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On February 14, 2018 in Parkland, Florida, Andrew Medina, a Campus Monitor at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High recognized Nickolas Cruz the minute the gold colored Uber he was riding in pulled up in front of the school. He knew who Cruz was even before he got out of the car. Medina: "I knew who the kid was because we had a meeting about him last year we said if there's gonna be anybody who will come to the school and shoot the school up its gonna be that kid because he had problems with everybody like all the security people." The minute Medina saw that gun case emerge for the car along with Cruz he knew it was an assault weapon and Cruz was there to shoot up the school. Medina looked Cruz straight in the eye as he passed his golf cart. He was less than a feet away from him standing face to face. Medina could have grabbed Cruz before he could pull the handgun which Medina later said he believed Cruz had concealed in his pocket. If he believed Cruz had a handgun on him than why didn't he believe Cruz had an assault rifle in the black gun case? Medina, however, called it a "duffel bag" so he wouldn't give away the fact he intentionally facilitated this shooting. He couldn't say "He got out of the car with a gun case and I let him walk into the school with it." Again the minute he saw the gun case emerge along with Cruz from the Uber he knew what Cruz was up to. Additionally Cruz, who was wearing a backpack, had been barred from bringing a backpack on campus, in fact he had been barred from the campus altogether after being expelled which Medina said he was aware of. In a heartbeat he knew an assault weapon was in that gun case and he knew Cruz was going to use it to commit mass murder. Then he did everything he could to give Cruz enough time to carry out his deed on the school that he hated. This included not confronting Cruz, not tackling Cruz, not even asking "Where are you going?" not following Cruz into the building though Medina said Cruz broke into a run, not call