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Rafael Olmeda and Scott Travis

Parkland gunman’s web history shows his obsession with shooting started months before school massacre

Nikolas Cruz Parkland Broward Cara Loughran Elliot Rodger Mike Satz Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Broward County Fla Fort Lauderdale

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 :)”

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