FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. –
Florida school gunman Nikolas Cruz told the indicted psychiatrist he began contemplating mass murder while in middle school.
Videos of Dr. Charles Scott’s interviews with Cruz broadcast on Monday show that Cruz has extensive knowledge of previous mass murders at Columbine High, Virginia Tech and elsewhere other. Cruz tells Scott that he researched those killers to shape his own plans.
Last year, Cruz pleaded guilty to the 2018 murder of a 17-year-old at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. His trial was only to decide whether he was sentenced to death or life without parole. Scott is trying to refute the argument that Cruz’s brain was damaged by his biological mother’s heavy drinking.
