A 13-year-old student from Massillon, Ohio who shot himself in the head last week was initially planning a school shooting. Police have revealed evidence from the boy’s cellphone.
Jackson Middle School student Keith Simons, 13, was found dead in one of the school bathrooms with a semi-automatic rifle. The seventh-grader first left the bathroom with the .22 caliber weapon intending to begin his assault, but quickly changed his mind, went back inside, and turned the gun on himself.
Messages uncovered by authorities revealed that he admired Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the attackers from the Columbine High School massacre. They murdered 13 victims on April 20, 1999, before committing suicide.
Simons’ disturbing messages explained his motivations for carrying out the attack. “I’d hurt and destroy something bigger but my schools an easy target,” Simmons wrote in one of them.
“I want to leave a lasting impression on the world,” he stated. “I’m going to die doing it.”
Investigators say Simons began planning his attack on the day of the February 14 Parkland, Florida massacre, which claimed 17 lives. The shooter, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, entered the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school and murdered 17 victims and injured 14 more.
“We should thank God every day, whatever made him change his mind,” Jackson Township Police Chief Mark Brink said about Keith Simons’ unfulfilled plans
Fierce gun debates have erupted across the US with renewed force after the Parkland tragedy, with many still divided on how best to tackle the epidemic of gun violence. Additionally, tensions remain high after Florida lawmakers struck down a crucial gun reform bill after three minutes of debate and passed a resolution on pornography an hour later.
US president Donald Trump has come under intense scrutiny for not doing enough to reform gun laws. In response, he held a meeting Wednesday with over a dozen lawmakers, promising to outlaw “bump stocks” with an executive order by the end of the week. He urged lawmakers to combine their proposals into a single “beautiful” bill he could sign, and soon.
Best guess on this one: As he admired the CO kids who killed all the jerks that bullied them, I’d say this kid was “different” and got bullied all the time until he snapped. I wonder which SSRI’s his parents had him on…like Klebold and Harris were.
Which anti-depressants was he taking?
Schools these days are conditioning their kids to live under tyranny, and you’re also going to have some naturally occurring rebellion to that. The anti-depressants are always there, but what kids are made to endure in school may be part of the problem, too.
They’ve given up on our generation because they’ll get too much fight on their hands, but kids are thrown into “scream rooms”, handcuffed in class, and even have their lemonade stands raided so they’ll become accustomed to life under a dictator.
did anyone beat up that mean ‘ole gun that killed him?????????
WEVE GOTTA DO SOMETHING ABOUT THESE MEAN ‘OLE GUNS.’SPECIALLY OF THE RACE “ASSAULT WEAPONS”……
THIS IS THE RESULT OF SHITTY PARENTING………..
Maybe his MKUltra handlers shot him in the head because he was glitching
PROLLY
Well of course he changed his mind…….they just had to throw that BS in there.