Carter Boyles

 

 

Age: 15

 

Summary: tenth-grade student at Jefferson High School in southwest Cedar Rapids, Iowa who was found near the auditorium on school grounds with a self-inflicted gunshot wound after he took a gun to school and shot himself outside the auditorium in a suicide attempt, in which police are investigating online postings that has ties to some videos of simulated school shootings on YouTube and the video game site Steam, leading to speculation that the teen may have been planning a school shooting of his own, but it was not possible to verify the authenticity of those social media posts.

 

 

Cause of Death: Self-inflicted gunshot wound

 

Born: circa 2001

 

Died: September 10, 2016

 

Location: Iowa City, Iowa