Santa Fe shooter planned to commit suicide after killing, but ‘didn’t have the courage,’ says governor

Published May 18, 2018 8:02pm ET



Dimitrios Pagourtzis, the 17-year-old male student suspect in the mass shooting at Santa Fe High School in Southern Texas Friday, planned to commit suicide following this morning’s shooting, but could not find the “courage” to do it, according to the governor of Texas.

“We also know information already that the shooter has information contained in journals, on his computer, and his cell phone that he said that not only did he want to commit the shooting, but he wanted to commit suicide after the shooting,” Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, said during a press conference Friday afternoon.

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