According to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, shooter Payton Gendron (18 years old) , a graduation student from Susquehanna Valley High School, told his teacher last year that he wanted to murder and committed suicide after the graduation!
The teacher told the cops next day and on June 8, 2021, the state police interviewed Gendron and took him to a hospital, where he underwent a psychiatric evaluation but he was released!
Then, Gendron fell off investigators’ radar and he was not on the “red flag list” of people who have threats of violence!
As a result, when Gendron tried to buy a Bushmaster semiautomatic from a dealer in Endicott, New York in this year, his background check came up clean! This is a ridiculous mistake!
The NY governor had ordered an investigation into this case: How a person who had a threat history and was able to purchase an assault rifle!?
Opinion: we want to know how and why too!