WEBVTT - Red Flag 0:00:01.680 --> 0:00:10.399 Cool Zone Media. On March thirty first, twenty twenty five, 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:15.040 FBI agents in Wisconsin received records in response to a 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:19.120 search warrant. TikTok had turned over a mountain of data 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:23.319 that would take weeks to comb through. The owner of 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:26.479 the accounts in question had been dead for months, which 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:28.480 you might assume would mean there was no real reason 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:32.400 to rush. The crime they were investigating was already solved 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:37.519 and there was no perpetrator to prosecute. But in the 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:40.800 time that it had taken to get these records, they'd 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:46.040 already missed something big. The digital footprint of a school 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:50.199 shooter is always full of red flags, that's no surprise. 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:55.160 But these red flags weren't just missed warning signs of 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:58.840 a shooting that it was too late to prevent. By 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:02.560 the time that search warrant was served, another shooting had 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:06.240 already happened, and they were worried it wouldn't be the last. 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:12.080 As they began sifting through the records, they found exactly 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:16.839 what they were looking for, Another mass shooter in the making. 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:41.840 I'm Molly Conger, and this is weird. Little guys, this 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:50.240 story is awful in every way. It's complicated. There are 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:53.840 too many moving parts and sealed documents and ongoing court 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:57.840 cases and investigations that will never yield any court records. 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:02.880 Because the perpetrator is dead. It's impossible to really nail 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:05.880 down the truth in any way that I'm at all 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:09.519 comfortable with. I'm not going to get to the bottom 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:18.359 of anything here, and it's uglier than usual. Even I am, 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:21.640 for better or worse, pretty good at tuning out my 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:25.000 own emotions when I read and write about terrible things. 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:28.760 I try not to let my heart get hard, of course, 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:35.640 but when I'm working, I'm working not feeling. It's easier 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:37.800 that way, and I've had a lot of practice at it. 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:41.720 I can get through the day reading page after page 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:44.880 of old neo Nazi forum posts without letting it in. 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:47.959 I close my laptop at the end of the day, 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:52.560 have dinner, watch a little TV, and I don't think 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:57.000 about it when I'm lying in bed at night. That's 0:02:57.040 --> 0:03:01.760 not working This week, the story of this tangled network 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:07.519 of online mass murder enthusiasts contained some of the darkest 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:13.720 shit I've ever seen, But it is unfortunately time to 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:19.679 update the story of Terogram. I did an episode way 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:22.960 back in September of twenty twenty four. Very early on 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:27.680 in the show's existence, an episode called White Terror. When 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:31.200 I wrote that episode, the FBI had recently arrested Matthew 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:34.520 Allison and Dallas Humber, two of the leaders of the 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:39.800 online community known as the Terogram Collective. What had started 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:43.280 out as a sort of loose collection of informal online 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:48.720 spaces started to coalesce around twenty nineteen into something more organized. 