The Latest Breaking News from Orlando Harris

His family pleaded for police to take his gun away. Days later he shot up his school

Orlando Harris did not live in a state with a red-flag law

The Independent UK · Nov 3, 2024

Editorial: Missouri lawmakers made sure teen gunman faced minimal obstacles to arm himself

The more detail that emerges about the assailant in last week’s St. Louis school shooting, the more clear it becomes that his deadly violence was, in real ways, abetted by Missouri’s Legislature. Conservative lawmakers have spent more than a decade preventing or assertively tearing down every legal safeguard that might…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Nov 1, 2022

St. Louis school shooter failed a background check. Why didn't police take his gun?

ST. LOUIS — Police officers were called to the home of Orlando Harris on Oct. 15, nine days before he went on a shooting rampage inside a St. Louis high school. Harris’ mother had asked officers to remove the weapon, an AR-15 rifle, from her home, citing her son’s mental…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Oct 29, 2022

Police: Gun taken away earlier was used in school shooting

St. Louis police have confirmed that the gunman who forced his way into a high school, killing a student and a teacher and leaving seven others wounded, used an assault rifle that had been taken away from him earlier this month

The Independent UK · Oct 27, 2022

Orlando Harris’ gun was taken away over mental health fears. How did he go on to commit the St Louis shooting?

It has been revealed that the gunman had a history of mental illness and that the firearm used in the deadly attack had been taken away from him just over one week earlier

The Independent UK · Oct 27, 2022

Editorial: Deny terrorists like Orlando Harris their weapon of choice? Hell no!

A national epidemic of mass shootings, with a particular focus on schools as targets, shows no signs of abating anytime soon as the volatile mix of guns and mental health continues to go unaddressed legislatively. It’s time to redefine what’s happening here: Monday’s school shooting in St. Louis wasn’t just…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Oct 27, 2022

Gun used in St. Louis school shooting is the same one his family took away from him

ST. LOUIS — The gun Orlando Harris used to kill two people at his former high school Monday was the same AR-15-style rifle his family had asked authorities for help removing from him nine days earlier, police said Wednesday evening.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Oct 27, 2022

Police took gun from Orlando Harris months before St Louis school shooting

Family reported the weapon to police and asked for it to be removed from home, officials say

The Independent UK · Oct 26, 2022

St Louis school shooting suspect Orlando Harris’ had ‘intended targets’ and history of mental health issues

Harris killed 10th grade student Alexzandria Bell and health teacher Jean Kuczka, 61, before he was gunned down by police eight minutes into the rampage

The Independent UK · Oct 26, 2022

Gun was earlier confiscated from St. Louis school shooter

Relatives of the gunman who killed a student and a teacher during a St. Louis school shooting had long been concerned about his mental health and worked with police to take a gun away from him — possibly the same gun used in the attack

The Independent UK · Oct 26, 2022