Open letter to would-be school killer after attack foiled
A US student’s plan to attack his high school has been foiled by his friends and an open letter to the teen has gone viral.
The boy messaged his friends at Edmond North High School in Oklahoma, telling them about his intentions to kill people at the school. They contacted school officials.
Police apprehended him and found explosives at his home.
Father Charles Martin, who has a son at the school, wrote an open letter to the teen who is currently unnamed in reports.
The letter, which has received an enormous amount of attention, reminds the teen that life does get better after high school.
“To The Teen Who Planned To Kill My Son: We found out Friday that you were planning on killing students at Edmond North. The details of your scheme are still not that clear, at least what’s been made public, but it seems you were hoping for a high body count. My son is a freshman at Edmond North,“ Martin wrote.
He goes on to sympathize with the teen and let’s him know he is not alone.
“It was the winter that made it so hard, wasn’t it? That’s when you sent the texts to your friends that led them to notify the authorities. It was those damn snow days. The winter always brings me down too, so it’s not just you. We all get tremendously sad sometimes.”
He praised the actions of the friends who alerted authorities.
“I want to believe that you texted your friends because you wanted to be caught. You wanted to be stopped. Your friends are heroes.”
He tells the unnamed teen, who is currently awaiting charges in a treatment facility to look to the future.
‘Listen to the therapists…Whatever comes of this situation, please hold onto the hope that you could one day put the darkness behind you.
Your path forward is going to be complicated and hard, but remember that you are not a killer. You were on a path to become a killer, but your own actions led to my son being alive today.”
