An Incel School Shooter in Mexico?
A 15-year old slays two teachers in a U.S.-style shooting in the heart of the cartel wars
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The video uploaded on Instagram on Monday night shows a teenager with scruffy hair and a long-sleeved black t-shirt filming himself in a bedroom mirror. With the backing of reggaetón music, the camera flashes down to an AR-15-style rifle, which he points at the reflection.
Another video uploaded to the same account has the word incel, short for “involuntary celibate.” Subtitles in English flash up saying, “I have decided to send the feminists who have always ruined my life to their maker,” before images come in of shooting at a crowd to dark rock music.
A few hours later, at about 7:40 am on Tuesday morning, the 15-year old identified as “Osmar N” approached his Antón Makarenko high school in the port city of Lázaro Cárdenas in Michoacán - a state at the heart of the cartel wars ravaging Mexico. According to the Michoacán attorney general, Osmar carried a guitar case with an AR-15 style rifle inside. He reportedly bought a single cigarette at a shop by the school.
Osmar walked into the school reception, took the rifle out of the case, and fired multiple shots into the back of a female teacher striking her in the head, the AG said. A second teacher tried to hide behind a desk, but Osmar moved a few steps forward and unloaded…
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