Parents are called to the school and shown the drawings accompanied by the words
“Blood everywhere, thoughts won’t stop, help me. My life is useless. The world is dead.”
And the parents know they just bought him a new handgun like the one in the drawing. What would sane patents do? Leave the school with him, demand he hand over his backpack before getting into the car, check the backpack as soon as they get home, find the gun and ammo and notebook in it. Then checked his phone and discovered the video. At which point, sane parents would have locked up all guns and ammo and begun finding psychiatric help for the kid.
Notebook:
“Deputies recovered the suspect’s cellphone and a notebook after the Tuesday, Nov. 30 shooting, Oakland County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Tim Willis told Judge Carniak.
Willis said a video recorded the night before the shooting was found on the phone and depicted the suspect talking about shooting and killing students the next day.
The suspect’s notebook was also recovered by deputies that outlined his plans to commit the shooting and surveillance video at the school shows the suspect shooting students, Willis said.”
But no, these parents refused to take him home. They left their very troubled kid who had just made a cry for help at school, not knowing whether he had that gun in his backpack. Did not even go back home to check whether the gun was there. Dad did rush home to check right after he heard of the shooting, though. Too late, Pops.
You’ve nailed it.