Denver-the 16-year-old who shot and wounded two students before becoming the weapon in his high school in Evergreen, Colorado, left indications of his online intentions in the days before the attack, said the anti-defamation league.
The attacker published a photo in X of a revolver and a box of ammunition two hours before the September 10 shooting, said the ADL in a report published on Friday based on the investigation carried out by its extremism center.
According to the investigation, Desmond Holly had previously shared the photo in his X account, and in Tiktok he had published images of a skull mask, a ballistic vest and a knife with a Nordic rune drawn, shows the analysis of the league.
Jefferson County Sheriff of County declined to comment on Monday, but said last week that the shooter was “radicalized by an extremist network.” He did not provide details.
The two injured students were taken to a nearby hospital. One was released and the other was in a serious condition, said the Sheriff’s office.
A few days before the shooting, the teenager published photos in Tiktok himself with a black shirt with “anger” written in the chest in red paint, said the ADL.
Holly gathered his team in a fragmentary way, said the ADL, inspired by the team used by previous mass handles.
For example, Holly published a video of Tiktok now eliminated in which he modeled a tactical helmet and a gas mask, using music in the background of a popular Serbian song that the Shoter of the 2019 Christchurch Mosque played while transmitting the New Zealand massacre.
The ADL said the shooter was active in a violent gore site and passed “substantial amounts of time” In online spaces that presented extremist ideologies and violent content while accumulating tactical equipment to carry out its shooting. He did not describe extremist ideologies.
The Evergreen shooter is among several massive shooters who have been active in social networks before carrying out their attacks, said the ADL. He had an account in the Gore Watchpeoppledie forum, where he liked and commented on Publications on American massive shootings, such as those of Parkland, Florida and Buffalo, New York, the group said.
He seemed to have joined the site in December 2024, during the month among the shootings in school in abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin and Antioch High School in Nashville, Tennessee, said the ADL.
The Evergreen shooter acquired tactical equipment with extremist symbols, said the ADL. He didn’t say what those extremist symbols were. The shooter too He published content by emulating the old handles of the High School of Columbine, who killed 14 people in 1999. Evergreen High School is about 37 miles from Columbine.
The Tiktok accounts of the Evergreen shooter were full of white supremacist symbolism and phrases in the neo -Nazi code, the ADL found.
In his previous Tiktok account, his profile photo presented a photo of the armed man of the white supremacist that killed 10 blacks in a Buffalo supermarket in 2022 being arrested.
His most recent profile photo was from the attacker who killed six people during a shooting uproar near the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2014, said the ADL.
