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The teenage shooter who killed a student and teacher at a St. Louis high school left a note in his car saying his loneliness was a “perfect storm of mass shootings,” the police commissioner said Tuesday (October 25). ).
Police found a blue notebook in the car murderer Orlando DeSean Harris was driving to Central Visual and Performing Arts High School on Monday, where he was a 61-year-old teacher. and shot a 16-year-old student and killed seven others who were injured or injured.
Harris was killed in a shootout with police.
Police Commissioner Michael Sack labeled a handwritten note “Manifesto” and read part of his document to the media at a news conference on Tuesday.
“I have no friends,” Sack quotes the note, “I have no family. I never had a girlfriend. I have never had a social life. I’ve been a lonely loner all my life.
Sack said Harris may have suffered from mental illness and the note shed light on his mental state.
“He feels lonely. He feels lonely,” Sack said. “Maybe he was angry and angry with other people who seemed to him to have healthy relationships. So he wants to attack.” He is armed with an AR-15 rifle. and had 600 rounds of ammunition.
This mass shooting is one of the school shootings that have killed and injured dozens across the United States this year alone. In one of the deadliest cases, he killed 19 children and two adults in May in Uvalde, Texas.
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St. Louis authorities have not disclosed how Harris, a former Central student, got into the locked building around 9:10 am on Monday. The rampage lasted about 15 minutes before police raided the school.
In a statement Tuesday, police said they found Harris barricaded in his third-floor classroom. Harris disobeyed police orders to drop his gun and surrender. He fired his rifle and the police shot him dead.
Media reported that many students barricaded themselves in classrooms and some jumped out of windows.
In addition to the two fatalities, four youths suffered gunshot wounds and three other youths suffered other injuries.
