The gunman who opened fire at an Oregon supermarket and killed two men appears to have penned an online manifesto planning a school mass shooting – but ultimately could not wait for classes to start.
Ethan Blair Miller, 20, was identified by police on Monday as the man who used an AR-15 style rifle and killed an 84-year-old customer and a 66-year-old Safeway employee who tackled him as he fired rounds.
Miller killed himself before police could arrest him in the shooting in Bend late Sunday.
Officials have uncovered a since-deleted manifesto from two months ago titled, ‘The Downward Spiral Of “Ethan Miller.”‘
The manifesto from June 29 starts with: ‘If you’re reading this then I’m definitely DEAD and have just committed a ‘NATIONAL TRAGEDY.'”
He blames the coronavirus pandemic lockdowns, fights within his family and his inability to find a girlfriend, for his then-intended actions.
‘I am responsible for this but I was turned into a monster,’ he wrote. ‘I created this Tragedy. But Society created Me.’
He set a date for ‘my last day of this hell on earth’ that was further in the future than the day he carried out the massacre at the grocery store.
‘The 8th of September. A Thursday. The First Day of School for all Students at Mountain View High School. … GOD I Can’t WAIT,’ he wrote.
‘I was “The Quiet Kid with Anger Issues” all throughout school so maybe it’s not as much of a surprise to some of you.
‘I’ve always been dangerous though. Like a Ticking F—ING Time Bomb. Ready To Blow!’
He criticized mass shooters who let themselves get arrested, and said that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the duo who perpetrated the 1999 Columbine High School massacre killing 12 children and a teacher, ‘had the right idea’.
‘Yes Columbine partially inspired this. I’ve been interested in the case for a long time and it has provided the Blueprint and Part of the Inspiration for Doomsday,’ he wrote.
‘I relate to Eric and Dylan on some level as well. they were the same as me. Good young men F—ED by SOCIETY.’
Though he planned to attack on September 8, he ended up not being able to wait that long.
‘The Rage has become uncontrollable and It can’t wait 2 More Weeks,’ he wrote Saturday. “Tomorrow. Sunday. August 28th 2022. Doomsday.’
Victims in the Safeway shooting have been identified as Glenn Edward Bennett, the customer, and employee Donald Ray Surrett Jr, who was an Army veteran.
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