Nikolas Cruz, Shooting Suspect, Had Been Expelled From School, Authorities Say

Nikolas Cruz, Shooting Suspect, Had Been Expelled From School, Authorities Say
After the shooting on Wednesday, Mr. Gard said that several students told him
that Mr. Cruz was taken with a girl at Stoneman Douglas High School “to the point of stalking her.”
In the interview with the Miami news station, the student said Mr. Cruz was a junior at Stoneman Douglas High School when he was expelled last year.
“The crazy stuff that he did was not right for school, and he got kicked out of school multiple times for that kind of stuff.”
Jim Gard, a math teacher at Stoneman Douglas High School, said in an interview
that Mr. Cruz was a student in his class during the first semester of the 2016-17 school year.
Everyone predicted it.”
Brandon Minoff, a student at Stoneman Douglas High School, said in an interview with CNN
that a teacher assigned him to work with Mr. Cruz on a group project two years ago.
“As far as I know, he didn’t have any friends.”
School officials declined to say why Mr. Cruz no longer attended Douglas High School.
He said that students would joke that if anyone were to open fire inside the school, it would be Mr. Cruz.
At a school with about 3,000 students, Mr. Cruz stayed to himself and had few friends
but struck fear in some students with erratic behavior and an affinity for violence.