One of the Colorado charter school shooting suspects told police he targeted classmates who mocked his gender identity.

Alec McKinney, 16, who was born female and identifies as male, said students at the STEM School Highlands Ranch called him “disgusting,” made fun of him and repeatedly referred to him “as a she,” according to written summaries of police interviews.

McKinney “said he wanted the kids at the school to experience bad things, have to suffer from trauma like he had to in his life,” and planned the May 7 attack for weeks, the documents said.

“He wanted everyone in that school to suffer and realize that the world is a bad place.”

The other suspected shooter, 18-year-old Devon Erickson, told police McKinney sent him a Snapchat message on May 6 telling him not to go to school the next day because McKinney wanted to get revenge “on a lot of people.”

Erickson portrayed McKinney as the mastermind behind the attack and told police that he wanted to stop his friend, though “couldn’t articulate how or why he never told an adult,” cops said. McKinney claims it was Erickson who fired the first shot.

The high schoolers on May 7 allegedly opened fire at the school, killing an 18-year-old male student. Both teenagers are charged with murder and attempted murder in the shooting.

Eight other students were wounded in the attack. The documents reveal that a hired school security guard responding to the gunfire accidentally shot a female student.

With Post wires

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