The lawsuits allege that the violent intentions of the shooter, identified as 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar, were well-known to OpenAI. Employees at the company flagged the shooter's account eight months before the attack and determined that it posed a credible and specific threat of gun violence against real people.
"I'm always craving to feel things a bit more than I do the rest of the year," Maudsley says about Columbine's anniversary, and that's why she decided to share the contents of her backpack with her modest online following.
Peter arrived at the command post sometime after 5pm, and police began explaining the scale of the slaughter. The number of deaths wasn't confirmed yet, they said, but it was unthinkably high.
Police reported that one person was shot and killed while six others sustained injuries during a mass shooting at a Chick-fil-A in Union, New Jersey. The incident occurred around 9 p.m. on Saturday, and investigators believe the attack was not random.
For the first day, I was the first person on the scene, and then my phone died. So, I went home and was reporting from there as the information was coming out, and I was getting more and more media requests. I started saying yes, not because I thought I had the right to tell this story, but mostly because I knew that reporters-or let's say some reporters-have a tendency to not be sensitive in these situations.
Jesse Van Rootselaar's chats describing gun violence were flagged by tools that monitor the company's LLM for misuse and banned in June 2025. Staff at the company debated whether or not to reach out to Canadian law enforcement over the behavior but ultimately did not, according to the Wall Street Journal. An OpenAI spokesperson said Van Rootselaar's activity did not meet the criteria for reporting to law enforcement; the company reached out to Canadian authorities after the incident.
"My wife and I were there just to enjoy the family day," Michael Black said. "I was watching the games, looking to my left, and in front of me, you heard a bang, bang."