{"id":1053,"date":"2025-03-18T14:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T15:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2025-03-18T23:11:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T23:11:40","slug":"moment-psychopathic-teen-parades-around-his-house-mocking-school-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/moment-psychopathic-teen-parades-around-his-house-mocking-school-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment \u2018psychopathic\u2019 teen parades around his house mocking school shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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typeof(data.detail.carousel) === ‘undefined’ || typeof(data.detail.carousel.el_) === ‘undefined’) {<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\treturn;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t}<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tvar player = data.detail.carousel.el_;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tvar container = player.closest(‘.metro-video-player’);<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tvar placeholder = container.querySelector(‘.metro-video-player__up-next-placeholder’);<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tcontainer.removeChild(placeholder);<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tcontainer.classList.add(‘metro-video-player–related-videos-loaded’);<br \/>\n\t\t\t});<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A mass killing-obsessed 19-year-old posed with \u2018wooden gun\u2019 before shooting his mum and two siblings dead and setting off to \u2018kill as many as possible\u2019 at an early year\u2019s school assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Juliana Falcon, 48, Giselle Prosper, 13, and Kyle Prosper, 16, were found dead in their Leabank flat in <a data-track=\"inline-tag-auto-link_article\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/luton\/\">Luton<\/a> on September 13 last year.<\/p>\n<p>Their family described them as a \u2018strong, loving mother\u2019, a \u2018beautiful soul and caring young girl\u2019, and \u2018a kind and funny young man\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Prosper, now 19, barely reacted as the details of his crimes were revealed in court at his sentencing hearing today.<\/p>\n<p>Prosper had killed each of them with a shotgun wound to the head around 5am that day after an \u2018extended, violent struggle\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>But the injuries inflicted on his brother Kyle were \u2018particularlydistressing\u2019, as he was suffered more than 100 stab wounds. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"700\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22748381 lazyload\" alt=\"GRABS - NICHOLAS PROSPER\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/softnary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SEI_244235693-b94d-e1742318746985.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Nicholas Prosper, now 19, barely reacted as the details of his crimes were revealed in court<br \/>(Picture: Crown Prosecution Service)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"444\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22748345 lazyload\" alt=\"Undated handout screengrab issued by Bedfordshire Police of of teenager Nicholas Prosper holding a plank of wood as a mock gun, pretending to shoot people. Prosper, 19, who murdered his mother Juliana Falcon, 48, and siblings Giselle Prosper, 13, and Kyle Prosper, 16, at the flat the family shared in the town on September 13 last year is being sentenced at Luton Crown Court. Issue date: Tuesday March 18, 2025. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Leabank. Photo credit should read: Bedfordshire Police\/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/softnary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SEI_244321212-b6bd.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Prosper holding a plank of wood as a mock gun, pretending to shoot people (Picture: Bedfordshire Police\/PA Wire)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"388\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22747113 lazyload\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/softnary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SEC_244307649-6de6.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Giselle Prosper, Julian Falconer and Kyle Prosper were murdered in their home in Luton last year (Picture: PA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"592\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22744789 lazyload\" alt=\"BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE Undated Bedfordshire Police handout photos of Nicholas Prosper, 19, who murdered his mother and two siblings, and was plotting a primary school shooting. Prosper is due to appear at Luton Crown Court for a one-and-a-half day sentencing hearing. Issue date: Tuesday March 18, 2025. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Leabank. Photo credit should read: Bedfordshire Police\/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/softnary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SEI_244285253-4631-e1742298734699.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Nicholas Prosper, now 19, pleaded guilty to murder and to firearms offences (Picture: Bedfordshire Police\/PA Wire)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u2018The nature of Kyle\u2019s injuries is particularly distressing\u2019, prosecutor Timothy Cray KC told Luton Crown Court at Prosper\u2019s sentencing hearing today.<\/p>\n<p>Giselle was found under the dining table, where she had tried to hide before Prosper shot her in the face. <\/p>\n<p>Juliana was found in the hallway with defensive injuries and gunshot wound to the top of her head. \u2018This was killing for the sake of killing\u2019, Cray said.