In the annals of “See something, say something,” there are few more heartbreaking and infuriating reads than the transcript of an informant’s call to the FBI on January 5, 2018. In a 13-minute detailed report, a person claiming to be close to Parkland, Fla., school shooter Nikolas Cruz described in excruciating detail Cruz’s mental problems, his violent tendencies, and the concern that he would go “into a school and just [shoot] the place up.”
The caller listed Instagram accounts, described pictures of Cruz posing with guns, and said that Cruz was “into ISIS” and had threatened his mother with a rifle before she died. The FBI did nothing. Five weeks later, Cruz walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, opened fire with his AR-15 rifle, and killed 14 students, two coaches, and one teacher.
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