conducted an interview of the person who made the complaint. this person lives in mississippi, has no connection to south florida, and has no knowledge about the person who posted the comment. the f.b.i. also conducted internal database reviews and open source checks. no additional information was found to positively identify the person who posted this comment. fox news has asked the f.b.i. whether the agents tried and failed to recover the computer i.p. address, the unique string of numbers that identifies every computer like a phone number. former f.b.i. agents are mixed on whether there was enough information to go to a grand jury and seek a subpoena for the information from youtube but some argue it would have been a logical next step given the nature of the threat to a school, sandra. sandra: is the shooter going to get the death penalty? florida s attorney general said the death penalty applies in this case because of the
we heard there were two of those threat reports. we don t know what one of them was. we don t know exactly what that was, but we do know about this 2017 report. and here is what the fbi special agent in charge said. he said, quote, in september of 2017 the fbi received information about a comment made on a youtube channel. the comment said, quote rk, i m going to be a professional school shooter. no other information was included in the comment, which would indicate a particular time, location, or the identity of the person who posted the comment. the fbi conducted database reviews and other checks, but was unable to further identify the person who posted the comment. and, of course, john, what everybody is thinking right now is, we always hear from law enforcement if you hear something, say something. in this case something was done, somebody did speak out. but here we are in this tragic event covering yet another mass shooting in the united states. john? rosa flores on the ground i
unequivocal signs of trouble online. the fbi knew about two alleged threats from this particular suspect, former student who by the way, had been expeled from douglas high school. 2017 youtube post where he wrote, apparently, and just quoting him, i m going to be a professional school shooter. and you see the post list his name, which i am not standing here today repeating or saying out loud but i will say a short time ago the fbi said this. no other information was included with that comment, which would indicate a time, location or true identity of the person who made the comment. the fbi conducted database reviews, checks, but was unable to further identify the person who actually made the comment. as we learn more about what exactly happened here, the high school remains closed. its students are coming to grips or starting to try to come to
school shooter. 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 database reviews, checks but was unable to further identify the person who actually made the comment. take us through how this works. in the sense that and i want you to explain what the fbi can and cannot do, where they run up against the law, where they run up against civil liberties and private rights. most americans, who don t understand the law like you do thinks, i have one of these. the government can find out exactly where john king is sitting right now. the government can find out who the last person is he texted and if they want to they can find out the last place he used his credit card. so why can t the government knock on the door and say, is this you? in this situation, they sent agents to talk to the person that made the call in the first place to the fbi reporting that
investigate this heinous crime. in 2017, the fbi received information about a comment made on a youtube channel. the comment simply said, i m going to be a professional school shooter. 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 database reviews, checks, wasn t able to further able to identify the person who made the comment. as a native south floridian, my heart goes out to the family, friends and victims and the whole community. thank you. i would like to bring up our superintendent of schools, ron runsi. again, we can t say this enough, every minute of the day is focusing on how we can