Woman told FBI Florida shooting suspect 'going to explode'

By SADIE GURMAN, Associated Press

Feb 23, 2018 4:10 PM CST

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Margarita Lasalle, a bookkeeper and Joellen Berman, a guidance data specialist, look at a memorial Friday, Feb. 23, 2018 as teachers and school administrators returned to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School for the first time since 17 victims were killed in a mass shooting at the school, in Parkland,... (Associated Press)

WASHINGTON (AP) — A woman close to the man charged with killing 17 people at a Florida high school warned the FBI he had rifles and said, "I know he is going to explode."

That's according to a transcript of the Jan. 5 tip to the FBI's call center, which was obtained Friday by The Associated Press. The FBI has acknowledged it failed to investigate the tip about 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz. But the transcript, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, provides new details.

The woman described Cruz's short temper and said he had the "mental capacity of a 12 to 14 year old."

She said Cruz posted pictures of weapons on social media, writing, "I want to kill people."

The woman told the FBI, "I do believe something's going to happen."