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Police said the 14-year-old used an Elliot Rodger image online as investigators opened a probe into the attack.
- A 14-year-old student opened fire at a school in Kahramanmaras, Turkey on Wednesday, killing nine people and wounding 13 others before taking his own life.
- This incident marks Turkey's second school shooting in two days, following an earlier attack in Siverek where a former student opened fire, wounding 16 people before killing himself.
- Police reported the attacker's WhatsApp profile featured an image of American mass killer Elliot Rodger, who killed six people in California in 2014, and the teen used five pistols belonging to his police officer father.
- Authorities have detained people across Turkey for 'glorifying crime and criminals' since the attacks, blocking access to 940 social media accounts and 93 Telegram groups.
- President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the incident would be 'thoroughly clarified in all its aspects,' while opposition leader Ozgur Ozel called violence in schools a 'growing and deepening security vulnerability.
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A teenage shooter who perpetrated one of the deadliest school attacks in Turkish history has been identified as a non-binary male student who used “she/her/it” pronouns. İsa Aras Mersinli, who carried out the attack on April 15, reportedly preferred to be referred to as “Konata” – a name belonging to his favorite female character from a Japanese animated series. The attack took place on Wednesday at Ayser Çalık Secondary School in the Onikişubat…
Turkiye buries school shooting victims
Crowds gathered for the funerals of eight children and a teacher in southern Turkiye on Thursday, who were killed when a 14-year-old opened fire at a school in a crime that has plunged the country in to shock and the community into grief. As family members and mourners flocked around coffins draped in the Turkish flag in the province of Kahramanmaras, people also placed roses on the steps of the school that was attacked, locals still reeling at …
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The Straits TimesTurkish school shooter used image referencing 2014 US mass killer, police say
Police in Türkiye linked the 14-year-old who killed nine people to US mass killer Elliot Rodger, as 162 individuals were detained over related online content.
14-year-old killed nine people and injured 13 more. Mother and father of the shooter arrested.
Following the shooting at a high school in the Turkish city of Kahramanmaraş, which left 8 children and a teacher dead, the first details about the 14-year-old attacker are emerging. He called himself a school hunter and was inspired by mass attacks from abroad.
A 14-year-old had killed nine people in an attack in a Turkish school. Investigators see evidence of an anti-women model from the USA.
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