TIL Desk/World/Florida/ A former student armed with an assault-style rifle went on a shooting spree at a high school in Florida, killing at least 17 people and injuring more than a dozen others, including an Indian-American student, in one of the deadliest mass shootings in the United States.
The 19-year-old suspect identified as Nikolas Cruz, a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland who was expelled for disciplinary reasons, was arrested after the deadly rampage on Wednesday. The school has a large number of Indian-American students and at least one student from the community was injured in the incident.
According to media reports, the suspect is a troubled teenager who posted disturbing material on social media before the shooting spree.“Nicolas Cruz was the killer. He is in custody. We already began to dissect his websites and social media that he was on… some of the things that come to mind are very, very disturbing,” Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel told reporters at a news conference in Florida. “He had countless magazines, multiple magazines, and at this point, we believe he had one AR-15 rifle,” the sheriff added.
