FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Two students told investigators they reported the Florida high school shooting suspect to an administrator for making threats but felt they were not taken seriously, a commission investigating the massacre was told Tuesday.
Pinellas County sheriff’s Detective Chris Lyons told the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission that 30 people knew suspect Nikolas Cruz made threats and racist remarks, committed animal cruelty and engaged in odd behavior in the years before the February shooting that left 17 dead, but few reported it to police or school authorities.
Even when they reported the former Stoneman Douglas student, nothing happened, Lyons said.
” ‘See something, say something’ means something, and it has to be more than a phrase,” said Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, the commission’s chairman. “It has to resonate with the public because law enforcement cannot be everywhere all the time.”
