Nikolas Cruz

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Nikolas Jacob Cruz is a perpetrator of the Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting. He could get sentenced to death by lethal injection if convicted or the sentence reverts to 34 life sentences if not in a 100% agreement with the state. He is of Dominican Republic descent on his father's side but Serbian and Puerto Rican descent on his mother's side. His brother was arrested again after being issued an arrest warrant for violating his probation which was for trespassing.

Animal Cruelty
The killing began with the squirrels. As a fourth-grader, Nikolas Cruz would try to bloody them with his pellet gun. Then he started going after chickens. By the time Cruz was a teenager, he was sneaking into his neighbors' yard across the street and trying to get his dogs to kill their baby potbelly pigs. One resident watched him take long sticks to rabbit holes, ramming them down as hard as possible to kill any creatures trapped inside. Some in the affluent neighborhood where Cruz grew up said they called authorities on him frequently. Every few weeks, it seemed, police cruisers were pulling up to the teenager's house to sort out the latest complaint.

Law enforcement calls and others
Some in the affluent neighborhood where Cruz grew up said they called authorities on him frequently. Every few weeks, it seemed, police cruisers were pulling up to the teenager's house to sort out the latest complaint. In recent years, the behavior got worse. Cruz became more isolated, sitting on his own at the school bus stop, sneering at neighbors, withdrawing even from his younger brother, friends and classmates said. Some who knew Cruz cut ties in part because of his unnerving and scary Instagram posts and photographs, including one showing a gun's laser sight pointed at a neighborhood street. Another appeared to show a dead frog's bloodied body. Others saw a teenager trying to work through a dark period of his life and tried to help. In short order, Cruz was expelled from school, lost his mother to pneumonia and slunk into a depression. A friend from his former high school took him in. His parents gave Cruz their guest bedroom, got him a job and drove him to an alternative school every day to work on his GED. But no one - not those who feared him nor those who sympathized - glimpsed the full malevolence brewing inside Cruz's heart until Valentine's Day, when police say he walked into a suburban south Florida high school and carried out one of the nation's deadliest school shootings.

Childhood
Cruz was adopted at age 2 along with his 2-month-old brother, Zachary, by Lynda and Roger Cruz, friends and relatives said. Relatives said Cruz and his brother Zachary shared a biological mother but have different fathers. Their adoptive father died of a heart attack when they were young, leaving Lynda to raise the two boys on her own. Barbara Kumbatovic said that Lynda was very close to them and put a lot of time and effort into those boys, trying to give them a good life and upbringing. Zachary often seemed quiet and content to follow Nikolas' lead. But Nikolas was moody, prone to an explosive temper tantrum and at times seemed to delight in antagonizing others. Brody Speno, the guy who waited with Cruz every day to catch the bus and teamed up with a friend to chase Cruz back to his house for egging the car, said that people were afraid of him. They were angry at his mother because she lets him slide.

Reckless Stuff
Cruz picked fights with other kids. He stole people's mail. He threw rocks and coconuts and vandalized property, neighbors said. He lurked at late hours along drainage ditches running along the back yards of their houses. One woman said she caught him peeking into her bedroom window. Another caught him stealing their bike. His childhood was awful. He behaved like the skit version of Leland Powell.

Speno v. Cruz
Brody Speno waited every day with Cruz to catch the bus to school. Then one afternoon about five years ago, when they both were teenagers, Cruz started throwing eggs at Speno's car with no warning, Speno recalled. He and a friend chased Cruz back to his house and told his mother but she just pretended it didn't happen.

Roxburgh v. Cruz
One morning about four years ago, Rhonda Roxburgh said, Cruz suddenly attacked her car, slamming it hard with his backpack. When she got out to confront him, Cruz simply laughed and sneered, so Roxburgh called the police. For the next few mornings, Rhonda Roxburgh said, police stationed an officer at the intersection to make sure Cruz didn't attack or throw rocks at cars. Fed up with the terrorizing, Roxburgh said she confronted Cruz's mother, but again, she refused to believe her son had done it twice. When Cruz was seen sneaking out, Roxburgh told Cruz to look at her when she's talking to him, but the look he gave chilled Roxburgh to the core.

