The city of Nashville should be braced for copycat shooters in the wake of due to a 'contagion' effect, the 's former top profiler tells DailyMail.com. 'In 2000 when the FBI released its first report on school shooters, we found that the copycat influence was powerful and it influenced the 18 cases that we studied,' Mary Ellen O'Toole said. The report was compiled in the wake of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre which claimed the lives of 13 people, O'Toole added. The criminologist said that it was her opinion not to release the shooter's manifesto in that case, for fear of the 'contagion' effect.
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