By Katherine Lam, Fox News
The FBI received a tip months before Wednesday’s Florida high school shooting that alleged gunman Nikolas Cruz wrote about being “a professional school shooter” in a YouTube comment, according to the vlogger who said he told authorities.
Ben Bennight, a Mississippi bail bondsman who goes by the name “Ben The Bondsman” on YouTube and social media, said he reported a threatening comment left on one of his videos in September.
The comment, made by a user named Nikolas Cruz, stated: “I’m going to be a professional school shooter.”
Rob Lasky, FBI Special Agent in charge of FBI’s Miami division said in a Thursday morning news conference that the agency investigated a comment made on a YouTube video that matched the remark reported by Bennight. However, after conducting database reviews the FBI could not identify the user who made the comment.
Bennight said in a YouTube video posted Wednesday he immediately reported the comment to YouTube and contacted the FBI. The vlogger also showed a screenshot of the comment.
“Well the next day I had two FBI agents standing in my office, taking down the information, taking copies of the screenshots and asking me questions that, of course, I couldn’t answer. All it was on my channel was a comment,” Bennight said.
Bennight said he reported the disturbing comment because he “just couldn’t ignore” it.
Bennight said Wednesday he was again contacted by FBI agents from the Mississippi and Miami field offices — after alleged gunman Cruz shot and killed at least 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
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