In an aticle California School Shooting: Suspected gunman claims he targeted bullies, sheriff says CBS informs that, a 16 year old boy shot at teenagers he claimed was bullying him.
Students who were later interviwed about the shootings that had occured said that the inncident occured just a minutes after the new lock down saftey proceduers were annonced. About 10 minutes after the new saftey procedures was annonced, the school annonced that it was in lock down.. and it was not a drill. The 16 year old had planned what he was going to do and apperntly thought that the time was the best choice. Wether it be because he thought the procedures were not yet secure or the fact that he was impatient and just picked a random time is not yet determined.
The two teenagers he targeted were students who he claimed we bullying him for more that a year. The boy arrived around 9:00 am, walked into the classroom and started to fire, he later made a remark to the teacher that he did ot want to shoot him. It was not a random act he told police that he went home and thought about how to get revenge. He planned just who to shoot. He fired two rounds at the student before handing the gun over to teachers.
Students say that he was a very intelligent person. He knew excatly what he was doing and had to know that it was not the only way to get them to stop. It just goes to show what bullying can do it a person, it can just make them snap. Also the fact that he made the remark i dont want to shot you shows that he wasn't randomly doing this and that there was a resason. Wether or not he will be charged as an adult is still undetermined.
A connection to this would be the time back in 2007 when a 14 year boy was caught making plans to shoot people in his school. The 14 year old boy said he was doing it to 'get back' at the bullies and the students/teachers whom he felt were unfair towards them.
In conclusion, It is still undetermined wether or not the boy will be charged as an adult or a juvinile. The boy fired two rounds at students who were bullying him, and did not want to hurt anyone else. The boy was very intelligent and knew that what he was doing was wrong, if he felt like he was getting bullied he should have gotten help. Not taken matter into his own hands.
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