1.Ĭruz is charged with 17 counts of first-degree murder. The commission brings together law enforcement, education and mental health officials along with legislators and the parents of student victims.
The commission will later discuss how those incidents were handled. Cruz did not have a criminal record before the shooting, but his mother called deputies to their home about 20 times for behavior issues including threats and possible battery.
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Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, an outspoken conservative, agreed that the program played no part in the massacre.īut Judd and other commission members did make several recommendations for improving Promise, including combining school and criminal records so officials can get a full picture of a juvenile’s behavior. Gualtieri said even if the program didn’t exist and Cruz had been charged criminally, at most he would have been given a sentence of community service. Records are inconclusive on whether Cruz attended Promise or skipped the assignment - school officials originally said he was never referred to the program, but later said they found records showing he was. Records show almost 90 percent of Promise participants never reoffend, Gualtieri said. They are assessed, given a course of treatment, attend classes and receive counseling. Under Promise, students who commit petty vandalism or theft, harassment, fight or other minor crimes or violations are referred to the off-campus program for two-to-10 days. Records show Cruz was referred to the program as an eighth grader after he broke a bathroom faucet. “It never in any way, shape, form would have affected his ability to buy that AR-15 and to buy the shotguns, to buy anything else, to possess.” “The Promise Program is irrelevant to Nikolas Cruz,” he said. The program has been criticized for leniency and over questions over whether Cruz completed the program, particularly by conservatives.īut Gualtieri, a Republican, called the issue “a red herring.” The investigator said Cruz was suffering from depression and on medication and had told Lynda Cruz he planned to buy a gun, but she couldn’t determine why.Īlso, the commission agreed Tuesday that Cruz’s 2013 participation in the Broward County school district’s Promise Program played no part in the massacre. The report showed he had written a racial epithet against African-Americans and a Nazi symbol on his book bag, which his mother had forced him to erase. 28, 2016, an investigator from the Florida Department of Children and Families visited Cruz and his mother after he posted video on Snapchat showing him cutting himself. He stayed until 10th grade, when he was transferred to Marjory Stoneman Douglas.Ībout a year before the attack, Cruz was kicked out of the school after he harassed other students, had outbursts, fought and had numerous other issues. In February 2014, while in eighth grade, Cruz was transferred to a school for children with emotional and behavioral issues. School and government records obtained by The Associated Press and other media shortly after the shooting show Nikolas Cruz was diagnosed as developmentally delayed at age 3 and had disciplinary issues dating to middle school. Zachary Cruz, the suspect’s younger brother, told The Miami Herald in May that Nikolas Cruz pointed a rifle at him and their mother in separate events, but they didn’t call police either time. The commission is scheduled to discuss Cruz’s mental health treatment in a closed session Thursday as those records are protected by federal and state law. Nancy Lanza bought guns for her 20-year-old son despite his severe emotional issues. Similar complaints were made about the mother of Adam Lanza, who killed 26 at a Connecticut elementary school in 2012 after killing her. Gualtieri told members that school and mental health counselors had at least 140 contacts with Nikolas Cruz over the years trying to get him help, but his mother frequently interfered.
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