FBI alerted to YouTube 'shooter' post last year
Published on February 15, 2018 at 07:00PM by
PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on a deadly school shooting at a Florida high school (all times local): 12:55 p.m. A Mississippi bail bondsman named Benjamin Bennight says he alerted the FBI last September after someone using the screen name "Nikolas Cruz" posted a comment on his YouTube channel saying: "Im going to be a professional school shooter." Bennight explains in a video post that he flagged it for YouTube and called an FBI office in Mississippi to report it. He says FBI agents visited him the next day. Agent Rob Lasky says the agency did a database review but couldn't determine the time, location or true identity of the person making the comment. Bennight says the FBI came calling again within hours of the shooting.
Published on February 15, 2018 at 07:00PM by
PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on a deadly school shooting at a Florida high school (all times local): 12:55 p.m. A Mississippi bail bondsman named Benjamin Bennight says he alerted the FBI last September after someone using the screen name "Nikolas Cruz" posted a comment on his YouTube channel saying: "Im going to be a professional school shooter." Bennight explains in a video post that he flagged it for YouTube and called an FBI office in Mississippi to report it. He says FBI agents visited him the next day. Agent Rob Lasky says the agency did a database review but couldn't determine the time, location or true identity of the person making the comment. Bennight says the FBI came calling again within hours of the shooting.
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