Wearing simply a pair of shorts and i of Donald Trump'south infamous 'Make America Great Once more' baseball caps, high school killer Nikolas Cruz does target practice in his lawn.

The spooky footage obtained by CNN was taken by a neighbour just months before Cruz, 19, brought an AR-15 assault burglarize to his former school and slaughtered seventeen staff and students.

Cruz fires a few rounds with what appears to exist a BB gun then walks dorsum into his house.

It comes among growing outrage in America at how Cruz was able to legally obtain a gun despite a string of warnings about his groundwork.

The deranged loner had been expelled from Marjory Stoneman Douglas Loftier Schoolhouse and was reportedly banned from campus.

He had been treated for mental health problems and the FBI had been contacted nigh a post he made on YouTube nether his real name maxim: "I'chiliad going to be a professional school shooter."

Donald Trump speaks to the American people well-nigh the Florida gun massacre (

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Trump was given firm support by the NRA, the most powerful gun lobbyist group in America (

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The leader of a local white supremacy group likewise claims Cruz was a member and that his paramilitary grooming may accept made him a "more effective" killer.

In a oral communication from the White House, President Donald Trump emphasised schoolhouse safety and mental health but failed to make any mention of gun policy.

"It is not enough to simply accept deportment that make us feel similar we are making a difference," Trump said.

"We must actually make that difference."

Cruz, 19, doing target practise with a BB gun in his backyard months earlier the massacre (

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Cruz is wearing one of Donald Trump'southward infamous Make America Great Once more caps (

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But Trump is likely to face up more questions over his links to the tragedy when he visits Florida on Fri.

The shooting has renewed claims that Trump'south anti-immigrant slurs have emboldened white supremacists and gun fanatics.

The President was firmly endorsed by powerful gun lobbyist grouping the National Rifle Association (NRA) during his entrada.

And Jordan Jereb, the leader of the Democracy of Florida (ROF),claimed Cruz was a member of the white nationalist organization because he is a "normal, disenfranchised, young white man".

Jereb claimed Cruz had trained with other ROF members in the Tallahassee area.

Local police are looking into the claims but have and so far found no evidence to support Jereb's claims.

"I know he knew full well he was joining a white separatist paramilitary proto-fascist organisation," Jereb told the Daily Beast.

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Cruz was a "troubled" teen obsessed with guns, classmates said (

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Jereb insisted neither he nor his organisation had encouraged Cruz to carry out the shooting, but speculated that either "feminism" or anti-Seminism may have played a part.

"I'm not trying to glorify it, but he was pretty efficient in what he did," Jereb connected.

"He probably used that training to practise what he did yesterday.

"Nobody I know told him to do that, he just freaked out."

Police in Parkland accept yet to offer whatever motive for the gun rampage at the school where Cruz had been a pupil until he was expelled.

Cruz threw smoke grenades into the corridors, setting off the fire alarm then opened fire on students and staff as they left classrooms.

Cruz appeared in court charged with 17 counts of murder (

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Cruz faces the decease penalisation in Florida (

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He was armed with a legally purchased AR-xv-style attack burglarize in the second-deadliest shooting at a public school in United states of america history.

The FBI confirmed today information technology had been warned about an ominous online comment fabricated by Cruz last September.

"No other information was included with that comment which would indicate a time, location or the true identity of the person who fabricated the comment," FBI Special Amanuensis in Charge Robert Lasky told reporters.

Investigators were unable to find the commenter, he added.

The FBI is conducting an extensive review of how it handled that tip to run across if mistakes were made, a federal law enforcement official told Reuters.

Wednesday'due south shooting was the 18th in a U.South. school this yr, according to gun control group Everytown for Gun Safe.

It stirred the long-simmering U.Due south. contend on the right to deport arms, which is protected by the 2d Subpoena of the US Constitution.

Gina Montalto, one of the seventeen victims (

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Athletics coach Chris Hixon also died in the slaughter (

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Broward County schools superintendent Robert Runcie chosen for action on gun laws.

"Now is the time for this country to have a real conversation on sensible gun control laws," Runcie told a news briefing.

Democrats in the U.South. House of Representatives criticised the Republican leadership for refusing to take up legislation on tightening background checks for prospective gun buyers.

Cruz was a member of a white supremacy group, it is claimed (

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"It's bloodcurdling," Representative Mike Thompson told reporters.

"Thirty people every solar day are killed past someone using a gun, and the best we can do is say we need more information?"

The Republican-controlled Congress last year revoked Obama-era regulations meant to brand it harder for those with severe mental illness to pass FBI groundwork checks for guns, saying the rule deprived the mentally ill of their gun rights.

At least ane member of Trump'southward cabinet chosen for action.

"Personally I remember the gun violence, information technology'south a tragedy what we've seen yesterday, and I urge Congress to wait at these bug," said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

Fifteen people were injured in Midweek'due south shooting, according to local hospital officials.

Cruz's court-appointed lawyer said he had expressed remorse for his crimes.

"He'southward a broken man," public defender Melisa McNeill told reporters.

"He's sad, he's mournful, he'south remorseful."

Cruz loved guns and had been expelled from loftier schoolhouse for disciplinary reasons, law and old classmates said.

Cruz told police force that he had carried out the attack, according to an arrest document released on Thursday, which noted that he fabricated that admission after being advised of his right not to incriminate himself.

The certificate noted that Cruz took an Uber to the school and carried extra loaded ammunition clips.

In a brief court appearance, Cruz spoke just ii words, "Yes ma'am," when a judge asked him to confirm his proper noun.

He was ordered held without bond.

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Cruz had recently moved in with some other family unit after his female parent's expiry in Nov, according to Jim Lewis, a lawyer representing the family, bringing his AR-15 along with his other holding.

The family unit believed Cruz was depressed, simply attributed that to his mother'due south death, not mental illness, Lewis said.

Victims included an banana football coach who sheltered students, a social science teacher and multiple students.

People who live on same street as Cruz said he alarmed them past shooting squirrels and rabbits in the neighborhood as well as chickens being raised in a nearby lawn. Several times a year, they observed law enforcement officials at his house.

"Killing animals was no problem for this fellow," said Rhonda Roxburgh, 45, who lived on the block for several years and whose parents proceed to alive there.