The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department told reporters they believed the account belonged to the 16-year-old shooter, but it was a hoax.
LOS ANGELES — An Instagram account that appeared to threaten Thursday's shooting at a California high school, then declared it was all a joke did not belong to the gunman, an Instagram spokesperson told BuzzFeed News.
But an Instagram spokesperson confirmed to BuzzFeed News on Thursday evening that the account did not belong to the shooter, identified as 16-year-old Nathaniel Berhow. So when @nibba_leader began updating the Instagram account hours after the shooting, people began to believe that it was all a troll. The account posted a photo of a clown, captioning it,"Face reveal for the 500+ comments I got." Its bio was changed to,"THE #1 worst meme account on Instagram."But even after the new posts, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department investigators said at a news conference that they believed the original threat was posted by the gunman.
Wegener said it was possible that the shooter had given the password to a friend or that it had been hacked.
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