He stressed more needs be done before a shooter becomes committed to carrying out deadly acts. Prince became known as the “grim reaper” as he delved into trauma response and consulting early in his career. Prince said shooters often “ruminate over perceived injustices” and apply “a name and face to a grievance,” something he called “Hostile Attributional Violence,” the report said. The most frequently occurring concerning behaviors were related to the active shooter’s mental health, problematic interpersonal interactions, and leakage of violent intent.” Children from the Covenant School, a private Christian school in Nashville, Tenn., hold hands as they are taken to a reunification site at the Woodmont Baptist Church after a shooting at their school, on Monday March, 27, 2023. “On average,” the report found, “each active shooter displayed four to five concerning behaviors over time that were observable to others around the shooter. “Let’s deal with them when they’re fantasizing about the shooting.”Īs part of its 2018 research the FBI released a study examining the behaviors of the gunmen prior to carrying out their acts in 160 active shooter cases in the US from 2000 to 2013. “People don’t want to come in and shoot up the place,” he said. “Something has affected their identity, their feeling of self-worth,” he told the Tennessean. Denny Simmons / The Tennessean / USA TODAY NETWORK
Patrick Prince, on June 16, 2023, at his Fairview, Tenn., home. The warning signs, referred to as “leakage,” involve the shooter revealing “clues to a third party about feelings, thoughts, fantasies, attitudes or intentions that may signal intent to commit a violent act,” the FBI said. There were 647 mass shootings, or those involving four or more victims, in 2022 alone, according to the Gun Violence Archive, and there have been 361 mass shootings in the US so far this year. Prince, who has worked as a consultant for four decades, pointed to FBI statistics from 2018 that said 56% of mass shooters showed warning signs two years before carrying out the act, according to the report.Ī staggering 98% of people who knew people who go on to be shooters sensed something was amiss, he said. “We should be asking, ‘How can we prevent them?’”
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