Florida school shooter doubtable Nicolas Cruz posed in a 'Make America Peachy Again' hat - the slogan fabricated famous by US President Donald Trump.

The 19-twelvemonth-former as well Googled "what does Allahu Akbar mean?", liked to wear "extreme" patriotic shirts and "hated on Islam", co-ordinate to reports.

Student Ocean Parodie, 17, told The Daily Beast Cruz would mock Muslims every bit "terrorists and bombers".

"I've seen him wear a Trump hat," she said.

Heavy reports Cruz wore the "MAGA" cap in an Instagram profile picture verified to the 19-twelvemonth-old which has now been taken downwards.

In the film, Cruz looks at the photographic camera with almost all of his face covered by a scarf.

The red hat is perched on his head with the Trump campaign'southward iconic words blazoned across the front.

Cruz reportedly took a screen shot of a Google search
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According to reports, Cruz besides uploaded a screenshot of a 'what does allahu akbar mean' Google search to his Instagram.

The picture was uploaded in 2015 with the caption: "Well at least we at present know what it ways when a sand durka says 'allahu Akbar' ??????"

The account proper name linked to these posts was "nikolascruzmakarov" - a Makarov being a Russian-made pistol.

Police said it is too early to say whether there was a terrorism motive.

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"Troubled" Cruz is suspected of killing 17 people when he opened fire at a school in Florida yesterday.

The shooting, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas Loftier Schoolhouse, in Parkland, is now ranked every bit the second deadliest act of gun violence on a US public school campus.

Cruz was arrested in a nearby community one mile from the school around an hour afterwards the rampage.

CNN, citing law enforcement sources, said the gunman pulled the burn alarm and shot at staff and students before trying to blend in and go out among fleeing crowds.

The teen later on surrendered to law without a struggle, officials said. He was armed with an AR-15-manner rifle, multiple magazines of ammunition, a gas mask and smoke grenades.

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Cruz did not struggle when officers arrested him one mile from the school (

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Investigators said some of Cruz's social media posts accept proved to be "very, very disturbing".

Daniel Huerfano, a student who fled the attack, said he recognised Cruz from an Instagram photo in which Cruz posed with a gun in front of his face up.

Dakota Mutchler, a 17-year-former inferior, said he used to exist close friends with Cruz but had non seen him in more a twelvemonth following his expulsion from schoolhouse.

"He started progressively getting a little more weird," he said.

He recalled Cruz posting on Instagram nearly killing animals and said he had talked about target do in his backyard with a pellet gun.

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"He started going after one of my friends, threatening her, and I cut him off from there," Mr Mutchler said. "I recollect everyone had in their minds if anybody was going to practice it, it was going to be him."

Broward County School District Superintendent Robert Runcie told reporters on Wednesday afternoon he did non know of whatsoever threats posed past Cruz to the school.

"Typically you see in these situations that there potentially could accept been signs out there," Mr Runcie said.

"I would be speculating at this point if there were, only we didn't accept any warnings. In that location weren't whatever telephone calls or threats that we know of that were made."

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A teacher told the Miami Herald that Cruz may have been identified as a potential threat to other students.

Jim Gard, a maths instructor who said Cruz was in his course last year, said he believes the schoolhouse had sent out an electronic mail warning teachers that Cruz should not be immune on campus with a backpack.

"There were bug with him last year threatening students, and I guess he was asked to leave campus," Mr Gard said.