“I really want kids. I think of it all the time, you know the joy they bring,' Nikolas Cruz wrote in a love letter.
Parkland school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz attended a hearing at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on March 22. By Alex Horton Alex Horton General assignment reporter covering national and breaking news Email Bio Follow April 9 at 10:06 AM In love letters knotted with stick figures and smiley faces, Parkland shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz looks toward the future.
“I hope you have the same feelings of wanting a family and having kids,” Cruz wrote to Miley in one letter among 47 pages of dispatches obtained by the Sun Sentinel from the Broward County State Attorney’s Office. “I wish life for me could have been different but it’s not. And a part of me is wishing it ends. End with the death [penalty], letting someone inject me with longlast sleep,” Cruz wrote on Oct. 13. “Its kind of what I want but I’m unsure of myself so I’m just letting people save me from myself, saving me from something that I can never return from.”
Yet Cruz held jobs and spoke about his desire to become a school shooter in cellphone videos, potentially blunting a strategy to suggest he was incapable of understanding his actions. “When you see me on the news, you’ll all know who I am,” he said in one video before laughing. “You’re all going to die!”
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