i use herpecin l.re, it penetrates deep to treat. it soothes, moisturizes, and creates an spf 30 barrier, to protect against flare-ups caused by the sun. herpecin l. our next guest says he contacted the fbi last fall after seeing a disturbing comment left on one of his youtube videos. the comment said, i m going to be a professional school shooter. the user s name nikolas cruz, same name and same unique spelling as the school shooting suspect. ben bennight is here to share his story. he joins us by phone. walk us through what you first did when you saw the comment that was posted? when i saw the comment come through my push notifications and youtube studio, it caught my attention. so i screen shotted it so i can share it with fbi. i reported it to youtube as spam. and, of course, when you do
in the meantime, we are learning this morning of the fbi was tipped off last fall to a comment posted on youtube by a person with the same name as the florida shooting suspect. this is the comment that was on youtube. i m quoting here, i m going to be a professional school shooter. cnn s jessica schneider has much more on that from washington. what are you learning? our team has talked to this youtube account holder. he says he alerted the fbi and even met with fbi agents back in september. now, his name is ben bennight, he lives in mississippi. he saw that one line comment under a youtube video he posted, it said, that one line comment, i m going to be a professional school shooter. when he saw that, he says he immediately e-mailed a screen shot of it to the fbi s tips e-mail account, and that s when agents in the mississippi field office got back to him immediately and interviewed him in person the next day. that was september 25th.
youtube video would have been enough is to stop it. the whole idea of see something, say something, you did that, and i really appreciate you talking to us. thanks very much, ben bennight. many people still compare the school shooting to a school shooting in colorado april 29, 1999. two people walked in and shot many students. a worker in the jefferson county school district, he joins us now. thank you for being with us. i just wonder on a personal level, when you see what happened here, and frankly every time this happens in some community, what goes through
no other information was included with that comment which would indicate a time, location or the true identity of the person who made the comment. the fbi conducted data base reviews, checks, but was unable to further identify the person who actually made the comment. ben, your response to the fbi there today talking about how they were not able to identify the person who posted that. well, i think in today s on-line world it is very difficult to narrow down who does what without more information, and unfortunately, i wasn t able to provide them with much. you gave them the user s name, right, which is the same exact name as the shooter? i did. i did. and i don t know what the process is to go through these companies to get specific user
ben bennight alerted them to a disturbing comment on his youtube page. a user with the name, nikolas cruz posting, i m going to be a professional school shooter. thought that to be odd and disturbing. reporter: the fbi investigated, but turned up nothing. and tonight, a new glimpse of cruz from the minutes after the massacre. abc news obtaining this surveillance video showing cruz walking into a mcdonald s shortly before he was arrested. according to law enforcement sources, cruz told investigators he heard voices in his head, telling him to conduct the attack. in the community where he grew up, neighbors like shelby speno describe a history of violence. you remember seeing police there at his house often when he lived near you guys? the police were in the driveway a lot. reporter: police today revealed they received 20 calls about cruz over the past few years. several people telling us how he tried to hurt and kill animals. the first thing was the