<\/p>\n<p>Such \u2018brutal\u2019 murders shocked the local community, which was alarmed to discover he intended this as the \u2018first step in an even more shocking mass 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\/>\n\t\t\t});<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"431\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22748374 lazyload\" alt=\"Nicholas Prosper police images of shotgun\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/softnary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SEI_244221812-f869.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>The shotgun Prosper used to kill his mum and two siblings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"363\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22748375 lazyload\" alt=\"GRABS - NICHOLAS PROSPER\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/softnary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SEI_244235601-3abb.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Prosper being questioned by police (Picture: Crown Prosecution Service)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For months, Prosper had plotted to kill at least 30 children and two teachers in his own mass shooting at an early years\u2019 assembly in his former primary school, roughly a kilometre from his home.<\/p>\n<p>It would be \u2018one of the biggest events ever\u2019, the teenager wrote on a note with a diagram of the school, labelled \u2018kill all\u2019. He even bought a distinctive pair of black and yellow shows as an outfit for his attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The defendant\u2019s main wish was to achieve lasting notoriety as a mass killer\u2019, Cray said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018He understood his plans, if realised, would bring about the greatest number of deaths in a school or other mass shooting in the United Kingdom and possibly even in the United States of America.\u2019<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"470\" height=\"549\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22747318 lazyload\" alt=\"Facebook picture of Nicholas Prosper Tributes have been paid to a mother and her two children who died at a tower block in Luton. Bedfordshire Police said it believed the victims to be Juliana Prosper, 48, Kyle Prosper, 16, and Giselle Prosper, 13 - all of Leabank - but formal identification was yet to take place. Nicholas Prosper, 18, also of Leabank, and named locally as Ms Prosper's son and sibling to the child victims, has been charged with murder and a number of firearm offences.\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/softnary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SEI_221753356-e8bc.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Prosper also planned a mass shooting at a primary school<br \/>(Picture: Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"558\" height=\"481\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22747349 lazyload\" alt=\"Murder victims Juliana Prosper with Kyle and Giselle Prosper TAKEN W\/O PERMISSION PLEASE LINK https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/the-proper-family?lang=en_GB&utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=facebook\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/softnary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SEI_221912797-36db.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Their family described them as a \u2018strong, loving mother\u2019, a \u2018beautiful soul and caring young girl\u2019, and \u2018a kind and funny young man\u2019. (Picture: GoFundMe)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"363\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22748378 lazyload\" alt=\"GRABS - NICHOLAS PROSPER\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/softnary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SEI_244235684-dc93.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Officers arrest Prosper (Picture: Crown Prosecution Service)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But he flagged down two police officers on Bramingham Road while on his way to the school, two hours after murdering his family.<\/p>\n<p>He had been hiding while sirens filled the air after neighbours \u2013 alerted by the sound of \u2018banging, ruffling and groaning\u2019, followed by gunshots \u2013 had called police.<\/p>\n<p>Prosper then led officers to where he had hidden the shotgun and a bag of 33 cartridges.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager had acquired the weapon by feigning an interest in clay pigeon shooting and making a \u2018high-quality forgery\u2019 of a shotgun licence to deceive a private seller he had found online.<\/p>\n<p>It was all part of at least a year of planning a mass killing. Video footage from almost exactly a year before appeared to show Prosper practicing shooting at a piece of wood.<\/p>\n<p>He researched mass killers in the US, Norway, Australia and New Zealand. He viewed images of notorious murdered.<\/p>\n<p>He then bought a gun \u2013 paying \u00a3650 for the weapon and cartridges, plus \u00a330 gas money \u2013 to a seller in the carpark of Leabank the day before the murders.<\/p>\n<p>In the hours leading up to the attack on has family, Prosper had spent four hours on his phone searching terms including \u2018shotgun injuries to the neck\u2019, \u2018What will happen on 13th September\u2019, \u2018Do you die if shot in the neck\u2019, \u2018Does sex with a corpse feel good\u2019, \u2018Man shoots woman in the head at close range\u2019, \u2018Woman raped and killed\u2019, \u2018How lethal are neck gunshots\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>A quiet, introverted boy at school, Prosper had developed a \u2018deep alienation from normal life and interest in the darkest sides of humanity\u2019 in the year leading up to the murders, the prosecutor said.