Friday 2 September 2022 09:40 PM Florida man is charged with leaving dead animals at memorial to Parkland victims trends now
A Florida man who is appears morbidly obsessed with school shootings has been charged with leaving multiple dead animals at a memorial for the 17 victims of the Parkland school massacre, officials said Friday.
Robert Mondragon, 29, is being held without bail on three felony charges of defacing a monument after allegedly leaving the animal carcasses outside Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Broward County sheriff's investigators described Mondragon as an aspiring school shooter who obsessively researched prior shootings and retraced Parkland shooter Nicholas Cruz's steps outside the Parkland school.
Police said that Mondragon's macabre facial tattoos resemble those of the fictional Tate Langdon school shooter character in the first season of American Horror Story, which was inspired by the real-life massacre at Columbine High School.
Robert Mondragon, 29, is being held without bail after allegedly leaving the animal carcasses outside Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
Police say Mondragon was obsessed with school shootings and on three occasions, left dead animals at the community memorial (above) to the victims of the 2018 Parkland shooting
In the first incident on the night of July 20, police say Mondragon put a dead, cut open duck on the bench that is part of the memorial garden outside the Parkland school commemorating the victims of the February 14, 2018, massacre.
The next night, Mondragon left a dead raccoon on the bench, and on July 31 he left a dead opossum, investigators said.
After he was identified as a suspect, a deputy pulled him over and found blood and feathers in his car. He allegedly told the deputy he had been keeping a dead bird in his car because he liked the smell.
Mondragon was arrested August 5, and is also being held
