Karlo Vasquez

## 1998 Fallo school shooting

**Karlo Vásquez Roldán** was a 18 year old exstudent who shot up his former High School killing 15 people before commiting suicide.

## Background

Karlo, was born on December 3, 1979, in the city of Akrotiri, son of Gregoria Roldán and Jaime Vásquez. He studied on CIEPS Darío Moreira. When he entred on primary, his life was normal, until secondary. He got bullied by the half class. His three friends desperately tried to stop him from committing suicide on several occasions. One day, when he was in 2nd grade, he cut his own throat after a classmate rejected him for being a "hillbilly." The ambulances arrived and treated him quickly, they saved his life and the companion, who was only revealed to him as Sara, was expelled during the period of 1 day. Karlo, in 3rd grade, was beaten in the park by some bullies and when he crashed, he poisoned himself with antifreeze, which caused the bullies to call the police in concern. Once again they saved his life. In the 2nd grade of high school, he beat up one of the bullies, deforming his face, in the park where they fought in the third grade. After hitting him, he attempted suicide by jumping from a subway shelter that was 4 meters high. He survived and broke his leg. He recovered in the summer of 1997. During those years, he signed up for Newgrounds and began making strange and grotesque animations. In one of them, he appeared, drawn, shooting himself in the back of the head with a pistol.
In early 1998, he began planning a massacre at the CEIPS Darío Moreira, taking photos, pointing guns at the camera, posing with a shotgun in his mouth and showing the middle finger at the camera. In one of those photos, he had a sign that said, and I quote: "Humanity is going to become extinct on March 18." During the first days of March, he apologized to Sara, the girl who rejected him in 2nd grade, and told her that if she had repeated, he should be careful with her intentions. On March 17, the day before the attack, he created a list of his intentions.

```
6:00 Get Up
7:00 Prepare now
7:30 Go school and plan how to kill
8:00 Say your last goodbye to everyone there
8:20 Pull out shotgun or pistol and begin the blood splat everywhere
8:45 Die...

```

## Shooting

On 18 March 1998, Karlo went to the school with his mossberg 500 and 179 rounds of ammo. Karlo forgot the Glock 19 pistol on his bedroom's cupboard. Inside the cupboard where 200 rounds of ammo aproximatly. Karlo, at 8 o'clock, begins to say goodbye to everyone present. At 8:12, he intercepts a thug, who approached him and said the following and I quote: "I'm going to hit you now, you thug." To which Karlo responded: "And I will shoot you with the shotgun that I have on my back and NOW!!!!". The bully runs inside and yells in a classroom that a former student was going to start a shooting. The students laughed and he went to the principal's office denouncing the situation. It was already too late to report the shooting, since the principal was speaking in his office with the head teacher, who were discussing the expulsion of a student. Karlo, after entering the institute, pointed the mossberg at a classroom, and began the shooting, killing 5 people there and wounding 6 others. Then, he walked to another classroom, shooting at the wall and then killing 4 people and wounding 6 more. He then heads to the end of the hallway, to the left, and shoots into a room, killing 5 people and wounding 4 others. Then, he ran down the stairs and reloaded his shotgun. After walking to the CIEPS children's area, he fired again through a window, killing a teacher and wounding his student. Then, on the way, he seriously injures a teacher who plays dead until Karlo commits suicide. Karlo goes in front of the fence that separates the nursery school from the primary school and shoots himself in the soft palate, the shot left him without the cover of his brain and his brains flew away, while the heavier pieces and big ones came out of the skull when it fell to the ground. The shotgun remained between his legs with several drops of blood.

## Victims

* Milena Dolores, 16 student
* Marion Sanchez, 17 student
* Hugo Martínez, 17 student
* Antonio Sanado, 16 student
* Snigwa Zoion, 17 french learning assistant
* Javier Wang, 17 student
* Mario Casas, 18 student
* Helena Revilla, 17 student
* José Nuñoa,42 Math teacher
* Antonio Guijarro, 14 student
* Ulises Navarro, 15 student
* Álvaro Samuel, 15 student
* Tomás Sánchez, 14 student
* Alfredo Súllivan, 35 History teacher
* Mario Gómez, 53 Nursery teacher
* Karlo Vásquez, 18 perpetrator

## Aftermath

The then dictator of the country felt sorry for the shooting and compensated the victims, relatives and survivors with a visit to King Cornelius' palace, offering them a day there. On March 18, a holiday was declared in Fallo. Only 2 days later, there was an impersonator whose name was not revealed who injured 7 of his colleagues with a Sig Mosquito. Eric and Dylan, the Columbine shooters, also got inspired by Karlo tomake his historic massacre to inspire more than 200 people to carry out their shootings.