Agreed. Cruz is dangerously mentally ill and has been for a very long time. His online declarations of murder were challenges and calls for attention and help. He got none.
From what we know, he was a disturbed child and was not helped by the system. If he was born with (FAS) there is a lot of therapy (not drugs) that needs to happen very early < age 10 and adolescence. That fact that his adoptive mother wanted to ‘send him away’ by the time he was 6 is rather telling.
Had his father not died and had the school helped him there could have been a much different outcome. He needed a highly structured environment with minimal stressors. He may have turned out some what function-able, but we will never know.
If nothing else, I hope his infamous rampage focuses attention on the outcome of mental health left untreated. At the very least, he should have been contained. Save a buck in mental health just cost the county millions.
The PTB took his kid brother and put him in for observation.
No word I’ve seen how that turned out.