We are learning a bit more about the motive of yesterday’s school shooting at Highlands Ranch, a STEM school in Denver.

It’s being reported that one of the suspects is transgender and that the shooting may have been motivated by revenge and anger toward specific students.

BREAKING: Denver7 reports the second suspect in the #STEMshooting is a transgender who was in the midst of transitioning from female to male

"sources said that the motive of the shooters went beyond bullying and involved revenge and anger towards others"https://t.co/XjgJg4f0Tx

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) May 8, 2019

The phrase “beyond bullying” is a bit vague. Are they saying that bullying wasn’t a factor or that it was a starting factor that developed into something well beyond that, i.e. personal revenge and/or targeting people for their ideological views?

More information is needed and we are learning about the person’s politics.

BREAKING: The #STEMshooting suspect hated Christians, hated Donald Trump, shared far-left social media content praising Barack Obama https://t.co/C2etuv3f9i

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) May 8, 2019

None of this is to say that simply being transgender causes a person to shoot up a school. No group of people should be maligned for the actions of a few.

Regardless, the facts of this specific person’s identity and motivations are newsworthy. There have been no reports on the second suspect yet. We’ll keep you updated when that comes.