# Could a student ever "get away" with a school shooting?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 19, 2012, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-student-ever-get-away-with-a-school-shooting/644509 "2012-12-19T10:46:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-student-ever-get-away-with-a-school-shooting/644509/41 "2018-07-13T18:11:40Z")

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> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#):
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> Y’know, mention of the Washington snipers and the Columbine shooters makes me wonder: imagine you’re a demented youth out to kill lots of classmates, and just like Klebold or Harris you hook up with a Harris or a Klebold. So there you both are, hunkered down in your black trenchcoats, shooting kids who’ve obligingly marched out single file for the fire drill or whatever – when suddenly your partner in crime puts a bullet in your head and the pistol in your gunpowder-residue-coated hand.
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> Could he get away?

Five and a half years, and still no one’s answered this? I find this scenario creepy as hell. Still have my doubts that the person could leave a scene that makes it look like the entire thing was perpetrated by one person than it wasn’t, but out of all the scenarios proposed in this thread, this post creeps me out the most.

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**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2018, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-a-student-ever-get-away-with-a-school-shooting/644509/42 "2018-07-13T20:01:48Z")

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> [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](#):
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> Five and a half years, and still no one’s answered this? I find this scenario creepy as hell. Still have my doubts that the person could leave a scene that makes it look like the entire thing was perpetrated by one person than it wasn’t, but out of all the scenarios proposed in this thread, this post creeps me out the most.

I think it’s much the same - possible to get away with it, but unlikely.

You still have to get away without anyone seeing you, nobody can know that you were associated with the dead killer, and you need an alibi when the cops start checking everyone who wasn’t at school that day. And no one better remember you obtaining the guns, which cannot be traced to you in any way. And it is difficult to shoot someone else and make it look like suicide.

Regards,  
Shodan

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