Live-streamed Philippine school shooting raises alarm over ‘memetic violence’

Live-streamed Philippine school shooting raises alarm over ‘memetic violence’ Analysts say the Zamboanga attack appears to fit a pattern of violence shaped by online spectacle, imitation and the pursuit of notoriety The attack took place on Tuesday morning at the junior high school campus of the privately run Ateneo de Zamboanga University in Zamboanga City, where police said a student brought weapons onto campus, opened fire inside a classroom and killed a fellow student. Investigators are still examining the sequence of events and the student’s motive. Zamboanga Mayor Khymer Adan Olaso said in a radio interview on DZBB that the student had live-streamed the attack through a body-worn camera. Olaso also said that the gunman shot at a teacher and a Grade 10 student before taking his own life. The shooter’s father, a customs police officer, was relieved of his duties after the attack as investigators looked into reports that the firearms used belonged to him.