<\/p>\n<p>Psychiatrists who assessed him concluded the teenager had undiagnosed autism -but he also showed an \u2018extreme lack of empathy\u2019 that this could not explain.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018While he had read documents or manifestos produced by other mass killers, his plans did not arise from any particular political or ideological cause\u2019, Cray said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The evidence suggests that what drove him on most was the desire to be famous or infamous as a mass killer. This was killing for the sake of killing.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Prosper pleaded guilty to murder at a hearing last month, along with charges of purchasing a shotgun without a certificate, possession of a shotgun with intent to endanger life and possession of a kitchen knife in a public place.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released in September, the family of Juliana, Giselle and Kyle said: \u2018Julie was a strong, loving mother to her four beautiful children, who were her absolute world.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018In her spare time, she was a keen athlete and enjoyed raising money for charity \u2013 she was always putting others first.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Kyle was a kind and funny young man who loved football and boxing. He was creative and thriving on TikTok, a big talent with massive potential. Kyle\u2019s friends were his everything.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Giselle was a beautiful soul and caring young girl; she liked to laugh lots and loved her family and big brothers.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018She was so loveable with an infectious smile. She was also an exceptional pupil at school and was loved dearly by her friends in Year 9.\u2019<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"431\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22747324 lazyload\" alt=\"A person lays flowers at Leabank, Luton, Bedfordshire, where three people, believed to be Juliana Prosper, 48, Kyle Prosper, 16, and Giselle Prosper, 13, although formal identification has yet to take place, were found dead in a flat in Leabank, off Wauluds Bank Drive, at around 5.30am on Friday. Nicholas Prosper, 18, of Leabank, Luton, has been charged with the murders of the woman and the two teenagers Bedfordshire Police said. Picture date: Sunday September 15, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLICE Leabank. Photo credit should read: Jacob King\/PA Wire\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/softnary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SEI_221725781-843a.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>A person lays flowers at Leabank, Luton, Bedfordshire (Picture: Jacob King\/PA Wire)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Detective Chief Inspector Sam Khanna, from the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Major Crime Unit, said: \u2018In all my years working on murder investigations, I have never known a case quite like this.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Not only were three innocent lives taken in such brutal circumstances, but we then learnt of Prosper\u2019s plans to carry out a shooting at a school, something which left our whole investigation team in shock and disbelief.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We cannot ever begin to comprehend why someone would plan to kill innocent children and are so grateful to those arresting officers who helped prevent this from taking place.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Hazel Simmons, leader of Luton Council, said: \u2018The revelation that the perpetrator had plans to cause further harm in one of our schools is extremely shocking, distressing and upsetting; and we don\u2019t underestimate the emotional difficulty this news will have on children, staff, parents and carers across our school community.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Our schools have robust systems in place to keep children safe and security is constantly reviewed and monitored.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong><strong><strong>Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:webnews@metro.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">webnews@metro.co.uk<\/a>.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>For more stories like this, <\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>check our news page<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{“@context”:”https:\/\/schema.org”,”@type”:”VideoObject”,”name”:”Metro.co.uk”,”duration”:”T28S”,”thumbnailUrl”:”https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/03\/18\/16\/96320129-0-image-a-1_1742314657284.jpg”,”uploadDate”:”2025-03-18T16:17:31+0000″,”description”:”When Nicholas Prosper’s mother caught him with a shotgun in his bedroom shortly before he planned to conduct the biggest mass shooting of the 21st century, she knocked his plans off course which resulted in Prosper murdering his own family and being arrested before he was able to commit a larger-scale atrocity at a school.”,”contentUrl”:”https:\/\/videos.metro.co.uk\/video\/met\/2025\/03\/18\/4051011156716441031\/480x270_MP4_4051011156716441031.mp4″,”height”:480,”width”:270} […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1066,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}