Nicholas Cruz, who shot 17 schoolchildren at a Florida school, said during interrogation that the voices in his head made him commit the crime. Writes about this The New York Times. The content of the conversations was not disclosed before.
Immediately after his arrest, Cruz asked to be killed, and in response to an offer to drink water, he replied that he "did not deserve it." As the newspaper writes, after the investigator left the interrogation room, the young man continued to mutter under his breath: “I don't understand. I just want to die. " He also said that he felt useless and kept asking, "Why didn't he kill me?" To whom he addressed, it was not possible to find out.
The transcript of the audio recording also mentions that Cruz blamed the incident on a "demonic voice" that made him commit the shooting. According to him, he ordered: "Burn, kill, destroy."
As the newspaper writes, earlier the young man's lawyers demanded non-disclosure of the content of the interrogations. However, the court ruled to make the materials public.
On February 14, 19-year-old Nicholas Cruz opened fire at his former school in Parkland, Florida. As a result, 17 people died and 17 were injured. The shooter was detained. It was reported that FBI officers were warned at least twice about the threat from Cruz. In both cases, they did not pass this information on to local security officials.
