Parkland school shooting: Nikolas Cruz's drawings from Florida jail reveal disturbed mind
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Drawings that Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz made from solitary confinement in Florida jail reveal a trouble mind, with many demonic and violent images.
Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz's drawing appears to show a figure shooting people with a rifle. (FOX 13 Tampa) One of Nikolas Cruz's drawings shows monster-like faces and the phrase, 'Hail Satan' (FOX 13 Tampa) "I do not want to be bothered by anyone or anything. I can't wait to die. Blood, blood. I only wanna see blood fall," Cruz wrote on one page of the drawings. (FOX 13 Tampa) Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz's drawing appears to show a figure wearing a hat carrying a large rifle. (FOX 13 Tampa) Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz appears in a Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale on Aug. 23. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun Sentinel via AP, Pool) Nikolas Cruz's half-sister, Danielle Woodward, on Monday described a tumultuous upbringing with a mother who drank, smoked crack and prostituted herself while her children were around. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun Sentinel via AP, Pool) A photo of Nikolas Cruz as a child is shown in a Broward County courtroom on Aug. 23. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun Sentinel via AP, Pool) Cruz's lead attorney, Melisa McNeil, said on Monday that Cruz has fetal alcohol and drug issues, and his adoptive mother was unable to properly care for him growing up after her husband died suddenly when Cruz was 5 years old. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun Sentinel via AP, Pool) Audrey Conklin is a digital reporter for FOX Business and Fox News. Email tips to audrey.conklin@fox.com or on Twitter at @audpants.
"I do not want to be bothered by anyone or anything. I can't wait to die. Blood, blood. I only wanna see blood fall," Cruz wrote on one page of the drawings obtained by WSVN and FOX 13 Tampa.
Other drawings show a figure shooting people with a rifle, monster-like faces, pentagrams, the numbers "666," and the phrase, "Hail Satan!"
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