Parkland Shooter Told Therapists He Had Dreams About ‘Killing People’ And Being ‘Covered In Blood’

The more information we get on the Parkland murderer, the more I wonder HOW ON EARTH he was able to go on so many years without one person stopping him dead in his tracks. There were – dare I say– dozens of red flags.

Go ahead and add this to the list.

Years before the massacre took place, the shooter spoke to a therapist and told the therapist all about his gory dreams. He said he had a dream about “killing people” and being “covered in blood,” and he seemed pretty happy about it.

A May 3, 2014, notation in a Broward County schools psychiatric file said Cruz “reported [a dream] last week of him killing people and covered in blood. He smiled and told the therapist that sometimes he says things for shock value.”

After Cruz’s disclosure to his therapist at the alternative Cross Creek School, administrators developed a “safety plan” to ensure the welfare of Cruz and others while the teen was on summer vacation. The plan included provisions for removing “all sharp objects from the home” and encouraging the youth to “verbalize what the problem is.”

Yeah… the police were called to his house a gazillion times. He killed small animals for no apparent reason, expressed his desire to be a “professional school shooter” and literally had fantasies about murdering people. I think they should’ve gone beyond removing sharp objects from his backpack, don’t you? You’d think they would’ve implemented a different plan, especially after realizing that their current methods weren’t working.

In one session, Cruz acknowledged to his therapist that he visited YouTube to “research wars, military material and terrorist topics.” He said he wore military clothing. His mother, Lynda Cruz, who is now deceased, told the teen’s therapist that his obsession with the military resulted from his “excessive gaming.”

School administrators spoke with Lynda Cruz in the months that followed about their mutual concerns about Cruz’s desire to own a gun and take shooting lessons. The therapist, a Sept. 23, 2014, notation said, “shared concerns with parent about his obsession with guns/military and his poor anger control.” The note also cited concerns over the possibility that Cruz would “deploy aggressive behaviors at home.”

At the time, Lynda Cruz was considering buying the teen a pellet gun for his birthday. A different therapist who appears to have visited the family at their home suggested the mom develop a “plan” in which the youth would be allowed to buy a gun if he was able to “earn it” with good behavior. There was “a plan in place at home in order to control his use of the pellet gun.”

Um, excuse me? That’s the worst plan EVER. Someone who exhibits that kind of behavior shouldn’t have access to ANY kind of gun, even it’s a pellet gun.

Cruz’s school therapist, however, expressed reservations. “Parent was advised against getting him a gun (pellet) or classes for his birthday,” the September notation said. “Parent advised to restrict access to any weapon.”

Oh look. A dose of sanity.

The records show a continuous pattern of paranoia and aggression.

“At home, he continues to be aggressive and destructive with minimal provocation,” his school therapist and psychiatrist wrote in a joint letter in 2014. “For instance, he destroyed his television after losing a video game that he was playing. Nikolas has a hatchet that he uses to chop up a dead tree in his backyard. Mom has not been able to locate that hatchet as of lately.”

“When upset he punches holes in the walls and has used sharp tools to cut up the upholstery on the furniture and carve holes in the walls of the bathroom,” the letter continued.

Insane. He’s insane.

Cruz also fantasized about a “perfect summer” that revolved around guns and shooting, according to a short paper he wrote.

Under the heading “What my perfect summer would be,” Cruz wrote about “buying some type of gun and shooting at targets that I set up with large amounts of ammo just for fun for hours,” stopping only when he got bored or ran out of ammunition. Cruz said he also wanted to get a job and make money “so I can get things that I want for myself [instead] of come to this time wasting school that support stuped [sic] selfish children that I don’t care about and gets in the way of my chances of leaving this place.”

Cruz also wrote about his loneliness. “I will never be happy with my life I have no money or [sic] freinds,” he wrote. He complained about his “annoying mother who won’t leave me alone.”

I still can’t get over the fact that the FBI ignored multiple, specific tips on this kid. It’s heartbreaking. This could’ve been prevented.

h/t Miami Herald