Students at Taft High School in Kern County, Calif., issued frightened tweets last month about a student — Bryan Oliver — whose name has been circulating on Twitter in connection with the shooting of another student and a teacher today.
The disturbing tweets are dated Dec. 15.
https://twitter.com/beezygioni/status/279974965191798785
https://twitter.com/Doty425/status/280007744914862080
https://twitter.com/beezygioni/status/280008136293756928
https://twitter.com/Doty425/status/280008675194720256
https://twitter.com/beezygioni/status/279977223602176000
Taft High School’s website lists Rona Angelo as vice principal. Several people at the school have tweeted rumors of a “hit list” which circulated last year.
https://twitter.com/beezygioni/status/280008965667037184
https://twitter.com/Doty425/status/280009166746173440
https://twitter.com/beezygioni/status/280009417129353216
In a series of unconfirmed tweets, students today named Bowe Cleveland as the student allegedly shot in the shoulder by student, Bryan Oliver.
https://twitter.com/Doty425/status/280011106301390850
https://twitter.com/beezygioni/status/280011440180580352
Flash forward to today:
https://twitter.com/beezygioni/status/289525480326049793
https://twitter.com/beezygioni/status/289525932648169472
One of the students who expressed her concerns about Bryan Oliver in December later said she regretted doing so:
https://twitter.com/Doty425/status/280804521070968832
https://twitter.com/Doty425/status/280805675339243520
Should the administration have taken these students’ concerns more seriously?
https://twitter.com/Doty425/status/289497483325870080
https://twitter.com/beezygioni/status/289515735405953024
The “national conversation” on gun violence has reached the White House this week, but as the administration and gun rights groups noisily grapple over the Second Amendment, time bombs quietly tick inside our schools. Is anyone listening?
Update, January 11th, 6:23 a.m. ET:
KGET is reporting that Bryan Oliver is the name of the suspected shooter.
USA Today is reporting that Bowe Cleveland was the student who was shot.
These reports are consistent with what Twitchy reported early yesterday afternoon.
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