UNCLASSIFIED
U3ITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Langunge Services Section
Idaho Translation and Analysis Center
3975 Pole Line Road
Pocatello, ID 83201
File Number:
Requesting Official(s) aud Office(s) SSA
Task Number(s) and Date Completed 799120. Work Request Number 7991 19, 2 15 2018,
Name and Office of Linguist(s) EMA, aracy
Name and Office of Reviewer(s): ‘
Source Language(s): English
Target Language English
Source File Information
‘Name of Audio File or CD; 010518_0231_pm_Nikolas_Crz_Phone_Call wav
~Date, Duration: 1 $/2018, 00:15:35
VERBATIM TRANSCRIPTION
Pauticipants:
‘Unknown Female UF
‘Abbreviations
PH Phonetic
ul Unintelligible
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[TN: The Instagram accounts, provides for Nikolas Cruz ate aikolas_ cruz
nikolascruzmakarov, eruz_nikolas, erazynikolas_new]
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Recording Name: 010518_0231_pm_Nikolas
UF
UF
UF:
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“ruz_Phone_Callavay
[start of 010518_0231_pm_Nikolas_Cruz_Phone Callaway]
Thank you for calling the FBI. Can I get your name please?
Ah. yes, My name is [PH]
Thank you, And ean T get your telephone number please?
Sure
Thank you. And how can help you today ma'am?
(Okay. Iwas just fig-1 guess [ was talking to the operator and, and she transferred
sme, Una, like [said to her. Idou't know how to go about this, but, ub, on the
Instagram account, {have a, unt, Lwouldn’t say he's by blood but.
uum, FI would consider hin He's only 18. but e's got the mental
capacity of 1210 a 14 year old. His mother just passed away on the first of
November, He's got Instagram accounts. He started off saying he wanted to kill
himself, So what T did was I called the Parkland, which is where he lives. Uh.
Paukland Police Departntent and I spoke to a officer... [PE], ult [PH]
Um, I didn’t hear anything on. you know, my—I efit. [gave him all the
information Thad. And then just recently, now he has switched it to he wants to
Kill people. And then he put that on his lnstagram and about two days later, he
took it off. Um, if you go onto his Instagram pages. you'll see all the gums he-he’s
so into ISIS and, um, I'm afiaid this is, so-somtethiug’s gonna happen. Because
he's. he doesu't have the mental eapacity, He can’t, he’s so outraged if someone
talks to him about certain things. And he had pulled a rifle ou his mother before
she had, uh, passed away because she wanted to get money to (UT). Un. and the
whole, and another problem is that—and-ond he's 18 and his mother’s life
insurance potiey is. ih, coming in and he is going to receive $25.000 from that
and then af 21, uh, 24. and up to 30. he’s reeeiving. uh, $25.000 every year after
that. wh, trom a, wn, a wrongtial death suit that the mother had on the fathet, on
his father: So, he weut out and he. um, took money out of his mother’s account. [
don't iow how he got the debit card, but he did. And he. uh, took money. Thus ts
after she passed away. And he took the money out, the sovial secwity money out
And he fook it, and he bought all these rifles and anumnnition and he posted
pictures of them on the Instagram. And the family that, you know. distant cousin.
and-and myself, tun, are very concenied about this because T just want someone to
know about this so they ean took into it, If they think i's something worth gow,
into, fine. If not, um, I just know I have a clear conscience if he takes off and. and
jtist starts shooting places up.
Okay. And dic he say be would do that of he just wanted to, ma‘ant?
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Recording Name: 010518 0231_pm_Nikolas_Cruz Phone Call. wav
‘Ub. on the Instagram. he says, “Iwant to kill people.” Um. Yeah, let me see. (UI]
uuh, yes. “I want to kill people.” And. um, I can, give you, the Instagram accounts
and you can look at them and you'll see the pictures
UF: ‘Yeah.
ea um,
UF Yes please, ma'am,
Okay. The one account where it was on there. “I want to kill people.” aud then he
took it down is Nikolas, N-I-K-O-L-A-S underline Cruz, C-R-U-Z underline,
Now there's another. um, that you should realty look at and that’s Nikolas, Oh
this is all one word all. uh, undere K-O-L-AS-CR-U-Z-M-A-K
ARO,
UF: Okay.
Okay. And then there's an-there’s another one, um. lt, itit’s Crtz, C-R-U-Z,
tunderfine, Nikolas, N- A-S. Um. and that's where all [UT], And. now. it
s cutting up animals and things like that. Little animals. Right now it's just
frogs and I know for a fnet it was a bird at oue time. Uh, just (0, just to give y
little background on him, You know how a bird will fly around in the backyard
and then hit your glass door. your sliding glass doors and hit the ground”
UF. Mhm.
Well that's what happened. He brought the bird into the louse. He threw it om his
‘mother’s kitchen counter and he started cutting it up, He has all kinds of hunting
knives. [don’t know what knife he used though. And he statted cutting the. uh.
bite up and bis mother, Linds (PH). said, “What're you doing?” aAnd he says. “L
‘ant to see what's inside.” Now ... Idon't know. (ehuckle] That to me would be
ared flag
UF: (uy
‘And then, uh, you know. wanting fo kill all these animals and ub, he wants to um,
uh, do something in Arabie and uh. he-he dresses up like a ninja or a, of a-a-a
ISIS guy. And he has pictures of all the rifles and everything on the lnstagram. on
one of these accounts,
UF: Okay. Does he say anything:
fov] (Uy)
UF: ~-else about doing anything. ma'am?
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Recording Name: 010518_0231_pin_Nikolas Cre Phone Call. way
UF
UF:
UF:
UF:
Um, no. He really, he doesn’t um, but he has expre—in different times he
expresses different things and then he takes it off. But he left the pictures. Um.
there's one of these accounts I had. ub, texted lim on his Instagram asking him
how he was and, and. you know. if e was doing okay aud telling lia I needed to
speak to someone and ina, conld ie get me the plone niunber. and [went back on
the account because {hadn't heard from isn, And atthe top of the page it sai.
“Leave me the falone.” And now Tdon't believe it's there anymore. And [ know
he was speaking to me
Okay
‘You know. it-it's just, is so much and I know he’s-he's going to explode. A nian
he befiiended. some young boy who's also on Instagram. and. um, his father. this
boy's father took hint in, Him anc his wife took Nikolas in and said he could live
there auc uh. his guns and everything could be iu the house because he has them
locked up. Um. he also said when. this is another flag I saw. He also said, when
Nikolas gets his money. his $25,000. This mau will invest it for him,
Okay,
He doesn't know Nikolas froma hole inthe wall, And T don’t know who he's
going fo invest it with or what's going to happen but I do kos, and this i a fact
when you ask Nikolas for money. be goes up one rule and down the other. He gets
ciazy, because he will not give auybody his mouey. Matter of fact. he thinks
anything he [UI] the bank is alls. and. you know. to hell with everybody else
including bis brother. So, and {have th-the, ub, man’s name who uh-lve've. the
{analy and Ihave tried to call this gentleman and he refuses to retry any phone
calls, but I got his name and his addtess if you'd like it
Yes please.
Okay. His name is [PH] His address is,
(PH) Now Ihave um. a phone mumbet
And is thate-
[ovum
~-the one that he’s staying with, ma‘ain?
‘Yes. That's the man he’s supposed to be staying with, Aud wu, an aunt of his has,
huad called him. Another woman who was taking cate of Nikolas. ih, who has
already spoken to him tried to call him, I tried to call him just to find out how
Nikolas was and fo make sure he tuderstood the problenis of thts, he bas.