“I’m OBSESSED with Doomsday now I can hardly contain it!” he wrote. “I can’t wait to Die. The 20-year-old man who shot and killed two people at an Oregon grocery store before killing himself had planned a much bigger massacre he called “doomsday,” which he wanted to be remembered as a “significant event in history,” he wrote in online postings. The online screed, written on the blogging website Wattpad and made public 12 hours before the crime, showed exactly how he planned to commit the mass shooting, that he’d hoped to kill as many as 40 people, and that he was ready to die. “I’m OBSESSED with Doomsday now I can hardly contain it!” he wrote. “I can’t wait to Die.” The shooter’s original plan was to shoot up the high school he graduated from in 2020 on September 8. In one post from early July, he wrote that “yes, Columbine partially inspired this” and that he had a “had a Morbid interest in Shootings for a long time. Especially Columbine.” Shortly before his rampage, the shooter changed his plans and decided to target this particular Safeway in Bend, Oregon, where he had worked in the past. “Fuck It. I’m done waiting. I CAN’T WAIT ANY LONGER,” reads one of the final entries. “The Rage has become uncontrollable and It can’t wait 2 More Weeks…Tomorrow. Sunday. August 28th, 2022. Doomsday.” Soon after that entry, on August 28, Ethan Blair Miller drove to the Safeway with an AR-15-style rifle and a shotgun, exited his vehicle and opened fire on people in the parking lot. He then entered the store and carried on firing, killing two people. He might have killed many more if not for a Safeway employee and Army veteran, Ray Surrett Jr., 66, who was killed attempting to disarm the shooter, according to police. “Mr. Surrett engaged with the shooter and attempted to disarm him and may very well have prevented further deaths,” police spokeswoman Sheila Miller said at a news conference.
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