Behavioral issues and social media
Cruz's social media was racist and scary. Cruz had behavioral issues since middle school. Cruz started selling knives out of a lunchbox. Cruz kicked doors, cursed at teachers, fought with and threatened classmates and brought a backpack with bullets to school. He collected a string of discipline for profanity, disobedience, insubordination, and disruption. In 2014, administrators transferred Cruz to an alternative school for children with emotional and behavioral disabilities, only to change course two years later and return him to a traditional neighborhood school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Cruz was almost expelled from Douglas a year later for other disciplinary violations, then toggled between three other alternative placements, school records. The hardest blow came in November, when Cruz's mother died of pneumonia at 68, relatives said. With her death, Cruz lost one of the only people close to him, said friends and family. For a while, Cruz and his brother stayed with friends in Latana, in Palm Beach County, Fla. The situation deteriorated, and Cruz asked a former classmate from Marjory Stoneman Doulgas High School whether he could move in with his family, said Jim Lewis, a lawyer representing the family. He behaved well while working at a local dollar store.

Shooting
Cruz enters the 1200 building from the East side doors on the first floor around 2:21. The building 3 floors which each floor having one main hallway that's flanked on both sides by classrooms, bathrooms, and other rooms. Class is in session so not many people are in the first floor hallway, many are in classroom's though. Cruz immediately dips into the east 1st floor stairwell near where he entered and begins to get ready. He then unzips his bag and puts on his vest and readies his rifle. As this is happening Chris McKenna, a freshman, is on his way to the bathroom when he enters the stairwell and witnesses Cruz gearing up. Cruz tells him to "get out of here" because "things are about to get messy", McKenna then flees out the east-side entrance to go alert an adult. Cruz then steps out of the stairwell into the 1st floor hallway and begins his massacre. He first opens fire on a group of 3 students loitering outside the door area of room 1215:Martin Duque, Luke Hoyer, and Gina Montalto are shot and killed. Ashley Baez was down the hall and shot once, but survived and managed to hide the the bathroom alcove and eventually entered room 1210 across the hall for safety. Cruz walks up to the doorway of room 1216, a English class taught by Dara Hass, and fires multiple shots through the door/window the room. 3 people are injured and 1, Alex Schachter, is killed before he gets up by a shot to the torso. Cruz then walks out into the hallway (each classroom had a small alcove type area connecting it to the hallway) to fix something with his gun or vest. Proceeding West bound down the hallway, Cruz next targets room 1214, a "Holocaust History" class taught by Ivy Schamis. He fires 15+ rounds through the door/window (the widely aired video of the classroom shooting captures this), injuring 4. Nicholas Dworet and Helena Ramsey are also both killed by multiple gunshot wounds. Cruz then pauses again in the hallway to mess around with his gun (possibly unjamming it since he was firing quickly and was using fairly cheap ammo). He then returns to the entry of 1216 and again fires into the class through the door. Alyssa Alhadeff is killed by multiple shots to the heart, hand, femoral artery, and spine. Alaina Petty is also killed and 2 additional students are injured. It is now 2:22:52, roughly 1 minute 50 seconds have elapsed. 8 are dead, 10 are injured, the first 911 calls go out at around this time. The fire alarm has also gone off as well and students are evacuating the campus. Cruz then goes up to room 1213, a AP Psychology class, and opens fire. Carmen Schentrup is killed by a shot to the abdomen. 3 others are injured. Among them is Maddy Wilford, who was shot 3 times and initially thought to be dead. Athletic director Chris Hixon runs into the 1200 building through the West-side door (opposite of where Cruz entered) and into the hallway. He is shot and injured by Cruz from mid-range and crawls into the alcove of the doorway of the building's office. Cruz continues westward down the hallway and walks up to Hixon (who is hiding and injured) and executes him. Meanwhile Aaron Feis is rushing towards the West Side of the building in golf cart. SRO Scott Peterson is also running towards the 1200 building but he decides to take cover outside instead of going in, later causing a public outcry. Coral Springs Police and the Broward County Sheriff's Office are also start arriving at the school. Cruz enters the west stairwell of the 1st floor. As he enters Feis also arrives and enters through the other entry door to the base of the stairwell; he is almost immediately shot down by Cruz in either the chest or head/neck. Cruz then heads up the staircase towards the second floor. 