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• Wednesday February 14th, 2018
• Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, 3,000 students
• Parkland, Florida
• Shooter: Nikolas Cruz, 19, former student
• Purchased AR-15 style gun legally after passing background checks
• 4 deputies remained outside behind their cars with guns drawn for 4 minutes during the shooting and would not go inside the school
• 17 killed, at least 14 more injured, (2 LDS killed)
• Claimed to hear voices of demons that told him to do this
• His adoptive mother died in the fall
• Deadliest school shooting since 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary (26 died)
• FBI notified in 2017 about a comment on a YouTube video by user with same name saying “I’m going to be a professional school shooter.” The FBI could not identify the person.
• Local police had not been warned about him
• Member of a white supremacist group called “Republic of Florida”
• School authorities had emailed teachers about Cruz’s behavior. Expelled (from threatening students? not officially stated) and wasn’t allowed on campus with a backpack. He had been found with bullets in his backpack.
• BBC: “It was the third shooting incident at a school in 48 hours and the 11th in the three weeks since the start of the year.”
• Aaron Feis, assistant football coach, shielded students with his body, “died a hero”

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