Once the matter began gaining widespread traction, a UDC student named Allison came forward and discussed how she knew the suspect back in middle school.

“It’s really surreal that my former classmate would actually shoot at, or near, my university,” she said. “It’s just so horrible, because all my advisors were there, my lab mates, my friends. And it’s hard not to get angry about that, because in just a few minutes, he could have destroyed some of the best things in my life.”

Allison also reflected on the suspect’s character.

“It’s not like he was a loner… He’s the last person I would expect to do something like this. He was the most quiet kid,” she noted. “He didn’t really talk a lot, but he always smiled when you talked to him. Like, this isn’t the person that I knew 10 years ago.”

“I’m pretty sure he already wanted to commit suicide, but he was afraid of not being remembered,” Allison added. “So, he appealed to these internet movements because he knew that people would continue to make conspiracies about his life, as if it was some kind of thing. The truth is kind of devastatingly simple.”

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