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[quote=Anonymous]I agree we don't know for certain if the shooter was ever in the zoo. But we do know that one of the victims was going into the zoo. He said he he was going there to look at the girls.

So,then it boils down to was this a random act of violence? Or was this kid a targeted victim ('as he believes he was)

If he was an intended pre-meditated target, then it is  zoo attendee thing. He intended to attend the zoo, someone knew he was coming there on this day, for this event and lay in wait for him. Further, he thinks it is related to other violence that he was previously involved in, so he is a youth, who is mixed up in violent activities, who was on his way to the zoo where families and children are, and not to learn about wildlife. He was under the impression that on this day, there would be lots of teenage girls there, to ogle. I go to the zoo 2-3 times a month, I would not say this is usually the case, but for some reason, this occasion did attract an unusual amount of teenagers for the zoo. And he wanted to be there because other teens were there.

The kids had some reason for all being there, I don't think it is normal for 100 young men and women to show up at the gates at the same time. There must be some clue on twitter, or text messages. Seems like a flash mob scenario. I taught high school, and when there was going to be trouble, the kids knew ahead if time and showed up at the hallway or designate place in the community ahead of time so they could see the fight go down. Sometimes teachers got wind of it and admin was able to stop it ahead of time. Once the kids planned something off campus at lunch but the principal learned of it and sent school security team members and the community police officer to the location before lunch...

Anyway, just saying, a big crowd of teens, seems like there was some word of mouth or social networking alert that there would be something to witness or participate in at that time and location.  [/quote]

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