Sounds like this guy wasn't able to handle certain things the way you would hope young men his age would.
My son is 22, and so I have some sense of the things he and his buddies did growing up and how this kid didn't have the guidance he needed, or at least by all appearances he didn't.
This killer played a lot of violent video games and it's was how he filled in his down time. My son played games like Halo, etc..., which I didn't mind, it's like the teenage/young adult version of 'Cowboys and Indians' but you're not running around with your buddies playing it in the back yard. OK, I get it's fun, but limit your time.
Also, kids don't talk anymore; they text. They'll be sitting right next to other friends texting to someone else. Beats all I've ever seen.
Here's my point.
My son wanted to start dating. He never had an issue talking to girls -- as friends -- and going out with groups and having a good time. I told him that all this social media he does is fine, and I understand that's how it's done now, but you've got to break that cycle and actually converse with a live human being and not this text/facebook junk. Girls wanna talk, they want the real human experience of someone who makes them feel special, not this other junk. Sure girls are texting/facebooking, too, but I think any normal girl would rather be experiencing relationships in person.
So he did that and he dates all the time now.
What I get from this killer is the fantasy he saw via social media, etc... was what he expected reality to be. And when it wasn't, when the rejection came, it didn't match up, and he went to the extreme.
Not saying most young men would do that at all. But I do believe all this texting/facebook stuff does stunt the growth of individuals and creates a false world picture.
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