The suspect brought in a gas mask to school and made comments about the Las Vegas mass shooting. Witnesses also claim that they saw a knife in his backpack.
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The suspect posted a picture of guns and bullets onto his Instagram story, tagging former professional players and his high school.
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In a conversation with another student the day after the Parkland shooting, the suspect makes threats to commit a mass shooting at their high school.
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Student tells other students and at least one administrator in what appears to be a cry for help that he is angry and frustrated, and wants to “do damage by shooting up the school”.
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A security officer at the high school overhears a 17-year-old say the following to another student: “I guarantee you the school will be shot up in three weeks.”
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The suspect’s father finds her journal that outlines the plot. Journal entries dated back to December 2016 and described a timeline and phases of the attack.
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On 6-22-2004, the perpetrator brought two handguns and ammunition in a backpack to the school, arriving at the normal time of approximately 0715 hrs.
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Suspect solicited various students for a gun. The suspect continued to solicit students for a gun and told some students at the lunch table who he wanted to shoot before shooting himself.
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The suspect had moved away from his home state to live in a treatment center for troubled teens. Upon returning home from the center, he messaged a friend from the treatment center saying that he was plotting a school shooting. He had recently purchased a shotgun and multiple boxes of ammunition.
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The suspect’s grandmother finds his journal that contains plans to shoot students and use homemade explosives at his school. She finds the journal when he leaves to go to a friend’s house. She then makes copies of the journal entries and puts the journal back on his bed that night…
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