CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) – The student who killed a classmate before taking his own life at a suburban Denver high school last year wrote in his dairy that he was “a psychopath with a superiority complex,” and he hoped that the attack would start a conversation about school bullying.
Karl Pierson, 18, wrote that he planned the Dec. 13 attack at Arapahoe High School for months to exact revenge for being teased in elementary school, according to investigative reports released Friday.
“Words hurt, can mold a sociopath, and will lead someone a decade later to kill,” he wrote in a document titled “A diary of a madman.”
The victim’s parents said they hoped the shooting would prompt administrators and lawmakers to find ways to improve school safety by focusing on students’ psychological needs.
“The people of Colorado deserve more than to have to sit idly waiting for the next student in imminent crisis to harm or kill another person or themselves,” Michael and Desiree Davis, parents of 17-year-old Claire Davis, wrote in a statement.