Instagram ‘troll’ charged with taunting and threatening the families of Parkland shooting victims
A California man has been charged with using Instagram to stalk the families of students who were killed during last year’s mass shooting in Parkland, Florida. Brandon Fleury confessed to taunting victims’ families and friends through multiple Instagram accounts, tagging them in posts and gloating about the students’ deaths. He’s accused of online harassment and intimidation as well as threatening to kidnap his targets.
According to an affidavit uploaded by HuffPost, Fleury harassed Parkland victims’ families between late December and mid-January. FBI agents and police confronted him on January 16th, and Fleury allegedly admitted he’d made the posts to “troll” and “get reactions” from his targets.
