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There's a 'copycat' theory that certain types of murderers (and a few other classes of bad actors) tend to attract other bad actors, intentionally or unintentionally, by their works, and as a result making publicly available. These followers are inevitably not-mentally-well to some extent, but the resonance gives them a way to formalize that and point it at their own interpretation of a 'class' of overlapping targets.
This is part of why I don't write shooters' names, whenever possible, instead identifying the location or target; it's also the charitable explanation for companies like LinkedIn purging spree shooter accounts. I'm skeptical that it applies for these sort of narrow details -- the shooter here comes across as a loser -- but I don't have a good mental model for the sorta crazy people that turn into serial killer fans, and it definitely has widespread adherents across the political aisles, many of whom directly evangelize to the victims of shootings and to judges around them.
Less charitably, there was a theory (or more often insinuation) that the shooter had been motivated by severe mistreatment by an employee or student at the school, on the level of assault or sexual assault rather than deadnaming. Progressives assumed that the writings were being hidden to obscure that; conservatives that they were being hidden to avoid exculpating the victims.
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