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\'i was always hiding my face\': the bizarre life of virginia\'s redeemed school shooter
by：Yufengling
2020-04-30
Thirty-
Six years ago, he hijacked 10 people for 21 hours at a high school in Virginia, and a school gunman, James Quentin Stevens, sat in a restaurant in Winchester, Virginia.
Grace said he ordered a mandarin salad and he did not eat it when it arrived.
Stevens, 53, has a lot to say.
Too much consideration for food.
He entered a high school a few decades ago.
Mosberg shotgun, but did not take any life, told the story of his time and life.
Now, he says he wants to help young people like the so-called Parkland shooter, Nicolas Cruz.
Young people like the young people he used to be
They planned an attack across the country.
His life story is his weapon.
On the afternoon of November, Stevens walked into Lake Braddock Middle School in ferfax County.
1982. he was not taken seriously. Not at first.
\"My first reaction was, \'Oh, they\'re promoting \'Homer,\'\" said Frances chutcheman, who was taken hostage at the time.
\"We met at school the night before.
But Stevens proved that he was serious. he shot the ceiling and hijacked nine hostages.
A tenth is hidden behind the copier for 21 hours. The 4,300-
The student school was evacuated.
The police set up a telephone line for the negotiations, and put Stevens\'s predecessor
The girlfriend who just broke up with him disappointed him.
Ex-girlfriend Mitch Schult is 53 now. year-
The old nurse living in California described Stevens as an introvert, a quiet guitarist, the kind of person who \"always opens the door for women.
\"He didn\'t mean to hurt anyone,\" she said . \".
\"The purpose of his entry was to contact me to talk to me.
Although the media reported the perspective of the abandoned lover
A title is \"surrender to the police of lovelorn teenagers\"
Stevens does not talk much about the relationship now, except to admit that he is too young to handle it.
He believed that his attack was not due to a deterioration of a relationship, but because of the \"Road to the moment in Damascus \"--
A religious struggle between good and evil.
Stevens has refused to answer calls for years.
Reporter, Radio, Television.
Let him explain the idea of shooting athletes in mass schools.
Now he\'s imagining death, going to heaven.
He hoped he would go to heaven-
Jesus asked, \"have you left your story, your precious jewels, to yourself?
\"After his 3-year-old biological father left the family, he had no father.
His mother remarried, but his stepfather was far from him, and the couple divorced when Stevens was a teenager.
Stevens recalled the attack, describing what he called a \"demon possessed \"--
Tell him the \"voice\" of killing the hostages and committing suicide \".
He said he had \"Crazy Eyes\" and lost his peripheral vision briefly.
He described the gun.
A gift for his 16 th birthday.
In his mouth, then take it out and scream \"out!
\"Look at the hostages in a voice that is two or three degrees lower than yourself, just like Linda Blair in The Exorcist. \" An \"out-of-
He said: \"physical moments\" followed by a hand in a white robe reaching out to him.
He reached out and got it back.
He was saved.
\"I have been looking for peace all my life,\" he said . \".
\"All I did was touch the hand,\" he continued.
In the next seven hours, Stevens says, he releases a hostage every hour.
A 1982 post said that he changed four cups of coffee with one cup of coffee, another with a gallon of vanilla ice cream, and everything except anchoviesAt 10 a. m.
Stevens opened fire on a hostage negotiator.
The siege is over.
Stevens did not kill anyone.
He was sentenced to 1/2 years\' imprisonment and three years\' community service.
He paid $403 in compensation to the school.
\"I want to prove to the society and the judge that his judgment is reasonable and prove to him that I am not a criminal,\" he said after sentencing . \".
He will have a chance soon. Two-and-a-half-
After years of serving his sentence, he sat most
When he learned that he was part of an early prison
Plan for the release of juvenile offenders.
He got a job where he taught guitar for kids with mental disabilities and worked for five years.
He attended Bible studies and Christian youth groups.
He got married and had children-
The first of his two children, he often talks with them
But something\'s wrong.
\"I always hide my face,\" he said . \"\"I was ashamed.
I should be in jail. . . .
I\'m just in my shell.