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:53.000 By twenty twenty two, the Tterogram Collective was pushing out 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:59.360 slick propaganda manuals for acts of terrorism. Their online chats 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:04.480 were centered on the idea of militant accelerationism, a violent 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:07.760 worldview bent on forcing the collapse of civilization as we 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:11.000 know it, triggering a race war that ends with the 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:14.960 creation of a white ethno state. As part of their 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:18.880 plan to bring all of that about, Trogram encourages mass 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:24.039 shootings by celebrating the acts of prior shooters, elevating them 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:32.159 to a kind of sainthood. Saint Tarrant, Saint Rufe, Saint McVay, 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:38.239 Saint Bravic, canonizing the men who would bathe the world 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:43.400 in blood. There are scores of saints, depending on who 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:48.960 you ask, but those four are always fan favorites. Brenton 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:52.000 Arrant killed fifty one people at mosques in christ Church, 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:56.360 New Zealand in twenty nineteen. Dylan Rufe killed nine people 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:59.000 in a black church in South Carolina in twenty fifteen. 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.200 Jamith McVeigh killed one hundred and sixty nine people when 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:05.240 he blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City in 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:10.159 nineteen ninety five. Unders Brave It killed seventy seven people 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:13.839 in Norway in twenty eleven, most of whom were teenagers 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:18.960 at a summer camp. These saints aren't just revered figures 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:24.400 though their role models. The goal of Saint culture is 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:27.800 not just to talk about what they did. It's to 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:35.240 encourage others to join their ranks. Alison and Humber are 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:39.080 still in custody with no date set for trial. Their 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:43.000 cases haven't really budged at all. None of the updates 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:45.640 to this story come from documents produced in those cases. 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:50.520 I wish they had, because the updates we do have 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:55.560 are more attacks, more murders linked to the Terogram collective. 0:05:57.279 --> 0:05:59.680 There have been a few more arrests, a few more 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:05.360 foil plots, and a few more manifestos. There are more 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:08.080 than a few episodes worth of updates to this story. 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:12.880 Adamoffin founder Brandon Russell and his girlfriend Sarah Beth Clendaniel 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:15.640 have both been convicted for conspiring to blow up the 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:19.640 Power Grind in Baltimore. A man in Tennessee was arrested 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:22.480 mere moments before launching a drone armed with a bomb 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:26.040 that he planned to drop on an electrical substation. A 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:28.920 teenager in Australia tried to stab a member of parliament. 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:32.359 A man in Washington was convicted for possession of a 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:36.200 machine gun. A man in Pennsylvania was arrested for possession 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:40.880 of child sexual abuse material. A teenager in Wisconsin murdered 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.920 both of his parents because he needed to empty their 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.520 bank accounts to fund his plan to overthrow the government. 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:50.640 Both the United States and Australia have joined the United 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:54.719 Kingdom in officially designating Terogram as an international terrorist organization, 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:59.200 and just this month, the FBI arrested a man in 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:03.480 California who they allege was the primary author of the List, 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:07.960 which was trogram's collection of personal information about people they 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:14.600 deemed high value assassination targets. All of these crimes are connected, 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:20.400 not directly necessarily, these people didn't all know each other. 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:25.160 But they all consumed the same content, they traveled in 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:30.920 the same digital spaces, they had friends in common, and 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:34.040 they all wanted to destroy society as we know it. 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:40.200 Many of those are stories that we'll get to eventually. 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:43.840 I've been kicking the can on writing about Brandon Russell 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:46.640 all year, but some of the others will take time 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:49.280 to wind their way through the courts to some kind 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:56.280 of conclusion. No, today we're talking about Damien Blade Allen. 