September 24, 1998 - Nikolas Cruz

Nikolas Jacob Cruz (born September 24, 1998) is an American mass murderer who fatally shot fourteen students and three staff members and injured seventeen others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14, 2018. In November 2022, Cruz was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for the shooting, which remains one of the deadliest school shootings in the United States.

Cruz had been known for his behavioral problems since preschool, and as a teenager on social media, he shared his obsessions with mass shootings and expressed racist, sexist, antisemitic, xenophobic, and homophobic views. He was a member of the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps. He legally purchased various firearms before the shooting.

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