MIAMI, Nov 23, 2021 (BSS/AFP) - The US Justice Department is expected to
pay $130 million to the families of victims of the 2018 Parkland shooting in
Florida because the FBI failed to investigate two tip-offs about the gunman
who went on kill 17 people at the high school, the New York Times said
Monday.

  Armed with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, 19-year-old former student
Nikolas Cruz went on a shooting rampage in the Marjorie Douglas Stoneman
school on Valentine's Day 2018.

  Six weeks before that, a woman had phoned the Federal Bureau of
Investigation's tip line after seeing his social media post about stockpiling
weapons and ammunitions.

  "I know he's going to explode," she said, citing fears the young man was
"going to slip into a school and start shooting the place up."

  And five months before the shooting, the owner of a YouTube channel had
reported a comment left under one of his videos in which a user by the name
of "nikolas cruz" had claimed that he would become "a professional school
shooter".

  Just days after the shooting, the FBI admitted it had not followed up on
the two pieces of information they had received.

  The FBI's admission of its error devastated the victims' families, who sued
the bureau for negligence, the newspaper said.

  Cruz, now 23, pleaded guilty to 17 counts of murder last month and said he
was "very sorry." He is awaiting sentencing and prosecutors have said they
will seek the death penalty.