The St. Louis School shooter had an AR-15, 600 type rifle. rounds of cartridges and a note: “I have no friends. I have no familysay the police

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19-year-old shooter who killed two people and wounded several others on his former secondary school left a note stating that his struggles resulted in a “perfect storm for mass shooter,” St. Louis police said.

Orlando Harris graduated from Central High School for the Visual and Performing Arts. last year and returned on Monday with rifle Type AR-15, over 600 rounds of ammunition and more That’s more than a dozen high-capacity magazines, according to St. Louis Police Commissioner Michael Sack.

Harris died in the hospital after gun battle with officers.

Investigators found handwritten note in in car Harris drove to school. Bag detail some of excerpts:

“I have no friends. I have no family. I never had a girlfriend. I’ve never had social life. I have been an isolated loner all my life,” the note says, according to Sak. “It was the perfect storm for mass shooter.

Given the vast arsenal, according to the police chief, the tragedy could have been “much worse.”

Authorities have attributed the locked doors and prompt law enforcement response, including off-duty officers – for prevention more deaths at school.

But the shooter did not enter the security checkpoint, DeAndre Davis said. director of safety and security for St. Louis Public Schools.

Davis also said the guards quartered in the district schools are not armed, but mobile officers who answer calls in schools.

“For some people it would be cause commotion of some,” Davis said on Tuesday. “For us, we thought it was best for our officers, for normality of school for children so that the officers are not armed in school.”

Student Alexandria Bell, 15, and teacher Jean Kuchka, 61, were shot to death. down in in attack.

One of teacher colleagues Christy Foulstich said that Pile died protecting her students.

During the evacuation of students from the school “One student looked at me and said, “They shot Ms. Kuchka.” And then she said that Ms. Kuchka stood between the shooter and the students, ”Foulstich said.

A bunch of looking forward to retire in just several years of her daughter Abigail Kuchka reported this to CNN.

Alexandria watched forward her Sweet 16, her father Andre Bell told CNN affiliate KSDK.

“It nightmareBell said. “I’m so upset. I need someone is the police community people, someone – to make it make sense.”

He joins growing list of parents struggle with in reality of their child is killed at school.

There have been at least 67 shootings across the country. on school grounds so far year.

How filming unfolded in St. Louis, Michigan Attorney who just listened to the guilty plea of teenager who killed four students last fall said she was no longer shocked to hear of another school shooting.

” fact I’m not surprised that the school is being shot at again – it’s terrible,” said Karen McDonald, Oakland County Attorney.

“We need save public and inform public … on how we can prevent gun violence. This can be prevented and we should never ever allow is to be something that we just should have live with”.

Bell, father of murdered teenager, said he struggling to get answers about what happened.

“I am really want to know: How did this person get into school? he said to the KSDK.

Authorities said the doors were locked. But the St. Louis police commissioner declined detail how shooter got in.

“I don’t want make it easy for anyone else,” Sack said.

According to Sack, the shooter did not hide his weapon when entering the school.

“When he entered, out … there was no mystery about what was about to happen,” the commissar said. “He had it out and entered in in an aggressive, violent manner.”

Foulstitch said the principal came over over the intercom and used the passphrase “Miles Davis in in building» provide teachers know en active the shooter was in in building.

“I immediately, but calmly, went to lock the door and turn off light, the teacher said. “Then I turned to my children and told everyone to in in corner”.

Within a minute of locking her up second-floor the classroom door, Foulstitch said, someone began “violently pushing the handle, trying to in”.

“I am very grateful to my students for their response,” Folstich said. “Even in moments when they heard gunfire on everyone around me froze and I know they did it to keep each other safe.”

Adrianna Bolden, a freshman at the school, told KSDK that students thought the school was conducting drills until they heard sirens and noticed their teachers were scared.

“Teacher, she crawled over and she asked for help to move lockers to the door so they can’t get to inBolden said. “And we began to hear the glass breaking in outside and shots outside Door.”

Sophomore Brian Collins, 15, suffered gunshot wounds to his arms and jaw. He escaped by jumping from the classroom window onto a ledge, his mother FonDina Washington said.

“He told me that they heard active notice arrow over intercom, so everything in the class hid,” Washington said. According to her son, the gunman then entered the classroom and fired several shots before leaving.

Following arrow left third-floor class, Washington said different student opened a window in the classroom, and some of they jumped.

Brian is numb in his hands and problems moving a little of fingers of his right hand.

“He really good in drawing,” Washington said. “He went to CVPA for fine arts and we hope he can draw again”.

Math teacher David Williams told CNN everyone has gone into “practice mode.” off lights, locking doors and huddling in corners so that they are not visible.

He said that he heard someone trying to open the door and the man was shouting: die”.

After a while the bullet went through one of in windows in his class, Williams said.

His class on the third floor, where, according to Sack, the police attacked the shooter.

In the end, the officer said she was outside and the class ran out through adjacent emergency doors.

Safety personnel According to St. Louis Public Schools public relations director George Sells, they were at the school when the shooter arrived.

“We had seven personnel working in in building who did a wonderful job getting the alarm going off quickly,” Sells said.

The commissioner said that the locked school doors had probably detained the culprit.

“The school was closed and the doors were locked,” Sack told CNN affiliate KMOV. “The security staff did an outstanding job identifying the suspect’s attempts to get inside and immediately notified other staff and ensured we were contacted.”

After a massive controversy over belated reply in confronting school shooters in Uvalde, Texas, and Parkland, Florida, Sack told responding officers. in St. Louis wasted no time breaking into the school and stopping the bandit.

“There was no street conference. There was no discussion,” Sak said. “There was no ‘Hey, where are you going?’ They are just went right in”.

BUT call about active high school shooter came in around 9:11, according to the schedule provided by the commissioner.

The police arrived on stage and made recording in four minutes.

officers found the shooter and began to “attract him in shootout” at 9:23. Two minutes later, officers reported that the suspect down.

Asked about eight minutes between officers arrival and establishing contact with shooter, Sack said that “eight minutes is not a very long time” and that the officers had to maneuver through big school with few entrances and crowds of students and staff who were evacuated.

Police found the suspect is not just not only by hearing the shots, but also by talking to the children and teachers as they leave,” Sak said.

When the phone calls came in from people hiding in other locationsofficers fanned themselves out and searched for students and staff to accompany them out of in building.

officers who were in church down in street for funeral of a fellow officer also responded to firing, said the commissar.

Special Forces team it was together for the exercises were also the ability to quickly download up and get to school perform secondary sweep of in buildingSak said.

Some officers wereoff duty; some were in Mikey, but they had their own (ballistic) vests on”, said the commissioner. “They did an outstanding job.”

Correction: previously version of this is story gave wrong age for fifteen-year-old Alexandria Bell, who was killed in shooting.