Mass Shootings/Killings Thread

[snuffbox]

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And I apparently know more about it than you do

Pardon me!

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

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If only Snuffy had more time to think about spree killings.

 

[Jingus]

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It is something that fascinates me, in a morbid way. Especially the ones like the movie theater shooter, whose motivations make no sense. I understand guys like the Columbine shooters, or political assassins; their crimes are still monstrous and unforgivable, but at least there's some reason why they targeted the victims they did. It's hideously evil, but we know why they did it. However, the murderers who indiscriminately spray bullets into a crowd of random strangers? I don't get that at all, and the mystery is rather compelling.

 

[muzzington]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur_massacre_%28Australia%29

The lawyer later released a book outlining that Bryant was motivated largely by the media surrounding the then recent Dunblane massacre. From the moment he was captured he continually wanted to know how many people he had killed and seemed impressed by the number.

 

[Laz]

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It is something that fascinates me, in a morbid way. Especially the ones like the movie theater shooter, whose motivations make no sense. I understand guys like the Columbine shooters, or political assassins; their crimes are still monstrous and unforgivable, but at least there's some reason why they targeted the victims they did. It's hideously evil, but we know why they did it. However, the murderers who indiscriminately spray bullets into a crowd of random strangers? I don't get that at all, and the mystery is rather compelling.

Well, if they keep referring to everybody they point the gun at as "Homer Simpson" then it could just be because of an overly friendly neighbor.

 

[bps21]

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Has anyone mentioned the guy arrested in Ohio with weapons at a dark knight rises showing?

 

[BruiserBrody]

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http://www.fox11online.com/dpps/news/national/northeast/officials-say-several-people-shot-outside-empire-state-building-nd12-jgr_4389367

Several people shot outside Empire State Building
Police: The shooter is dead

Updated: Friday, 24 Aug 2012, 9:11 AM CDT
Published : Friday, 24 Aug 2012, 8:31 AM CDT

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police say at least four people have been shot outside the Empire State Building and that the gunman is dead. A witness says the shooter was firing indiscriminately.

The shooting happened Friday morning at 34th Street and Fifth Avenue.

A fire department spokesman says it received a call about the shooting just after at 9 a.m. Friday and that emergency units were on the scene within minutes.

The department says paramedics are evaluating eight people but some of them may not have been shot.

Aliyah Imam tells Fox 5 News that she was standing at a red light when a woman standing next to her fell to the ground. She says the woman was hit in the hip. She says the gunman was "shooting indiscriminately at people."

 

[Big Beard Booty Daddy]

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I work on 31st and 6th, which is very close to where that happened. Luckily I don't work on Fridays. That's just crazy.

 

[Mickey Massuco]

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Someone on my facebook joked about how they almost got shot because they caught a bus at the stop nearby about two minutes before it all happened.

Too soon to be making light of it all?

 

[Mickey Massuco]

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oh shit wheres BZ?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-shootings-chicago-violence-august-23-august-24-violence-gunfire-20120823,0,49779.story

19 people were shot throughout Chicago last NIGHT. Not a single massacre, but I'll be damned if that isn't a scary stat.

 

[KOAB]

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Obama still hasn't addressed nothing about the Chicago madness that started around July 4th... guess when you got the black vote in your back pocket then fuck 'em.

 

[Mickey Massuco]

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It's hilarious how they went from overall being against gay marriage to being for it when he spoke out on the topic. The only black people that will vote against him are the Ron Christie's of the world.

 

[Laz]

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[KOAB]

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Al Roker's looking good these days

 

[KOAB]

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http://www.fox11online.com/dpps/news/national/northeast/officials-say-several-people-shot-outside-empire-state-building-nd12-jgr_4389367

Several people shot outside Empire State Building
Police: The shooter is dead

Updated: Friday, 24 Aug 2012, 9:11 AM CDT
Published : Friday, 24 Aug 2012, 8:31 AM CDT

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police say at least four people have been shot outside the Empire State Building and that the gunman is dead. A witness says the shooter was firing indiscriminately.

The shooting happened Friday morning at 34th Street and Fifth Avenue.

