{"id":348871,"date":"2018-02-19T02:15:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T01:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/funerals-begin-in-florida-as-details-emerge-of-prior-warnings-about-school-shooter\/"},"modified":"2018-02-19T02:15:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T01:15:32","slug":"funerals-begin-in-florida-as-details-emerge-of-prior-warnings-about-school-shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/funerals-begin-in-florida-as-details-emerge-of-prior-warnings-about-school-shooter\/","title":{"rendered":"Funerals begin in Florida as details emerge of prior warnings about school shooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Funerals begin in Florida as details emerge of prior warnings about school shooter<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Patrick Martin<br \/>\n    <br \/>17 February 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The first funerals were held Thursday and Friday for several of the 17 students and staff killed in the horrific massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The shooter, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, was arraigned before a local judge on Friday, saying nothing in court except to indicate he had understood the proceeding. He reportedly spoke freely to local police after he was arrested, admitting responsibility for the bloodbath. His lawyers are not disputing his role as the shooter, stating only that he is severely mentally ill and had suffered several recent emotional traumas. One described Cruz as \u201cdeeply disturbed, emotionally broken,\u201d and said he is on suicide watch.<\/p>\n<p>Police have said that there is no indication that anyone else participated in the planning or the execution of the attack on Douglas High School, or that anyone was even aware of Cruz\u2019s specific intentions.<\/p>\n<p>What has become clear over the past 24 hours is that the FBI had considerable information on Cruz, including a telephone tip only six weeks before the shooting rampage that warned he might carry out an attack on a school, but failed to take any action.<\/p>\n<p>The agency admitted Friday morning in a public statement that the telephone tip came in on January 5, 2018, reporting concerns about Cruz based on his \u201cgun ownership, desire to kill people, erratic behavior, and disturbing social media posts, as well as the potential of him conducting a school shooting.\u201d The FBI described the person making the phone call as an adult and \u201ca person close to Nikolas Cruz,\u201d but did not otherwise identify the caller.<\/p>\n<p>This was the second telephone alert given to the FBI&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/02\/17\/flor-f17.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Funerals begin in Florida as details emerge of prior warnings about school shooter By Patrick Martin 17 February 2018 The first funerals were held Thursday and Friday for several of the 17 students and staff killed in the horrific massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.\u00a0 The shooter, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-348871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}