In a startling announcement, the FBI said in a news release moments ago that someone "close to Nikolas Cruz" called the bureau this past January 5 slightly more than 30 days before this week's massacre and warned the federal government that Cruz owned guns and had expressed a desire to commit a school shooting.
And between 2010 and 2016, the Broward County Sheriff's Office was dispatched to Cruz's home 36 times after neighbors reported that Nikolas Cruz and his brother Zachary had been acting erratically. Cruz, who reportedly has mental illness, was never arrested.
(The leader of a white-supremacist militia has also claimed Cruz trained with his group in Tallahassee and used what he learned to kill Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students, but authorities have not found hard evidence to back up that claim, and the leader of the group has since tried to walk back his statements.)
The admission comes at a politically precarious time for Wray. President Donald Trump has been criticizing the FBI for months in an attempt to discredit the bureau's Trump-Russia investigation. Donald Trump Jr. this week infamously "liked" a tweet claiming the FBI was "too busy trying to undermine the president to bother with doing its freaking job."
Critics on the right have already spent much of the week blaming law enforcement for failing to prevent the Parkland shooting, claiming the FBI is more to blame than the nation's lax gun laws. Florida Governor Rick Scott has already called on Wray to resign today. Florida Senator Marco Rubio, a thoughtless human flatworm who has received millions in funding from the National Rifle Association, has since attacked the FBI for its failures today:
(The leader of a white-supremacist militia has also claimed Cruz trained with his group in Tallahassee and used what he learned to kill Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students, but authorities have not found hard evidence to back up that claim, and the leader of the group has since tried to walk back his statements.)
The admission comes at a politically precarious time for Wray. President Donald Trump has been criticizing the FBI for months in an attempt to discredit the bureau's Trump-Russia investigation. Donald Trump Jr. this week infamously "liked" a tweet claiming the FBI was "too busy trying to undermine the president to bother with doing its freaking job."
Critics on the right have already spent much of the week blaming law enforcement for failing to prevent the Parkland shooting, claiming the FBI is more to blame than the nation's lax gun laws. Florida Governor Rick Scott has already called on Wray to resign today. Florida Senator Marco Rubio, a thoughtless human flatworm who has received millions in funding from the National Rifle Association, has since attacked the FBI for its failures today:
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