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Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts) Thu Mar 1, 2018, 06:35 PM Mar 2018

Police: Boy who shot himself planned attack on school

Source: Associated Press

John Seewer, The Associated Press
Updated 4:26 pm, Thursday, March 1, 2018

A seventh-grader who shot and killed himself inside an Ohio middle school restroom last week was planning to shoot others at the school before changing his mind at the last second, a police chief said Thursday.

The boy, 13-year-old Keith Simons, came out of the bathroom holding a semi-automatic rifle just before classes began and then abruptly went back inside and shot himself in the head, said Jackson Township Police Chief Mark Brink.

Police don't know why Simons didn't carry out the attack and probably never will, the police chief said. "We should thank God every day, whatever made him change his mind," Brink said.

Investigators found messages on his cellphone that showed the teen had been planning an attack for at least a week at Jackson Middle School, near Massillon. He also showed admiration for the two students who carried out the Columbine High School shooting in Colorado nearly 19 years ago.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/education/article/Police-Boy-who-shot-himself-planned-attack-on-12720756.php

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Police: Boy who shot himself planned attack on school (Original Post) Judi Lynn Mar 2018 OP

I fear for my sons mikeysnot Mar 2018 #1

Its Russian roulette going to school for these kids bronxiteforever Mar 2018 #2

I'm glad he changed his mind. Aristus Mar 2018 #3

Thank you, young man, crim son Mar 2018 #4

You said what I am thinking too. Thank you. uppityperson Mar 2018 #6

This was not a surprise... Guilded Lilly Mar 2018 #5

We always ask for Rambage Shooters to do the suicide part 1st maxsolomon Mar 2018 #7

Am grateful that he decided to kill himself first UpInArms Mar 2018 #8

It could have been so much worse. But this is bad enough. That kid did not get ... marble falls Mar 2018 #9

mikeysnot

(4,757 posts)

1. I fear for my sons

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Mar 1, 2018, 07:15 PM

Mar 2018

and everybody else children's future.

bronxiteforever

(9,287 posts)

2. Its Russian roulette going to school for these kids

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Mar 1, 2018, 07:43 PM

Mar 2018

And yes NRA Russian Roulette

Aristus

(66,380 posts)

3. I'm glad he changed his mind.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Mar 1, 2018, 07:46 PM

Mar 2018

There was a little humanity left in there.

I wonder how much pain he was in to even be thinking about that.

crim son

(27,464 posts)

4. Thank you, young man,

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Mar 1, 2018, 08:04 PM

Mar 2018

for not killing anyone else. Any sympathy I have for people who are so miserable that they choose to end their lives, vanishes when they choose to take others' lives with theirs. For whatever reason, this kid thought twice. I am sad for him.

uppityperson

(115,677 posts)

6. You said what I am thinking too. Thank you.

Reply to crim son (Reply #4)

Thu Mar 1, 2018, 08:12 PM

Mar 2018

Guilded Lilly

(5,591 posts)

5. This was not a surprise...

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Mar 1, 2018, 08:10 PM

Mar 2018

My community for 30 years. Everyone I talked with back there knew this was not “just a suicide”. They were one thought process away from being the next horrifying statistic and a red flag on the gun murder national map.