Did the Clackamas Shooter Make a Promise on 4chan?

*I am leery in reporting this, because of a similar situation that arose surrounding the Aurora, CO shooting that ended up being a hoax. Nonetheless, I did discover this image by doing a hashtag search on Twitter. H/t to @Justin_Kent*

I am not a technical expert by any means, so I am uncertain of how easy it would be to fake a screenshot like this. However, if there is any validity to this, it appears the Clackamas shooter may have given a preview of what he planned to do  on the website 4chan on Monday, December 10. Judge for yourself:

Here is the original link, as well.

UPDATE: I crowdsourced Twitter for thoughts on the validity of this screenshot. Here are some of the responses I received :

. @kennethlipp @FoolishReporter The screen cap is unverifiable. #4Chan #clackamasshooting

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Asher Wolf (@Asher_Wolf) December 12, 2012

@Asher_Wolf @kennethlipp @foolishreporter These are faked for every single tragic event unfortunately.

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  (@explanoit) December 12, 2012

@FoolishReporter b/res/44162519 thread status requested 8hs ago, and was archived 7 hours ago => links to 404 :)

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  (@irisphant) December 12, 2012

@FoolishReporter other links work, 44162519 doesn't. I'll file it on the ever growing heap of significant randomness webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache…

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  (@irisphant) December 12, 2012

@FoolishReporter literally one of these is faked for every single mass shooting ever

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Andrew Auernheimer (@rabite) December 12, 2012

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