A fire department spokesman says it received a call about the shooting just after at 9 a.m. Friday and that emergency units were on the scene within minutes.

The department says paramedics are evaluating eight people but some of them may not have been shot.

Aliyah Imam tells Fox 5 News that she was standing at a red light when a woman standing next to her fell to the ground. She says the woman was hit in the hip. She says the gunman was "shooting indiscriminately at people."

The earliest reports said that ALL of those injured were shot by police. The perpetrator never got off a round before he was massacred in a hail of police bullets that struck numerous other people... and Bloomberg pretty much admitted it.

 

[Laz]

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Not a massacre but it's a public shooting, so hey...

Student shot at Maryland high school on first day.

PERRY HALL, Md. (AP) — A 15-year-old student opened fire on the first day of classes Monday at a Baltimore County high school, getting off two shots and wounding a classmate before being rushed by teachers, authorities said.

Baltimore County Police Chief James Johnson said at a news conference that officers do not believe the victim, a 17-year-old male, was targeted by the shooter, a 15-year-old who is also a student at Perry Hall High School. A male suspect was taken into custody after the shooting, and police have the weapon, although police would not say what kind of gun it was.

Johnson said at about 10:45 a.m., a student walked into the cafeteria and pulled out a gun. He fired one shot before being grabbed by teachers, and then another shot went off as teachers grabbed him, Johnson said.

Kelsey Long, a junior at Perry Hall, said she was in the cafeteria when she heard gunshots.

"I heard a loud popping noise and we thought it was someone popping a bag, but then we heard it again and everyone started screaming and ran out to the front of the school," Long told The Associated Press in a Twitter message.

Police said several other students suffered minor, non-shooting injuries during the incident.

"We have some heroic and brave faculty members," Schools Superintendent Dallas Dance said. "They responded very quickly to minimize damage."

Johnson said the suspect acted alone. He did not answer numerous questions from reporters about a motive.

The school was evacuated, and students were escorted to a nearby shopping center and middle school.

WJZ-TV showed video of a shirtless male with his hands behind his back being put into a police cruiser.

Perry Hall is a middle-class community along the Interstate 95 corridor, northeast of Baltimore city. The school is the largest in the county, with 2,200 students.

County Councilman David Marks, who lives next door to the school, said he had received dozens of phone calls and text messages from worried parents and residents.

"This is a very comfortable, very safe community, and it's an excellent high school," said Marks, who graduated from Perry Hall. "I think this is an aberration, but clearly one that is horrifying, particularly on the first day of school."

Television coverage showed scores of police cars surrounding the school and parked on neighborhood streets. A group of officers with weapons drawn staked out a corner of the building, one of them lying prone on the ground and appearing to cover a particular area of the campus. Hundreds of students streamed away from the school toward a nearby shopping center where they met their parents.

Cathy Le, 15, said students were panicking as they tried to find out what was happening, texting and calling each other frantically as they waited in lockdown.

Le said she and other students were locked in their classrooms for more than an hour.

At the scene, buses, emergency vehicles and parents in cars filled the roadway between the high school and the shopping center. There were obvious signs of relief displayed as parents found their children.

Kristin Kraus, whose son James attends the school, described hearing about the shooting as "absolute terror." However, Kraus said, "within a couple of minutes he texted my husband that he was OK."

 

[bps21]

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Give those teachers a raise.

 

[BruiserBrody]

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http://news.yahoo.com/prosecutor-ga-murder-case-uncovers-terror-plot-173341769.html

LUDOWICI, Ga. (AP) — Four Army soldiers based in southeast Georgia killed a former comrade and his girlfriend to protect an anarchist militia group they formed that stockpiled assault weapons and plotted a range of anti-government attacks, prosecutors told a judge Monday.

Prosecutors in rural Long County, near the sprawling Army post Fort Stewart, said the militia group of active and former U.S. military members spent at least $87,000 buying guns and bomb components. They allege the group was serious enough to kill two people — former soldier Michael Roark and his 17-year-old girlfriend, Tiffany York — by shooting them in the woods last December in order to keep its plans secret.

