cruz's mother, Linda Cruz — requested that police recover rifles from Cruz after calling the sheriff's office on Nov. 1, 2017, the day of Linda Cruz's death. After a deputy responded, a close family friend agreed to take the firearms and no report was initiated. In interviews with law enforcement after the shooting, Blaine has denied knowledge of any actual firearms and has denied requesting the guns be taken away from the residence. She told authorities that she was only aware of BB guns at the time.

On May 2, 2016, the Broward sheriff's office received "third-hand" information that Cruz "planned to shoot up" his high school. The tip, from a neighbor's son, said that Cruz had posted a picture of himself with guns on Instagram. A deputy, who got in touch with the anonymous caller, determined that Cruz possessed knives and a BB gun. The information was forwarded to Peterson, who was the school resource officer at Stoneman Douglas.

Two years later, Peterson stood outside the high school building for four minutes and did "nothing" while Cruz went on his bloody rampage, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel said at a press conference Thursday. "He never went in," Israel said. After the shooting, Peterson was put on unpaid leave and has since resigned. In 2014, he was named school resource officer of the year for the City of Parkland district, a position he had been in since 2009. It is unclear if Peterson ever acted on the information he was sent by the sheriff's office in 2016.

The sheriff's office has initiated an internal affairs investigation and a review of the apparent inaction following both calls about Cruz being a potential school shooter.

At least six of the calls received by the sheriff's office were related to Cruz's possession of weapons. In 2016, a peer counselor told a school resource officer that Cruz had possibly ingested gasoline in an attempt to kill himself and was cutting himself. Records show that Cruz indicated he wanted to purchase a gun for hunting and that he possessed hate-related communications and symbols. The school resource officer initiated a report and the school said it would conduct a threat assessment on Cruz after indications that he suffered from depression. The sheriff's office found his behavior did not violate policy.

Other calls to the sheriff's office suggested a pattern of violence, anger problems, and erratic behavior, as frequently reported by his mother, Linda Cruz. From 2010 until November 2016, Broward County sheriff's deputies responded to at least 36 emergency 911 calls from the home where Linda Cruz lived with her two sons, Nikolas and Zachary.

In 2014, Cruz was reported to have shot a chicken with an airsoft rifle. In one incident, Linda Cruz alleged that he had thrown her against the wall because she took away his Xbox, while in another call she said that he had hit her with a vacuum cleaner hose.

Here are the call records that the Broward sheriff's office received about Nikolas Cruz:

(PDF file to download)


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; broward; bso; cruz; parkland; ratfacedsheriff; schoolshooter
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To: P.O.E.

The locals aren’t marching because they will back Scott Israel just like they backed DSW after she got booted as head of the Democrat National Party.

She was booted for cheating Bernie and funneling millions of dollars in campaign contributions away from all the other local, state, & national races into Hillary’s campaign. The Dem. Victory Fund siphoned 98% into Hillary’s coffers. She came back to Broward the next month and easily won her congressional seat back.

If you have a ‘D’ by your name, that’s all that you need.


21 posted on 02/24/2018 4:56:33 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: TallahasseeConservative

Operation Fast and Furious. Sounds like a similar operation. How many more of these are out there?


22 posted on 02/24/2018 4:57:03 AM PST by TStro (Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.)
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To: mylife

This whole thing stinks to high heaven.
Just posted about Voice of God technology...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3634836/posts


23 posted on 02/24/2018 5:00:06 AM PST by smileyface (Things looking up in RED PA! I love President Trump!)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

“Doesn’t Israel give a damn?”

No; he doesn’t. He gets to put on his little uniform every day and hobnob with the rich and famous. It’s not a real job; it’s a social club. For the whole department, apparently.


24 posted on 02/24/2018 5:01:57 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: TallahasseeConservative

And all that dollar store blathering had me suspicious, too.


