Two California kindergarten students are in critical condition after being shot at school on Wednesday by a man motivated by “America’s involvement” in what he characterized as “genocide and oppression of Palestinians.”
Glenn Litton, 56, set out to commit “child execution[s]” at Feather River School of Seventh-Day Adventists as a “countermeasure in necessitated response” to Israel’s military operations against Hamas and Houthi terrorists, according to a police report of his manifesto.
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“Countermeasures involving child execution has now been imposed at the Seventh Day Adventist school in California, United States by the International Alliance,” Litton wrote. “I, Lieutenant Glenn Litton of the Alliance, carried out countermeasures in necessitated response to America’s involvement with genocide and oppression of Palestinians along with attacks towards Yemen.”
The anti-Israel shooter met with school staff under the alias “Michael Sanders” to pretend he wanted to enroll a child in the school. After receiving a tour, he walked toward the bathroom, which is when staff heard gunshots and screaming. He used the same alias to make an appointment at Red Bluff Seventh-Day Adventist School, a possible second target.
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Roman Mendez, 6, was shot twice and Elias Wolford, 5 was shot once in the attempted executions. Both remain in critical but stable condition. Litton shot himself dead before police arrived at the scene at Feather River School in Palermo. He used a “ghost gun” to commit the shootings, according to police.
“They have a long road ahead of them,” Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said. “The fact that they are currently still with us is a miracle.”
Litton had a long history of crime and mental health issues, according to investigators. Police do not yet know whether the “International Alliance” group Litton referred to in his manifesto is real or fabricated.
Following the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attack on Israeli civilians, violence and unrest broke out across the United States and the world. In wake of the attack, anti-Israel groups began shutting down roads, bridges, and events, as well as forcibly occupying school buildings and setting up encampments amid calls for a “global intifada.”
Jewish students have faced a massive uptick in violent attacks and threats against them as a result of allegations of “genocide” being carried out by Israel, but investigators are unsure why Seventh-Day Adventist schools were specifically targeted in this attack.
“This is what ‘Globalize the Intifada’ looks like,” Casey Babb, Senior Fellow with the MacDonald Laurier Institute in Ottawa, said of the shooting. “Conspiratorial, antisemitic, hate-filled carnage.”
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The claims that Litton used to justify his attempted murders, that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and that America is complicit, stem from Hamas’s allegations that the Jewish nation targets population-dense areas to attack. However, critics of Hamas highlight that the terrorist group intentionally operates in population-dense areas, using civilians as “human shields” by building military sites beneath hospitals and schools and by preventing civilians from leaving war-torn areas despite Israel warning of attacks.
Despite this, Israel’s estimated civilian casualty ratio is historically low. The IDF and United States have estimated the civilian-to-combatant casualty ratio to be between 1.5:1 and 3:1. According to the United Nations, the global average is 9:1.
