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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
13-year-old boy 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 the attack wasn't carried out 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.
"I'd
hurt and destroy something bigger but my schools an easy target,"
Simons wrote in one message found on his phone.
"I
want to leave a lasting impression on the world," he said in
another message written days before he took the.22-calibre gun to
school on Feb. 20. "I'm going to die doing it."
Police
said the teen rode a bus to school and concealed the gun under his
clothes. He also had a backpack with extra ammunition, bottle rockets
and batteries.
The
boy went into the restroom as soon as he arrived at school, Brink
said.
At
about the same time, surveillance video showed he came out of the
restroom and there were four students nearby, but for some reason he
turned around, Brink said. Another boy in who was the restroom saw
the gun and ran to tell school officials, he said.
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The
teen died a day later and the Summit County Medical Examiner's Office
ruled the death a suicide.
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