Suspended student shooter

I don't have much to say about this story but I wanted to comment on Asa Coon's race being mentioned towards the end of the story. I know that he went to the technology school, got in a fight, got suspended, and came back for revenge I guess. They are still trying to find out how he got into the school, and why no one did anything about the previous warning signs. This just makes me mad because in many stories like this, such as the VA Tech shooting, people ignored the warning signs. This boy had mental issues, had cops called to his home for domestic violence, and he even threatened kids at school-and he still managed to shoot people in a school full of metal detectors-which weren't even working! Anyway, so I'm reading the link to the story and the whole time I'm wondering what his race is, not that it matters, but Asa is a unique name, so he could be black, Hispanic, Muslim, etc. They wait until the very end of the story almost to tell readers that he is white. And it reads, "Asa Coon, who is white.....". So it almost seems like they didn't want to tell readers his race until the end because they wanted them to think he was a different race, or they didn't want readers to think a white student would do such a thing. As if only minorities commit crimes. That's what I think, but maybe I'm missing something else. It was put very weirdly in the story and if they were going to say his race, they should have just put it in the beginning. Its almost like the writer wanted to mislead people.