FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) – Two students told investigators they reported the suspect in the Florida high school shooting to an administrator for making threats but felt they were not taken seriously.
Detective Chris Lyons told the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School commission Tuesday about threats, animal cruelty and odd behavior allegedly committed by suspect Nikolas Cruz in the years before the February shooting that left 17 dead.
Lyons said most witnesses never reported Cruz to the school or law enforcement before the shooting, but when some did, nothing happened.
He said the two students conflicted about whether they spoke to the principal or vice principal in late 2016, but one said he told the administrator Cruz had threatened to shoot up the school. They said the administrator dismissed them. Lyons did not name the students.
Both administrators deny the meeting happened.
