Ariana Lopez
Ariana Lopez
Image of Ariana Lopez during her interview with ABC.
Ariana Lopez is an American teenager known for her previous friendship with Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting, Nikolas Cruz. [1] [undefined]
Biography
Lopez is a resident of the state of Florida where she lives with her family. [undefined] She has had most of her upbringing in Broward County and currently lives in Parkland. She is currently a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. [undefined]
Interview that Ariana Lopez had with ABC.
Ariana became friends with Cruz some time in early 2016 when the two were students at the same high school, and the place that Cruz would eventually commit murder.
[undefined] After becoming friends, the two grew apart once Ariana began to experience the abusiveness of Cruz.
He began stalking her and her friend.
Ariana reported him to the school officials and it did little to change the situation.
Cruz had mental and behavioral issues that were on display for the entire school as told by Ariana.
In an interview she also says that Cruz was discipline dozens of times - 25 times to be exact, before getting expelled by the school.
Lopez reveals that the video of the fight at school in which Cruz is implicated and seen was not over his break-up with his girlfriend at the time.
The fight was rather about physically abusing her.
As Lopez says: "He would hit her.
He would threaten her.
He would threaten her family and friends for talking to other guys".
Lopez also explains the following about Cruz:
"He would talk about how he sympathized with Syrian terrorists and say people who opposed them should be killed.
He posted pictures of 15 or more firearms just on his bed.
Like this was normal.
Like you could even see a hamper in the background.
That's how ordinary this was to him.
He talked about killing our parents, our friends, boyfriends and girlfriends."
[undefined]"I was thinking about why he could have done this.
Because Nik was an avid hunter, I thought about it from a hunter's perspective...
The freshman building is very difficult to get out of - and when you think about it from the way that a hunter might have, which was the way Nik thought about a lot of things, that was an easy target.
I knew it.
We all did.
Everybody who knew him, knew it.
Before they announced that he was the shooter - we all knew it was Nik...
He was the only person we could think of that would do something like this because it was obvious that he had the power to do this."
During the mass shooting that took place at her high school by Cruz, she hid inside of a closet.