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British teen inspired TWO mass murders in the US by sharing videos online, court hears
- Harris began sharing videos at age 17 as a “call to arms” for her violent beliefs.
- Among those said to have seen them was mass murderer Payton Gendron.
A racist British teenager inspired two mass shootings in the US that claimed a total of 15 lives, a court heard yesterday.
Daniel Harris began sharing videos at the age of 17 as a “call to arms” for his violent beliefs.
Among those said to have seen them was 19-year-old Payton Gendron, who last year massacred ten black people in Buffalo.
Now 19, Harris, from Glossop, Derbyshire, was convicted last November of encouraging terrorism and possessing a 3D printer for terrorist purposes while attempting to make his own firearm.
Payton Gendron killed 10 black people in a racially motivated mass shooting in May of last year
Gendron carried out the horrifying attack after viewing Daniel Harris’ white supremacist content online.
A sentencing hearing yesterday heard that Harris had inspired a second mass shooting during the trial.
Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, allegedly killed five people at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs last November.
Pictures of Aldrich before the attack link to a site showing one of Harris’s videos, the court heard.
Harris will be sentenced today at Manchester Crown Court.
James Walker, defending himself, said Harris was withdrawn from mainstream school at the age of seven and “basically left on his own, spending up to 14 hours a day on the internet” at his grandfather’s house in Glossop.
Pictured: Colorado gay club shooting suspect Anderson Aldrich. Pictures of Aldrich before the attack link to a site showing one of Harris’s videos, the court heard.