Adopted mother of Parkland shooter says he was too disturbed to live on his own

Published October 22, 2018 10:41 PM EDT

New documents reveal that the adopted mother of accused Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz thought he was too disturbed to ever live on his own.

However, the adopted mother still took him to buy an AK-47 when he was 18-years-old.

The adopted mother died a year later of pneumonia.