From 1985 to 1989, he performed at Easter celebrations in Washington, New York and Boston, becoming Christ. Decorated with thorns and a coat of arms, drag the wooden cross to the top of the steps of the Capitol.
After the show, he drifted to Nashville.
Background checks make it difficult for him to find a job, so he often works in the construction industry, including working as a plumber at former Vice President Gore\'s Tennessee Manor.
After finding \"every certification he can find,\" he said, he found a technical job of about 1999.
He has his own business in the computer field, and a new name --
He began to use the art name \"TJ Stevens\" in his daily life\"
But his story of redemption is meaningless.
\"I\'m serving myself,\" Stevens said . \". Then on Nov.
2003, two Black Hawk helicopters crashed in Mosul, Iraq, killing 17 soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division.
Stevens heard the news of the plane crash on the radio.
\"I\'m angry,\" Stevens said . \"
\"I feel very hurt.
That night, he wrote a song \"Unknown Warrior\", a ballad honoring women and children left behind when soldiers in uniform went to fight.
The song was broadcast on Nashville radio.
Stevens was invited to perform in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, where he said he met-Brigadier Gen. David Petraeus.
\"God, this must be you,\" Stevens said . \" He thought.
\"Now you have a general who is hiring me. \" (
A spokesman for Fort Campbell could not confirm the news.
A spokeswoman for Petraeus said: \"This is possible, but the general does not have a clear memory. \")
He pressed about 1,000 songs on the CD and distributed envelopes inside, collecting donations for soldiers and their families with the help of charities.
He said, \"Unknown Warrior\" is \"lucky\", he is --hit wonder.
\"Nashville can hug you or chew you and spit you out,\" he said . \".
\"This is more political than the US Congress.
Meanwhile, his second marriage broke down.
In 2006, he said, he moved back to Winchester in a \"frustrated way\" and lived in his elderly father\'s house.
A local priest invited Stevens to the church to sing, but he was not sure if he should. Then he did. Just one song.
\"That\'s all,\" Stevens said . \".
\"He brought me back to church.
I gave my life back to Christ. Again.
Armed with Nashville.
How, he started booking Christian bands in Winchester.
Some of the concert proceeds to charity.
Pay a medical bill for a young girl with cancer or pay part of the hospital bill for Jacob Eden Hessyear-
The old Virginia boy died in 2016 after playing the \"choking game.
\"The school gunner, once known as James Quentin Stevens, began to reluctantly tell his story.
The first was the \"new worship\" at Winchester church in the banquet hall of the tourist hotel on 2015 \".
Pastor Andy Combs said Stevens was hesitant at first.
\"I don\'t know TJ will tell you who he was at the time, but he\'s different now,\" Combs recalls . \".
People cried when Stevens started talking.
There are people searching on Google.
Is the quiet audiovisual in the church really a school shooter?
After filming in the park, he promised to do more.
He wants to reach out to the troubled teenagers with violent thoughts.
\"I would be happy to sit down and talk to any child who wants to do something like this,\" he said . \".
Last year, he shared his story with a woman who had experienced hardships at another Winchester church.
The 50-year-old Bethany Selfoss was only 14 when he was evacuated from Lake Braddock on the day Stevens took the hostage.
She says she recalls \"mass chaos\"
Police officers, fire engines and special police officers were escorted to wear fitness suits.
Then, one day, in the Church of the new Worship Center, the villain of the story told her unexpectedly.
She is still the only victim of Stevens\'s siege, and he has discussed the ordeal with her. She was moved.
After the service, she walked up to him and \"lost it,\" she said.
He asked for her forgiveness and she agreed without hesitation.
\"I must forgive him because God has forgiven me,\" she said . \".
Stevens said God had forgiven him.
In 2016, Virginia also pardoned him and restored his right to vote, but did not restore his right to own a gun.
Although he thinks veterans can help prevent school shootings, he is not himself a gunman.
After Lake Braddock.
\"I don\'t like them at home,\" he said . \".
Stevens said he spent decades thinking about the pain he brought to the victims.
He said he wanted them to know their pain.
\"The best thing about his story is that he can always tell it again.
