School shooter in SC said target chosen because it was CPZ

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M-Quigley
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School shooter in SC said target chosen because it was CPZ

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New information about the school shooting at a SC elementary school, revealed he said on an Instagram account prior to the shooting that he he was going to shoot up a school. He also chose the elementary school over another school because there would be no cops there.

The article doesn't say, but I'm assuming that there were no trained and armed staff members either. :(

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Teen boasted to friends he hoped to kill up to 150 people in elementary school massacre days before attack in which he killed one boy before his gun jammed
Agent Ewing showed messages starting about a week before the shooting.

Osborne bounced ideas off his Instagram friends, wondering if he should go to his old elementary school or the middle school he was suspended from after bringing an ax and hatchet to school because he said he was bullied.

The middle school has tons of cops,' he wrote six days before the shooting. 'The elementary school doesnt.'

He laid out his plan to his friends five days before the shooting and later typed that he would probably kill 50 to 60 people at the school and 'if I get lucky maybe 150.'
These messages came to light after Jesse, now 15, told a court on Tuesday that he was part of an Instagram group where others including teens from 'Manhattan, Germany and England' talked about 'shooting up' their schools.'

He said those other students 'cheered him on' when he told them about his plans.

Jesse is said to have opened fire in the playground, shooting two students and a teacher with his father's .40 semi-automatic pistol before the gun jammed. Six-year-old Jacob Hall, one of the children shot, later died in the hospital.
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