These terrible shootings are often provoked by the shooter's classmates or former classmates who have annoyed the shooter to violence as a form of revenge.
Some killers will create a false alarm, and in the chaos, open fire on the victims. Other times, there are written and/or verbal threats. The Virginia Tech shooting started with a written threat. In other cases, a threat is received or delivered by an accomplice and the building or area is locked down A.S.A.P. Sometimes the killer will already be in the building and either take hostages or start shooting randomly. Shootings can be any time, any day, anywhere. It doesn't matter if you are the killer's best friend or their enemy, you can be killed even if they don't want you to be. They are shooting aimlessly and don't care (or don't know) who they hit.
Grace
Alex