\"This is the beginning,\" he said . \"
\"When you think that God is over with us, that is the beginning.
Six years ago, he hijacked 10 people for 21 hours at a high school in Virginia, and a school gunman, James Quentin Stevens, sat in a restaurant in Winchester, Virginia.
Grace said he ordered a mandarin salad and he did not eat it when it arrived.
Stevens, 53, has a lot to say.
Too much consideration for food.
He entered a high school a few decades ago.
Mosberg shotgun, but did not take any life, told the story of his time and life.
Now, he says he wants to help young people like the so-called Parkland shooter, Nicolas Cruz.
Young people like the young people he used to be
They planned an attack across the country.
His life story is his weapon.
On the afternoon of November, Stevens walked into Lake Braddock Middle School in ferfax County.
1982. he was not taken seriously. Not at first.
\"My first reaction was, \'Oh, they\'re promoting \'Homer,\'\" said Frances chutcheman, who was taken hostage at the time.
\"We met at school the night before.
But Stevens proved that he was serious. he shot the ceiling and hijacked nine hostages.
A tenth is hidden behind the copier for 21 hours. The 4,300-
The student school was evacuated.
The police set up a telephone line for the negotiations, and put Stevens\'s predecessor
The girlfriend who just broke up with him disappointed him.
Ex-girlfriend Mitch Schult is 53 now. year-
The old nurse living in California described Stevens as an introvert, a quiet guitarist, the kind of person who \"always opens the door for women.
\"He didn\'t mean to hurt anyone,\" she said . \".
\"The purpose of his entry was to contact me to talk to me.
Although the media reported the perspective of the abandoned lover
A title is \"surrender to the police of lovelorn teenagers\"
Stevens does not talk much about the relationship now, except to admit that he is too young to handle it.
He believed that his attack was not due to a deterioration of a relationship, but because of the \"Road to the moment in Damascus \"--
A religious struggle between good and evil.
Stevens has refused to answer calls for years.
Reporter, Radio, Television.
Let him explain the idea of shooting athletes in mass schools.
Now he\'s imagining death, going to heaven.
He hoped he would go to heaven-
Jesus asked, \"have you left your story, your precious jewels, to yourself?
\"After his 3-year-old biological father left the family, he had no father.
His mother remarried, but his stepfather was far from him, and the couple divorced when Stevens was a teenager.
Stevens recalled the attack, describing what he called a \"demon possessed \"--
Tell him the \"voice\" of killing the hostages and committing suicide \".
He said he had \"Crazy Eyes\" and lost his peripheral vision briefly.
He described the gun.
A gift for his 16 th birthday.
In his mouth, then take it out and scream \"out!
\"Look at the hostages in a voice that is two or three degrees lower than yourself, just like Linda Blair in The Exorcist. \" An \"out-of-
He said: \"physical moments\" followed by a hand in a white robe reaching out to him.
He reached out and got it back.
He was saved.
\"I have been looking for peace all my life,\" he said . \".
\"All I did was touch the hand,\" he continued.
In the next seven hours, Stevens says, he releases a hostage every hour.
A 1982 post said that he changed four cups of coffee with one cup of coffee, another with a gallon of vanilla ice cream, and everything except anchoviesAt 10 a. m.
Stevens opened fire on a hostage negotiator.
The siege is over.
Stevens did not kill anyone.
He was sentenced to 1/2 years\' imprisonment and three years\' community service.
He paid $403 in compensation to the school.
\"I want to prove to the society and the judge that his judgment is reasonable and prove to him that I am not a criminal,\" he said after sentencing . \".
He will have a chance soon. Two-and-a-half-
After years of serving his sentence, he sat most
When he learned that he was part of an early prison
Plan for the release of juvenile offenders.
He got a job where he taught guitar for kids with mental disabilities and worked for five years.
He attended Bible studies and Christian youth groups.
He got married and had children-
The first of his two children, he often talks with them
But something\'s wrong.
\"I always hide my face,\" he said . \"\"I was ashamed.
I should be in jail. . . .
I\'m just in my shell.
