Hi, I'm Wayne Lo. On December 14, 1992, I became the first deadly school shooter of the 1990's when I killed two and injured four on the campus of Simon's Rock in Great Barrington, MA. Even though I am serving two life sentences and will die in prison, I need to do something to give back to my victims. I will never be able to fully repay for what I have taken from this world, but it doesn't mean I shouldn't try. My friend and I have set up this website where we sell my artwork and all the money made goes to Mr. Gregory Gibson. He will make sure the money goes to the right people and places.
Please go to www.myspace.com/skidloberlin and view all my paintings, drawings and embroideries displayed there in various albums.
These are the pieces on exhibit at current Prison Art Show and for sale: http://www.hyaenagallery.com/truecrime/waynelo.html
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Only the items appearing on www.skidlo.net, www.myspace.com/skidloberlin, and www.hyaenagallery.com are 100% authentic and authorized by Wayne Lo. Items offered elsewhere are not authorized for sale by Wayne and the monies made are not being sent to Mr. Gibson. Wayne Lo is not responsible for any items sold on websites other than the ones mentioned above.
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You can reach me at:
Wayne Lo
W - 5 5 8 5 1
P. O. Box 43
N o r f o l k, MA 02056
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Wikipedia
Wayne Lo (born November 14, 1974) is an American convicted murderer who fatally shot a student and a professor at the Bard College at Simon'S Rock..
Wayne Lo was born in Tainan, Taiwan. His father was a fighter pilot in the Taiwanese Air Force and his mother was a music teacher. Lo has a younger brother. The family immigrated to the U.S. in 1987, settling in Billings, Montana. His parents ran a restaurant business in Billings. Lo attended Lewis and Clark Jr. High School and then Billings Central Catholic High School. Lo was a violinist and played in the Billings Symphony beginning in his freshman year of high school. He attended the Aspen Music Festival and studied under Dorothy Delay.
In 1991, Lo was accepted by Simon's Rock College of Bard in Great Barrington, Massachusetts and given the W.E.B. DuBois minority scholarship.
Lo did not adjust well to the liberal college environment of Simon's Rock. Lo held conservative views which were deemed racist, homophobic and anti-semitic by fellow students at the college. Lo steadily became more and more exluded by his fellow students.
On December 14, 1992, Lo carried out a shooting rampage. That morning he received an ammunition order that he had placed two days earlier. He went to Pittsfield, MA and purchased and SKS at a gun shop that afternoon. Lo commenced shooting at around 10:30 pm. The victims:
Nacunan Saez - 37 - professor - dead
Galen Gibson - 18 - student - dead
Theresa Beavers - 42 - security guard - wounded
Thomas McElderry - 19 - student - wounded
Joshua Faber - 15 - student - wounded
Matthew David - 18 - student - wounded
Lo surrended to police after his rifle jammed and he called 911, informing that he was the shooter. He was taken into custody without incident.
Although many statements were made prior to the trial regarding Lo's bigoted and racist views, he was never charged with a hate crime and the racist accusations were never substantiated during the month-long trial. Instead, the focus turned to his mental state at the time of the shootings as Lo's defense lawyers entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity.
Lo's psychiatrists testified that he was suffering from schizophrenia while the prosecution expert psychiatrist witnesses merely attributed Lo's actions to his narcissistic personality disorder.
The jury sided with the prosecution and delivered a guilty verdict after three days of deliberation. Lo was found guilty on all 17 counts he was charged with and sentenced to two consecutive life sentences without possibility of parole terms plus 19-20 years. He was immediately sent to prison on February 3, 1994.
Lo spent 9 months at a maximum security facility at Walpole, MA and then transferred to MCI-Norfolk, a medium security prison where he remains today.
In 1998, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts rejected Lo's appeals.
In 1999, Gregory Gibson, the father of Galen Gibson, wrote and published "Gone Boy" - A Walkabout (Kodansha America), a detailed book recounting the shooting and Gibson's search for answers in his son's death. The book spurred correspondence between Gibson and Lo, which was detailed in a New York Times article ( April 12, 2000, front page) as well as a German documentary film, "Running Amok", by George Stefan Troller (German TV ZDF 2001) .
Lo wore a shirt with the name of a New York hardcore band "Sick of It All" during his rampage. This spurred the band to issue press releases denouncing Lo's crimes.
The rock band Weezer wrote a song about Lo. It appears on their Deluxe Album (2004) disk 2, track 12. The song is called "Lullaby for Wayne". The songs chorus contains the lyrics "Wayne you know it's true/There's nothing you can do/So put them guns away/Who cares what's right or wrong/So please give up the fight/Put them guns away."
Journalist Chuck Klosterman writes a passage in his book "Killing Yourself to Live" (pages 133-134) where Wayne Lo writes Chuck a letter from prison contemplating what questions may have been raised if Lo were arrested wearing a T-shirt with the hair-bands, "Poison" or "Warrant" instead of the shirt he had on, which sported the hardcore band, "Sick of It All."