School Shooter Was Bullied For Being A “Ginger”

Details are emerging in the Taft High School shooting, where 16-year-old Bryan Oliver shot another student in the chest with a shotgun last week.

1. Bryan Oliver pleaded not guilty Monday to two counts of premeditated attempted murder and three counts of assault with a firearm.

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2. District Attorney Lisa Green announced that the court will try the 16-year-old as an adult due to the severity of last Thursday’s attack which left another 16-year-old student wounded.

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3. Morgan Alldredge, a friend of Oliver’s, pictured below, who was in the classroom during the shooting, said that Oliver was bullied over his red hair.

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4. Alldredge told The AP that other classmates “called him a ‘ginger’ and said gingers don’t have souls.”

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5. Many of Oliver classmates describe him as a “genius” who was constantly bullied by other students, calling him “misunderstood.”

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6. Last Thursday morning, Oliver walked into his science class and shot another one of his classmates in the chest with a 12-guage shotgun. The victim was hit seriously, but did not receive life-threatening injuries.

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7. Oliver’s friend Morgan Alldredge told The AP that Oliver told evacuating students, in reference to one of the victims who is alleged to have bullied Oliver, “all I want is Jacob,” the name of the classmate he attacked.

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