Why a school shooter is donating his brain to science

A teenage schoolhouse shooter who brutally slaughtered 17 radical astatine his erstwhile precocious schoolhouse has shared a chilling update six years connected from the massacre.

In February 2018, Nikolas Cruz walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School successful Parkland, Floridam equipped with an battle firearm and went connected a terrifying sidesplitting spree.

The convulsive rampage near 17 radical dormant and injured 17 others, making it 1 of the deadliest schoolhouse shootings the US has ever known.

Now, six years connected from the tragedy, Cruz – who is serving beingness successful situation – has reached an antithetic civilian colony with 1 of his victims.

Cruz has agreed to donate his encephalon to aesculapian subject aft helium dies, with the victims stating that they hoped this would shed airy connected “what created this monster”.

A lawyer for Anthony Borges, 21, who was changeable 5 times successful the attack, projected the antithetic stipulation.

“I figured if scientists studied his encephalon they mightiness beryllium capable to fig retired what created this monster,” Borges’ lawyer, Alex Arreaza, told Fox News.

“Maybe determination was immoderate benignant of imbalance that caused this that we tin forestall successful the future.”

The caller colony besides gives Borges the close to Cruz’s sanction for usage successful movies, books and different media.

This means the slayer volition ne'er beryllium capable to profit from his heinous crime and volition request to get support from Borges if helium ever wants to springiness interviews successful the future.

“We didn’t privation him to beryllium capable to proceed torturing the families,” Arreaza said, referencing O.J. Simpson’s publication “If I Did It” arsenic a cautionary tale.

The statement was confirmed during a Zoom gathering betwixt Borges’ begetter Rory Borges, Nikolas Cruz and Alex Arreaza.

Anthony Borges, who is suffering from PTSD, did not consciousness comfy joining the discussions, his lawyer said.

“You could spot what a psychopath helium is,” Arreaza said of Cruz.

“He looked astatine Rory erstwhile we were each done and asked if helium could apologise, and Nikolas apologised to him similar they had been successful a car mishap together.

“It was conscionable precise acold and weird.”

Then 15-year-old Borges barricaded a doorway with his assemblage to support Cruz from entering a classroom, wherever helium cowered with other students.

The erstwhile promising shot subordinate suffered terrible injuries to his legs and torso successful the attack, which resulted successful him undergoing much than a twelve surgeries.

Borges volition besides person the US$430,000 (A$636,000) that Cruz is expected to person from a relative’s beingness security policy.

In a anterior settlement, the Broward County Public School District paid A$26 cardinal to victims of the shooting, of which A$1.8m went to Borges

An undisclosed colony from the FBI for their inability to forestall Cruz’s rampage besides went to Borges.

He and different victims person pending lawsuits against School Resource Officer Scot Peterson and the Broward County Sheriff’s Office

The fearfulness shooting continues to haunt the young man, who says helium is blessed the tract of the massacre is being torn down.

“Every clip helium drove by there, it brought backmost memories,” Arreaza said.

California lawyer Scott Herndon, who has represented victims of wide shooters successful the past, told the outlet that the colony was novel.

“I’ve ne'er heard of thing similar this before. It’s beauteous unique,” Mr Herndon said.

“It underscores the feeling of those near down that immoderate tin beryllium done to debar these massacres successful the aboriginal should beryllium done.”

He said it is not uncommon for a perpetrator to springiness up the rights to his sanction arsenic portion of a settlement.

At the time, the Parkland massacre was the 2nd deadliest schoolhouse shooting the US had ever known (not including universities) down the Sandy Hook massacre which saw 26 dormant astatine the hands of Adam Lanza.

Four years later, Salvador Ramos would termination 21 radical successful a chilling rampage astatine Robb Elementary School successful Uvalde, Texas.

According to the Washington Post, determination person been 413 schoolhouse shootings since the notorious Columbine School Massacre successful April 1999.

There person been 287 wide shootings successful the USA conscionable successful 2024, according to the National Gun Archive.