20+ years of mass shootings missed warnings!

Red flags, warning signs continue to be missed before shootings.

Columbine April 20, 1999

FBI: Columbine detonator too advanced for the gunman

Columbine warning signs overlooked, evidence shows / Young killer had 15 run-ins with the law before school rampage – SF GATE

The 1999 massacre at Columbine High School two years ago might never have happened had school officials and the local sheriff acted on clear signs that the two killers were prone to violence and familiar with lethal weapons, according to a report made public today by Gov. Bill Owens of Colorado. – NEW YORK TIMES

Families Allege Columbine Cover-Up – CBS

Police Knew of Columbine Threat, Papers Show – LA TIMES

On the day of the attacks, the Swat teams were so hesitant to swoop in mid-killing that they ended up compounding the disaster, allowing a PE teacher to bleed to death when early intervention would almost certainly have saved his life. The sheriff’s department was dysfunctional from start to finish, preferring to cover up what it had known about the killers and doing nothing to contradict the nerds-targeting-jocks story. The bulk of the withheld investigation documents were finally released in 2006, the result of years of lawsuits, but not all: a deposition of the parents of the two killers, taken over several days in 2003, remains under seal until 2027.

Cover-up at Columbine?

Virginia Tech 2007

Virginia Tech has paid $32,500 to satisfy federal fines lodged by the U.S. Department of Education, which charged that the university did not adequately warn its campus community at the beginning of a 2007 rampage that became one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history. – WASHINGTON POST

The shooter alarmed instructors, classmates – NBC

Fort Hood 2009

FBI and Army officials repeatedly ignored multiple warning signs that could have prevented the November 2009 massacre at Fort Hood, Texas, according to a long-awaited report released Thursday by two U.S. senators. – CNN

Lawmaker: Report shows FBI ignored accused Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan out of political correctness – CBS

Norway attacks 2011

Norway shooting: police response criticised – TELEGRAPH

Norwegian police ‘could have stopped Anders Breivik massacre’ – INDEPENDENT

The laughing gunman was a freemason – TELEGRAPH

Breivik uses meditation as a form of mind control – GUARDIAN

Sandy Hook 2012

Four years before Adam Lanza massacred more than two dozen people in Newtown, Conn., in 2012, police officials were warned of his homicidal plans, according to documents released by the F.B.I. this week. – NYT

Adam Lanza Threatened Sandy Hook Killings Years Earlier, Records Show – NYT

Officials told NBC’s Pete Williams that they were investigating a report that someone had an “altercation” with four staff members the day before the shootings – three of whom were killed the next day. – NBC

Sandy Hook victims identified, bodies removed from school overnight – CBS

Judge Won’t Release Sandy Hook Shooter’s Documents – TIME

5 Years After Sandy Hook Shooting, State Police Have Not Released Report On Response – COURANT

Newly released videos from cameras on cruisers of Newtown officers who responded to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting show officers preparing to approach the school but provide little more detail of what police did that day.” The videos clearly show an urgency by the officers to get to the school but then don’t show much about what happened when they got there and why it took more than five minutes to go inside,” said school security expert Vincent Riccio, who has also viewed the videos.- HC

Aurora 2012

Judge waits to release sealed documents just before leaving a state judge job and joining the state Supreme Court. – FOX

Aurora, Colo, shooter James Holmes met with not one, but at least three mental health professionals at the University of Colorado prior to the massacre. How long he met with each one and the depth of their involvement is not clear, but it adds to the picture of Holmes being clearly on their radar in the time period leading up to the shootings. – CBS

James Holmes was among elite in neuroscience before Aurora theater massacre – DENVER POST

2 witnesses say Aurora shooter had help

Navy Yard Shooter 2013

FBI: Navy Yard shooter said ‘low-frequency attacks’ drove him to kill – CNN

Navy base didn’t consider Navy Yard shooter a threat – USA TODAY

San Bernardino 2015

San Bernardino Couple Spoke of Attacks in 2013, F.B.I. Says – NYT

Much information about the San Bernardino case still has not been made public – WJLA

Pulse Nightclub 2016

Pulse gunman’s father was FBI informant under criminal investigation, – WGN9

Orlando shooting: Killer’s behavior had long been an issue – CNN

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Sutherland Springs church shooting 2017

UPDATE: DOJ to pay $144 ML for missed warnings concerning Sutherland Springs shooting victims

Air Force Didn’t Alert FBI to Texas Church Shooter’s Criminal Past – MILITARY

Family that lost 9 in Sutherland Springs, Texas, shooting sues federal government – WUSA

How was he missed? Menacing Texas church gunman left series of red flags – USA TODAY

Sheriff didn’t pursue sex case against Sutherland Springs church gunman – NBC

PARKLAND 2018

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Santa Fe, Texas shooting – May 18, 2018

On April 30, 18 days before the shooting, Pagourtzis posted a photo of a shirt with the words “Born to Kill” on his Facebook page

Feds Won’t Charge Shooter In Santa Fe School Shooting

Police may have shot students? The autopsy report was supposed to be finished by mid-June 2018

Santa Fe High School received nine threats in months before mass shooting – CHRONICLE

“He was wearing a trench coat with combat boots. He had a ‘Born to Kill’ shirt on.” NYT

Trench coats were banned at Santa Fe high school – KHOU

Jacksonville Shooter 2018

Jacksonville shooting suspect was hospitalized in psychiatric facilities: on antipsychotic and antidepressant medications – HILL

Existing Law Didn’t Protect Victims From the Jacksonville Shooter – DS

It appears that, like so many mass public shooters before him, current gun laws should have been enough to prevent him from possessing firearms.

He had numerous interactions with law enforcement because of a tendency toward outbursts that displayed oppositional or threatening behavior.

Court documents reveal that the suspected shooter was involuntarily committed to mental health facilities on six different occasions as a teenager, spent 97 days at a Utah facility for youth with behavioral health problems, and routinely had the police called on him by his mother. Under both Maryland and federal law, the involuntary commitments were enough to disqualify him from legally purchasing or possessing firearms unless he had his rights restored.

And yet, according to officials, the alleged shooter was able to successfully purchase two handguns from a federally licensed firearms dealer in Baltimore in the weeks prior to the shooting, meaning he passed, at the very least, a federally-mandated background check for disqualifying criminal and mental health histories, submitted his fingerprints, and passed a firearms safety training course.

The documents obtained by the Associated Press show that his parents – Nasa engineer Richard Katz and government toxicologist Elizabeth Katz – disagreed over their youngest son’s care. – BBC

NEWBURY PARK, CA – 11.7.2018

“In April of this year, deputies were called to his house for a ‘subject disturbing.’ They went to the house, they talked to him. He was somewhat irate. Acting a little irrationally. They called out our crisis intervention team, our mental health specialists who met with him, talked to him and cleared him. Didn’t feel he was qualified to be taken under 5150. And he was left at that scene last April.” – CNN

“It’s the second time in about a year and a month that this has happened,” Champion said in an interview with California’s OnSceneTV, which aired on “CBS This Morning.” “I was in the Las Vegas Route 91 mass shooting, as well as probably 50 or 60 others who were in the building at the same time as me tonight,” he said. – HP