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James Walker, defending, said Harris was withdrawn from mainstream schooling at the age of seven and ‘basically left to his own devices, spending up to 14 hours a day on the internet’ at his grandfather’s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