The Florida teen 'infatuated' with Columbine and made threats as she went to Colorado is dead

[MrsCoffee]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/17/us/columbine-threat-search-for-woman/index.html

(CNN)[Breaking news update at 12:59 p.m. ET]

Sol Pais, the armed 18-year-old from Florida who made threats and was "infatuated" with Columbine, has been found dead, a law enforcement official told CNN.

"There is no longer a threat to the community," the FBI's Denver office tweeted Wednesday, using the hashtag "#FindSol."

"Additional details are not immediately available," the FBI said.

[hlthe2b]

1. Her threats were taken quite seriously... I have alerts for Denver and multiple communities along

front range set up on my iphone (mainly for traffic and weather)... Most of them alerted that schools in their Districts had been closed over this today (Wednesday).

Damn...I only hope there are not scores of "copy cats" waiting to take her place. At least her threat was recognized and resulted in alerts to try to prevent her from gaining access to guns--at least in CO. (she did get a pump action hunting rifle, though).


While we may try to limit coverage of these perpetrators for obvious reasons, we DO need to know who the hell she was and how on earth an 18 yo girl from Miami could have become so obsessed and violent.

Local news has broken in on morning shows, apparently to go live...

Sigh... Columbine Anniversary is April 20 (20 year anniversary). It still devastates me.

[MrsCoffee]

3. I'm glad they were taken seriously.

And I always worry about copy cats.

[JuJuYoshida]

2. "There is no longer a threat to the community," the FBI's Denver office tweeted

no shit, she's dead.

[BlueStater]

4. I'm glad she's no longer a threat but I'm sorry she's dead.

She definitely sounded like she was mentally ill and needed help.

[MrsCoffee]

5. Agreed.

[marble falls]

6. Exactly how I feel.

[likesmountains 52]

8. Same here.

[Wounded Bear]

10. Agreed. The young lady needed help...

but the fact that she didn't actually harm or kill someone else is a good thing.

for our Colarado brothers and sisters.

[Satch59]

7. Sad all around...was found in my area of CO

Maybe another reason for better gun laws of course...

[Crunchy Frog]

13. No. Just another acceptable human sacrifice to the gun gods.

[mitch96]

19. "another reason for better gun laws"

So it was a self inflected GSW? My question is how did a person from Florida who went to Colorado get a gun??? Did she fly? If so how did it get past inspectors. Did she get it in Colorado?
If she drove she could have brought the gun with her. It's easy to get a gun in Florida.
If she got the gun in Colorado, she could have got it thru a private sale...
Hummmm....... Yes, another reason for better gun laws.
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[Tipperary]

21. She bought a shotgun when she got there.

No idea of Colorado gun laws, but I guess she had no problem.

[mitch96]

23. "She bought a shotgun"

Ufff.. .that would be a messy self infected wound.
I guess a shotgun would not raise any red flags.
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[Tipperary]

25. Yeah, unless she had some other weapon as well. But when they were looking for her earlier

they said they knew she bought a shotgun when she got to Colorado. Scary stuff.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. How sad.

Clearly she had issues or perhaps mental illness. I feel very sorry for her parents.

[blogslut]

11. Apparent suicide according to this article

https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/search-for-sol-pais-is-over-the-florida-woman-was-found-dead-from-a-self-inflicted-gunshot-wound/73-07c36f60-85d6-4157-8b9a-7f9f0fbb9be8

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colorado — Sol Pias, the Florida woman accused of making credible threats against the Denver metropolitan area, was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, law enforcement sources close to the investigation said.

The FBI Denver office confirmed the agency had responded to the base of Mt. Evans Wednesday morning and in a Tweet just before 11 a.m. said there was no longer a threat to the community.

Pias, 18, was accused of making credible threats against the Denver metropolitan area that prompted lockouts at multiple Colorado schools on Tuesday and school closures on Wednesday.

She was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, law enforcement sources close to the investigation said...

[MrsCoffee]

12. That is incredibly sad.

[Crunchy Frog]

14. Why don't they lock people up in mental health facilities in these kinds of situations?

[curlyred]

15. I am not sure she had previous mental health issues

It is hard to tell from the articles at CNN and other news sources if she had been having issues or if this was a recent crisis.

[onethatcares]

16. they would have

but first they had to find her.

Sadly, the closing of mental hospitals during st ronnies tenure has contributed to mental illness acroos America.

[melm00se]

17. Because to incarcerate someone

you need to go before a judge and be adjudicated mentally ill and sent for involuntary commitment.

this site provides a good overview

https://mentalillnesspolicy.org/ivc/involuntary-commitment-concepts.html

[Crunchy Frog]

18. I'm pretty sure that making credible threats against other people's lives

Would qualify as sufficient grounds, at least for a temporary hold.

[Tipperary]

26. They might have if they could have found her before she killed herself.

They had a major manhunt going on ever since she arrived in Colorado.

[Tipperary]

20. I found it so weird they continued to use the word"infatuated." Obsessed makes more sense.

I have no idea of her writings or whatever, but I thought that odd.

[NightWatcher]

22. These events usually end with the shooter killing themselves

I'm glad they skipped right to the end and no kids were harmed. Hope it starts a trend.

I'm so glad they canceled school. Who knows what she might've done if school had been full of targets.

[Initech]

24. Thank god she didn't take anyone with her!

[ffr]

27. I never thought I'd be a part of a world where there were people like this or like we have in the WH

The nightmare for our democracy continues.