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  1. Florida School Shooting Suspect Nikolas Cruz Was ‘Creepy and Weird,’ Survivors Say https://www.thedailybeast.com/nick-cruz-parkland-florida-shooting-stoneman-douglas-high-school Before a mass shooting erupted at Cruz’s former high school on Wednesday, most classmates thought of the 19-year-old as no more than “creepy and weird.” Before 6AM on Thursday, he was formally booked into Broward County jail charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder. Law-enforcement officials believe he attacked Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Wednesday. The teens who knew Cruz at the school were stunned. They described Cruz as an awkward “outcast”—someone who had trouble fitting in at Douglas High. But they never saw a mass murderer in the making. “I knew him to be passive aggressive but not violent. He was rude to people. He had an act up like he was tough. He never got into, like, physical fights with anyone, but he did get into verbal arguments,” 17-year-old Ocean Parodie told The Daily Beast. “I just thought he dropped out of school, I didn’t think he would do anything. He always kept a low profile.” “He was definitely not accepted at our school socially. People saw him as someone who was different than the normal people at our school,” Parodie added. Douglas High has a place students call “the Emo Gazebo,” he said. “That’s where all the kids that are considered weird or not accepted sat. Kids at the Emo Gazebo didn’t even accept him there. He was just an outcast... He didn’t have any friends.” Cruz always had his hair short and had a penchant for wearing patriotic shirts that “seemed really extreme, like hating on” Islam, Parodie said. The suspected gunman would also deride Muslims as “terrorists and bombers.” “I’ve seen him wear a Trump hat,” the student said.
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