'They became more and more extreme': Shocking website revealed as 'gateway' for shooters

'They became more and more extreme': Shocking website revealed as 'gateway' for shooters

When Natalie Rupnow and Solomon Henderson, two teenagers separated by more than 500 miles, carried out school shootings in late 2024 and early 2025, they were linked by a global online network that encouraged obsession with mass murder.In a violent subculture in which the vast majority of mass shooters are white males, the two were unlikely candidates for infamy. Rupnow was a teenage girl. Henderson was Black.But the communities that nurtured th…