Gary Poster, with essential assists from Galyn Norwood, Phiroon Phihakendr, Jose Quijada, Pavandeep Kalra. If only that were true. He told police that he got the idea from news reports and was only kidding. It's not only Andy Williams. A reasonable person who read the papers or watched the news last week might conclude that murderous violence could happen anywhere, at any time, in any school in America.
School shootings are like plane crashes, rare but riveting for the primitive fears they evoke.
Williams' friends asked. They even frisked him that morning before school. In a spasm of fear and frustration, the adults fire back at a moving target. She wanted to show it to her friends. Those are the conversations that matter most.