CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The FBI has admitted they failed to act on a tip about Nikolas Cruz, the confessed shooter in the Parkland Florida school massacre, leaving many wondering if this tragedy that took 17 lives, could have been avoided.
“It was a breakdown between having the information and doing something about the information,” Former FBI assistant director Chris Swecker said, adding that officials missed several intervention points that may have prevented the Florida school massacre.
“If ever there was a case where someone was screaming out I'm dangerous I'm about to do something this was one case. At every school there needs to be a risk or threat assessment team.”
Now school districts in the Carolinas are making a point to prove they are going to take any and all school threats very seriously, and won’t hesitate to make arrests.
A 17-year-old West Iredell High School student was just arrested for allegedly communicating threats during lunch.
In Chesterfield South Carolina, a man was arrested Friday for starting a rumor on social media about a non-existent threat at Cheraw High School.
In Macon County North Carolina, the day of the Florida shooting, a student was arrested for making threatening remarks as he got off the bus.
And Friday, in the same county, a 14-year-old student was arrested when he was overheard asking another student, “hey, you wanna go shoot up a school?”
Those words alone landed him in police custody.
School leaders continue to show zero tolerance and zero leniency after this latest tragedy.