ANKARA, April 16 (Reuters) - A 14-year-old student who shot at least nine people dead, including eight of his fellow pupils, at a school in southeastern Turkey had used an image referencing a 2014 U.S. mass killer, Elliot Rodger, on his WhatsApp profile, Turkish police said on Thursday.In Turkey's second school shooting in just two days, the middle school student also wounded 20 other people in Wednesday's attack in Kahramanmaras province before taking his own life, shocking a nation where school shootings are very rare.
Turkish school shooter used image referencing 2014 U.S. mass killer, police say
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