Posted on 02/16/2018 5:18:10 AM PST by Moonman62
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High has fences, gates and emergency procedures to keep students safe, but a determined gunman found a way around them.
He came when he knew the gates would be open and set off a fire alarm that would dismantle a safety system, officials say. And the school resource officer, who is supposed to help protect students, may not have been on school grounds at the time.
Accused gunman Nikolas Cruz, who had been expelled from the school for behavioral problems, arrived on campus about 20 minutes before the school day ended.
That’s the time school officials usually open the gates around campus so students and staff parked in various parking lots, as well as school buses and parents picking up their kids, can get out easily, said Jerry Graziose, the district’s former director of school safety.
“During the day, those areas locked. But when you’re getting ready for kids to leave, all the gates in the different areas have to be unlocked, and it takes a few minutes for the person doing that,” Graziose said.
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Why is a 19 year old adult at school with kids?
He wasn’t a student. He had no permission to be there.
Wow, Sun-Sentinel, thanks for telling me how to beat some features (really? you just threw that out there) that are supposed to protect our kids. Idiots.
The fact that all the kids knew he would be a shooter was telling. It’s like they were just waiting for it.
Just to clarify, he was currently a student but not at that school.
“The only person trained and armed to fight back against an assailant at Stoneman Douglas is its one school resource officer, a Broward Sheriff’s deputy funded by the city of Parkland. But Maxwell said she doesn’t think he was on campus when the shooting happened.
“I have been told by a couple of sources that the SRO was either called off campus responding to something happening or it could have been his day off,” she said. “They are stretched very thin.””
I know, right? It’s like, “Hey, all you crazies that want to shoot up a school! Here’s EXACTLY how to do it right!”
Any our media wonders why we love them so.......
Just heard interview of former FBI agent, Gary Aldrich that school authorities had found bullets in Cruz’s backpack when he was still in school. Then there were his social media sites, think Facebook, that no one appears to have checked, not even the FBI.
The dude took advantage of the chaos and exploited the weakness in the system.
He also blended in with the students and successfully escaped. He was arrested at a fast food place.
No way the insanity defense can be brought into play. His actions indicate he knew exactly what he was doing.
But, the psychological world will want him around to study him.
They had ONE cop, one guy with a gun, for a school of 3000 with multiple buildings.
Pretty insufficient.
Kids are locked up in the school during the day. Good conditioning for the future slaves / prisoners.
There really wasn’t any school security. He shot and killed the unarmed gym coach who was designated as “security” at dismissal time. The coach was killed trying to protect the kids, btw.
But that’s not security.
He was reported by a chat room user to the FBI, which interviewed the man and supposedly followed up. Cruz was using his own name in the chat room, but the FBI said they couldn’t establish his identity. This was only last fall.
If there had been a congressman visiting the school that day, or even a minor celebrity, there would have been significant security. But there were just kids there.
hey had ONE cop, one guy with a gun, for a school of 3000 with multiple buildings.
When you consider how many students are in public school every day, and how many are shot in this sort of circumstance, this is really not as pressing an issue as some would have you believe. I’d worry more about drug overdose and suicide.
He was reported by a YouTube poster..
The FBI said they could not find out who that poster was.
that poster had the same name.
and you mean to tell me Google/youtube can’t give you the account info of the poster? you have to be logged in to post. Also, Google should have had the IP address of where the post came from.
the FBI is either stupid, or lying.
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