A 29-year-old man with terrifying facial tattoos reportedly left multiple bodies of dead animals at the memorial for the victims of Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre.
Robert Mondragon is now being held without bail on three felony charges of defacing the memorial after he left the carcasses outside the school, officials said.
Investigators described the culprit as an aspiring school shooter who is obsessed with prior shootings.
Cops also said that Mondragon’s tattoos resemble those of the fictional Tate Langdon school shooter character in American Horror Story, which was inspired by the real-life Columbine High School massacre.
On the night of July 20, police said that he put a dead duck on the bench outside the Parkland school. The following night, he left a dead racoon, and on July 31, he left a dead opossum.
When a deputy found him, he had feathers and blood in his vehicle. He allegedly said to the deputy that he had been keeping a dead bird because he liked the smell.
On August 5, Mondragon was arrested and is also being held for violating probation on another conviction for battery and indecent exposure.
In the previous conviction, he reportedly approached a woman, exposed himself, and attacked a police officer who rushed to the scene.
During a press conference on Friday, Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony said that Mondragon had made numerous computer searches about previous school shootings, which made them fearful that he may have also been planning for one.
His online searches included prior school shooters, pipe bombs, how to break into steel doors, and shootings involving multiple victims.
“He fits every classification that it’s coming,” Tony said, as per the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
“We’ve been lucky, and luck is not a strategy.”
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