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good-bye." just after the shooting, butler takes off in his red honda, making it about two miles away. >> basically, he just seen a guy going through, kind of slow, wanting to turn into a parking stall, changed his mind, go down a little bit with, changed his mind and finally the car just left. >> reporter: butler pulled into this business parking lot, put the honda in park and reportedly shot himself. the s.w.a.t. team, police and crime lab all on scene, as butler's car and body taken away. >> want to bring in matthew hanson, a reporter for the omaha world herald and joins me from omaha. matthew, i read your piece, it is chilling and even digging on the 17-year-old. what have you found out about him? from what i read, he seemed like a pretty good kid, according to both the students at lincoln and omaha. >> definitely, the early indications we were receiving,
had been suspended first thing wednesday morning. according to school officials, butler took the suspension calmly at the time. i want you to listen to omaha's police chief explain the chain of events. >> he walked into the school, just like a normal student, was not displaying any firearm, any weapons. he walked back to the office area. he took the time to sign in, sign the log as he came in at 12:45. he then walked back into the back rooms, back where the assistant principal would be. he was back in that area for, we believe at this time, approximately about four minutes. people in the office area then heard four sounds. all indicators were that he was acting normal. he was disappointed about the discipline but not acting in any kind of manner that -- where he was upset, acting, you know, frustrated or angry or anything
like that. we are at the opinion, at least at this point in time we don't have our ballistics back yet, of a belief that the firearm used did belong to robert butler jr.'s father, robert butler senior. it was put away in a closet, in a room and we believe he got access to it when his father left the house for approximately 40 minutes yesterday. >> as we now new york the school's principal was wounded. its assistant principal killed. also dead, the shooter in this case, 17-year-old robert butler. one more disturbing piece to this puzzle, butler had been a student at the omaha school for all of two months. until then, he had lived with his mother a town away in lincoln, nebraska, so what happened? i want to turn now to happen nah picket of cnn affiliate kntv out of omaha, nebraska. >> reporter: the student who shot two of his principals was new to millard south. >> started going to school up
here at millard in november. his name is robert butler jr., he was a transfer student from lincoln. >> fool themselves sometimes, he wasn't quiet or anything, just very arrogant. >> reporter: robert butler jr., a high school senior with a close connection to omaha police. >> the omaha police department as the suspect's father is an omaha police detective. >> reporter: his father, robert butler, on the force for seven years. the 17-year-old posted a disturbing status using many expletives on his facebook page before he opened fire, saying, "everybody that used to know me, i'm sorry, but omaha changed me and f'd me up and the school i now attend is even worse. you're gonna hear about all the evil blank i did, but that fing school drove me to this i want you guys to remember me for who i was before this. i know i greatly affected the lives of the families i ruined, but i'm sorry.
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