'HE IS GOING TO KILL ME'
Texas victim’s grim hunch on gunman
The teen who was hounded and ultimately slain by Texas school shooter Dimitrios Pagourtzis had told her parents that she was afraid the creep would kill her — and that if he did, she would “haunt him forever,” her dad said.
Shana Fisher, 16, had the chilling premonition just two weeks before she was fatally gunned down along with seven other students and two teachers at Santa Fe HS.
“Shana told her mother two weeks ago he was going to come and kill her,” her father, Timothy Thomas, told the Daily Mail.
The girl’s mother, Sadie Rodriguez, recounted to multiple outlets how Pagourtzis, 17, went after her daughter for four months — until Fisher told him to cut it out in front of their class, a week before his rampage.
“I know he had pestered her to go out with him. She kept telling him no. For one, he supposedly already had a girlfriend. And two, she just didn’t have feelings for the boy,” said Thomas, 41. “What kind of person thinks the appropriate response is to kill her and a class full of people?”
The junior told her parents that Pagourtzis had threatened her life, the dad said.
“He had told her himself he was going to kill her. He was walking around planning this in his head for weeks,” Thomas said. “Shana said that if he came into the school with a gun and killed her, she would haunt him for the rest of his life.”
Thomas, who split with the teen’s mom and remarried 13 years ago, said he had recently reconnected with his daughter and watched her grow into a “beautiful, smart” young woman who dreamed of becoming an artist.
“I believe my daughter has moved from here to heaven. Those thoughts are what’s keeping me going,” he said.
He wondered how none of Pagourtzis’ teachers saw the shooting coming.
“If they are smart enough to teach our kids, they should be smart enough to see when something is badly wrong with someone,” he said.
Officials have said that unlike other recent mass killers, Pagourtzis had raised no major red flags, but classmates described him as a “weird loner” who “never seemed that right.”
His lawyer, Nick Poehl, told reporters that the motive for Friday’s shooting was still unclear as of Monday afternoon.
“At this point, I’m not even prepared to say he knows why this happened,” Poehl said.
“This weekend, Santa Fe ISD [Independent School District] released a statement saying they had investigated the claims of bullying and found them to be not true. That was released less than 24 hours after the incident occurred,” he added.
“It’s not clear what the nature of that investigation was except that it is clear that they didn’t reach out to any of the kids that were on TV claiming that it occurred.”