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Sheriff’s Report: Suspect Confessed to Florida School Attack

By TERRY SPENCER
KELLI KENNEDY
TAMARA LUSHv
PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — The
teenager accused of using
a semi-automatic rifle to
kill 17 people at a Florida
high school confessed to
carrying out one of the
nation's deadliest school
shootings and concealing
extra ammunition in his
backpack, according to a
sheriff's department report
released Thursday. The
report from the Broward
County Sheriff's Office
said Nikolas Cruz told
investigators that he shot
students in the hallways and
on the grounds of Marjory
Stoneman Douglas High
School in Parkland, north
of Miami.Cruz told officers
he brought more loaded
magazines to the school
and kept them hidden in the
backpack until he got on
campus. As students began
to flee, he said, he decided
to discard his AR-15 rifle A video monitor shows school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz, left, with public defender Melisa McNeille, making an appearance
and a vest he was wearing before Judge Kim Theresa Mollica in Broward County Court, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Cruz is accused of
so he could blend in with opening fire Wednesday at the school killing more than a dozen people and injuring several.
the crowd fleeing from the (Susan Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel/AP)
school. Police recovered bought a drink at a Subway 40 minutes after leaving a fuller portrait emerged of ROTC program and posted
the rifle and the vest. After restaurant before walking the McDonald's, Broward the suspect, a loner who photos of weapons on
the rampage, the suspect to a McDonald's. He was County Sheriff Scott Israel had worked at a dollar Instagram.
headed to a Wal-Mart and taken into custody about said. A day after the attack, store, joined the school’s Continued on Page 3