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appalachiablue

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Sat Dec 22, 2018, 06:15 PM Dec 2018

Parkland Shooter, Nikolas Cruz Registered (R) Put MAGA Hat In Liberal Mother's Casket

Last edited Sat Dec 22, 2018, 11:01 PM - Edit history (3)

Miami Herald, Dec. 20. 'Parkland Shooter’s Mom Hated Trump. When she died, he put a Trump hat in her casket.'

Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz was obsessed with guns — and to the chagrin of his mother, also appeared to be a fan of President Donald Trump. So when his mother, “a liberal anti-gun type,” died in 2017, Cruz used his own “Trump hat” to get a twisted final word on their political differences, a friend told police in a 425-page investigative report released on Thursday.

“Due to the fact that his mother hated Donald Trump he put it in her casket with her when she died and took a picture of her with the hat,” the friend, Hunter McCutcheon, told a detective, according to a report authored by the lead detective in the criminal case against the confessed mass murderer..

The Broward Sheriff’s Office report does not offer any major new revelations. But the document chronicles the staggering scope of the police investigation, from Cruz’s insistence during his confession that he was hearing demons in his head, to fellow classmates describing the gunman’s long history of troubling behavior, to in-depth analysis of video and phone evidence. It was unclear just how devoted, if at all, Cruz was to the Republican president.

After the shooting, at least one Instagram image purported to be of Cruz wearing a Trump “Make America Great Again” hat surfaced, and one video of him shooting a BB gun in his backyard appears to show him wearing a similar red cap. Cruz, while in jail awaiting trial, also registered to vote as a Republican..
Santiago Cullar, a former classmate who said Cruz did computer searches about how to make a bomb and gushed about the Pulse nightclub massacre that killed 49 people. Cruz told him he “was glad they killed all those gay people.”..

Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article223374745.html#storylink=cpy

'Nikolas Cruz’s birth mom had a violent, criminal past. Could it help keep him off Death Row?,' Miami Herald, 9/818.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article216909390.html

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Parkland Shooter, Nikolas Cruz Registered (R) Put MAGA Hat In Liberal Mother's Casket (Original Post) appalachiablue Dec 2018 OP
As if we needed any more evidence of what a monstrous, selfish fuckbrain this loser is. Aristus Dec 2018 #1
Another violent, sick youth with serious troubles & access to gunz appalachiablue Dec 2018 #3
That's cheap... Mike Nelson Dec 2018 #2
But please, tell me more about the scary caravan, Republicans. John Fante Dec 2018 #4
But the scary brown people in the caravan!!... appalachiablue Dec 2018 #5
I hope he gets the death penalty 47of74 Dec 2018 #6

appalachiablue

(41,118 posts)
3. Another violent, sick youth with serious troubles & access to gunz
Sat Dec 22, 2018, 06:23 PM
Dec 2018

fueled by the NRA and far right that has to end.

Adam Lanza, Dylann Roof, James Holmes, many more with serious delusions, hate, paranoia, racism and weapons access.

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