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School Shooters

Henry Mack

Grantham University

School Shooters

Over the recent past, school shootings have become one of the most serious predicaments facing educational facilities. It is therefore essential to establish defined criminal profiling which can aid in the investigation of unprecedented shootings. In essence, geographical profiling integrated with can help to get a better trace of time and location thus finding the offender. It is also essential to incorporate other correlational facets that can help to get better results in criminal profiling.

I. Antecedent: The first thing that I could consider is the assessment of an underlying plan that the offender might have before the shooting was done. In other words, what preceded the murder or why did the shooting take place.

II. Anomaly: Next, I would seek to identify the murder victims and why they were chosen. Here, the vital thing is to denote the type of victim, their school history, or find anything that might explain why he or she was murdered.

III. Method: To assertively have connecting links, it is essential to understand how the shooting was done. Was the act conducted hastily? Had the murderer been seen in the course of the day or week? What was the ideal place of the shooting? Does it look like it was the designated location?

IV. Emotional Consideration: What was the emotional state of the offender? I would seek to identify if he or was angry, aggressive or tensed and worried.

In the first article, information has been cited about a 16-year-old teenager who opened fire on his peers, killing two of them and injuring 3. It has also been identified that the teenager inflicted a wound on his head even though he tried to flee right after the incident. The happenings of this shootings occurred at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California, on 14 November 2019 (Cowan, Harmon & Bogel-Burroughs, 2019). The criminal profiling steps can be used to decode this case. As outlined, the student opened fire in the quad where the students were. The fact he shot his friends suggests there was an underlying issue. I would then proceed to fathom the relationship of the offender and those who survived the shooting. Since it is clear how the shooting was done, I would continue to evaluate if the shooter was under any emotional influence.

The second article talks about a student who shot his classmate at Ridgway High School, California on 23 October 2019. As the article deduces, the offender, shot the classmate and went back to class to avoid being detected. In addition to that, witnesses say that the shooter had not been acting out (Stack, 2019). From the information gathered, it is clear that this attack was planned. From that, in criminal profiling, it is therefore evident that the student had an underlying issue that led to the shooting. His behavior suggests that he was not under any emotional influence. In this case, it can be difficult to trace the shooter, especially if there were no witnesses. Therefore, in my profiling, I would add witness statistics to actualize it.

Articulately, the information from the articles gives pertinent information that school shooting presumes the same mode of criminal profiling. Notably, from the results, school shooters have a defined motive even though it can be openly denoted. However, from how the shootings happen, it is clear that there is a trigger that causes them to engage in the vices. Most of these school shooters are from the vicinity of the school; thus it would help better to trace them using adequate profiling steps.

References

Cowan, J., Harmon, A., & Bogel-Burroughs, N. (2019). Santa Clarita Shooting Is Another Nightmare Made Real. Retrieved 16 November 2019, from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/14/us/school-shooting-santa-clarita.html

Stack, L. (2019). Teenager shoots fellow student before going to class to avoid detection, police say. Retrieved 16 November 2019, from https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/california-shooting-school-santa-rosa-ridgway-high-suspect-victim-a9167271.html