Omaha School Shooting – Robert Butler Facebook Posts Show Anger
The Omaha school shooting at a Nebraska high school on Wednesday killed the vice Principal Vicki Kaspar, 58. Principal Curtis Case was also shot but is now listed in stable condition in a hospital. The suspect is identified as 17-year-old Robert Butler Jr., the son of a police detective, according to ABC News.
The gunman, who had attended the school for no more than two months, fled from the scene and fatally shot himself in his car about a mile away.
In a rambling Facebook post filled with expletives, Butler warned Wednesday that people would hear about the “evil” things he did and said the school drove him to violence.
He wrote that the Omaha school was worse than his previous one, and that the new city had changed him. He apologized and said he wanted people to remember him for who he was before affecting “the lives of the families I ruined.” The post ended with “goodbye.”
A former classmate of Butler’s from Lincoln confirmed the Facebook post to The Associated Press and provided AP with a copy of it.
“He apologized and said he wanted people to remember him for who he was before affecting “the lives of the families I ruined.” Unfortunately that probably won’t be the case. No one forced Butler to commit these horrendous acts of violence. He made that decision himself.