 Cameron in 1995 | |
| Cameron Coulter | |
| Portrayed by | Kyle Gallner |
| Episode | Rampage |
| Status | Deceased (1995) |
"A regular Saturday afternoon in America's town square."
Cameron Coulter was a troubled teenage boy and mass shooter. He, along with his best friend Neal Hanlon, committed the Woodland Valley Mall massacre on September 23, 1995. They killed fifteen bystanders and wounded several others before turning their guns on themselves.
Biography[]
A page of Cameron's journal read: "I am The Destroyer, The Apocalypse, The Widowmaker. I am a rifle, I am a gun. Look down the barrel of my hate - we're going to have some fun."
He and Neal were both juniors at Lakefield High and worked at the same mall together, Woodland Valley Mall. Cameron was a counter boy at Cinnamon King while Neal pushed a broom. They were constantly mocked, bullied, and belittled by others at both school and the mall, mainly their more popular, admired, and athletic classmates, which sadly included the boys' former good friend, Dayton Moore. Cameron and Neal used to play video games and hang out with Dayton. Once in high school, Dayton stopped playing with Cameron and Neal long before the incident; he thought they took the game too seriously, and used it as "practice".
This ultimately provoked them into making plans to shoot up the mall. They boasted about their plans constantly, but no one took them seriously.
Despite his father saying he was a follower, Cameron was a leader. Both he and Neal had severe mental issues, but Cameron was the one who would get the most violent about his anger and anguish over the abuse they faced. Zack, Dayton, and a group of boys would talk about and tease other kids at the mall. On one occasion while they were making fun of Neal, Cameron walked over to the group of boys and said, "Someone should take an Uzi to this freakin' mall". He took off his hat and rhetorically asked, "What do you think...dudes?" Then he pretended to shoot Zack, saying "Pow."
Security guard Barry Lewis later showed Cameron and Neal the real cameras and the dummy cameras at the mall in the surveillance room, secretly being watched by Tina. Cameron mentioned how they could shoot up the place and no one would see, and Barry added no one would care. Neal then talked about imagining the looks on the victims' faces, and Barry commented that that'd be a sight to see.
On the day of the shooting, Tina walked right up to Cameron and Neal, who had just entered the the mall. Angry that her ex-boyfriend Zack's friends had assaulted her moments before, she offered to make Cameron and Neal famous by videotaping them while they shoot up the place. At first, Neal wanted to leave, but Cameron stopped him. Tina intimidated them, asking if they were scared. In response, Cameron suggested that they kill her first. Tina countered by asking who was going to make them famous if she was dead. Cameron agreed that she had a point, and Neal asked what the plan was. Tina stared back at Zack and his friends and said, "Kill 'em all. Kill everybody!"
Cameron and Neal messed around with Tina's stolen camera and videotaped themselves talking about entering another dimension, "The Mall". The boys "Ennie Mennie Minie Moe"d with the camera between Zack and a little girl, eventually stopping at Zack. Neal commented that it was Zack's "lucky day". Cameron pulled out a shotgun and began the rampage by killing Zack, laughing about the look on his face. Neal gave Tina the camera and pulled out his handgun, beginning to shoot around the mall. When Barry came out of an elevator, Cameron told him to "smile for the camera, sucker" and shot him. As he fell to the floor and begged for his life, Cameron laughed. Neal then told him to let Barry bleed and they walked away to continue the massacre. At the end of the shooting, the boys embraced one another, as it was "the end". Then, they turned the guns on themselves.
Known Victims[]
- Zack
- Jason
- R. Wieland
- K. Fehervari
- C. Hall
- G. Hopper
- 9 others
- Barry Lewis (injured, survived)
- Davie Shulman (survived)
- Tina (accessory, survived)
- Dayton Moore (survived)
- Neal Hanlon (shot in a suicide pact)
Also see[]
- Eric Harris - The criminal Cameron is based on.