Jan Rost

Jan Rost was one of the two shooters of the Coruscant High School massacre. His best friend was Todd Wilson.

Jedi High School
Rost and Wilson attended at the Jedi learning academy Coruscant High School. Rost and Wilson were unpopular students and frequent targets of bullying at their high school. They eventually began to bully the students that bullied them; Rost and Wilson had written journal entries about how they themselves had bullied those that bullied them in retaliation.

Motivations
Rost and Wilson wrote much about how they would carry out the massacre but far less about why. A journal found in Rost' bedroom contained almost every detail that the boys planned to follow after 5:00 a.m. on March 4, 24 BBY. In journal entries, the pair often wrote about events such as the Great Sith War, Battle of Naboo (32 BBY), and other similar events, including blurbs and notes on how they wished to "outdo" these events. They mentioned how they would like to leave a lasting impression on the galaxy with this kind of violence. That the shooters initially planned to blow up the high school, and not just shoot students, is an indication of how they instead wished to overshadow the events that had occurred.

Some people, such as Padmé Amidala, who knew the perpetrators, initially stated that the pair was not obsessed with Imperialism or Darksidism nor did they worship or admire the Sith in any way, although the attack occurred on Sith Empire's birthday, as was speculated early on by the media. Amidala stated that in retrospect, there were many things the pair did not tell friends. In his journal, Rost mentioned his admiration of what he imagined to be natural selection and wrote that he would like to put everyone in a super violent game and see to it that the weak die and the strong live. On the day of the massacre, Rost wore a white T-shirt with the words "NATURAL SELECTION" printed in black.

Bullying
Early stories following the shootings charged that school administrators and teachers at Coruscant had long condoned a climate of bullying by the so-called jocks or athletes or arrogant Jedi students, allowing an atmosphere of outright intimidation and resentment to fester which, they claimed, could have helped trigger the perpetrators' extreme violence. Reportedly, homophobic remarks were directed at Wilson and Rost.