SFGATE: Student says he watched suspect get 'a little more weird'

Student says he watched suspect get 'a little more weird'
Published on February 15, 2018 at 11:54AM by William Wan, David Weingrad and Fred Barbash, The Washington Post
A teen who went to middle school with Nikolas Cruz at first thought there was maybe something "a little off about him. But it was nothing alarming." Then, as Cruz transitioned into high school, he "started progressively getting a little more weird," said 17-year-old Dakota Mutchler. Cruz, he said, was selling knives out of a lunchbox, posting on Instagram about guns and killing animals, and eventually "going after one of my friends, threatening her." On Wednesday night, Mutchler recalled Cruz as an increasingly frightening figure, being suspended from school repeatedly, before he was expelled last year. "When someone is expelled," Mutchler told The Washington Post, "you don't really expect them to come back. But, of course, he came back.
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