PICTURED: Ex-student, 21, who shot dead cheerleader and football player with a legally-owned gun at his old New Mexico high school just a year after the FBI CLEARED him for writing about mass shootings on a gaming forum
William Atchinson, 21, identified as gunman who shot two students at Aztec High School in New Mexico Thursday
San Juan County Sheriff’s Office identified the victims as Casey Jordan-Marquez and Francisco Fernandez
Officials say Atchinson carried out shooting with a Glock he had legally purchased least month
He left behind a thumb driver with a manifesto, saying that he was planning to take a classroom hostage and ‘go apeshit,’ then committ suicide
By SNEJANA FARBEROV
DAILYMAIL.COM
8 December 2017
Authorities in New Mexico this morning identified 21-year-old William Atchinson as the shooter who killed two teens and then himself at a high school on Thursday as part of a carefully planned attack, less than a year after he had been investigated and cleared by the FBI.
During a press conference on Friday, San Juan County Sheriff Ken Christensen said Atchinson was able to slip into Aztec High School at the start of the school day on Thursday by disguising himself as a student.
‘It was a single coward shooter,’ the sheriff said. ‘This was a planned event.’
According to officials, Atchinson carried out the massacre with a Glock handgun he had purchased in November, and he left behind writings indicating that he had been planning the shooting for some time.
Christensen told reporters his investigators have recovered a thumb drive with a manifesto penned by the 21-year-old, in which he said, in part, that he was planning to take a classroom hostage and ‘go apes**t,’ then ‘blow my brains out.’
On Thursday night, San Juan County Sheriff’s Office identified the victims as Casey Jordan-Marquez, 17, and Francisco Fernandez, according to KRQE-TV.
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