Evergreen H.s. Shooter Hinted At His Plans Online, Adl Says

DENVER — The 16-year-old who changeable and wounded 2 students earlier turning nan weapon connected himself astatine his precocious schoolhouse successful Evergreen, Colorado, near hints of his intentions online successful nan days starring up to nan attack, the Anti-Defamation League said.

The attacker reposted a photograph connected X of a revolver and a container of ammunition 2 hours earlier Sept. 10's shooting, nan ADL said successful a study released Friday based connected investigation conducted by its Center connected Extremism.

According to nan research, Desmond Holly had antecedently shared nan photograph connected his X account, and connected TikTok he had posted images of a skull mask, a ballistic vest and a weapon pinch a Nordic rune drawn connected it, nan league’s study shows.

Members of nan Evergreen organization stitchery astatine Buchanan Ball Fields successful Evergreen, Colo., connected Thursday. RJ Sangosti/ / Denver Post via Getty Images

The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office declined to remark Monday but said past week the shooter was “radicalized by an extremist network." It did not supply details.

The 2 injured students were taken to a adjacent hospital. One was released and nan different was successful superior condition, nan sheriff’s agency said.

A fewer days earlier nan shooting, nan teen posted pictures connected TikTok of himself wearing a achromatic T-shirt pinch “WRATH” written crossed nan thorax successful reddish paint, nan ADL said.

Holly assembled his cogwheel successful a piecemeal fashion, nan ADL said, drafting inspiration from nan instrumentality utilized by erstwhile wide shooters.

For example, Holly posted a now-deleted TikTok video successful which he modeled a tactical helmet and a state mask, utilizing inheritance euphony from a Serbian people opus that nan 2019 Christchurch mosque shooter played while livestreaming nan New Zealand massacre.

The ADL said nan shooter was progressive connected a convulsive gore tract and spent "substantial amounts of time" in online spaces that featured extremist ideologies and convulsive contented while amassing tactical cogwheel to transportation retired his shooting. It did not picture nan extremist ideologies.

The Evergreen shooter is among respective wide shooters who person been progressive connected societal media earlier carrying retired their attacks, nan ADL said. He had an relationship connected nan gore forum WatchPeopleDie, wherever he liked and commented connected posts astir American wide shootings, specified arsenic those successful Parkland, Florida, and Buffalo, New York, nan group said.

He appeared to person joined nan tract successful December 2024, during nan period betwixt schoolhouse shootings astatine Abundant Life Christian schoolhouse successful Madison, Wisconsin, and Antioch High School successful Nashville, Tennessee, nan ADL said.

The Evergreen shooter acquired tactical cogwheel pinch extremist symbols, nan ADL said. It did not opportunity what those extremist symbols were. The shooter also posted contented emulating nan erstwhile Columbine High School shooters, who killed 14 group successful 1999. Evergreen High School is astir 37 miles from Columbine.

The Evergreen shooter's TikTok accounts were filled pinch achromatic supremacist symbolism and neo-Nazi codification phrases, nan ADL found.

On his erstwhile TikTok account, his floor plan photograph featured a image of nan achromatic supremacist gunman who killed 10 Black group astatine a Buffalo supermarket successful 2022 being arrested.

His astir caller floor plan photograph was of nan attacker who killed six group during a shooting rampage adjacent nan University of California, Santa Barbara, successful 2014, nan ADL said.