“Id say that maybe losing his adoptive mother set him off “
This guy has deeper issues. Gina Louden on Fox just said that on his social media he has pictures of dead animals. Most serial killers begin with torturing and killing animals, and starting in very early childhood.
Jeffrey Dahmer also killed animals as a child..this Cruz whacko was such a freak that not even the freaky kids wanted to hang out with him..he freaked out the freaks
Ftom the Sun-Sentinel
“Another relative, who spoke on condition of anonymity over the sensitive matter, said Nikolas had been diagnosed with autism.”
Lynda, who died of pneumonia, adopted Nikolas the day he was born.
Nikolas’ father died from a heart attack, the relative said, and Lynda had sought counseling for Nikolas at a young age: “She did her best getting him any help he needed.”
Nikolas was living with a friend after his mom died.
Comments from neighbors and school mates:
Cruz looked “very troubled.” “He wore a hoodie and always had his head down,” she said. “He looked depressed.”
She had seen the suspect, Cruz, around school last year and remembers him as an “off kid” who would “smile weirdly, make weird comments.”
“It seemed like he didn’t really like school,” Cruz seemed “a little off,”
“she’d been warned that Nikolas had caused trouble, such as biting a child and stealing neighbors’ mail. One time, he threw eggs at Richie’s car while he was driving.”
“Police were called out numerous times, and Cruz was seen shooting at a neighbor’s chickens.”
“I told my husband I was so glad they moved. I’m afraid he was the kind of kid who would do something crazy,” Shelby said. “The older he gets, the worse kind of trouble he got into.”
Lynda asked a neighbor’s daughter, who lives up north, to take the kids when her husband died, but she refused. [WOW]
He used to get into trouble and harass neighbors, ... The police came to Cruz’s house many times...
A neighbor across the street kept little pigs as pets. “He didn’t like the pigs and didn’t like the neighbors so he sent over his dog over there to try to attack them,”... one time she saw Nikolas peeking in her window.
One time a neighbor spotted Nikolas trying to steal a bike from the garage when the door was open..... when the boy didn’t want to go to school, he would bang his head against a cement wall.