The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports:
Police identified the suspect late Monday as Orlando Harris, 19, a graduate last year of the school, Central Visual and Performing Arts High School, at Arsenal Street and South Kings highway near Tower Grove Park. One survivor heard the shooter say he was “tired of everybody” in the school. Police said the damage could have been far worse. The shooter’s gun jammed at one point, one student said, giving kids time to escape. And police found more than a dozen 30-round magazines on him.
CNN reports:
Adrianne Bolden, a freshman at Central VPA High School, told CNN affiliate KSDK that the children thought it was a drill until they heard the sirens and saw that their teachers were scared. “The teacher, she crawled over and she was asking for help to move the lockers to the door so they can’t get in,” Bolden said. “And we started hearing glass breaking from the outside and gunshots outside the door.” Math teacher David Williams told CNN in a call that everyone went into “drill mode.”
THIS is what Republicans are spreading conspiracy theories about on the same day a 19-year-old brought a semiautomatic rifle and a dozen 30-round magazines into a St. Louis school and murdered a teacher and a student.
If you vote for the GOP on Nov. 8, this WILL get worse. https://t.co/9UiElkP24L
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) October 25, 2022
OVER AND OVER: A 19-year-old former student brought a semiautomatic rifle and high-capacity magazines to a St. Louis school and murdered a teacher and a student.
The teen, who had no criminal history, could legally buy a long gun and ammo in Missouri. https://t.co/RbxOnjF16d
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) October 25, 2022