Oregon student had ‘growing obsession’ to shoot up school
By STEVEN DUBOIS, Associated Press
Published: March 16, 2016, 9:59am
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PORTLAND — An Oregon teenager wrote in a journal that he had a “growing obsession” with shooting up his high school and wanted to kill at least 100 people, police said in a court document.
An officer found the journal in the boy’s bedroom while investigating a threat at Newberg High School, Capt.
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