25 posted on 02/24/2018 5:05:25 AM PST by Stalwart
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To: smileyface

Game Theory indeed


26 posted on 02/24/2018 5:06:11 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: MayflowerMadam

He, like Runcie is in CYA mode


27 posted on 02/24/2018 5:07:41 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: huldah1776

Eventually the truth will emerge.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5429137/FBI-tipster-warned-danger-Nikolas-Cruz-posed.html

On November 28, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office received a call from Roxanne Deschamps, the woman who took Cruz and his younger brother in after their mom died.
Deschamps told police that Cruz became violent when she took away his guns and ammunition and he started punching walls and breaking items in their Lantana Cascade mobile home.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5429137/FBI-tipster-warned-danger-Nikolas-Cruz-posed.html#ixzz581yL3cOG
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28 posted on 02/24/2018 5:10:31 AM PST by tarpit
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To: P.O.E.

Because the Sherrif is part of the local Democrat party machine.


29 posted on 02/24/2018 5:12:10 AM PST by Fido969 (In!)
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To: mylife
“.......This thing gets weirder by the second”....

Right you are. How about this?

According to media reports, Cruz stated, “I'm going to be a PROFESSIONAL shooter”. Strange that he would use the word “professional” which interpreted means, someone who gets PAID for services rendered. Now WHO would say that and worse, who would PAY someone to shoot and kill a bunch of kids and their teachers? Cruz's very statement needs to be thoroughly analyzed. Yes, this whole thing gets stranger and stranger......

30 posted on 02/24/2018 5:18:48 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: Stalwart

It’s sounds as if Rocxanne is likely the caller and that she has the ID number of the person who conducted the intake.

It shows that one of the news reporters has lied about the fbi transcript because they claimed it said that Niko was posing with his guns and a maga hat.

It tells us the caller expected Niko to share his money with his brother and others?

It tells us that Niko added a Russian surname (MAKAROV) to one of his Instagram accounts which could be his true birth name.

It tells us that the mother’s cousin was Lynda’s confident and that she shared information about Niko with these two women.


31 posted on 02/24/2018 5:20:01 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: Fido969
You, and America, can't handle the truth.



"Mission accomplished.
Can we get us, our high-grade-adrenochrome bonus here?"

32 posted on 02/24/2018 5:20:18 AM PST by Diogenesis
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To: mylife

“The entire gist is that the only way to stop this is to disarm everyone”..........

Let them start in Chicago, lets see how that works out.


33 posted on 02/24/2018 5:21:32 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: TStro

Whitey Bulger went on murdering for years in Boston, because he was protected by FBI SA John Connolly, who was his FBI handler. This has been going on for decades.


34 posted on 02/24/2018 5:21:52 AM PST by TallahasseeConservative ( Isaiah 40:31)
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To: Travis McGee

Anyone even remotely connected to Broward L/E should be terminated at once....starting with that half-***ed sheriff.


35 posted on 02/24/2018 5:30:00 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 Trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

I find it amazing that the shooter was going to inherit (or had already inherited, details are unclear) approx. $800,000 from his deceased mother, which would have given him a comfortable lifestyle by anyone’s calculations. And he throws away a comfortable future by that shooting spree.


36 posted on 02/24/2018 5:31:10 AM PST by Ciexyz (I have one issue and it's my economic well-being.)
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To: Ciexyz

Plus Niko is getting $25,000 from an annuity or insurance policy for a wrongful death settlement related to his father’s death. Again, we need to remember he is not ‘all there’ and has diminished capacity.


37 posted on 02/24/2018 5:34:08 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: mylife

And conspiracy thoughts of a set up not as far fetched . . . tick tick tick

Charlotteville, anyone?


38 posted on 02/24/2018 5:37:40 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Hey brainwashed students . . . where's your "outrage" @FBI? DO SOMETHING!!)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
"Doesn’t Israel give a damn? Or has his rat-faced head been so far up his Clintonian-azz that he is totally blind!"

Ideology and the blatant pursuit of power can blind people.

39 posted on 02/24/2018 5:37:48 AM PST by Former Proud Canadian (Islam delenda est.)
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Now if a caller got mad and frustrated and told law enforcement that they (the caller) were gonna do something if LE didn’t. The sheriff would have arrested the caller ...

It’s like liberals and law enforcement want massacres in a self-serving satanic way.


40 posted on 02/24/2018 5:41:24 AM PST by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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