Swapping one evil for another: Have mass shooters replaced serial killers?

Swapping one evil for another: Have mass shooters replaced serial killers?
Perhaps because he survived while most mass shooters do not, there's a surprising amount of information coming out about Nikolas Cruz, the apparent perpetrator of the massacre in Parkland, Florida. He appears to have a long history of troubled behavior and outright violence, of the sort that suggests some kind of mental health diagnosis will likely be forthcoming. Cruz also reportedly bragged about killing animals. In other words, he appears to fit the profile of a different kind of mass murderer that until recently was much more prominent in the cultural imagination: The serial killer.

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Frustrated onlookers urged police officers to charge into the Texas elementary school where a gunman’s rampage killed 19 children and two teachers, witnesses said Wednesday, as investigators worked to track the massacre that lasted upwards of 40 minutes and ended when the 18-year-old shooter was killed by a Border Patrol team.

“Go in there! Go in there!” nearby women shouted at the officers soon after the attack began, said Juan Carranza, 24, who saw the scene from outside his house, across the street from Robb Elementary School in the close-knit town of Uvalde. Carranza said the officers did not go in.