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He couldn’t rid himself of the dark thoughts and all-consuming hatred that had invaded his mind. And so, he said, he finally gave in to them. He made plans to kill. “I packed 75 rounds of ammunition,” Ybarra told police in a videotaped interview released Tuesday, “cause I thought I was gonna kill and injure more people.” Ybarra rambled off a detailed statement about the June 5 rampage, describing to two Seattle homicide detectives that the shooting was a last-ditch plan to release the demons inside him before he killed himself.“If I had a choice to not feel this way, I wouldn’t have done this,” Ybarra told police. “I wouldn’t have wanted to die. I wouldn’t have wanted to kill people. I wanted to live a happy, successful life. But my hate got in my way, the compulsiveness was just overcoming me.”
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