fixated youngster Sol Pais dead in the wake of starting monstrous manhunt



The Florida youngster who purchased a shotgun on a "journey" to Columbine — starting an enormous manhunt — was discovered dead Wednesday in Colorado of an obvious suicide, authorities said.

Examiners found the collection of Sol Pais, 18, around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday close to the Echo Lake Lodge in Clear Creek County — around 30 miles from Columbine HS — and authorities trust she utilized a siphon activity shotgun she purchased not long after landing in Denver to kill herself.

"Now, it looks as though she was separated from everyone else and ended her existence with the weapon she secured," Dean Phillips, FBI specialist accountable for the Denver field office, said at a question and answer session on Wednesday.

The disclosure finished an about 24-hour manhunt for the secondary school understudy after she flew Monday to Denver and made "solid" dangers.

"On account of her remarks and her activities, as a result of her movement here to the state, as a result of her obtainment of a weapon promptly after touching base here, we believed her to be a solid danger — unquestionably to the network and possibly to schools," Phillips said.

The high schooler booked three single directions, Denver-headed flights for progressive days, at that point loaded up the primary, which was on Monday, authorities said.

Upon entry, Pais utilized a ride-sharing application to get around and "went straightforwardly to the store" to legitimately purchase a siphon activity shotgun and ammo, Phillips said. The buy was made at a Littleton weapon shop not a long way from the Columbine grounds, where 13 blameless individuals were killed and 24 injured in the scandalous school shooting did by two understudies 20 years prior this month, experts said.

As authorities sought after the teenager, in excess of 20 schools, including Columbine, were shut Tuesday and into Wednesday as insurance.

The teenager was most recently seen alive — wearing a dark T-shirt, cover jeans and dark boots — when a ride-share vehicle dropped her off Monday close to the Jefferson County lower regions outside of Denver, authorities said.

"The driver helped us pinpoint the last known area," Phillips said.

Experts in Miami hailed the case to the FBI early Tuesday, which set off the manhunt. Authorities still have not uncovered what explicit dangers Pais made or why the high-schooler first showed up on Miami experts' radar. "We had no particular data on a focused on school. It was summed up data, and we were worried about a specific school," Phillips said.

Jefferson County authorities in Colorado said dangers to government-funded schools in the zone were normal — however, this one emerged. "We are utilized to dangers, to be perfectly honest, at Columbine. This one felt unique," said John McDonald, official chief of wellbeing at Jefferson County Schools.

Specialists likewise referred to "upsetting" proclamations she made to loved ones, just as posts she made on the web.

The FBI wouldn't state whether Pais was behind an unhinged online diary composed under the false name "Broke up Girl" — however, Phillips affirmed, "it is a piece of what we're taking a gander at."

Agents "are endeavoring to pursue each lead, evaluate each web-based life outlet, to survey all that she might've done in the course of the most recent couple of months," Phillips said.

Pais' family revealed her missing Monday night and said she may have been experiencing emotional well-being issues.

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