of those who are making this journey troo to try to make sure there is more than just thoughts and prayers. we will be checking back in with you, tammy, throughout the hour. as the public and washington debate the role of mental health in mass shootings. a judge has ordered the release of a 2016 mental health report on the suspect in the parkland school shooting. the investigation lasted more than a month. report found no indication of abuse or neglect as alleged. it said cruz suffered from depression, adhd and that his most said he was on medication for that adhd. she also said that cruz began cutting himself after a breakup with a girl. he reportedly posted a snapchat of the cutting as well. cruz also reportedly drew a nazi symbol on his book bag. his mom later said she made him erase it. one counselor who spoke with cruz said he talked, quote, about wanting to purchase a gun and feeling depressed.
investigating the suspect s home life a year before the shooting, they closed the inquiry after finding nikolas cruz to be low risk despite his plans to buy a gun. his unnerving behaviors would show videos of him cutting his arms on snapchat and his nazi symbol on his backpack. funeral services for three of the fallen services come today on the heel os of a large gun control rally in ft. lauderdale on saturday where surviving students took to the stage to advocate for change. because of these gun laws, people that i know, people that i love have died. and i will never be able to see them again. those elected officials out there today that refuse to take action, take action from the special groups. stop. if the president wants to come up to me and tell me to my face it was a terrible tragedy and how it should have never happened and maintain telling us how nothing is going to be done about it, i m going to happily ask him how much money he received from the national rifle
new information on the alleged parkland, florida, school shooter, nikolas cruz. in 2016, the florida department of children and families had investigated cruz and found him, quote, stable enough to not be hospitalized. nbc s tammy leitner is live in florida with the latest. what more do we know about the suspect here in this attack? reporter: hi, david. according to the miami herald s reporting there was an incident in 2016 where nikolas cruz and his girlfriend got into a fight and broke up. he was extremely upset and got into a physical fight with another boy, carved a nazi symbol into his bag. all of this came to the attention of state officials because somebody called the
five , this is astonishing, this just draws everyone s attention to how thin-skinned this mob out there in the internet world is and how quickly they can force everybody to turn on a dime and make sure they re okay in online mob land. juan, what do you think about this? the example like the espn one is driven people that fear what come from the online maybe. you get knee jerk reactions. people anticipating that they ll be skewered subjected to scorn as you described it and then they say, we have to react preemptively and do something. that is a wonderful, happy picture. i don t care what race the child was. they had a subsequent picture of a child in a uniform that had a nazi symbol on it, the swastika. i thought that is not cool.
the two lightning bolts that are the nazi symbol. i put a bolt in there. i ain t going to lie. you see it in everything that i do. i ve got lightning bolts on my cup. on the lid of my cup. it s a white thing. this is a bad-ass picture. i put a lot of time into that picture. i liked it. he didn t. verlander s latest fight comes while he is still waiting to meet with the disciplinary board, who will most likely sanction him for his earlier fight with inmate dimitric gonzales. i love jail. i don t know who wouldn t. one inmate who clearly does not like jail is jerry sanchez. after four davis of being awol from the jail s work release program, sanchez was rearrested. come on. we ll take care of you, man. come on. now he s not only back in custody, he s on suicide watch. required to wear a tamper-proof