Officials identified homeless man Glenn Litton, 56, as the man who shot two kindergartners at a northern California school on Wednesday.
The police described him as mentally ill and had a lengthy criminal record.
The investigators discovered a note he left:
“Countermeasure involving child executions has now been imposed at the Seventh Day Adventist school in CA, U.S. by the international alliance,” he wrote in the disturbing note recovered by investigators.“I, Lieutenant Glenn Litton of the alliance carried out countermeasure in necessitated response to America’s involvement with genocide and oppression of Palestinians along with attacks towards Yemen.”
Investigators do not know how “he conflated what’s going on in Palestine and Yemen with the Seventh-Day Adventist Church.”
Litton shot Roman Mendez,6, and Elias Wolford, 5, at the Feather River Aventist School in Oroville.
Thankfully both children survived.
However, Mendez and Wolford will probably need many surgeries before they make a full recovery.
Litton faked his identity to get on the school grounds:
Authorities identified the shooter as Glenn Litton, 56, who died most likely from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Litton used the alias Michael Sanders to set up an appointment with the school principal to inquire about enrolling his grandson just before the shooting, investigators said.Authorities believe the appointment was a ruse so Litton could gain access to the school’s campus. After the meeting, Litton fired a handgun several times before fatally shooting himself, Honea said.”Shortly after concluding that meeting, the principal heard shots being fired, heard screams, and that’s when they determined or found that the two students had been shot,” [Butte County Sheriff Kory] Honea said.
Honea told the press Litton had mental issues going back to 16-years-old. His criminal record included identity theft, fraud, and forgery:
He served time in California State Prison in the 1990s and early 2000s for theft-related crimes. In 2015, he was sentenced to two years in prison for aggravated identity theft in Sacramento.Litton’s first prison sentence was in 1991 for theft. Since then, he has had convictions for various crimes consisting of theft, identity theft, and some drug charges, according to Butte County officials.”His criminal behavior and prison stints continued over the following years, all the way up until Nov. 12 when he was arrested near San Francisco for stealing a moving truck and was booked into the San Mateo County jail,” officials said.
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