CNN as well as gossip website TMZ purports to have received video footage, from a few months back.
This video, shot in October by a neighbor, shows Cruz in his backyard shooting what appears to be a BB gun, wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat.
The neighbor says cops were called to Cruz's home a number of times for "strange and violent behavior." There's a report out that cops were called 39 times.
Kids in the neighborhood are saying Cruz was unhinged, was violent toward animals and would fly off the handle for no apparent reason.
Donald Trump is not the reason that Nikolas Cruz murdered all of those people, but what Donald Trump represents to a very angry and bigoted and volatile segment of our country. He represents people like Cruz, who according to authorities used the online world to spew hatred before he enacted his horrific violence on Parkland, Florida.
He hurled slurs at blacks and Muslims, and according to the Anti-Defamation League, had ties to white supremacists. He said he would shoot people with his AR-15 and singled out police and anti-fascist protesters as deserving of his vengeance.
Nikolas Cruz is a sick-minded individual; but many of his ideas have found purchase in our current government. The fact that this story is not surprising is one of the most disturbing things about our country today.