you did you think they should seek the death penalty? no. no. loughner, jail, jail, jail, jail. mentally ill. mental ill. i m in a terrible place. it s the school that i go to. mr. loughner had a long-standing issue with schizophrenia. this is my genocide school. he had gone to pima community college but had been expelled because of odd behavior. outbursts in the middle of his cl classes. he seemed to have really odd ideas about government. they re controlling the grammar. they control the grammar. the college said, you know, you can t come back unless you get mental health help and he didn t get that help. his parents had locked their gun in the trunk of the car but later, he passed an fbi
death penalty. loughner is clearly a killer, but the people he hurt are willing to show mercy. we ll never forget the horror of that day, the loss and wounding of so many good people. but i decided that adding anger to the burden will do no good. when the prosecutors asked you did you think they should seek the death penalty? no. no. loughner in jail, jail, jail, jail, jail. mentally ill. mental ill. i m in a terrible place. it s the school that i go to. mr. loughner had a long-standing issue with schizophrenia. this is my genocide school. he
but gives you some insight into how that competitive the culture is. before all of that, a plea deal means that victims and survivors of the tucson shooting will not go through the ordeal of a trial. the shooter, jared lee loughner, will spend the rest of his life in prison. here s abc s dan harris. reporter: we all remember that disturbing mug shot, the twisted grin, the beaming eyes and those youtube videos, burning of the american flag and that rambling tour of the college from which jared lee loughner dropped out. this is my genocide school. reporter: the judge said loughner is now a different man after months of being forcibly medicated for schizophrenia. during much of the hearing, loughner listened calmly and without expression. his court-appointed psychologist testified that soon after loughner started taking his meds, he understood what he did, even crying when he heard that
for us. hi. reporter: hi, rick. these e-mails paint a picture of a very disturbed young man and a college campus struggling to find out how to deal with it. now, his behavior at times was scary to other students with several outbursts in class leading people to believe he was under the influence of drugs. on other occasions he would stare at the teacher, smile at others with an evil-looking grin and laugh out loud inappropriately. a campus police officer wanted to expel loughner or, but the dean of the school said she felt more investigation was needed. later after the shooting rampage, this piece of video emerged shot by loughner himself on the campus on september 23, twin. 2010. i m in a terrible place. it s the school that i go to. this is my genocide school. [laughter] where i m going to be homeless because of the school.
reporter: they did. the school contacted federal officials, to take a check to see if he had any firearms and the check turned up nothing and, then, after that, it was three months, three months later, when he took part in the shooting rampage in tucson, that killed several people, injured gabrielle giffords, after the shooting, and even more bizarre a more bizarre piece of evidence showed up. look at this tape, shot by jared loughner by himself on the campus. i m in a terrible place. it is the school i go to. this is my genocide school. where i m going to be homeless, because of the school. reporter: and jared loughner is expected to be in court, on may 25th for a mental competency hearing and his lawyers