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| Online ‘gore' forums are ‘gateway to extremism' in mass shootings, normalizing horror for kids: experts |
| 2025-09-21 |
| [FoxNews] On September 10, 2025, 16-year-old Holly opened fire at Evergreen High School, wounding two students before shooting himself. During a September 11 press conference, a Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson shared that investigators had learned Holly had been “radicalized by some extremist network,” but did not elaborate further. Research by ADL Center on Extremism indicates that Holly spent substantial amounts of time in online spaces featuring extremist ideologies and violent content, ultimately adopting extremist views himself. Holly had an account on the gore forum WatchPeopleDie, where he had commented on posts about shootings in Parkland (2018), Buffalo (2022) and at a Quebec City mosque (2017). Holly appears to have joined the gore site on December 26, 2024, during the month window between the school shootings at Abundant Life Christian school in Madison, Wisconsin, and Antioch High School in Nashville, Tennessee. Holly is one of several mass attackers who have been active on the platform. |
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