KILLER CAN'T BEAR TO LOOK

Eyes fixed on court floor

He came to face justice — but couldn’t even look his own attorneys in the eye.

Confessed Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz bowed his head and stared intently at the floor during a brief court appearance in Fort Lauderdale on Monday as a judge made public a 2016 state social-services probe into the teen’s past threats and mental health.

Dressed in a red prison jumpsuit with his wrists shackled at his waist, the 19-year-old — who is accused of slaughtering 17 people at his former high school last week — sat slumped at the defense table and didn’t even look up as his lawyers whispered instructions to him.

Cruz’s sympathetic defense attorney, Melissa McNeill — who has described her client as a “broken child” who is “sorry” for the massacre — had unsuccessfully tried to keep him out of the courtroom, saying it would create “an opportunity for the media to have a circus with him.”

Cruz did not appear at a second hearing later, where a judge approved a petition from the Florida Department of Children and Fami- lies to release the investigative reports and case notes from a September 2016 probe of Cruz — saying the public should be made aware if the agency messed up.

“If there are shortcomings . . . the public has a right to know,” Judge Charles Greene said.

The investigation was prompted by a Snapchat video in which Cruz cut himself and said he planned to buy a gun — but investigators decided at the time that he was a “low risk” for hurting himself or others.

The hearings came as video emerged of Cruz brawling with students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS — site of the massacre — at around the same time as the state probe. He was suspended for two days after the fight and later expelled.

Meanwhile, the family with whom Cruz was living at the time of the shooting said Monday they didn’t see red flags or realize he had access to the gun safe holding his firearms.

“I thought I had the only key,” James Snead, whose family had been housing Cruz since his mom died last year, told “Good Morning America.”

STARE-DOWN: Nikolas Cruz makes no eye contact in court on Monday as he keeps his head bowed at a hearing. His lawyer had tried but failed to keep the teen, accused of killing 17 people at his former high school, from having to attend the session at the...