long guns. we don t know if one of these guns is the gun. and then this ominous photo taken from the point of view of a gun scope looking down from a second floor. all instagram pictures posted by the shooter, and what all of his friends are telling us is he was telling us what he was about to do. the warning signs were all there in person and on social media. photos of guns, knives, extremist comments posted under political videos. i want to shoot people with my ar-15. that quote attached to a youtube video of a donald trump supporter being pushed around at a rally. under a video about antifa he posted, f antifa. i wish to kill as many as i can and i m going to kill can them in the future. and the comment that prompted a call to the fbi. he wrote, i m going to be a professional school shooter. ben benight contacted the fbi
the warning signs were all there in person and on social media. photos of guns, knives, extremist comments posted under political videos. i want to shoot people with my ar-15. that quote attached to a youtube video of a donald trump supporter being pushed around at a rally. under a video about antifa he posted, f antifa. i wish to kill as many as i can and i m going to kill can them in the future. and the comment that prompted a call to the fbi. he wrote, i m going to be a professional school shooter. ben benight contacted the fbi when he saw that post. they came out to my office the very next morning in person and met with me. reporter: and those who knew the shooter said his life was filled with trouble. this video from a neighbor shows him brandishing what looks like a pellet gun. he was expelled from school, obsessed with guns. when his adopted mother died in
we ve talked to students as ali said who said they were really not that surprised to find out that he was the gunman. look at his instagram photographs. these we came across last night. they show him not only talking about a gun and showing off at least one gun but also knives as well. and buzz feed reporting that the fbi was warned last september that somebody by the name of nicholas cruz had made a post on youtube in which they said, quote, i m going to be a professional school shooter. that was from 36-year-old ben benight who alerted the fbi. they according to ben talked to him the next day and now they ve since contacted him again and said they would like to talk to him again. we don t know if that s the same nicolas cruz but the coincidence is striking. nikolas cruz will be appearing today, charged with 17 counts of murder.