Students Feared Nicolas Cruz Was Capable Of Carrying Out A Mass Shooting

Nicolas Cruz, 19, murdered at least 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Wednesday. We’re slowly finding more about him and his potential motives.

It’s disturbing.

Cruz is a former student who was flagged as a potential threat for threatening others beforehand.

Math teacher Jim Gard remembered that the school administration earlier sent out an e-mail warning teachers about Cruz.

“We were told last year that he wasn’t allowed on campus with a backpack on him,” said Gard, who had him in class. “There were problems with him last year threatening students, and I guess he was asked to leave campus.”

According to reports, he was expelled from the school for “disciplinary reasons” last year.

Broward County School District Superintendent Robert Runcie said they received no formal concerns, but clearly, those were out there. Many students weren’t surprised that Cruz committed this evil act.

Traumatized students said that once they heard reports of a mass shooting at the school they knew it would be Cruz, while one teacher said he had been identified as a potential threat to his classmates last year.

Matthew Walker, a 17-year-old student at the school, told WFOR-TV that all his classmates ‘knew it was going to be him.’

‘A lot of people were saying it was going to be him,’ he said. ‘A lot of kids threw jokes around saying that he was going to be the one to shoot up the school. It turns out that everyone predicted it. That’s crazy.’

‘He was going class to class just shooting at random kids,’ he said. ‘Everything he posts (on social media) is about weapons. It’s sick.’

Students also say he was crazy and “liked to kill small things.”

Another student took to social media claiming Cruz had mental health issues that were ‘ignored by all the adults’.

‘He literally had an Instagram where he posted pictures of animals he killed gruesomely and he physically assaulted one of my friends once,’ the student added.

Clearly, everyone who was around him had a creepy feeling that he was capable of doing something horrific.

The signs and warnings were out there.

It’s further proof that gun control isn’t the answer. Cruz’s actions didn’t completely throw everyone off guard. He was on a lot of people’s radar. They KNEW he was a creep. And if he didn’t have a gun, he likely would’ve committed this unspeakably evil act another way, whether it be using his car as a weapon or constructing homemade bombs.

This isn’t a gun problem. It’s a heart problem.

If you see something, please please PLEASE say something.

Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel: "If you see…something that's not right, you owe it to your family, you owe it to your community, and you owe it to law enforcement to make this a safer nation by calling up someone." https://t.co/rIv4wAWGtk pic.twitter.com/foKWSWsJu3

— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 15, 2018

h/t Daily Mail