It has been two years since then-19-year-old Orlando Harris killed two people at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School (CVPA) in St. Louis, Missouri, in October 2022. Now, police have released their investigative report , revealing Harris’s mental health struggles and the student’s anti-LGBTQ+ motive.
According to the report, in the year and a half prior to the shooting, Harris contemplated suicide multiple times and attempted the act at least twice — first in August 2021 and again between April and June 2022. He was hospitalized several times for his struggles with mental health and regularly saw a therapist. However, he ended his therapy sessions in the summer of 2022.
“After he was released from the hospital, Orlando H. advised Ward that he was not going back to the hospital and stopped contact with the therapist,” the report states…