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:03.120 Kind of his story isn't quite over yet either, but 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:06.520 to start telling it, we have to start so far 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:08.480 before the beginning that we might as well get a 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:15.360 head start. Damian Allen was arrested in April of twenty 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:19.480 twenty five in Palm Beach County, Florida. He's been charged 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:23.000 with written threats to conduct a mass shooting, unlawful use 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:25.760 of a badge, and unlawful use of a two way 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:31.000 communications device. That third charge is something you see pretty 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:34.880 often in felony cases in Florida. It just means you 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:38.360 used a phone or a computer to facilitate the commission 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:41.160 of a felony. It kind of just feels like a 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:44.959 way to add five years to any underlying felony, But 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:49.360 Florida's criminal code isn't the point here. The point is 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:55.800 Damian Allen didn't actually shoot anyone, He just talked about it. 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:00.760 But to understand how he ended up facing the charges, 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.520 we have to talk about who he was talking to 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:08.640 when he made those plans, and we have to go 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:11.520 back in time to talk about several people who did 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:17.840 carry out their attacks. Urai Krajik in Slovakia, Arda Kasukia 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:24.119 Team in Turkey, Samantha Upnow in Wisconsin, and Solomon Henderson 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:30.360 in Tennessee. Uri Krazik and Arta Kasukia Team we've already 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:34.760 talked about in the Tarogram episode last fall. Krajik was 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:38.640 Tterogram's first saint. He was the first member of the 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:41.959 group to heed the call and add himself to the pantheon. 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:46.439 He was in direct personal contact with the group's leaders 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:48.720 for months leading up to his death in October of 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:54.040 twenty twenty two. He shot himself after killing two people 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:57.440 outside of a gay bar and brought us lava, and 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:01.160 after he died, Dallas humber Broke orded an audiobook of 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:06.560 his manifesto. Arda Kosukia Team was discussed briefly in that 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:10.600 episode two. In August of twenty twenty four, the eighteen 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:12.960 year old stabbed five men outside of a mosque in 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:18.720 his Kishehir, Turkey. Thankfully, none of his victims died and 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:24.320 he was taken into custody alive. His manifesto explicitly credits 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:29.400 several Tarogram publications for inspiring the attack, and Terogram channels 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:34.160 praised the attack. Writing in one Terogram chat, Dallas Humber 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:38.440 noted that despite his obvious commitment to the cause, he 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:40.920 couldn't be added to the list of saints worshiped by 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:49.199 the group because he wasn't white. When Terogram leaders Dallas 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:52.360 Humber and Matthew Allison were indicted a month after Kosukia 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:55.679 Team's attack, his attack was one of three acts of 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:59.040 terror that the Department of Justice alleged they can concretely 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:03.360 connect the pair two, charging them with directly soliciting it. 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:07.680 Another of those three attacks was the brodest Lava shooting. 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:13.720 After arta Kosukia Team was arrested, he told Turkish authorities 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:17.280 that he'd been assisted and encouraged throughout the process of 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:20.280 planning the attack over a period of months by someone 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:25.440 he'd met online. He said they communicated in English, and 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:30.120 he believed this person was a teenager living in Eastern Europe. 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:34.920 His online friend used the name fyotulf Hansen, which you 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.880 might think sounds like a clue, but it really isn't. 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.400 It's just another homage to the mass shooters these young 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:46.880 men idolize. Fiotulf Hansen was from twenty seventeen until twenty 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:51.640 twenty five the legal name of Norwegian mass murderer under Bravik. 