Police records show Zachary Cruz has also had a troubled life, including a juvenile arrest record for theft. His attorney has said he will plead guilty to 17 counts of murder and 17 counts of attempted murder if prosecutors will waive the death penalty, which they have refused to do. Nikolas Cruz was living with a different family when the Stoneman Douglas shooting took place. “Unfortunately, although I did everything I could, I was not able to stop this tragedy from taking place.” “I did everything I could to warn law enforcement about what could happen,” she said. He eventually moved in with another family when Deschamps said she told him to choose between his guns and her home. Her calls to police about his behavior resulted in no action.
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She knew Nikolas Cruz had mental issues and obsessions with weapons, and implored him to get professional help and take medication but he refused. Just before Lynda Cruz died suddenly last November of pneumonia, Deschamps promised to take care of the boys. “I explained to Nikolas that I was concerned about my young child and I could not have him be around loaded guns or any weapons where bullets could be placed in guns,” she said in her first public comments since the shooting. By this time, Deschamps also had a 5-year-old son. In October 2016, she saw a number of guns in Nikolas Cruz’s room she described as military-style, and became concerned about him and the weapons. Zachary Cruz, who turned 18 a week after the school shooting, has been living in Lantana, Florida, with a family friend, Rocxanne Deschamps, since their mother’s death.Īt a news conference Tuesday in New York City, Deschamps described being neighbors with the Cruz family in Parkland and how her son played with the two boys, whom she often cared for and took on outings. Lynda Cruz died in November and their father died some years earlier. Both were adopted at very young ages by Roger and Lynda Cruz, who moved them into their Parkland home. Zachary and Nikolas shared the same biological mother but had different fathers. If a judge approves the request, Cruz would be involuntarily hospitalized for a mental health evaluation and barred from possessing firearms. She approved a search for weapons and ammunition at the Palm Beach County home where he is living with a family friend, and he is not to visit his brother in jail.Īlso Tuesday, the sheriff’s office filed for a risk protection order against Zachary Cruz in circuit court under a new “red flag law” that was just signed by Florida’s governor last week. Mollica also ordered Zachary Cruz to wear an ankle monitor and stay away from schools - particularly Stoneman Douglas High - if he is released.
“He has all the same flags present as his brother,” she said.
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