From 1985 to 1989, he performed at Easter celebrations in Washington, New York and Boston, becoming Christ. Decorated with thorns and a coat of arms, drag the wooden cross to the top of the steps of the Capitol.
After the show, he drifted to Nashville.
Background checks make it difficult for him to find a job, so he often works in the construction industry, including working as a plumber at former Vice President Gore\'s Tennessee Manor.
After finding \"every certification he can find,\" he said, he found a technical job of about 1999.
He has his own business in the computer field, and a new name --
He began to use the art name \"TJ Stevens\" in his daily life\"
But his story of redemption is meaningless.
\"I\'m serving myself,\" Stevens said . \". Then on Nov.
2003, two Black Hawk helicopters crashed in Mosul, Iraq, killing 17 soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division.
Stevens heard the news of the plane crash on the radio.
\"I\'m angry,\" Stevens said . \"
\"I feel very hurt.
That night, he wrote a song \"Unknown Warrior\", a ballad honoring women and children left behind when soldiers in uniform went to fight.
The song was broadcast on Nashville radio.
Stevens was invited to perform in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, where he said he met-Brigadier Gen. David Petraeus.
\"God, this must be you,\" Stevens said . \" He thought.
\"Now you have a general who is hiring me. \" (
A spokesman for Fort Campbell could not confirm the news.
A spokeswoman for Petraeus said: \"This is possible, but the general does not have a clear memory. \")
He pressed about 1,000 songs on the CD and distributed envelopes inside, collecting donations for soldiers and their families with the help of charities.
He said, \"Unknown Warrior\" is \"lucky\", he is --hit wonder.
\"Nashville can hug you or chew you and spit you out,\" he said . \".
\"This is more political than the US Congress.
Meanwhile, his second marriage broke down.
In 2006, he said, he moved back to Winchester in a \"frustrated way\" and lived in his elderly father\'s house.
A local priest invited Stevens to the church to sing, but he was not sure if he should. Then he did. Just one song.
\"That\'s all,\" Stevens said . \".
\"He brought me back to church.
I gave my life back to Christ. Again.
Armed with Nashville.
How, he started booking Christian bands in Winchester.
Some of the concert proceeds to charity.
Pay a medical bill for a young girl with cancer or pay part of the hospital bill for Jacob Eden Hessyear-
The old Virginia boy died in 2016 after playing the \"choking game.
\"The school gunner, once known as James Quentin Stevens, began to reluctantly tell his story.
The first was the \"new worship\" at Winchester church in the banquet hall of the tourist hotel on 2015 \".
Pastor Andy Combs said Stevens was hesitant at first.
\"I don\'t know TJ will tell you who he was at the time, but he\'s different now,\" Combs recalls . \".
People cried when Stevens started talking.
There are people searching on Google.
Is the quiet audiovisual in the church really a school shooter?
After filming in the park, he promised to do more.
He wants to reach out to the troubled teenagers with violent thoughts.
\"I would be happy to sit down and talk to any child who wants to do something like this,\" he said . \".
Last year, he shared his story with a woman who had experienced hardships at another Winchester church.
The 50-year-old Bethany Selfoss was only 14 when he was evacuated from Lake Braddock on the day Stevens took the hostage.
She says she recalls \"mass chaos\"
Police officers, fire engines and special police officers were escorted to wear fitness suits.
Then, one day, in the Church of the new Worship Center, the villain of the story told her unexpectedly.
She is still the only victim of Stevens\'s siege, and he has discussed the ordeal with her. She was moved.
After the service, she walked up to him and \"lost it,\" she said.
He asked for her forgiveness and she agreed without hesitation.
\"I must forgive him because God has forgiven me,\" she said . \".
Stevens said God had forgiven him.
In 2016, Virginia also pardoned him and restored his right to vote, but did not restore his right to own a gun.
Although he thinks veterans can help prevent school shootings, he is not himself a gunman.
After Lake Braddock.
\"I don\'t like them at home,\" he said . \".
Stevens said he spent decades thinking about the pain he brought to the victims.
He said he wanted them to know their pain.
\"The best thing about his story is that he can always tell it again.
\"This is the beginning,\" he said . \"
\"When you think that God is over with us, that is the beginning.
