Would’ve run into Florida school even without weapon: Trump
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would have entered the Florida school to save the students from a…
Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old who shot and killed 17 people at a Florida school, is apparently receiving a massive amount of fan mail from across the US and Europe at the county jail where he is lodged, according to media reports.
The Broward County Public Defender’s office, which represents Cruz, has said between 100 and 200 pieces of mail have arrived at the jail since his arrest after the massacre at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on February 14, reports CNN.
The letters are from women, girls and grown-up men. Some were handwritten on college-ruled notebook paper and in fancy greeting cards with cartoons, others typed.
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Some letters were also stuffed with sexually suggestive photos of women and teenagers.
There was even a handwritten note from a girl scout troop in New Jersey, signed by more than a dozen girls. “May God Forgive,” they wrote.
Broward County Public Defender Howard Finkelstein told CNN that he had never seen a defendant get so many letters.
However, Cruz does not have access to these letters. Unless his attorneys or family tell him, he would not know about them.
Finkelstein said he had only shared the contents of the religious letters with Cruz.
The heavily-armed 19-year-old had gone on a shooting spree outside and inside his former school on February 14, killing 17 students and teachers. Cruz, who had been expelled from the school for “disciplinary reasons”, was arrested soon after the massacre.
The horrific violence had left everyone shocked in Parkland, which was ironically voted Florida’s safest city last year.
Cruz had entered the school armed with a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle and “countless magazines”. He killed 12 people inside the school and three outside. Two more victims succumbed in hospitals.
The 19-year-old was arrested from the neighbouring city of Coral Springs about an hour after he had slipped out of the building by mixing in with crowds of panicked students.
The shooting, among the 10 deadliest mass shootings in modern US history, revived the debate over gun control in the country.
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