Florida school shooter suspect Nicolas Cruz posed in a 'Make America Great Again' hat - the slogan made famous by US President Donald Trump.

The 19-year-old also Googled "what does Allahu Akbar hateful?", liked to wearable "farthermost" patriotic shirts and "hated on Islam", according to reports.

Student Ocean Parodie, 17, told The Daily Beast Cruz would mock Muslims as "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 nineteen-twelvemonth-old which has now been taken downward.

In the moving-picture show, Cruz looks at the camera with almost all of his face up covered by a scarf.

The reddish lid is perched on his head with the Trump campaign'south iconic words blazoned across the front.

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

The moving-picture show was uploaded in 2015 with the explanation: "Well at to the lowest degree we at present know what it means when a sand durka says 'allahu Akbar' ??????"

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

Law said it is likewise early to say whether there was a terrorism motive.

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Florida high school shooting

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

The shooting, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, is at present ranked as 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 afterward the rampage.

CNN, citing law enforcement sources, said the gunman pulled the fire alarm and shot at staff and students before trying to alloy in and leave amid fleeing crowds.

The teen afterward surrendered to police without a struggle, officials said. He was armed with an AR-15-style rifle, multiple magazines of armament, a gas mask and smoke grenades.

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Cruz did non struggle when officers arrested him one mile from the school (

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

Daniel Huerfano, a pupil who fled the assail, said he recognised Cruz from an Instagram photo in which Cruz posed with a gun in front of his confront.

Dakota Mutchler, a 17-year-former inferior, said he used to be close friends with Cruz but had not seen him in more than a twelvemonth following his expulsion from school.

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

He recalled Cruz posting on Instagram about killing animals and said he had talked almost target practise in his lawn with a pellet gun.

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"He started going after one of my friends, threatening her, and I cut him off from at that place," Mr Mutchler said. "I call up everyone had in their minds if everyone was going to do it, information technology was going to be him."

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

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

"I would exist speculating at this point if there were, just we didn't take any warnings. At that place weren't any phone 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 teacher who said Cruz was in his class terminal year, said he believes the school had sent out an electronic mail warning teachers that Cruz should non be allowed on campus with a backpack.

"In that location were problems with him last twelvemonth threatening students, and I guess he was asked to leave campus," Mr Gard said.