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:55.720 Bravik has since made yet another legal name change, and 0:11:55.800 --> 0:12:00.360 he is now going by far Skalde Grimmer RAUSKYI older 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:05.000 of north Riki. I haven't pronounced that right, and that's okay. 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:09.160 It is apparently an entirely made up name, loosely based 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:14.760 in Old Norse. This Hanson, though the one chatting with 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:18.040 Arta Kaskia team about how to most sufficiently carry out 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:23.440 mass murders, was not actually Andres Bravic. Obviously, he's just 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:27.320 a fan. And on the day of Kasukia team's attack 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:32.960 August twelfth, twenty twenty four, mis Hanson served as a 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:39.320 sort of public relations agent for these attempted murders. Kasuka 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:42.679 team had prepared an array of photographs and documents ahead 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:46.640 of time, to be shared online, which Hanson appears to 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.000 have spent the day doing on a variety of platforms. 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:54.439 Marc Andre Argentino, a senior research fellow at the Accelerationism 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:59.160 Research Consortium, notes this trend. In this and similar attacks, 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:04.880 it a sort of press kit. Kazukia team had taken 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:08.920 selfies posing in his gear and photos of all the 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:12.920 gear laid out neatly on the floor. He uploaded his 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:16.040 own manifesto, along with more than a dozen other documents, 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:22.360 including meinkomf, James Mason's Siege, several Terogram publications, and a 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:27.559 publication by a group called the Maniac Murder Cult. Also 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:30.200 in that folder were the manifestos of several mass shooters 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:33.959 who inspired him, including the one that Jurai Krazik had 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:37.160 sent directly to the leaders of the Tterogram collective before 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:39.360 he murdered two people and brought us lava in twenty 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:43.640 twenty two. But once Kazukia Team was out there trying 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:47.680 to commit mass murder, he couldn't really be posting. He 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:52.840 couldn't be checking his phone. That was Hanson's job. He 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.320 created a Twitter account to post links to the live 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:59.040 stream in the files. He posted links and images on 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:03.320 forums devoted to gore videos, and around the same time, 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:08.240 someone probably Hanson, posted those same links on four Chan, 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:14.520 and he also invited a small handful of users to 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:32.680 a private group chat on Telegram. Before the attack began, 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:36.680 Kasuki Team sent Hanson a message on Telegram announcing that 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:40.400 it would begin soon. The message had the links to 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:44.640 the photos, the documents, the manifesto, and the live stream. 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:48.800 Hanson forwarded that message to the private chat just before 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:54.360 the stream went live. There were nine people in the chat. 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:58.760 They dissembled ahead of time with fore knowledge of this 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:07.120 impending attack. This was a watch party. The stream was short. 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:09.520 The longest version of the video that I could find, 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:13.200 which does seem to be the entirety of the original stream, 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:18.760 is less than three minutes long. The opening frames show 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:24.040 the attacker's face. He's staring directly into the camera. It's 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:28.880 like he's looking at you. He's wearing a helmet, goggles, 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:33.120 and a half faced skull mask, and the shot lingers 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:37.120 there on his face for a little too long before 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.280 he affixes the camera to the front of his tactical 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:44.640 vest and starts walking outside of the mosque. A dozen 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:46.920 or so older men were sitting in a cafe area 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:52.560 after evening prayer, and they seem to ignore this oddly 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:56.560 dressed teenager until he approaches a man from behind and 0:15:56.600 --> 0:16:02.040 stabs him. But then, instead of attacking any of the 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:04.640 other men in the immediate area, most of whom are 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:08.480 in their seventies and sitting down, he takes off running. 