Posted on 02/15/2018 8:13:56 AM PST by xzins
Nikolas Cruz, the suspect in Wednesday’s horrific massacre at a Florida high school, was allegedly reported to the FBI in September after he left a comment on a bail bondsman’s YouTube channel saying that he was going to be a “professional school shooter.”
The former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School had previously been expelled for disciplinary problems prior to the mass shooting that left 17 people dead.
In a YouTube video published on the evening of the attack, Ben Bennight, a Mississippi bondsman, explained that he was contacted by the FBI at approximately 3 p.m. about a comment on one of his videos that he had reported last fall.
“The FBI just left my house in regards to this situation,” Bennight stated. “September 24th 2017, I sent a screenshot of a comment on one of my videos — now people keep asking me which video was it, but I don’t know, I don’t remember what video it was — when I saw the comment come through on my Studio app on my iPhone I screenshot the comment and hit the report button to report it to YouTube. Of course, they removed the comment.”
The video then scrolled through the screenshot and his report to YouTube.
Bennight proceeded to report the comment to the FBI.
“I looked up the number to my local field office and I called and left them a message. The next day I had two FBI agents standing in my office taking down the information and copies of the screenshot. They were asking me questions that of course I couldn’t answer. All it was on my channel was a comment, people leave pretty heinous comments on a pretty regular basis,” Bennight continued.
“This comment said ‘I am going to be a professional school shooter’ and I knew that I could not just ignore that,” he said. “I screenshotted the comment, I sent it to the appropriate authorities — and I imagine that from there they did a pretty thorough investigation and tried to find out who this person was,” he explained.
The bondsman continued on to explain that the YouTube comment did not come from an anonymous account, but from one with the name Nikolas Cruz.
“It wasn’t a generic screen name, the screen name was Nikolas Cruz — which I’m sure as you know by now, is the name of the guy that did the shooting in Florida today,” Bennight said.
Bennight explained that the first contact from the FBI today came in a phone call from his local field office shortly after the shooting. He stated that an agent called him, asked where he was and asserted that he was on his way to his house. Immediately after that, he says that he received a call from an agent from the Miami field office.
“I called him back and he’s like, ‘hey, you know, I’m just following up on a report that you made a couple months back’ — and I was like yeah, I just got off the phone with an agent over here,” Bennight said. “I emailed the Miami agent everything I had — well, everything I had was just that screenshot.”
Within an hour, the agent from his local office was at his home.
When the agent arrived at his home, he was questioned about if he had any previous contact with Cruz, which he says he did not. He was also questioned about how his report was handled at the time.
“I would like to think they were already investigating this guy and they had him at the top of their radar and that’s how they ended up contacting me so quickly,” Bennight said. “I wish I could have given them more information, but it was just a comment on my channel.”
The YouTube channel as well as all other social media belonging to Cruz appeared to have been taken offline by Wednesday evening.
“The murdered witness in the Boston Marathon case will be particularly interesting to hear explained.”
What murdered witness?
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Columbus HS is my alma mater, class of 1979. The gun club was pretty much gone by then.
So why is it not an FBI issue?
Now you’re talking like my mom did every I met a new boyfriend. “He has beady eyes”, she’d say. So the relationship was sunk from the beginning. The one’s she liked turned out to be perverts and creeps. Go figure.
Thanks for the link-—— I forgot all about that.
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Take Trump.
They can tap his phone, hire people to concoct lies about him meeting Russians and having whores piss on the bed in his Moscow Hotel room.
They can lie and smear him and have a fake investigation that goes on and on for years and almost keeps him from being elected.
They can control and collude with CNN and other media to the extent that, even today, their main body of stories is how Trump colluded with the Russians and stole the election from Hillary.
Why do you underestimate the FBI so?
Look at what they can do!
Imagine what they could have done to this shooter.
Shame that he was worth more to the FBI as a shooter and poster child for voiding the Second Amendment, than as a thwarted mass child murderer.
Looks like he’s got some Croatian blood.
Also, Anne Bancroft graduated from Columbus in the early 50’s. Unfortunately some infamous characters came from the there, Christine Jorgenson the first, for lack of a better word “successful” chopadickoffame patient (1947?) and David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, class of 1971.
Oh, I don’t think he was republican.
I think that is what determines whether they go whole investigation or “Oooooooooooo, we couldn’t find him.”
It’s getting harder and harder to believe what Director Wray says about the shining example of efficiency the department represents. In retrospect, he looks rather foolish.
In situations like this, the press is quick to declare things as facts that may not be so. I offer the Las Vegas Massacre as the latest example of press and LEO incompetence.
Apparently the ADL is linking him to a white supremacist group.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/florida-school-shooting-suspect/story?id=53092753
Not only reported but his real name reported that had an unusual spelling - “Nikolas” and a Hispanic surname “Cruz” meaning his name stood out meaning any 5th grader using social media, Google, could have found this guy in two seconds flat. The FBI - ONCE AGAIN - is LYING and hiding something.
They kept him on ice until they needed him - Like making headlines to get the FBI/Obama/Hillary/Russia collusion story off the headlines.
Exactly.
Is a hispanic allowed to be a white supremacist?
I’m not gonna bite on that one
Oh no!!!!
I don’t think like that with everyone but I will say so many of these guys who do these shootings all have the same look in their eyes.
Famous But Incompetent
Yep.. The Enemies within have spent decades trying to destroy our society.. They are as patient as the terrorists.
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