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FBI tip line caller described Nikolas Cruz as ‘about to explode’Fox 43, Feb 23, 2018, CNN WireA woman close to the Parkland, Florida, school shooter called an FBI tip line in early January to describe a young man with an arsenal of knives and guns who was “going to explode†and said she feared him “getting into a school and just shooting the place up.â€â€œI just want to, you know, get it off my chest in case something does happen and I do believe something’s going to happen,†the woman said, according to a transcript of the January 5 call reviewed by CNN.***In the January call, the woman, who is not identified, told the FBI employee that Cruz had the mental capacity of a 12- to 14-year-old and had been kicked out of school for throwing chairs at students and teachers “because he didn’t like the way they were talking to him.â€The woman also provided the FBI employee with the usernames for at least three of Cruz’s Instagram accounts, where he wrote that “he wants to kill people†and posted photos of animals that he had mutilated.“You know how a bird will fly around in the backyard and then hit your glass door, your sliding glass doors and hit the ground?†the woman said, “Well that’s what happened. He brought the bird into the house. He threw it on his mother’s kitchen counter and he started cutting it up.â€â€œThat to me would be a red flag,†the woman said.Cruz used money from his mother’s bank account to buy several rifles and ammunition, including one gun that he bought online, the caller said.After receiving the call, the FBI employee, based in the bureau’s West Virginia tip line center, discussed the tip with her supervisor and the two concluded there was no imminent threat and decided to take no further action, the staffer said. The case was closed within an hour.During the call, the FBI employee had asked the woman whether Cruz said he was going to take action or that he just wanted to. Replying, the woman read the post where Cruz said, “I want to kill people,†according to the transcript.Read more: http://fox43.com/2018/02/23/fbi-tip-caller-described-nikolas-cruz-as-about-to-explode/
After receiving the call, the FBI employee, based in the bureau’s West Virginia tip line center, discussed the tip with her supervisor and the two concluded there was no imminent threat and decided to take no further action, the staffer said. The case was closed within an hour.
I thought I read on the other thread that the WV center transmitted the info to the field office in Florida - which concluded no imminent threat, etc., etc. Either way, disgusting.
Wray needs to resign. FBI is FUBAR and Wray is doing nothing.
If you see something, say something. We will do nothing.
