Accused Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz in court Feb. 15, 2018.
The FBI receives countless tips and doesn’t have the resources it would need to follow every lead, but the bureau appears to have “dropped the ball” after it was alerted that someone going by the name Nikolas Cruz posted on social media that he aspired to be “a professional school shooter,” according to a former member of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Forces.
Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz
Steve Rogers, who said he supervised many investigations, believes the FBI could have tracked down Cruz last fall when 36-year-old Ben Bennight of Mississippi emailed the FBI a screenshot of the comment on YouTube video and called the bureau’s Mississippi field office. Agents interviewed Bennight in person the next day, asking if he knew anything about the person who made the comment, and that was the last he heard of them
