Teenage girl #39;infatuated#39; with Columbine school massacre found dead from self-inflicted gunshot

pa href="https://news.yahoo.com/teenage-girl-infatuated-columbine-school-193046623.html"img src="http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YunlbqlUrET4Ij9pTTSXEw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_258/07fc907f6f6738c3df410e15886d6c3f" width="130" height="86" alt="Teenage girl #39;infatuated#39; with Columbine school massacre found dead from self-inflicted gunshot" align="left" title="Teenage girl #39;infatuated#39; with Columbine school massacre found dead from self-inflicted gunshot" border="0" /aAn armed 18-year-old girl quot;infatuatedquot; with the Columbine school massacre was found dead after fears she was seeking to replicate the shooting 20 years on. Sol Pais, a high school pupil, made threats online and then flew from her home in Miami Beach, Florida to Denver, Colorado, where Columbine is located. She then bought a pump-action shotgun and ammunition and was seen near the school wearing camouflage trousers, black boots and a black T-shirt. Columbine and more than 20 other schools in the Denver area were closed on Wednesday, with 500,000 pupils staying at home as the FBI and police searched for her. She was later found dead from what police called an quot;apparent self-inflicted gunshot woundquot; in woodland near a camp ground 60 miles southwest of Denver. Police, including a SWAT team, had flooded into the area after hikers reported seeing a naked woman with a gun running through the woodsquot;. An FBI spokesman said: quot;There is no longer a threat to the community.quot; Police at Columbine high school Credit: AFP On April 20,1999 two heavily armed teenage gunmen -  Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold - killed 12 fellow pupils and a teacher before taking their own lives. It set off an era of mass shootings in American schools and other public venues. Police said Pais had quot;made threats to commit an act of violencequot; in the Denver area, and had written quot;deeply disturbedquot; posts on the internet. She had been quot;infatuated with the perpetrators of Columbinequot;. She sought advice online on how to buy a gun in Colorado, which she did at a gun shop near Columbine. Local sheriff Jeff Shrader said: quot;The firearm was purchased legally. I#39;m sure there will be some ongoing evaluation in that regard.quot; During the massive search police declared her quot;armed and extremely dangerousquot;. Jared Polis, the Colorado governor, said there had been quot;a lot of anxietyquot;. Peter Langman, an expert on the psychology of school shooters, said more than 30 other attacks, from California to Germany, have been inspired in some manner by Columbine.pbr clear="all"