Yep, another Nazi. You’ll notice every other article about this says that he was “radicalised online” but then for some reason none of them want to go into all of the Nazi shit.

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EVERGREEN — The 16-year-old boy who shot two schoolmates and then himself at Evergreen High School on Wednesday after authorities say he was “radicalized by some extremist network” appeared to support white supremacist views online and showed an interest in mass shootings in the days before the attack.

The shooter, Desmond Holly, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to the sheriff’s office. Investigators believe he opened fire just before 12:30 p.m. at the school at 29300 Buffalo Park Road, wounding two other students.

The two victims remained in critical condition Thursday at Denver-area hospitals.

Social media accounts that appear to be connected to shooter Desmond Holly are littered with references to mass shootings and antisemitic views.

In one photo posted five days ago on TikTok, Desmond appears to be wearing a black T-shirt with the word “Wrath” written in red across the chest – similar to what one of the attackers wore in the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School, also in Jefferson County. The same post also includes an image of the 15-year-old who killed two people and injured six more at a Madison, Wisconsin, school in December.

A post on X about an hour before Wednesday’s attack shows an image of a hand holding a revolver – the type of weapon that authorities confirmed Desmond used during the attack. Representatives for the sheriff’s office did not answer specific questions about the social media accounts.

The accounts also include references to Holocaust denial, and the name on the TikTok account appeared to end with a reference to a prominent white supremacist slogan. That account reposted several videos showing school shooting scenes from movies, as well as another video that appeared to show the two Columbine shooters taking target shots at bowling pins. Other videos the account reposted were explicitly antisemitic or depicted people in Nazi uniforms.

Desmond lived with his family in a sprawling mountain home on a private lane outside Kittridge, property records show. His parents and other relatives did not return requests for comment Thursday. A road to the family’s house was blocked by a gate more than half a mile from the property.

On Wednesday, Desmond rode the bus to school, Kelley said.

It was not immediately clear how he accessed the revolver he used in the attack or how he kept it hidden until midday.

Desmond brought “quite a bit of ammunition” with him, Kelley said. Authorities are still working to determine whether he targeted specific students, but noted he fired his gun many times throughout the school, she said.

“He would fire and reload, fire and reload,” Kelley said. “This went on and on. He tried to find new targets. He came up to a roadblock on many of those doors – he couldn’t get to those kids.”

Kelley said Desmond’s parents have cooperated with the investigation. Authorities are considering whether they could face criminal charges related to the attack or Desmond’s access to the gun.

“We have windows shot out, lockers shot up,” she said. “We are finding unspent rounds. It is a huge area… He fired multiple, multiple times.”

Evergreen High student Kai Taylor, 15, fled the shooting and sheltered in a nearby neighbor’s home. The sophomore said he knew Desmond in middle school and used to talk with him on the school bus frequently.

Taylor said they lost touch over the years.

“Even so, to know that you talked to someone like that — it almost disgusts me,” Taylor said Thursday.

  • Too many of these shooters turn out to be Nazis and it all just gets sweeped under the rug. This one is bourgeois too so the parents are probably going to get away with it.

    radicalized by some extremist network

    4chan, 8chan, kiwifarms, twitter have free reign doing work for the fascists.

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      Too many of these shooters turn out to be Nazis and it all just gets sweeped under the rug

      I’m still amazed that they never mentioned all the right wing nazi bullshit the colombine shooters were into, instead I sat through more than a few school assemblies blaming it on violence in movies, tv, games, and music

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          CW: school shooting, columbine, nazi shit

          I have a few where you can pick up bits and pieces but frustratingly they never choose to focus on it. The shooters had a history of being racist and obsessed with hitler and ww2. They would throw up nazi salutes and seig heil during bowling class (which is where Bowling for Columbine got it’s name) and their writings are full of racial slurs (among their general anti-humanity rants). One of their motivations was to beat Timothy Mcveighs “kill count” at oklaholma city

          https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/apr/12/columbine-massacre-ten-year-anniversary

          There are a couple references in this article including taunting one of their black victims with slurs and throwing up nazi salutes in class

          https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/search_for_truth_at_columbine_2.2.pdf

          This one has more, its towards the end under the heading “alienating their peers” on page 11. It talks about their fascination with hitler and the nazis as well as them hurling racial abuse at their classmates. The author also mentions one of them having a hammer and sickle pin on their shoe but writes it off as them trying to be edgy and provocative which I tend to agree with since they never expressed any other left wing ideas (other than possibly spray painting “death to pigs” on a pawnshop but that’s not an exclusively left wing stance so I feel safe disregarding the hammer and sickle pin especially with everything else they wrote/said/did)

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    Oh shit, I have friends that went to that school. Long time graduated now, but small world. Also, that is the school that the South Park creators went to highschool at, and South Park is basically supposed to be Evergreen on the Colorado Plateau.

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      I guess that is technically in South Park. I always figured the show was based on someplace like Leadville since they have the jackets Kenny wore.

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        No one ever accused Matt and Trey of having a coherent artistic vision aside from “Be as vulgar on TV as we can get away with.”

        100% agree with you that the town as a whole has more Leadville vibes, but I think it’s supposed to be saying that Leadville are trailer trash (which is typical intertown rivalry stuff) and they got to ‘kill’ a Leadville resident every episode.

        Edit: For one, the houses aren’t nearly ornate enough to be from Evergreen lol