Here’s what we know: Nikolas Cruz, the now 24-year-old who admitted to killing 17 people in Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February 2018, has avoided the death penalty.

In a private Instagram group chat, confessed school shooter Nikolas Cruz repeatedly espoused racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic views and displayed an obsession with violence and guns.

Nikolas Cruz appears in court for a status hearing before Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Monday, Feb. 19, 2018. Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP.

Suspect Nikolas Cruz at Broward County Jail in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Feb. 15, 2018. Cruz is being charged with premeditated murder in the shooting deaths of 17 people at a Parkland high school.