She turned down the Texas school shooter’s ‘aggressive’ advances - so he shot her and 9 others dead, grieving mother says
Shana Fisher, 16, was approached repeatedly by Dimitrios Pagourtzis, 17, Fisher’s mother said - and so she became a victim in his alleged rampage
The family of one of the victim’s in the Texas high school shooting says they believe their daughter was targeted because she repeatedly rejected the gunman’s advances to date her.
Shana Fisher, a 16-year-old student, was one of the 10 killed in Friday’s attack at Santa Fe High School. Her mother, Sadie Baze, said the shooting followed four months of advancements from the suspected gunman, Dimitrios Pagourtzis, 17, which could point to a potential motive.
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She “had four months of problems” with Pagourtzis, her mother, Sadie Rodriguez, told the Los Angeles Times. “He kept making advances on her and she repeatedly told him no.”
But Pagourtzis continued to get more aggressive, Rodriguez said.
A week before the shooting, Fisher embarrassed him in front of others in a class by standing up and telling Pagourtzis that she wouldn’t go out with him, Rodriguez told CNN.
Rodriguez said Pagourtzis had dated Fisher’s best friend and she had told her daughter “you don’t date your friend’s exes.”