The man charged with killing one person and wounding two others when he opened fire inside Seattle Pacific University said he just wanted to see people die.
Aaron Ybarra, 26 — who allegedly killed Paul Lee, 19, and shot two others before he was pepper-sprayed and tackled by a student building monitor on June 5 — said he had no sympathy for any victims in the attack.
“I just want people to die! And I’m gonna die with them,” the crazed Ybarra wrote in a seven-page journal released by King County prosecutors on Tuesday.
“I’m not asking for forgiveness because there won’t be any. But it is what it is. I’m doing some people a favor by sending them to heaven. But those who are sinners like me, I’ll see you in hell.”
Police said Ybarra — who also wrote about his admiration for the killers behind the notorious Columbine and Virginia Tech shootings — was armed with a hunting knife and had more than 50 rounds of ammunition when he was cuffed.
Ybarra has since pleaded not guilty to one count of premeditated first-degree murder and other charges.
In one journal entry, Ybarra wrote about his love for family and friends, but said “everybody else in the world, I just want to blow their faces out with a 12-gauge shotgun blast.”
He said targeted the small Christian university in Pullman so his parents wouldn’t become suspicious, but also because he didn’t associate the school with the city.
“I picked Seattle Pacific because I’m less familiar with it and can see that (the) University of Washington and Seattle University represent Seattle more,” he wrote in the journal, which he started about a week before the shooting.
On the day of the attack, Ybarra wrote about his excitement to kill.
“This is it!” Ybarra said.
“I can’t believe I’m finally doing this! So exciting I’m jumpy.”
With News Wire Services
jkemp@nydailynews.com
