Philippine High School Student Live-streams Fatal Shooting of Classmate Before Killing Himself
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
A 9th grade student at the Ateneo de Zamboanga university campus in Zamboanga City, southern Philippines, opened fire inside his school on August 18, killing one fellow student and wounding two others before killing himself, after live-streaming the attack in real time using a body-worn camera on Facebook.
ANALYSIS
Mohammad Mael Jalani carried two pistols into school, fired at a teacher and missed, shot a student on the fourth floor, wounded two others, then went up one floor and killed himself. Jalani Facebook live-streamed from a body-worn camera during the attack. The platform disabled his account after the shooting. Philippine National Police officials confirmed it was the second fatal school shooting in the country in two months: the previous attack, at a public high school in Tacloban City in June, killed three students and wounded about 20.
The specific combination in this incident, a student attacking classmates at school, two firearms, premeditated, body-cam livestreamed on a mainstream platform, is the exact behavioral template US school attack researchers have flagged as a high-contagion pattern.
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