"He has been heard and observed discussing how popular his brother is now," she said.
Since his arrest Monday, Zachary Cruz has had contact in jail with his brother, Murphy said. "It's weird and suspicious, but I don't think he would do anything," he said. Cruz's showing up "frightens everyone," given how depressed he might be, he said. "Just weird."Ĭonner Gandy, 17, a senior, said Zachary Cruz should have at least warned people before he visited the school. "That's crazy," said Josef Bagiv, 16, a junior. Others said it's frightening that Zachary Cruz admitted trespassing on the school campus three times since the massacre. "I'm not worried about the Cruz family," said Chris Donnelly, 17, a junior. "They have again been terrorized," she said.Īt least one student at the school Tuesday said he thought the bail amount was excessive. Murphy said Cruz's late afternoon visit left the Stoneman Douglas community in fear, with some parents refusing to let their teenage children go back to the school on Tuesday. Zachary Cruz admitted to police Monday that he rode his skateboard onto the campus, ignoring orders to stay away from the school, to reflect on what his brother had done, according to an arrest report. 14 mass shooting at the Parkland high school. His brother Nikolas Cruz is charged with 17 counts of murder and 17 counts of attempted murder in the Feb. In the meantime, authorities involuntarily hospitalized Zachary Cruz for a mental-health evaluation under the state's Baker Act, according to a sheriff's news release.ĭeputies said one reason they are concerned with Zachary Cruz, according to the petition, is that they asked him his plans for the future and he responded, "I don't know right now." If granted, the order would give the Sheriff's Office the legal authority to seize guns found in Cruz's home and prevent him from purchasing or possessing a firearm for one year. Later Tuesday, the Broward Sheriff's Office filed a petition for a "temporary risk protection order" under the state's new gun law, identifying Zachary Cruz as someone who "poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to himself or others by having a firearm."
And before Cruz is released from jail, police are to search his caretaker's home in Lantana and remove all firearms. A judge set bond at $500,000 for Cruz and ordered a host of pretrial conditions more often seen in felony cases than misdemeanors.
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