The grim video tells of a student named Andy struggling with mental disorders who, after being mercilessly teased by students, returns to school with a gun, walks into a math class and begins killing. The video by the rapper Token is among the last that Nikolas Cruz viewed on his phone, offering a window into the disturbed mind of the man behind the worst high school shooting in U.S. history, reports the Miami Herald. It is one of scores of prophetic details in a blistering 458-page report from a state panel investigating how and why Cruz was able to kill 14 students, two teachers, and a staff member; and wound another 17 students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on Valentine’s Day. Cruz, a former student at the school, was apprehended off campus 76 minutes after the first shots were fired.
The exhaustive report offers a second-by-second account of the shooting, spreading blame for security breakdowns, systemic school security failures and law enforcement blunders across a wide spectrum of people and agencies, from assistant principals and sheriff’s deputies to social service providers and the FBI. People were warned that Cruz was a potential security threat but took no action, the report said. The responsibility of what action to take falls on Florida’s legislature and Gov.-elect Ron DeSantis. Most ominously, the report emphasizes how Florida schools — nearly a year after the massacre — remain unsafe. “There remains non-compliance and a lack of urgency to enact basic safety principles’’ in Florida schools, the report noted. One remedy offered by the commission is to allow trained teachers to carry firearms, a controversial measure opposed by both the Florida Education Association, which represents teachers, and the Florida PTA, which believes more guns on campus will make schools less safe.