Teen Colorado school shooting suspect reportedly fixated on Columbine attack | US school shootings
According to experts, a young person suspected of a shot attack at a suburban Denver High School that left two students in a critical position seemed to have been fascinated by previous mass shots, which expressed the Columbine and Neo-Nazi landscapes online.
Since December, 16 -year -old Desmond Holly said that users are active in an online forum, where users watch videos of murder and violence, mixed with content about white supremacism and antisemitism.
Holly shot herself on Wednesday after shooting at the Evergreen High School in Jefferson County. He died of injuries. It is still unclear how he chose his visible victims. The district was also the scene of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre that killed 14 people.
Anti-Defamation League, Holly’s tiktok accounts contain white superiority symbols, and the last account of the latest account contains a popular white superior slogan, he said. The account could not be used on Friday. Tiktok said that accounts associated with Holly are banned.
Holly’s family could not be reached. Associated Press left a message on a phone number associated with the house after the police.
Jefferson County Sheriff Office Spokesman Mark Techmeyer refused to comment on ADL’s findings or to discuss his investigation into shooting. The office said that Holly has been radicalized by a “extremist network” that has not been specified before, but has issued any details.
According to ADL, the last two suspects were active in school shootings at the “Gore Forum ğı used by Holly called Watch People Die. Adl, Holly Madison, Wisconsin and Nashville, Tennessee’daki shooting in the month of the month.
A few days before the shooting of Wednesday, Holly released a Tiktok video that posed in a way that Wisconsin poses posing before killing two people in December. A photo of the Wisconsin shooter added an article in which Holly wore “Gazap” and a black t -shirt on the front.
Adl released videos showing how he made the shirt worn by an armed during the Columbine shooting.
“There is a line between these attacks, Oren said Oren Segal, Vice President of Foreign Extractism and Intelligence. “They tell us that it is a line because they refer to each other.”
People Die executives said that Holly was lying about her age to access the site with an e -mail, and she was not a very active user with only seven comments. The e-mail said that the site was “stable pro-Israel”, but did not silence its opposing perspectives. Holly and Wisconsin and Tennessee’daki shooters referred to the “UNHINGED LOSE”.
Holly said that Tiktok was active in the “real crime community ve and that users admire collective killers and serial killers.
Some Tiktok posts shared by ADL show a user that encourages Holly to be a “hero ,, which says white superiorists use it to successfully refer to ideologically motivated attackers.
The person also told Holly that Christchurch would take a 2019 attack on a mosque in New Zealand and a patch with a Nazi period symbol worn by men who attacked a supermarket in New York, Buffalo, New York.
Holly released a photo of his two patchs, but said Velcro’s fell.
“I will use a stronger glue on the correction,” he said.
The Colorado School was shooting the day when the extreme -right political activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed during an event in Utah.
Kirk’s alleged killer, 22 -year -old Tyler Robinson was a similar enthusiastic internet user.
Robinson, whose motives are still unclear, grew up in a republican house that loves arms. It is reported that it has not yet cooperated with law enforcement officers. Utah’s Governor Spencer Cox said in a statement on Sunday, Robinson’un “deep, dark internet” culture and the Internet that confirms that these other dark places, “he said.
The ammunition, which was left at the death of Kirk, had engravings on internet breasts, including the lyrics of the anti-fascist Italian song, “Hey Fascist! Catch! Catch!” And an uncertain sexual memory.
José Olives contributed to reporting
