Posted on 06/21/2019 7:50:05 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
A student accused of opening fire at a Colorado school reportedly told investigators that he targeted peers who made fun of him for his gender identity, court documents show.
Alec McKinney, 16, and Devon Erickson, 18, allegedly decided to carry out the shooting after exchanging messages on social media the day before the May 7 attack at STEM School Highlands Ranch near Denver, the documents show.
The shooting resulted in the death of 18-year-old Kendrick Ray Castillo; eight others were injured.
The police records, which were unsealed Thursday, show McKinney telling officers in an interview that he intended to “shoot and kill” kids who made fun of him, “hated him” and called him “disgusting” and other names for being transgender.
McKinney, who was born female, said he identifies as male and was beginning to transition.
He wanted “the kids at the school to experience bad things” and “suffer from trauma like he had to in his life,” court documents show.
McKinney reportedly reached out to Erickson on Snapchat the night before the shooting about carrying out the plan, but McKinney told investigators that he’d been planning the shooting for weeks.
McKinney reportedly told Erickson that he was “super suicidal” and that he wanted to get revenge on “a lot of people,” adding that he was thinking about killing his mom and siblings, court documents show.
He said McKinney threatened to kill him and other students if he told anyone about the plan.
Both teenagers reportedly told police that they broke into a gun safe at Erickson's home before walking to the school with a guitar case and backpack concealing the firearms, according to the affidavit. Erickson reportedly took the two handguns used in the shooting from his parents, a law enforcement source told CNN, adding that both guns were purchased legally.
Erickson told law enforcement officials that the two used cocaine in his basement before going back to school. According to the affidavit, they used the middle school entrance because, they said, they knew they would be able to get the guns into the school.
Both students face criminal charges, including first-degree murder. McKinney has been charged as an adult, according to the Denver Post.
Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard....
Get rid of guns of course. Because without guns we all know this would never have happened. /sarcasm
Balls off a bull=steer not heifer.
Don’t be a biology denier.
AWESOME
“Compelled”??? I refuse to be so. They are freakin’ lunatics who are very mentally unstable. Call a spade a spade.
Broke into a “gun safe”? I doubt it. I have a gun cabinet and a gun safe. If someone doesn’t know the combination, the only way into the safe is with a pretty sophisticated cutting torch or some other pretty fancy safe cracker’s tools.
OH, THEN IT’S OKAY, THEN. NEVER MIND...........
A new hero of the Left.
An ‘XX’ teen already full of adolescent hormones is pumped up with testosterone. Nothing to see here, folks, move along. Except extreme abuse of a minor — charge the perp’s so-called parents.
Damned Right Wing Extremist...
The issue is that individual rights are powerful so it’s near impossible to force anyone into treatment. Typically the parents can’t or won’t do it and thus we have societal ills.
I blame the parents. Morally and legally.
The Rise Of The Killer Fags
“Ask how many of the LGBTQ or trans shooters are on drugs from pscyhiatrists? Maybe 100%?”
I they’re in the process of “transitioning”, i.e., getting Mengelized, they’re on a huge cocktail of endocrine-altering drugs, plus various incidental psychotropic drugs. Given that, it’s a wonder any of the freaks retains any vague connection to reality.
Ah yes, the Imavictim Defense.
If she’s suicidal, she should be encouraged - a locked room, a bottle of liquor, a pistol, and one bullet.
I have no doubt you’re right. But if that’s true, then we have a mental health epidemic going on. My question is, why? Why so many?
A Denver talk show host predicted this the day learned that one of the perps had a mental problem - e.g., trannie.
It will be the standard MSM excuse for the sick one from now on.
“pumped up with testosterone”
Exactly. You don’t just suddenly learn how to deal with testosterone levels. It takes a childhood.
btt
Why so many?
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I wonder, too. The school teachers promote all the feminism and gender stuff and push LGBTQ. It gets to sound glamourous and give a lot of attention to the screwed up people (”Let’s all support our student Terry who is now male and used to be female. Yay. We’re on your side, Terry.”
Lack of steady, stable two parent home hurts, too. The Planned Parenthood pagan goddess Margaret Sanger said the best way to destabelize and destroy the American system was to remove the man as head of the household and family. The female with children would destroy the current system. That happened. Look at African American households (72% unmarried mothers when child born).
Not good to be unable to relate to normal parents when stresses and crises happen to children. No rock for them (obviously not in a Judeo-Christian family usually now). “Progressive” parent often says “I just want them to be free and happy” rather than “this is right and this is wrong.”
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