Dimitrios Pagourtzis

17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis developed an obsession with pretty 16-year-old classmate, Shana Fisher, who repeatedly rejected his advances. Rather than accept it like a normal, well-adjusted human being and leave her alone, he persisted.

Then he decided if he couldn't have her, no one else will. Pagourtzis shot and killed Fisher and nine other people at Santa Fe High School in Texas this week. Eight of the victims were students, two are teachers.

Fisher's mother Sadie Rodriguez stated to the Los Angeles Times that her daughter "had four months of problems" with Pagourtzis. Rodriguez further stated, "He kept making advances on her and she repeatedly told him no."

Then one day she got tired of his sexual harassment and bullying. She responded by embarrassing him back in class, in an effort to make his misconduct stop. Fisher had dated on of Pagourtzis' fellow football players at the school. She did not feel comfortable dating her ex-boyfriend's friend. It is clear Pagourtzis was after Fisher the whole time.

Rodriguez revealed Pagourtzis became aggressive towards Fisher for rejecting him. These were red flags indicating a stalker, particularly the aggressiveness. Once the stalker becomes aggressive, violence is usually on the horizon and sometimes death. Stalkers are mentally deranged people. You can't reason with them. You can only avoid, ignore and shut them out of your life for your health, safety and well being.

Most people can take rejection. It might make them sad for a time, but they move on. However, stalkers become fixated on and obsessed with others, who have no interest in them. They invent a relationship in their head that does not exist in reality. They become possessive of people who do not want them. In their minds they are dating people who either do not know them or want nothing to do with them romantically.

You tell a stalker that you do not want to date or marry them and in their mentally ill mind they are hearing the exact opposite. It is a serious mental disorder. They convince themselves of things that are not true. They read between the lines and come up with things so far from the truth and reality it is astonishing.

For example, you compliment someone else and in the stalker's mind, the compliment was actually about them (the stalker). Stalkers have been known to hear or read an item regarding their target complimenting someone else and willfully delude themselves into think it is about them.

The victim says they like someone else and in the stalker's deluded mind, the target just stated they like the stalker. Some stalkers have been known to become angry and violent towards the object of affection and the person their victim is married to or dating.

Stalkers also act in a delusional manner, crazily claiming the victim does not love the person they are dating or married to, but are in love with the stalker. Stalkers' minds are a complete mess. They need psychiatric intervention and medication.

Shana Fisher

Stalkers rationalize the irrational and cause innocent victims harm in the process. Stalkers go through different stages of mentally ill behavior that ranges from pestering the target to outright rage and violence when their advances are not accepted. Sadly, sometimes it ends in death. This is why law enforcement is needed to restrain and arrest stalkers.

Stalkers live under a massive delusion. They take out their frustration and rejection on innocent people, because they are maladapted, social awkward, crazy, dangerous people. Most stalkers belong in a mental institution.

To hear no that many times and persist with pestering, harassing, terrorizing and violating the rights of others, is an indication they are psychopathic and a danger to the public. Stalkers develop the mindset and behave as though they own the person they are stalking and have a right to harm or kill them, when they do not under any circumstances.

In the real world there is no such thing as a one sided relationship. It takes two willing people to mutually be in a relationship. If you are in a relationship by yourself, guess what, there is no relationship. Learn to leave people alone when they tell you no. You cannot force your feelings, will and or agenda on others.

That is illegal, as it is a violation of their right to privacy, dignity and liberty. You don't get an exception to that law or rule of society. No one is permitted to harass, stalk, emotional abuse, physically harm and or engage in an extrajudicial killing. It is a serious series of crimes. It's always the worst of society who believe they are above the law and permitted to harm others.

It is now being reported by USA Today, despite the fact Texas is a death penalty state and a 17-year-old is considered an adult in the courts regarding murder cases, Pagourtzis cannot face the death penalty, due to a newer 2005 Supreme Court ruling. This means if convicted of the current crimes, he is eligible for parole in 40-years.

Some parents are not doing enough to monitor their children online. There is nothing wrong with searching your child's room if you have suspicions there is a problem. It might save lives. There is nothing wrong with checking their online activities. Any normal parent would be alarmed by what Pagourtzis posted on social networking, as it was violent, satanic imagery. When you live in hate, it will manifest itself in negative ways.

There's nothing wrong with regulating what your children watch on TV and the internet. Some of the programming available is creating mental illness in people. Hollywood has made no attempt to clean up its act. The songs, shows and movies are getting more depraved as each year passes. Hollywood is promoting drug use, violence, misogyny and hate through music, television and film.

However, social networking websites have been making a move to clean up user content, in booting people off their sites, who post violent and or abusive items. This effort has been removing an outlet in which stalkers and criminals have been able to attack and abuse others. There has been noticeable improvements on social networking, due to these changes.

Previously, I would see horrendous comments directed and girls and women, threatening violence and abuse, for not accepting the lustful comments of males posting messages to them. People were disgracefully and wrongly told things like "kill yourself" or "I will kill you."

Some women were not much better, threatening men and their family members online for dating someone else. However, social networking is doing a positive job of cleaning up such toxic, harmful content. No one deserves to be threatened, abused or harassed.

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Mother of Santa Fe shooting victim says daughter turned down alleged shooter's advances

May 20, 2018, 4:38 AM ET - The mother of Shana Fisher, one of the students killed in Friday's shooting at Santa Fe High School, says alleged shooter Dimitrios Pagourtzis pursued her daughter for months despite Fisher's refusal to date him. Sadie Rodriguez told Houston ABC station KTRK her daughter's best friend had previously dated Pagourtzis before pursuing Shana.

"Shana knew him," Rodriguez told KTRK. "It was her best friend's ex-boyfriend, and he had been coming on to her and making advances. She kept telling him 'no' over the past four months. She finally stood up to him because he kept getting more aggressive and aggressive. "She stood up to him for my younger daughter because she was being bullied in school," Rodriguez said through tears. "And not even a week later he just shoots everyone. And she was the first one."...

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