FBI failed to find ‘Florida school shooter and white supremacist’ Nikolas Cruz after tip-off
Nikolas Cruz is alleged to have killed 17 people at a Florida high school on Wednesday; he has been denied bail
The FBI were told that alleged Florida high-school shooter Nikolas Cruz made an online threat last year, but failed to find him when the tip-off was investigated, it has emerged.
Cruz, 19, who was denied bail on Thursday after being charged with the Wednesday killing of 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, left a comment on a YouTube video that read “I’m going to be a professional school shooter,” the Bureau said.
“No other information was included with that comment which would indicate a time location or the true identity of the person who made the comment,” Special Agent in Charge Robert Lasky told reporters.
The bureau is now conducting an extensive review of how it handled that tip to see if mistakes were made, a federal law enforcement official said.
Those remarks came the same say that police revealed Cruz had connections to a white supremacist group named Republic of Florida (ROF).
