'No Idea We Had A Monster Under Our Roof' Say Couple Who Took In Florida Gunman
Sumaira FH Published February 19, 2018 | 01:27 PM
The couple who took in Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz after his mother's death have described him as quirky but pleasant and seemingly on the right track, saying they had no idea they had a "monster living under our roof."
Washington, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 19th Feb, 2018 ) :The couple who took in Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz after his mother's death have described him as quirky but pleasant and seemingly on the right track, saying they had no idea they had a "monster living under our roof." Cruz, 19, moved in with James and Kimberly Snead of Parkland, Florida in late November after his adoptive mother died earlier that month from complications of pneumonia, they told the South Florida Sun Sentinel in an interview published Sunday.
He was a friend of their son. Prone to odd eating and sleeping habits and unused to any form of housework, he was nevertheless making progress in dealing with his grief and kept himself busy with adult education classes along with his job at a discount store, the couple said.
"I told him there'd be rules and he followed every rule to the T," James Snead, 48, an army veteran and military intelligence analyst, told the paper.
"We had this monster living under our roof and we didn't know," added Kimberly Snead, 49, a neonatal nurse.
"We didn't see this side of him." Cruz killed 17 people at his former high school last Wednesday using an AR-15 rifle that he had legally purchased. It was the country's worst school massacre since the horror at Sandy Hook six years ago that left 26 dead.
He also owned several other guns including two other assault rifles as well as knives, according to the Sneads who own firearms themselves and did not find this unusual. And his ultimate aim was to join the army and become an infantryman, something he had become excited about after a recent meeting with a military recruiter.
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