The assailant – who cannot be named under the Children and Young Persons Act as he committed the crime when he was 16 – was initially handed a murder charge, but it was later reduced to a charge of culpable homicide.
Mr Sudheesan said that while the teen had control over his physical acts and knew at the time that what he was doing was wrong, his mental illness was what had caused him to come up with the irrational plan. He was suffering from depression, and had hatched a plan to slash people in the school so that the police would shoot him to death.
The parents had also forgiven the assailant, and said that even though they were heartbroken, they wanted everyone to remember Ethan for his goodness, kind heart and peace-loving nature.
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