FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) - For the first time, a 911 call featuring the voice of the suspected Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter has been released.
“I kind of got mad, and I started punching walls and stuff, and then a kid… came at me and threw me on the ground,” said Nikolas Cruz.
Cruz is accused of gunning down 17 innocent people, and in November, he spoke to a Palm Beach County 911 operator. The teenager called police following a fight inside a Lantana home.
“I don’t know where I am. I’m new to the area,” Cruz said to a 911 operator.
Cruz and his 17-year-old brother were living with family friend Roxanne Deschamps. Calls for help were reportedly common from the people who took him in.
“Because that’s all he wants is his gun,” said Deschamps, speaking to a 911 operator. “That’s all he cares about is his gun, and he bought tons of ammunition, bullets and stuff, and I took it away from him.”
Deschamps met Cruz when they once lived on the same street. Speaking through a window, she told a reporter why he moved in with her in Lantana.
“Because he lived here for a little bit,” she said. “He lived here for a few weeks when his mom passed away.”
Deschamps explained she forbade Cruz to keep guns inside her home. Then, on the phone with dispatchers on Nov. 28, Deschamps explained her fear about Cruz’s threat to buy more weapons.
“I’m afraid if he comes back, and he has a lot of weapons, and he has a weapon that he is going to get at Dick’s [Sporting Goods] right now because he purchased it,” said Deschamps.
The call continued: “He put the gun to the head of his brother before, so this is not the first time, and he did that to his mom, and his mom died.”
But Cruz also called 911 to explain the fight he got into with Deschamps’ son.
“He started attacking me, and he kicked me out of the house, and he said he was going to gut me,” Cruz.
Deputies eventually caught up with him at a nearby park and said he “appeared nervous and calm.”
No charges were filed against Cruz because, the Deschamps told investigators, they felt bad for him due the recent loss of his mother.
Deschamps’ son went as far as hugging Cruz to show that they had made up.
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