It has been two years since then-19-year-old Orlando Harris killed two people at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School (CVPA) in St. Louis, Missouri, in October 2022. Now, police have released their investigative report, revealing Harris’s mental health struggles and the student’s anti-LGBTQ+ motive.

According to the report, in the year and a half prior to the shooting, Harris contemplated suicide multiple times and attempted the act at least twice — first in August 2021 and again between April and June 2022. He was hospitalized several times for his struggles with mental health and regularly saw a therapist. However, he ended his therapy sessions in the summer of 2022.

“After he was released from the hospital, Orlando H. advised Ward that he was not going back to the hospital and stopped contact with the therapist,” the report states.

Harris’ mother, Tanya Ward, told investigators that a package from “various gun and ammunition places” addressed to her son arrived at their home just weeks before the shooting on Oct. 15, 2022. The packages contained a body armor vest, magazine holsters, and magazines. Ward checked his bedroom and found a rifle in an old TV box.

Ward then called police, and crisis intervention officers responded to the house.

“The family contacted the police department to obtain assistance because they were concerned about Orlando H.’s mental illness and felt he should not be in possession of any firearms,” the report states.

Officers told Ward they could not legally confiscate the gun. Orlando told his mother he worked hard to save up for the gun but appeased her and the family by agreeing to put the gun and tactical gear in a storage facility.

The report includes an interview with Harris’ psychiatrist, who saw him twice in August 2022. His doctor described Orlando as having skewed expectations of himself and “thought he was a failure at everything.” She noted that Orlando had lost interest in hobbies, such as gaming, in 2021.

Ward also said he had attended CVPA, where the first two years were normal, but he quickly lost interest in the middle of the pandemic. He graduated from the school in 2021 and was slated to attend college that fall, but his family and friends reported that he was depressed.

Then, on Oct. 24, 2022, Orlando entered his former school and declared, “All of you are going to die.” A 15-year-old student and a health and physical education teacher were killed in the shooting, and several other people were shot and wounded. Officers eventually shot and killed Orlando.

Missouri has no “red flag laws” in place that allow for the temporary removal of firearms from individuals deemed to pose a risk to themselves or others.