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:17.240 It's an odd scene. Remember, he's wearing safety goggles, a helmet, 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:21.960 a skull mask, a black tactical vest, and camo pants. 0:16:22.640 --> 0:16:29.080 He looks weird and he's just stabbed a man, but 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:31.480 the reactions from most of the people around him are 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:36.400 pretty subdued. He lunges towards another man, who cries out 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:39.400 and does try to run from him, but an older 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:42.800 man smoking a cigarette a few feet away watches this 0:16:42.880 --> 0:16:46.600 happen and just says, what are you doing in a 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:52.320 tone that I can only describe as disinterested. As Kosuki 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:55.320 team runs off down the street and through a nearby park, 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:59.520 he stabs several more people at random. An old man 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:01.200 on a bench in the park yells at him to 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:04.639 go away, but a lot of the people don't react 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:09.160 to him at all. He was tackled by police less 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:11.639 than a minute and a half after the attack began, 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:15.080 and the video ends with the camera pointed up towards 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:19.760 the sky with faces peering down at it. He's lying 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:22.399 on his back in a parking lot, surrounded by a 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:26.160 handful of police officers and a crowd of curious onlookers. 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:34.120 In the chat, the group was disappointed he had stabbed 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:37.960 several people, but in the video you can't actually see much. 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:44.160 There's no blood, there's barely any screaming, there's no corpses. 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:49.560 Nobody died. It was just a lot of shaky footage 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:52.159 of the path in a park and audio of a 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:57.840 nervous teen breathing heavily. A user known only as Nitro 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:05.000 wrote a for effort. Hansen said at least he did it, 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:11.040 and a third user replied credit for that at least. 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:17.680 That third message posted in that invite only private watch 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:20.159 party for what they hoped would be a mass murderer, 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:25.440 was written by a fourteen year old girl in Madison, Wisconsin. 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:31.679 Four months later, not long after her fifteenth birthday, she 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:37.120 murdered two people before taking her own life. Natalie Rucknow, 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:41.400 who preferred to go by Samantha, didn't live stream her attack, 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:46.840 which was a great disappointment to her followers. In the 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:49.639 final few minutes before she opened fire in a classroom 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:53.400 at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, on December sixteenth, 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:56.800 twenty twenty four, she was sitting in a bathroom stall 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:01.480 making her last posts, a photo of her own hand 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:04.960 making the okay symbol commonly used to mean white power, 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:11.240 and a link to her manifesto that Boase garnered significant 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:16.000 attention later in the day, but at first, before it 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:21.199 was big news, only a few people saw it. She 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:25.520 only had a handful of followers. One of those followers 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:32.080 replied to the post, writing quote live stream it. He 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:37.359 quoted her post too, adding the same message live stream it. 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:44.440 He seemed to know what it was, despite the fact 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:47.680 that the link to the manifesto she posted didn't work. 