Parkland Shooting: Justice Department to Pay $130M for Investigative Failures
The FBI acknowledged two days after the Feb. 14, 2018, shooting that it had received the tips about Nikolas Cruz suggesting that he might open fire at a school — but had not investigated them.
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The Justice Department will pay about $130 million to 40 survivors and families of victims of the 2018 massacre at a high school in Parkland, Fla., over the FBI’s failure to properly investigate two tips in the months before the shooting that suggested the gunman might open fire at a school, reports the New York Times. The FBI acknowledged two days after the Feb. 14, 2018, shooting that it had received the tips about Nikolas Cruz, then 19-years-old, but had not investigated them in accordance with its protocols. The first tip had come five months before the shooting, in September 2017, when a bail bondsman in Mississippi reported that a commentator with the user name “nikolas cruz” had left a disturbing message on his YouTube channel. The second tip came on Jan. 5, 2018, from a woman who called the FBI’s tip line and gave the bureau information about Cruz’s social media accounts and troubled family life and school record.
