Washington Post reports:
Darion Aguilar mentioned killing people in his journal and expresses a “general hatred of others,” police said Wednesday. The 19-year-old also wrote that he was sorry to his family for what he was planning to do. His plan, he wrote, was set — though he did not indicate precisely what that plan was.
The writings — described Wednesday on Twitter by Howard County police — provide the best window yet into Aguilar’s mindset before he walked into a skate shop at the Mall in Columbia Saturday, shooting and killing two employees before putting a shotgun in his own mouth and pulling the trigger. But they leave unanswered perhaps the most important questions.
Why the Mall in Columbia, and the Zumiez store in particular? Why 25-year-old Tyler Johnson, and 21-year-old Brianna Benlolo — Aguilar’s victims who, at least so far, appear to have no concrete connections to the young man? Howard County police say those are questions they are still probing.
“Nothing in the journal indicates why he targeted these two people or the mall in general,” Howard County police spokeswoman Sherry Llewellyn said in an e-mail message.
