If he is a sociopath he is capable of being charming when he needs to be. He is also capable of gaming they system by charming the people he needs.
If it is true that he was bringing pictures of dead animals to intimidate fellow students with, that the cops had been called numerous times to the home of this poor adoptive mother who died an untimely death from a very treatable disease, and that he had numerous incidents of violence and death threats to his credit. It is quite possible that this kid is a psychopath. If he claims that he only shot 17 people because the voices in his head told him to do it, well, it is unusual that he would have the focus to over a period of time smuggle a stash of weaponry into the school and be able to secure it without wandering off in fairyland at some point and give the whole thing away.
Andreas Brevik the Norwegian who killed 75 people with a rifle and a bomb spent 9 years planning his attach. (or so he claims!)
Also if you read about Brevik and what is coming out about this guy, they’re very similar!
He came in with a duffle bag and backpack. He didn’t stash weapons.
Agree. He is a sociopath that gamed the system. But he’s also an autistic, OCD, ADD, depressed and possibly FAS individual. He should have been arrested at school at least four times and at home more than a dozen times. He planned Feb 14 for a long time.
June 2017- Writing underneath a documentary clip about the notorious 1966 University of Texas clock tower sniper, a commenter called Nikolas Cruz wrote: “I’m going to [do] what he did.”
2016-2017 Joins ROTC and acquires free marksmanship training
Sept 2017- “I’m going to be a professional school shooter.”
This was all before his mother abruptly passed away in November.
Cruz had made a plan to boost his fragile loser ego and was going to behave as necessary in order to carry out his diabolical plan. He craved the drama and stardom of carrying out a St. Valentine’s Day Massacre at school.
He was calculating and cool during the aftermath. We have to wonder what would have become of him if he could have driven away from the scene.
I can’t address that, but it sounds like to you did a good job of it.
It is sad that so many warning signals were ignored.