Students at the Nevada middle school where one of their classmates shot and killed a math teacher on Monday and injured two others say the shooter believed he had been bullied.
Omar Lopez, an eight-grader, said he was with a group of 30 terrified students when he locked eyes with the shooter.
“‘You guys ruined my life, so now I’m going to ruin yours,'” Lopez, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times published late Tuesday, recalled the shooter saying before he fired two shots into a window above the group. “He looked like he was going to cry. He said it in an angry and crying voice.”
Police say the shooter then shot and injured another student before turning the weapon on himself and committing suicide.
Another eight-grade student, Margielle Stewart, told the Times that she had seen the boy pushed in the hallways in the past. Police have not said anything about a motive in the shooting, and have not released the name of the shooter.
Stewart said she knew the shooter to be “really nice.”
“He would always make a smile on your face,” she said.