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:51.800 He could only see the photo, a photo posted without 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:54.840 a caption of a hand held out over a bathroom 0:19:54.880 --> 0:20:04.119 floor live stream it. He understood, or perhaps knew, that 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:08.600 this was her final post before an attack. There's no 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:12.160 concrete evidence, at least none that's been made public, that 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:16.360 this user had communicated directly with Roupnow about the specifics 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:20.440 of what was about to happen, but they were mutuals. 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:27.520 They followed each other's Twitter accounts. Screenshots of her account 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:30.480 taken before the attack hit the News showed that she 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:35.439 followed nineteen accounts. I can only tell you for sure 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:40.240 who two of them belonged to. She followed two accounts 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:45.800 that both belonged to a seventeen year old boy in Antioch, Tennessee. 0:20:45.840 --> 0:20:51.200 A month after Rupnow's death, he was dead too. Solomon 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:53.879 Henderson shot and killed a student in his high school 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:59.440 cafeteria before taking his own life. It's like a virus. 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:07.000 It's like the ring. These kids are watching people die online. 0:21:07.040 --> 0:21:12.000 They're consuming online media about mass murder, and then within 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:17.520 weeks they're dead too, and they've taken other people with them. 0:21:18.720 --> 0:21:23.120 Samantha up Now killed two people, Aaron West, a teacher, 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:29.160 and a fourteen year old student named Ruby Vergara. Aaron 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:33.480 loved camping in Disney World and her husband of twenty 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:39.960 years and their three daughters. Ruby loved art, her pets, 0:21:40.640 --> 0:21:46.600 and playing keyboard in her family worship band. They weren't targeted. 0:21:47.920 --> 0:21:53.120 Their deaths were random, a meaningless, nihilist act of violence. 0:21:55.400 --> 0:22:01.720 Solomon Henderson killed sixteen year old Joscelyn Correa Escalante Joscelyn 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:05.640 came to the United States from Guatemala when she was nine. 0:22:05.760 --> 0:22:08.520 She was on the soccer team and she hoped to 0:22:08.560 --> 0:22:13.920 become a doctor. The photo in her obituary is from 0:22:13.960 --> 0:22:19.119 hur Quine Sanieira. They were so much more than that. 0:22:19.680 --> 0:22:24.359 Of course, those few small details don't capture the depth 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:27.959 of what was lost. But I only know as much 0:22:28.000 --> 0:22:30.560 about these victims as their families shared with the media 0:22:30.840 --> 0:22:34.639 or wrote in their obituaries. I had to try to 0:22:34.720 --> 0:22:39.320 learn something about who they were. They were real people, 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:43.960 people who were loved, people who had passions and struggles 0:22:43.960 --> 0:22:48.160 and dreams, people with so much life left to live, 0:22:49.800 --> 0:22:52.240 and that can't be allowed to get lost in this 0:22:52.359 --> 0:22:57.880 story of contagious, hateful violence, violence seemingly for the sake 0:22:57.920 --> 0:23:04.760 of violence alone. The way they died was meaningless, but 0:23:04.840 --> 0:23:11.919 their deaths weren't, and their lives weren't. And selfishly, I 0:23:12.000 --> 0:23:17.919 had to see their faces, smiling and alive. It's the 0:23:17.960 --> 0:23:20.960 only way to push out the images of things I 0:23:21.000 --> 0:23:27.960 wish I hadn't seen. After Solomon Henderson carried out his 0:23:28.040 --> 0:23:32.840 attack at Antioch High School in Nashville, Tennessee, two documents surfaced. 0:23:34.359 --> 0:23:38.880 One was a manifesto fifty one pages long. The other 0:23:39.040 --> 0:23:43.959 was nearly three hundred pages of his online diary covering 0:23:44.000 --> 0:23:48.400 the months leading up to the attack. Both documents are 0:23:48.400 --> 0:23:53.920 full of links, screenshots, memes, selfies, copied sections of other texts, 0:23:54.960 --> 0:23:57.640 and any truth they hold is buried in so many 0:23:57.720 --> 0:24:01.760 layers of irony and inside jokes from incredibly insular online 0:24:01.760 --> 0:24:07.560 communities that it's hard to take much away from them. 0:24:07.880 --> 0:24:12.320 It is a manifesto and a diary, That's what the 0:24:12.359 --> 0:24:18.520 documents are. But reading those documents it felt like I 0:24:18.560 --> 0:24:23.159 spent most of the day reading a child's suicide note, 0:24:23.520 --> 0:24:28.040 because that's really what they are. Like Arta Kasukia Team, 0:24:28.840 --> 0:24:33.760 like Urai Krazik, like Samantha Rupnow Solomon Henderson was struggling 0:24:33.760 --> 0:24:38.359 with thoughts of suicide. His diary starts in October of 0:24:38.400 --> 0:24:42.840 twenty twenty four, three months before he died. It opens 0:24:42.840 --> 0:24:50.960 with quote, I'm burning with hate. Hate will change the world. 0:24:51.800 --> 0:24:54.400 An entry later in the evening that same day includes 0:24:54.440 --> 0:24:58.800 the line quote the only good nd word is a 0:24:58.880 --> 0:25:06.639 dead end word, and that includes me, Solomon Henderson. It 0:25:06.720 --> 0:25:11.600 may surprise you to hear was black. He knew this 0:25:11.680 --> 0:25:15.560 meant he couldn't be made a Saint pterogram. Saints have 0:25:15.680 --> 0:25:19.440 to be white, but he wanted to do it anyway. 