The 19-year-old gunman who killed two folks at a St. Louis highschool Monday was armed with an AR-15 type rifle and over 600 rounds of ammunition, and left behind a word referencing mass shootings, police mentioned.
St. Louis Police on Tuesday confirmed a picture of the rifle utilized by Orlando Harris, who died after exchanging hearth with authorities.
“He had seven magazines of ammunition on a chest rig that he wore, he additionally had a further eight magazines of ammunition in a subject bag that he had carried,” St. Louis Police Chief Mike Sack advised reporters. “This does not embrace the variety of magazines that he left and dumped on the stairway within the corridors alongside the way in which.”
Sack didn’t make clear how the 19-year-old shooter bought entry to the weapon, however pressured the significance of checking in with people who’re in misery.
“In case you’re conscious of a person who seems to be affected by some sort of psychological sickness or misery, they usually start talking about buying firearms or inflicting hurt to others, we encourage you to succeed in out to any individual and report that in order that we are able to get assist to that particular person,” he mentioned.
Harris additionally left a handwritten word within the automobile he drove to the college, in line with police.
Sack learn a part of the word in the course of the information convention, through which Harris described himself as a loner and made reference to mass shootings.
“So, in studying this, we might see a few of what is going on on inside his thoughts,” mentioned Sack. “He feels remoted, he feels alone, fairly probably offended and resentful of others who’ve what appeared to him to be wholesome relationships and so desired to lash out.”
Harris entered Central Visible Performing Arts Excessive College Monday morning at round 9 a.m. with what police categorized as an extended gun on the time.
After a gunfight with authorities minutes later, the gunman was taken into custody and later pronounced lifeless, a St. Louis police official advised reporters.
Jean Kuczka, a 61-year-old well being instructor, and Alexzandria Bell, a 15-year-old pupil, have been killed within the taking pictures, in line with Saint Louis Public Colleges.
Sack wasn’t capable of present any replace on the a number of different victims injured within the taking pictures, saying that he isn’t conscious of any of them being launched from the hospital since they have been admitted. They have been all 15 and 16-year-olds and sustained accidents starting from gunshot wounds to a fractured ankle and facial abrasions, he mentioned Monday.
