TEXAS SHOOTING: 17-yr-old suspect is ‘non-emotional’, lawyer says

One of the lawyers representing the 17-year-old suspect who shot and killed 10 people when he opened fire in an art class at his Houston-area high school said the suspect appeared “weirdly non-emotional” on the morning after the incident.

According to Nicholas Poehl, one of two lawyers hired by the parents of the suspect Dimitrios Pagourtzis, to represent their son, he spent a total of one hour with the shooter on Friday night and Saturday morning.

“He’s very emotional and weirdly non-emotional,” the attorney said when asked to describe his client’s state of mind. “There are aspects of it he understands and there are aspects he doesn’t understand.”

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Pagourtzis, has been charged with capital murder and is being held without bail in Santa Fe, Texas, even as authorities have given no indication why he apparently targeted the art class.

Recalling the incident, Pagourtzis, opened fire at school in US state of Texas with a shotgun and a .38 revolver killing 10 people and wounded 10 others in the process.

The suspect was immediately taken into custody moments after he was arrested for the deadly attack at Santa Fe High School, located about 50km southeast of Houston.

According to Texas Governor Greg Abbott the shooting was “one of the most heinous attacks ever seen in the history of Texas schools”.

 

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