Students returning to school for the second semester in the small town of Perry, Iowa, were met with gunfire and bloodshed Thursday morning. The suspect who started the new year with wanton violence appears to be another butcher obsessed with trans ideology.
According to authoritiesThe 17-year-old suspect, a student at the school, wandered the hallways of Perry Junior and Senior High School Thursday morning armed with a pump-action shotgun, a homemade bomb and a small-caliber handgun. At around 7:47 a.m., before classes started, they began firing at students and staff.
Dallas County Sheriff Adam Infante noted that the fact that classes had not yet begun may have been a factor in ultimately limiting the number of victims attacked. report Newsweek.
“Fortunately, school hadn't started yet, so there were very few students or faculty in the building. I think that contributed to the positive results in that sense,” Infante said.
The suspect killed a sixth-grader at Perry Middle School and injured five others, four of whom were students. The fifth victim was
identified The school district has appointed Dan Marburger as principal.
Three of the victims were taken to Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, and the others were taken to Mercy One Des Moines Medical Center.
report Associated Press — a news agency tried It portrays the shooter as a victim of bullying.
One survivor is in critical condition. The remaining four are currently reportedly in stable condition.
Republican Governor Kim Reynolds
Said “Our hearts are broken by this senseless tragedy. Our prayers go out to the students, teachers, and families of the Perry community,” the statement said.
Mr Reynolds thanked police and emergency workers for their quick response, saying: “Their heroic actions today saved lives.”
Mitch Maltvedt, deputy director of the Iowa Bureau of Criminal Investigation, said at a news conference Thursday that law enforcement's response was swift and unflinching. At least 150 law enforcement officers eventually rushed to the scene.
“Perry Police responded within minutes. They quickly entered and witnessed students and faculty either taking shelter in place or fleeing the school,” Maltvedt said. “Once inside, officers located multiple individuals suffering from gunshot wounds. Officers immediately attempted to determine the source of the threat and quickly located an individual believed to be the shooter suffering from self-inflicted gunshot wounds.”
The perpetrator apparently committed suicide before using the improvised explosive device against innocent people. Maltvedt said the bomb was “pretty rudimentary” and was successfully neutralized by the state fire marshal and agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Investigators are currently analyzing the suspect's social media posts, particularly the following:
reddit and TikTok — both have been disabled.
According to reports, before the shooting, the suspect posted a selfie taken inside the school bathroom on his TikTok account with the lyrics “now we wait” from the song “Stray Bullet” by German band KMFDM.
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highlighted The same song the suspect mentioned was also used on the personal website of one of the perpetrators of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre.
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Archive version A look at the suspect's TikTok account revealed that his background was limited to an LGBT activist flag emoji. In addition to allegedly mentioning the pronouns “he/they” on social media and engaging with other LGBT activists about transgenderism, the suspect It shows Using the hashtag “genderfluid”, Posted“Love your transgender children.”
one of the suspects Suspected Reddit postsaid he had been prevented from starting the sex change process because he “didn't want to look ugly.”
While the left acknowledges that the shooter may have been transgender, they rush to downplay the connection and associated trends.
The Advocate, an LGBT activist publication,
I felt stressed“Although there have been isolated incidents in which transgender and non-binary people have been involved in mass shootings, these are not representative of broader trends.”
The 26-year-old gunman in the September 20, 2018 shooting outside a Rite Aid distribution center in Aberdeen, Maryland, was a cross-dresser.
reportedly She is undergoing hormone therapy and is scheduled to undergo gender reassignment surgery.
The woman behind the 2019 mass shooting at Highland Ranch STEM School in Colorado was also dressed as a woman when she targeted unarmed students.
The lawyer for the man behind the November 2022 massacre that killed five people and injured 25 others at a non-heterosexual nightclub in Colorado Springs says he identifies as non-binary. Indicated.
report Newsweek.
The LGBT activist who gunned down a Christian elementary school in Nashville last March, killing three children and three adults, was also a crossdresser who identified as male.
“Extremists often try to muddy the waters by blaming mental health and mental health for the gun violence crisis,” Angela Ferrell Zavala, executive director of the gun-rights group Moms Demand Action, told The Advocate. ''.
gender identityIn many cases, people with these realities are most likely to be victims of gun violence, not perpetrators. ”
Sarah Kate Ellis, president and CEO of GLAAD, said, “Instead of focusing on the victims, media that speculates on the identity of the shooter or his support for LGBTQ rights is a serious threat to vulnerable communities. “contributing to widespread false reporting.”
Human Rights Campaign National Advocate Brandon Wolfe was among those who highlighted the suspect's apparent trans identity, saying that TikTok's Chaya Lychik Ribbs was “out to stir up anti-LGBTQ+ hysteria for her cause”. He told the Advocate that he was using a horrific shooting incident to protect himself. The truth is that LGBTQ+ people are disproportionately affected by gun violence, and that reality is undermined by people like her who demonize the community at every turn and spread dangerous and false narratives in exchange for influence. It's getting worse. ”
LGBTQ Nation identifies the shooter as “non-binary.” similarly uttered abusive language “The right-wing focus on gay gun owners and the mental illness of mass shooters only serves to stigmatize gay people,” he said, noting that he has been gathering evidence of his LGBT affinities. Instead, it is simply a way to distract from gun control that could at the same time help prevent large-scale gun control.” First of all, it was a shooting incident. ”
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