From Grammar School to the Pop Culture – What Radicalized Cole Allen?

By contrast, Cole Allen looks like a reasonably regular young man, a graduate of a prestigious university who never found his way in a career, and was still working as a tutor in his thirties, but who was otherwise unremarkable, certainly not someone who his friends and family would have thought capable of mass murder. - John F. Di Leo

His last-minute email to friends and family – which the press is calling his manifesto – provides the answer.
One sentence in the message should jump out to everyone:

“And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.”

That’s the reason he gave.
Cole Allen believed he had the right – and perhaps the obligation – to singlehandedly wrest the levers of power away from such a criminal...