u/Rebellenpanzer

He was the Sparks Middle School shooter

Just thought this was interesting. He has actually a lot of videos of his from both of his channels that are still lost media. IIRC, only around 50 of his videos can still be found and viewed in archives and on social media sites and such today, maybe a little less? At least thats how many of his videos i've seen, including reuploads of his lesser known videos on YouTube and more videos that I think were considered lost media that were reuploaded by his friend on Tumblr and another site over the last 10-ish years. He made over 130 videos on his NaturalSelector89 channel according to his introduction video

First set: Brampton Centennial Secondary School shooting and St. Pius X High School Shooting

On May 28th 1975, in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, 16 year old student Michael Slobodian opened fire at his high school, Brampton Centennial Secondary School, killing a student and a teacher, and injuring 13 others before committing suicide

Then, almost exactly 5 months later on October 27th, 18 year old Robert Poulin lured his friend and neighbor 17 year old Kim Rabot from a school bus stop to his house and took her to his basement bedroom where he overpowered her and raped her, before stabbing her to death. He then attempted to set his whole house on fire before he made his way to his high school, St. Pius X High School, and opened fire in a classroom, killing 1 student and injuring 5 others, before he committed suicide as well

Second set: Robb Elementary School Shooting and Central Visual & Performing Arts High School Shooting

On May 24th 2022, 18 year old Salvador Ramos entered his former elementary school, Robb Elementary, in Uvalde, Texas and opened fire in 2 classrooms that were connected to each other, killing 19 children and 2 teachers, and injuring 18 others, before being killed by a tactical unit from the U.S Border Patrol after barricading himself in one of the classrooms after 77 minutes

Exactly 5 months later in St. Louis, Missouri, 19 year old former student Orlando Harris broke into his old high school, Central Visual & Performings Arts High School (CVPA), and in around 10 minutes while roaming the school, shot and killed a student and a teacher, and injured 4 others, before barricading himself in a computer lab and getting into a standoff with police officers, before they breached the room and killed him

Similarities between the sets (that I personally found interesting) and why Poulin and Harris might have been influenced or taken inspiration from Slobodian and Ramos:

Both Poulin and Harris were older than Slobodian and Ramos

Both failed to "outdo" the former attack (Poulin by both deaths and injuries, Slobodian had more injuries, Harris by death toll as he hoped to kill at least 30)

Both of their attacks took place exactly in October, on (for Harris) or around (for Poulin) the 5 month anniversary of the May attacks

While we can't prove for sure, Poulin could have possibly heard of the Brampton shooting since it happened in Ontario. He could have potentially watched the news about it on TV or maybe read newspaper articles on it. But since he never mentioned the shooting or Slobodian in his diary or anywhere else, we might never know

As for Harris, we know for a fact he was aware of the Uvalde shooting because he listed Salvador Ramos's name in his list of US mass shooters in his journal. He also likely did research into him as in a checklist of equipment he wanted, he listed a hellfire trigger, which he ultimately didn't get. Ramos used a hellfire trigger for one of his rifles during the shooting. Now, as for if he choose October 24th to coincide with the 5 month anniversary of Uvalde, we can't say for certain. While he wrote in his journal the day he decided he was going to do it, he didn't give a reason as to why that date. It should also be noted Harris was having thoughts of committing a mass shooting before Uvalde happened, as he wrote in his manifesto that he wanted to commit one after seeing what happened in Las Vegas on October 1st 2017, when he was 14. Its possible he could have chose October to pay tribute to the Las Vegas Strip Shooting/Stephen Paddock, and the 24th maybe was random....or not. If you ask me, maybe the 24th was intentional. Also remember the fact that Harris, like Ramos was killed by police after barricading himself in a room; he also wrote in his journal about wanting to die in either a shootout or by suicide. Perhaps he had Uvalde in mind when he was pacing outside in the hallway by the computer lab

This image is the first from a series of other black and white images from a timeline of the shooting described in the police report