# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nikolas-cruz
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:46:59.646Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nikolas-cruz"
name: "Nikolas Cruz"
slug: "nikolas-cruz"
description: "Nikolas Jacob Cruz is an American mass murderer who perpetrated the Parkland high school shooting, one of the deadliest school shootings in the United States. On February 14, 2018, Cruz killed fourteen students and three staff members and injured seventeen others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. In November 2022, Cruz was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole."
tagline: "American mass shooter and former student of Stoneman Douglas High School"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nikolas_Cruz.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1998-09-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           54.38
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.80772666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/cruz_nikolas/"
    handle:    "cruz_nikolas"
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolas_Cruz"
    title: "Nikolas Cruz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "نيكولاس كروز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolas_Cruz"
    title: "Nikolas Cruz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolas_Cruz"
    title: "Nikolas Cruz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolas_Cruz"
    title: "Nikolas Cruz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%A1_%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%96"
    title: "ניקולס קרוז"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8B%88%EC%BD%9C%EB%9D%BC%EC%8A%A4_%ED%81%AC%EB%A3%A8%EC%A6%88"
    title: "니콜라스 크루즈"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolas_Cruz"
    title: "Nikolas Cruz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolas_Cruz"
    title: "Nikolas Cruz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48886558"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump