The younger brother of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School gunman Nikolas Cruz was arrested Monday for trespassing at the Parkland, Florida, school where the older teen killed 17 people, the Sun Sentinel reported Monday.
The Broward Sheriff's Office said Zachary Cruz, 18, rode his skateboard at 4:30 p.m. ET; the school day ended at 2:40 p.m., the Sun Sentinel reported.
The arrest report stated Zachary Cruz told deputies he visited the school "to reflect on the school shooting and to soak it in," according to the news outlet.
He had been warned by school officials to keep away from the school.
"Cruz surpassed all locked doors and gates" to get onto the campus, according to the arrest report.
Zachary Cruz has been living with a family friend, Roxanne Deschamps, in Lantana, Florida, since the death of his mother in November. Two days after the shooting, he told a deputy he felt "somewhat responsible and guilty about the incident and that he could have possibly prevented [it]," a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office report said, the Sun Sentinel reported.
Zachary told Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputies "he and his friends, when they were younger, had bullied Nikolas, which he now regrets ever doing," that agency's report said, according to the Sun Sentinel.
The deputy wrote "Zachary wishes that he had been 'nicer' to his brother" and there might be resentment between the two "as Nikolas may have been the favored brother."
Nikolas Cruz, 19, has confessed to the Feb. 14 school shooting and faces the death penalty if convicted.
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