Thai teen learned shooting via social media before killing 8 at school

Eight people killed including teachers and students; a 12-year-old girl injured in the shooting died two days later; the shooter also died.

In Nonthaburi, Thailand, a 14-year-old boy drew from a well of private suffering — academic anxiety, family fracture, and a steady diet of violent content absorbed alone through a screen — and turned his grandfather's handgun on his family, his teachers, and his classmates, killing eight before ending his own life. He had never trained at a range; the internet had been his instructor. The tragedy, among the deadliest of its kind in Thailand in years, has prompted a nation to ask what it means when the forces that shape a young mind remain invisible until the moment they cannot be ignored.

Thai teen learned shooting via social media before killing 8 at school

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