Kip Kinkel

Kipland Philip Kinkel was born and raised in Oregon. He was the son of two Spanish teachers and as a young child struggled with reading and writing. He had a good friend group and until he was a teenager had no disciplinary issues at school. 

But according to Kip, he started hearing voices at a young age, voices that told him to kill. Voices that told him he was worthless. Still he kept all that hidden, even when speaking to two different psychologists. He began to have trouble with the law as a teenager, something his mother blamed on his choices in friends. 

He was obsessed with bombs, even giving a school report on how to build them. Then he took to buying guns. Some of the guns were purchased legally with the help of his father. But some were obtained through friends. Eventually he unknowingly bought a stolen gun, completing the transaction at school. He was found with the gun in his possessed and subsequently removed from Thurston High school. 

That night, Kip murdered his parents, built a plethora of bombs and waited for the sun to rise. On May 21st 1998, Kip returned to school, armed with his guns and a knife. He shot and killed four people and wounded twenty five more before classmates wrestled him to the ground. Keeping him there until police arrived and took custody of him. Ending his short, but devastating reign of terror. 

Sources: 

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/kinkel/kip/cron.html

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/kinkel/trial/

https://jlc.org/sites/default/files/attachments/2022-02/2022.1.6%20D%20D148%20Opinion%20%26%20Order%20Granting%20Appeal%20on%20Counts%203%2C%204%2C%20%26%205%20Only_0.pdf

https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/03c5bc08-f970-4fb3-88c3-271091cf374a/content

https://www.klcc.org/tags/kip-kinkel

https://www.pbs.org/video/frontline-killer-thurston-high/

https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/Kipland_Kinkel

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kip-kinkel-is-ready-to-speak_n_60abd623e4b0a2568315c62d