Nikolas Cruz's World

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Nikolas Cruz, the man responsible for the massacre at the high school in Parkland, Florida, said he was possessed by a demon. The 19-year-old told a detective that a demon in his head, "the evil side", had ordered him to commit this violent act. The transcript of his dialogue with Detective John Curcio, who questioned him for more than 11 hours, was revealed. When Curcio left the room twice, the teenager cursed himself and said that he wanted to die, that he deserved death.

You are nothing, he told himself. The young man spoke to the detective about a voice that had appeared in his head after his father's death 15 years ago and that worsened when his mother died of pneumonia last November. Cruz said the voice was male, from someone around his age and that he had only told his brother about this voice.

What was this voice saying to him? "Burn, kill, destroy," Cruz replied. According to him, he had to struggle with his voice because he always encouraged him to do bad things. The young man told the detective that the voice had told him a week before the school shooting, to shoot people in a park. Cruz asked the detective to see a psychiatrist.

Cruz confessed to him that he had attempted suicide with an overdose of pills after his mother died and had also attempted to kill himself on alcohol on an earlier occasion because he felt very lonely.