10 people killed at a Texas high school, one of the convict’s mother, said her daughter recently deined the romantic advances of the 17-year-old charged in the shootings, a possible motive for the violent tragedy.
Sadie Rodriguez said her daughter, Shana Fisher, had clarified that she was not interested in Dimitrios Pagourtzis.
“He continued to get more aggressive,” Ms. Rodriguez told The Associated Press in an interview conducted on Saturday via Facebook. “She finally stood up to him and embarrassed him.”
The incident took place one week before the shooting, Ms. Rodriguez said. Police have not yet said what might have motivated the attack.
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Asked about Ms. Rodriguez’s allegation, a lawyer for the Pagourtzis’s family said he hadn’t heard about any such interaction between Pagourtzis and any of the victims and therefore couldn’t comment.
“That’s news to me,” said lawyer Nicholas Poehl, though he cautioned that he’d spent much of the day disputing false rumours about the teen’s personal life. Earlier Saturday, Mr. Poehl issued a statement from the family saying that they were “as shocked and confused as anyone else by these events that occurred” and asked for privacy.
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