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The Tragic Lesson of an Averted School Shooting

In 2018, a rural Michigan high school student named Aidan Ingalls was arrested after his mother reported that he was plotting to shoot his classmates and blow up his school. Ingalls spent a year in a juvenile detention facility under psychiatric examination but received no further medical attention after he was released from community supervision.

In November 2021, wearing a black backpack like the one he intended to use during his averted school shooting three years earlier, and carrying two handguns, Ingalls shot two people—one of them fatally—on a pier in South Haven, Mich.

Then he turned the gun on himself.

Learn more from The Crime Report here.

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