BROWARD SHERIFF Releases List of 23 Calls for Help from the Cruz Home * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Patty McMurray

All 23 calls to the Cruz home are for “unarrestable” offenses but we’d like to know what else could have been done about these out-of-control teens. It looks like the boys were violent and abusive to each other and disrespectful to their mother. *(Please see our previous report below on the history of the Cruz family troubles.)

The escalation of acting out and misbehavior was ignored. Everyone failed in this situation…

Here are photos and you can also go to this link to see the record from the PD: CRUZ RECORD

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RED FLAGS EVERYWHERE!

The warning signs were there for something tragic to happen. The Florida teen who murdered 17 and injured many more acted out numerous times in a way that should have raised suspicions in all who knew him. He had been seeing a therapist up until last year. How did he get to the point of mass murder?

The truth is that this kid was screaming for help and ATTENTION from way back in his life. His previous neighbors have the best take on the situation: “They were very much on their own. The kids seem to roam around and come and go as they pleased.”

FBI AWARE LAST SEPTEMBER!

Buzzfeed News reports:

Last fall, a Mississippi bail bondsman and frequent YouTube vlogger noticed an alarming comment left on one of his videos. “I’m going to be a professional school shooter,” said a user named Nikolas Cruz.

The YouTuber, 36-year-old Ben Bennight, alerted the FBI, emailing a screenshot of the comment to the bureau’s tips account as well as calling the Mississippi FBI field office. He also flagged the comment to YouTube, which removed it from the video.

Agents with the bureau’s Mississippi field office got back to him “immediately,” Bennight said, and conducted an in-person interview the following day, on Sept. 25.

“They came to my office the next morning and asked me if I knew anything about the person,” Bennight told BuzzFeed News. “I didn’t. They took a copy of the screenshot and that was the last I heard from them.”

SOCIAL MEDIA RED FLAGS EVERYWHERE:

#Florida school shooting suspect was flagged as threat. Ed Davis reacts on @foxandfriends this morning: "You need to take these things seriously." pic.twitter.com/mzjyFNzKQ8

— Ainsley Earhardt (@ainsleyearhardt) February 15, 2018

ADOPTED AT BIRTH:

The Sun Sentinel reports:

Adopted at birth by a loving older couple, Nikolas Cruz seemed to struggle in recent years. His dad died when he was much younger and the 19-year-old’s mom died just 3 ½ months ago, neighbors, friends and family members said.

The portrait that emerged of the suspected gunman in the mass shooting was of a troubled former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who was expelled for disciplinary problems.

AR-15 LOCKED IN GUN CABINET…WHY DID HE HAVE THE KEY?

The AR-15 used in the mass shooting was legally bought by Cruz, attorney Jim Lewis told the South Florida Sun Sentinel. Cruz already owned the gun when he moved in with his friend’s family in northwest Broward around Thanksgiving, Lewis said.

“It was his gun,” Lewis said. “The family made him keep it in a locked gun cabinet in the house but he had a key.”

The family did not see him shooting the AR-15 but did see him shooting pellet guns, Lewis said.

MOTHER DIED THREE MONTHS AGO:

Cruz’s mother, Lynda Cruz, died Nov. 1. She was 68.

Lynda and her husband, Roger, who died many years ago, adopted Nikolas and his biological brother, Zachary, after the couple moved from Long Island to Broward County.Lynda was a stay-at-home mom and her late husband, who died when the boys were younger, had worked in advertising.Lynda had always wanted to have children and the couple adopted later in life.

The boys were left in the care of a family friend after their adoptive mom died Nov. 1, she said.

RELATIVES KNEW OF THE TROUBLE:“I know she had been having some issues with them, especially the older one. He was being a problem. I know he did have some issues and he may have been taking medication. He did have some kind of emotional or difficulties,” Kumbatovich said. “Lynda kept a really close handle on both boys. They were not major issues, as far as I know, just things teenagers do like not coming home on time, maybe being disrespectful.

Another relative, who spoke on condition of anonymity over the sensitive matter, said Nikolas had been diagnosed with autism.

