The teenage gunman who killed a teacher and a 15-year-old pupil at his old St. Louis high school left a note calling his lonely life a “perfect storm for a mass shooter” — and was armed with enough ammo to kill hundreds.
Killer Orlando Harris, 19, left a manifesto-like note in his car before storming Central Visual and Performing Arts High School on Monday, killing two and injuring several others.
He had used an “AR-15-style rifle” — and it “appears he came into the building with more than 600 rounds of ammunition on him,” Police Commissioner Michael Sack said Tuesday.
Harris also left a note in his car crying about his life, the chief said.
“This could have been a horrific scene,” Sack said. “That’s a whole lot of victims there,” he said of the mass of ammo.
“He wrote, ‘I don’t have any friends. I don’t have any family. I’ve never had a girlfriend. I’ve never had a social life. I’ve been an isolated loner my entire life. This was the perfect storm for a mass shooter,’” the chief read.
He suggested the motive was that Harris “feels isolated, he feels alone — quite possibly angry and resentful of others who have, it appeared to him, to have healthy relationships. So a desire to lash out.”
“There was no mystery about what was going to happen. He had it out and entered in an aggressive, violent manner,” Sack said.