0:25:20.640 --> 0:25:23.480 He wanted to be like his heroes, and he wanted 0:25:23.520 --> 0:25:30.399 to inspire more violence. Andy wanted to be dead. A 0:25:30.440 --> 0:25:34.600 few days later, he wrote, I'm perfect for this. I 0:25:34.640 --> 0:25:39.240 have no faith in humanity. He doesn't say yet what 0:25:39.880 --> 0:25:44.600 this is, but it's the same it he meant when 0:25:44.600 --> 0:25:49.680 he told Samantha up now to live stream it. It's 0:25:49.760 --> 0:25:52.040 clear that he was already planning a shooting, and that 0:25:52.119 --> 0:25:56.159 he had been for months. The same week he started 0:25:56.240 --> 0:25:58.680 keeping the diary, he pulled a box cutter on another 0:25:58.720 --> 0:26:02.920 student at school and was spended for two days. He 0:26:03.000 --> 0:26:06.679 was charged with attempted reckless endangerment, but was placed in 0:26:06.720 --> 0:26:12.639 a diversion program instead of being prosecuted. On December sixteenth, 0:26:12.760 --> 0:26:16.159 twenty twenty four, at two am, he wrote in the diary, 0:26:17.680 --> 0:26:20.359 when I think about what I'm going to do, I 0:26:20.400 --> 0:26:24.480 get sad seeing and reading kids and adults before who 0:26:24.520 --> 0:26:28.639 did similar attacks. The loneliness, the fact we had no 0:26:28.720 --> 0:26:34.600 other choice, no help, just nothing. So like I said, 0:26:34.640 --> 0:26:38.400 it's clear that he'd already been planning to do something. 0:26:39.280 --> 0:26:42.240 He'd had the idea in his head long before what 0:26:42.320 --> 0:26:47.239 happened later that day, but after Samantha Upnow's attack, he 0:26:47.320 --> 0:26:51.320 became fixated on her, and his resolve to carry out 0:26:51.359 --> 0:26:57.000 his attack intensified significantly. Later that evening, he wrote in 0:26:57.000 --> 0:27:01.359 the diary, holy shit, the New School shooter followed me, 0:27:02.560 --> 0:27:05.520 and he pasted in screenshots of her account before it 0:27:05.600 --> 0:27:08.920 was deleted, showing that they did indeed follow each other. 0:27:11.160 --> 0:27:14.359 On December eighteenth, two days after she died, he wrote, 0:27:15.119 --> 0:27:19.640 She's stuck in my head. The next day, he created 0:27:19.680 --> 0:27:23.320 a new Discord server. The portions of that server that 0:27:23.359 --> 0:27:26.520 I've been able to view don't show very many messages 0:27:26.640 --> 0:27:29.600 prior to the day he died, but based on the 0:27:29.680 --> 0:27:33.720 reactions from the other users, it appears they all understood 0:27:33.760 --> 0:27:36.960 when he invited them to the server that its purpose 0:27:37.680 --> 0:27:39.760 was for them to be able to access the live 0:27:39.840 --> 0:27:44.880 stream on the day he decided to do it. Creating 0:27:44.920 --> 0:27:48.640 the server was a concrete step taken toward the attack, 0:27:48.720 --> 0:27:51.840 and it was directly motivated by his new obsession with Repnow, 0:27:52.560 --> 0:27:56.200 who he refers to as Saint Tris Repnow in both 0:27:56.200 --> 0:28:01.800 his diary and his manifesto. At the end of the manifesto, 0:28:02.240 --> 0:28:07.720 in a section titled final remarks, Henderson wrote, I was 0:28:07.760 --> 0:28:11.840 so miserable I wanted to kill myself. I just couldn't 0:28:11.840 --> 0:28:16.080 take it anymore. I'm a worthless subhuman, a living, breathing disgrace. 0:28:17.600 --> 0:28:22.440 That all changed once I read Urikraje's manifesto and the 0:28:22.480 --> 0:28:28.800 English edition Mass Cleaner Handbook. He's referring to the Bradoslava 0:28:28.840 --> 0:28:35.280 shooter's manifesto and the document written by Arta Kasukia Team Mack. 0:28:35.320 --> 0:28:38.920 When I originally read Kasukya Team's manifesto in August, I 0:28:38.960 --> 0:28:41.040 had to copy and paste the Turkish text and to 0:28:41.160 --> 0:28:45.920 Google translate one paragraph at a time. The English edition 0:28:46.040 --> 0:28:50.320 he's talking about was posted online by that mysterious user 0:28:50.360 --> 0:28:58.440 calling himself Hansen. Henderson's manifesto ends with this quote, I 0:28:58.520 --> 0:29:01.000 take great pride in the fact that the people before 0:29:01.120 --> 0:29:05.040 and after me will commit similar acts, not only in 0:29:05.040 --> 0:29:09.520 the USA, but all over the world. I hope you 0:29:09.560 --> 0:29:16.400 all enjoyed the broadcast After the shooting at Antioch High 0:29:16.400 --> 0:29:20.320 School on January twenty second, twenty twenty five, people on 0:29:20.360 --> 0:29:26.520 Twitter noticed something. They found his account. He'd been mutual 0:29:26.560 --> 0:29:29.120 followers with rupp Now and interacted with her on the 0:29:29.200 --> 0:29:33.040 day of the shooting. Several users had said back in 0:29:33.120 --> 0:29:36.520 December that the authorities should follow up with him specifically 0:29:36.560 --> 0:29:40.680 based on those posts. In January, at least one person 0:29:40.760 --> 0:29:42.720 posted that they'd gone to the trouble of submitting an 0:29:42.760 --> 0:29:48.720 official FBI tip the month prior. It's not clear if 0:29:48.880 --> 0:29:51.920 the tip was even made, or if anyone followed up 0:29:51.920 --> 0:29:55.360 on it, or if the authorities had Henderson on their 0:29:55.440 --> 0:30:00.240 radar at all. Well, it's not clear if he on 0:30:00.280 --> 0:30:04.440 their radar in January of twenty twenty five, because the 0:30:04.480 --> 0:30:08.440 authorities had been in contact with Solomon Henderson several times. 0:30:09.920 --> 0:30:12.640 He was arrested in twenty twenty when he was just thirteen, 0:30:12.880 --> 0:30:15.040 after his mother called the police to report that he'd 0:30:15.120 --> 0:30:17.160 run away after punching her in the face and hitting 0:30:17.160 --> 0:30:21.440 her with a chair. In November of twenty twenty three, 0:30:21.520 --> 0:30:25.280 he was charged with aggravated sexual exploitation of a miner 0:30:25.760 --> 0:30:31.280 after downloading child sexual abuse material. There aren't any more 0:30:31.360 --> 0:30:35.520 details provided in the reporting on this. He was a 0:30:35.520 --> 0:30:39.800 miner himself, just sixteen at the time, but child sexual 0:30:39.840 --> 0:30:44.040 abuse material is always illegal for anyone to have for 0:30:44.440 --> 0:30:49.920