BOTH ADOPTIVE PARENTS PASSED AWAY:

Lynda, who died of pneumonia, adopted Nikolas the day he was born.

Nikolas’ father died from a heart attack, the relative said, and Lynda had sought counseling for Nikolas at a young age: “She did her best getting him any help he needed.”

After their mom died, Cruz and his brother lived with a family friend in Palm Beach County but Cruz wasn’t happy. He asked a friend, who he knew from his time at Stoneman Douglas, if he could move in with the friend’s family in northwest Broward, said Jim Lewis, an attorney speaking on behalf of that family. The lawyer would not identify the family.

The family let Cruz move in around Thanksgiving, gave him his own room and urged him to attend adult education classes, Lewis said. Cruz also got a job at a local dollar store, he said.

“The family is devastated, they didn’t see this coming. They took him in and it’s a classic case of no good deed goes unpunished,” Lewis said. “He was a little quirky and he was depressed about his mom’s death, but who wouldn’t be?”

The family were fully cooperating with investigators, he said. Detectives were getting a search warrant to look for evidence in Cruz’s room late Wednesday, Lewis said.

NEIGHBORS AND CLASSMATES:

Janine Kartiganer, who lives two doors down from Cruz’s former home, said Cruz looked “very troubled.”

“He wore a hoodie and always had his head down,” she said. “He looked depressed.”

Emily Sucher, 16, a junior who lives in Parkland, was in her TV Production class when an administrator announced over the intercom to evacuate the building.

She had seen the suspect, Cruz, around school last year and remembers him as an “off kid” who would “smile weirdly, make weird comments.”

Trevor Hart, 16, who knew Cruz in Spanish class at Marjory Stoneman, said they ate together once in a while in the cafeteria.

“It seemed like he didn’t really like school,” Hart said.

Cruz participated in Army ROTC at the high school. Cruz had “a bunch of weapons” and talked about shooting lizards, squirrels and frogs, Hart said.

Cruz seemed “a little off,” Hart said.

Shelby and Richie Speno moved on to the street where the Cruz family lived in 2005.

Shelby Speno said she’d been warned that Nikolas had caused trouble, such as biting a child and stealing neighbors’ mail. One time, he threw eggs at Richie’s car while he was driving.

“Lynda the mom was always apologetic. She had her hands full,” Shelby said.

“They were very much on their own. The kids seem to roam around and come and go as they pleased,” Richie Speno said.

POLICE CALLED “NUMEROUS TIMES”:

Police were called out numerous times, and Shelby said Cruz was seen shooting at a neighbor’s chickens.

“I told my husband I was so glad they moved. I’m afraid he was the kind of kid who would do something crazy,” Shelby said. “The older he gets, the worse kind of trouble he got into.”

THE MOM ASKED HER DAUGHTER TO TAKE THE BOYS, BUT SHE REFUSED:

Malcolm and Christine Roxburgh were neighbors of the Cruz family for many years.

“It was a wonderful idea. Two older people to have two little boys to look after. They were just kind people.”

Christine said Lynda asked her daughter, who lives up north, to take the kids when her husband died, but she refused.

He used to get into trouble and harass neighbors, the Roxburghs said. The police came to Cruz’s house many times, they said

A neighbor across the street kept little pigs as pets.

“He didn’t like the pigs and didn’t like the neighbors so he sent over his dog over there to try to attack them,” Malcolm said.

Christine said one time she saw Nikolas peeking in her window.

One time he stole a neighbor spotted Nikolas trying to steal a bike from the garage when the door was open.

Christine said when the boy didn’t want to go to school, he would bang his head against a cement wall.

When their daughter was driving to work, Nikolas “slammed his book bag into the side of her car. She got out and said don’t you ever do that again.”

“He could have killed any of us,” Christine said.

BROWARD SHERIFF Releases List of 23 Calls for Help from the Cruz Home

By Patty McMurray | Feb 23, 2018

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BROWARD SHERIFF Releases List of 23 Calls for Help from the Cruz Home

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