Suspected shooter Robert “Bobby” Crimo III posted music videos online that he apparently made that featured disturbing lyrics and animated scenes of gun violence.
In a video titled “Are you Awake”, Crimo is seen with multicolored hair and facial tattoos and says, “I just have to do this. It’s my destiny.”
The video shows a cartoon animation of a stickman – who looks like Crimo – in tactical gear performing an attack with a rifle.
In another video titled “Toy Soldier”, a cartoon character similar to Crimo is shown lying face down in a pool of his own blood, surrounded by police officers with their weapons drawn.
Crimo, who calls himself “Awake the Rapper”, has released his music to several major streaming outlets and a personal website. Facebook and Twitter accounts suspected of belonging to Crimo have been deleted after he was named as a person of interest in the mass shooting that killed at least six people. His Facebook profile picture showed him wearing a helmet with a camera mount, a face covering and a multicolored jacket.
On September 24, he posted a video to Twitter that shows him sitting on a classroom-like set, wearing headphones and posing in various scenes while an instrumental arrangement of “When Johnny Comes Marching Home” plays back. -plan.
He hadn’t posted on Twitter since October 26, 2021, when he wrote, “I’m not a robot.”
In another music video for a song called “On My Mind”, Crimo performs in a classroom filled with desks, lockers and blackboards. In the final minute of the video, viewers see a shot of Crimo reaching for his backpack before the music abruptly cuts out. Next, Crimo is seen wearing a helmet and tactical vest, dropping bullets onto the classroom floor, with music from a popular shooter video game, “Call of Duty”, playing on the stage.
The videos appear to have been uploaded last year.