Teenager watched school shooting film shortly before gun deaths, says friend

THE teenager who shot five schoolmates to death had watched a movie about a school shooting with friends earlier this month — skipping ahead to some of the most violent scenes, a friend said yesterday.

Jeff Weise was also taking the anti-depressant Prozac following a suicide scare last summer, said Sky Grant, 16.

Grant said Weise brought the 2003 movie Elephant to Grant’s house on March 4, then skipped ahead to the parts that show two students planning and carrying out a school shooting.