11 have died and 14 are injured. The police presence at the school continues to grow. Approximately 2 minutes and 30 seconds have elapsed since the first shot. Upon arriving on the second floor Cruz proceeds eastward down the hallway. He fires into a few classrooms although no one was injured as they had time to barricade and hide since they heard the massacre taking place on the first floor. He only spends a minute on this floor before using the East stairwell of the second floor to ascend to the 3rd floor. On the third floor many students have left their classrooms due to the fire alarm (although the gunshots were still somewhat audible). Most of these students are from room 1249 and 1255. As confused students and teachers crowd the hallways Cruz enters the landing of the 3rd floor east stairwell. Cruz steps into the hallway and begins shooting. Geography teacher Scott Beigel is standing in the doorway of classroom 1256. He is the first killed and dies instantly after being shot in the heart area. He had let some students into his classroom (students fleeing the gunfire) and was locking the door to his class, which could only be locked from the outside, when he was murdered. A student in the adjacent room (1255) is also injured by a shot through the door. 4 additional students in the hallway are also injured, 3 of them will die. Cruz then spins around so his back is turned to his victims. He is reloading his gun. The other students who weren't injured by the initial barrage notice this and fleeing down the west staircase of the 3rd floor. Cruz finishes loading and turns back around and fires on the fleeing crowd. Jamie Guttenburg is shot in the spine and manages to make it into the stairwell before collapsing and dying. Peter Wang, who was holding the door for his classmates, was killed instantly by a shot to the head. Cruz continues westward down the 3rd floor hallway and proceeds to finish off his 4 victims from the initial 3rd floor barrage. Anthony Borges, the most gravely injured of the victims, was shot 5 times (3 times in the legs and 2 times in the torso) is lying in the middle of the hallway and playing dead as Cruz steps over them. He then approaches Meadow Pollack who is lying over Cara Loughran, Cara was frozen in fear upon hearing the gunshots and Meadow was comforting her. However, Meadow was shot 4 times in the initial barrage and was grievously injured. When Cruz came upon them he fired 5 shots through Meadow's back, killing her and Cara. Their bodies were in the alcove of room 1249. Joaquin Oliver was Cruz's next and last victim. He was shot in the knee in the initial 3rd floor barrage and crawled into the alcove of the 3rd floor boys bathroom. Witnesses in room 1249 heard him screaming and begging for his life when Cruz walked up to him and killed him with a shot to the side of the head and possibly a shot to the torso. The police response is massive now. Afterwards Cruz proceeds westward to the teachers lounge of the third floor and attempts to fire out the window onto fleeing students (this why he equipped a bipod). The windows were hurricane-proof so he couldn't break it despite firing 16 shots. Cruz then leaves to the west 3rd floor stairwell where he discards his vest and rifle. He jogs down the stairs and out the west stairwell entrance of the 1st floor of the freshman building. During the shooting, outside of Building 12. Kelvin Greenleaf met with BSO deputy Scott Peterson. A 911 call was made and the Broward County Sheriff's Office and Coral Springs Police Department were notified. Elliot Bonner approached the southeast corner of Building 13. It was code red to Bonner. Sergeant Jeff Heinrich headed towards Building 12 while off-duty. BSO Captain Jan Jordan and Lieutenant Michael Devita entered Building 1. CSPD Detective Gilbert Monzon said he was with 2 deputies. All students left the building and dropped their backpacks. Cruz stopped at Walmart and McDonald's after.

Arrest
When the Coral Springs Police Department and Broward County Sheriff's Office spotted Cruz, one of the staff yelled at him to get on the ground. After being handcuffed, he ranted about voices and demons. When an officer noticed the labor breathing, the Pompano Beach Fire Department was notified and an ambulance was sent to take Cruz to the hospital.

Death Penalty
Cruz could get that punishment if further convicted. In fact, they would have to present pictures to court, 12 jurors would have to agree, the court would have to be in a 100% agreement with the state, Cruz would have to appear in court a lot of times, all prosecutors would have to seek it, and the pictures are supposed to be seen by prosecutors.

Likes

 * Doing reckless stuff
 * Ammunition
 * Hurting others
 * Mass Murdering

Dislikes

 * Civilization