St. Louis school shooter had an AR-15-style rifle, 600 rounds of ammo

[brooklynite]

CNN

The 19-year-old gunman who killed two people and wounded several others at his former high school left a note saying his struggles led to “the perfect storm for a mass shooter,” St. Louis police said.

Orlando Harris graduated from Central Visual and Performing Arts High School last year and returned Monday with an AR-15-style rifle, over 600 rounds of ammunition and more than a dozen high-capacity magazines, St. Louis police Commissioner Michael Sack said.

Harris died at a hospital after a gun battle with officers.

Investigators found a handwritten note in the car Harris drove to the school. Sack detailed some of the passages:

“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,” the note said, according to Sack. “This was the perfect storm for a mass shooter.”

[tulipsandroses]

1. The perfect storm to become a mass murderer was a 19 yr old

being able to purchase an AR 15 style weapon and 600 rounds of ammunition.

[BigmanPigman]

3. Bingo

[crickets]

6. This exactly. nt

[AndyS]

2. They call it a 'Modern Sporting Rifle'. I wonder what sport

it's good for. Perhaps "The Most Dangerous Game"?

[SYFROYH]

4. Its sad and infuriating that someone with those feelings

would decide to shoot school children.

[Deuxcents]

5. Just how does a kid amass that much ammo?

No family? Really? Where does he live n w/ whom?

[Archae]

7. I'm a loner, of a sort.

I do live with two cats, they are my anchors of stability.

But I'm 62 now, never married.

And I would never shoot up a hospital, school, anyplace.