[6][8][11] Social services allegedly brought his abusive mother to the meeting, who accused him of fabricating his mental health issues.
[3] Reportedly, his mother had told him after the meeting that she would buy him sharper razor blades if he planned to slit his wrists to commit suicide.
[2] In 1996, while homeless, Stark began planning to attack either North High School or the food court of a nearby mall and to then commit suicide afterwards.
[3][6] According to him, his primary motive was to make his parents feel shame for creating him, and not out of a specific hatred of anyone in the school or mall.
[2][7][12][13][14] Months after the incident, Stark was on the verge of suicide again, but was dissuaded after his friend Amber Schneider[2] invited him to a movie and baked him a blueberry-peach pie for his birthday.