Nikolas Cruz
Posted on 02/14/2018 1:49:50 PM PST by Red Badger
PARKLAND (CBSMiami) — A suspected shooter is in custody and as many as 7 people are dead in a school shooting at a Parkland high school.
Authorities have taken a person into custody in connection a deadly school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
BSO confirmed the suspected shooter has been taken into custody and at least 14 people have been injured in the shooting.
Sources told CBS4’s Jim DeFede that as many as 7 people are dead.
A senior official said the shooter used a rifle.
Officers could be seen handling someone in handcuffs at a community at 11735 NW 47th Drive, near the school just before 4 p.m.
A source briefed on the events said the shooter “is possibly a former student.”
The father of a student at the school says the shooter was allegedly “wearing a black vest with a red shirt…and supposedly he pulled the fire alarm and planned it,” according to CBS This Morning.
Margate Fire Dept. said earlier that anywhere from 20 to 50 people might be injured. A number of people could be seen being loaded into ambulances on a stretcher around 3 p.m.
The school was place on lockdown, but students were trickling out in the last couple of hours, many with their hands up and tears in their eyes.
Inside the school, a student shared a picture as they took cover.
NEW: Photo from a student in the school barricaded in a classroom at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High where an active shooter incident is underway pic.twitter.com/rBVrENjtCM
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) February 14, 2018
CBS4’s Rick Folbaum was speaking over text message with a student at the school who was hiding in a closet. She has since been freed.
“All of a sudden there was a really loud noise…..people are crying the closet,” the student wrote to him earlier.
Officers are asking people to avoid the area.
President Donald Trump has been made aware of the school shooting.
“We are monitoring the situation. Our thoughts and prayers are with those affected,” wrote White House Deputy Press Secretary Lindsay Walters.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott issued a statement on the shooting. At last check, he was on his way to Parkland.
I’ve spoken with @BrowardSheriff Scott Israel, @browardschools Superintendent Robert Runcie and FDLE Commissioner Rick Swearingen regarding Stoneman Douglas High School. We’ll continue to receive updates from law enforcement.
— Rick Scott (@FLGovScott) February 14, 2018
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the FBI are responding.
This story is developing. Check back with cbsmiami.com for the latest information.
Nikolas Cruz
Could be why he did it.
Video games?
Ritalin is a form of chemical castration to pacify young men from their natural inclination to squirm and fidget and run and jump. It's the socialist way to turn normal young males into passive Rebeccas of Sunnybrook Farm.
Nice Airsoft gun he got there. I think we bought one of those for our 12 year old so he could go out and play cowboys and indians with his friends.
“Ritalin is a form of chemical castration to pacify young men from their natural inclination to squirm and fidget and run and jump. It’s the socialist way to turn normal young males into passive Rebeccas of Sunnybrook Farm. “
And I found a zero cost solution to fix that problem. Take all the crap off the walls at school and kids won’t spend their days looking around and not paying attention.
15 dead according to media reports
I promote FREEDOM. Yes, even the freedom to make bad choices.
Mental illness and weapons of any type are bad combinations.
Just heard 17 dead...
The idea that the first-person shooter games are not in part responsible for the desensitization of people to this sort of mayhem is laughable.
We can bet that he was addicted to these types of games.
We all understand the shortcomings of the War on Drugs.
I always like to pose, what would they do in the alternative?
Have these poisons over-run our society? Because they will if let them.
WSJ reporting 17 dead. Terribly sad.
UPDATE: SHOOTER IDENTIFIED at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School – 20-50 Injured – Police say ‘Nicholas Cruz’ – IN CUSTODY!
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/update-shooter-still-large-marjory-stoneman-douglas-high-school-20-50-injured/
Prayers for these dead students and their families.
UPDATE: 17 Confirmed Dead in FL High School Shooting – VIDEO of Killer Nicolas Cruz Taken Into Police Station
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/update-17-confirmed-dead-fl-high-school-shooting-video-killer-nicolas-cruz-taken-police-station/
Our MCJROTC had a rifle range on campus, and 1st Sgt Daly taught marksmanship as well as respect. All cadets were taught basic marksmanship. BTW we had M1’s to drill with, and also did drill with the bayonet. We also learned how to maintain and clean them,and cadet officers carried 45’s which we learned to maintain and clean. The M1’s were replaced by M14’s in my junior year. They were demilled by having a spot weld over the bolt face where the firing pin was. However replacing the bolt would have made them serviceable again. There were no shootings or range accidents.
In the beginning of WWI (or WWII), the generals found that conscripts were hesitant to shoot at another human. To desensitize them, they went from bullseye targets to human silhouettes. First person shooter games is far advanced from that.
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