Police: Shooting suspect ‘mad at everyone’

Jouett allegedly told police he had been had been contemplating attack ‘for a long while’

CLOVIS — Two guns connected to Monday’s deadly library shooting came from the safe of Nathaniel Jouett’s father, according to court documents filed Wednesday in state District Court in Clovis.

Jouett, 16, told police he had “been mad at everyone since he got kicked out of school last year,” and had contemplated the shooting “for a long while,” documents say. Jouett faces two charges of first-degree murder in the deaths of library workers Krissie Carter, 48, and Wanda Walters, 61, as well as other charges, and prosecutors plan to seek adult charges against the teen.

Four people who were injured in the shooting were recovering at a hospital in Lubbock, Texas.

According to court records, Jouett told officers he “wanted to shoot the school up and then kill himself,” but ended up in the Clovis-Carver Public Library “because he was angry and was either going to kill himself or a bunch of people.”

Officers executing a search warrant at the teen’s home Monday after the shooting found a bag containing suicide notes and other notes in a desk drawer in his room, as well as numerous guns in his father’s safe and ammunition in other parts of the house.

The Clovis High School sophomore was arrested following a 4:13 p.m. report to police of a shooting. Officers said in court documents that they found Jouett inside the library, “standing by the information kiosk with his hands over his head,” with a loaded large-caliber handgun on a nearby shelf.

Jouett stated, “Here I am,” as police entered the building, according to court records.

Police also found a black camera bag containing a second handgun, additional ammunition and a black plastic holster inside the library.

Jouett’s father, Chris Jouett, issued

a statement Wednesday on behalf of the family. “As citizens of Clovis we are deeply saddened by this tragedy,” the statement said. “These are our friends and neighbors and we are heartbroken right now for their loss. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all those affected.

“As parents this is something you never expect, Nathaniel is a loving son to us, a wonderful brother to his siblings, and a caring member of our family.”

The family also asked in the statement for space to process and cope with the tragedy.

One officer wrote in a report that in his interview with Nathaniel Jouett immediately after the teen’s arrest, the teen said that “everyone hates him and no one likes him. He said he was a bornagain Christian for about a month, but he has been thinking about this for a long while.”

Jouett told police he “didn’t know anyone at the library,” the report says, and “didn’t shoot at anyone in particular.”

He told police he didn’t know how he picked the library, according to the report — he just walked in, used the bathroom “and when he came out he started shooting into the library and yelling.”

A photo posted to Jouett’s Snapchat account minutes before the shooting may have been taken in the library’s bathroom.

Asked what he was thinking at the time of the shooting, Jouett told the officer, “I was mad.”

He said he “knew it was wrong,” but “didn’t tell anyone about these thoughts because they have their own problems,” the officer wrote.