FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The Parkland gunman had murder on his mind for about seven months before he went on a rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, a Broward County detective testified Wednesday.
Nikolas Cruz searched for how to become a school shooter. He searched for a map to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. He searched for how long it would take police to respond to a school shooting. And that was just in February 2018, the days leading up to the killing.
But as early as July 2017, he was already promising online to become a mass murderer. On July 4, 2017, he wrote, “it makes me happy to see people die :)”