"This domestic terrorist organization did not simply plan and talk," prosecutor Isabel Pauley told a Superior Court judge. "Prior to the murders in this case, the group took action. Evidence shows the group possessed the knowledge, means and motive to carry out their plans."

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http://gawker.com/5938288/leader-of-army-plot-to-assassinate-obama-apparently-attended-the-2008-republican-convention-as-a-page

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Not sure if this would've been something big, or just some nuts who didn't like the Prez and whose plot would've been bungled

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

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http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Police-SWAT-Team-New-Jersey-Pathmark-Old-Bridge-168125856.html?ggg

An ex-Marine killed two coworkers and himself Friday morning after bursting through the glass windows of a closed New Jersey supermarket with an AK-47 and automatic handgun, officials said.

A law enforcement source familiar with the investigation said Tyler got into an argument with coworkers, and at about 3:30 a.m., he left the store, went to his car and drove away. According to Kaplan, he returned about 20 minutes later, dressed in camoflauge clothing and holding an AK-47.

So that's another one.

http://www.suntimes.com/14848695-761/at-least-10-people-shot-overnight-82-killed-or-injured-in-last-week.html

These aren't technically spree killings but holy shit...82 dead or wounded in a week!

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

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I think this fits here since it was a massacre and it's the fallout from it.

This is really crazy and is something you'd expect from the apartheid era government

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19424484
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19438343

Workers arrested at South Africa's Marikana mine have been charged in court with the murder of 34 of their colleagues shot by police.

The 270 workers would be tried under the "common purpose" doctrine because they were in the crowd which confronted police on 16 August, an official said.

Police opened fire, killing 34 miners and sparking a national outcry.

So the cops kill the miners but the co-workers get arrested while none of the cops get charged with anything at all. And so all 270 of them are getting tried for fucking murder. Mind blown.

 

[909]

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I don't recommend you watch the video but to get the full story of how those people were killed you need to watch the video. They started charging at the police with machetes like lunatics. The charge to the 270 people is insane though.

 

[KOAB]

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1389437/Iraq-war-vet-marine-Jose-Guerena-shot-71-times-Tucson-home-SWAT-team.html

lol the war on drugs is still going strong.

How the fuck does a veteran get shot 71 times in front of his wife and two young children when SWAT is only looking for Marijuana? Oh yeah... they didn't find even a little gram of weed... not even a burnt out joint.

71 rounds in 7 seconds... Paramedics not allowed in the house for 74 minutes... wife and children have to sit there while the most important person in their life's body is going cold... Sickening

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

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http://www.wisn.com/news/4-dead-4-injured-in-Brookfield-shooting/-/9373668/17074464/-/gdt10w/-/index.html

Could go in the Wisconsin thread too. 4 dead including the shooter at a spa.

 

[Dobbs3K]

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We had a few people over at our house watching the Packers game and a friend of ours said he used to work with the shooter. Creepy.

 

[vivisectvi]

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I guess we missed this one. Apparently they're trying to link it to video games and movies/TV, of cooooourse!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2229096/Dmitry-Vinogradov-Shoots-dead-people-ex-girlfriend-work-Moscow.html

Lawyer slaughters five of his colleagues as his ex-girlfriend watched after she dumped him
Dmitry Vinogradov shot dead three men and two women, injured two others including ex-girlfriend Anya Kaznikova
He attacked work colleagues in front of ex-girlfriend who also worked there
Ms Kaznikova had ended their relationship 10 months earlier
He posted a hate-filled manifesto online hours before the attack

Full-text behind the spoiler..

Spoiler

Ex-girlfriend Anya Kaznikova, 26, witnessed part of his sickening killing spree but was not wounded during the attack, it was reported, contradicting earlier reports in the Russian media that she had been shot.
All the dead victims were shot in the head at a Moscow pharmacy company where he worked.

Among his victims were her finance department colleagues who, he claimed, advised her to end their relationship.

A former World Wildlife Foundation volunteer who saved seagulls from an oil slick in 2010, he was finally overpowered by workers and security men after he ran out of bullets, and armed police arrived to arrest him at the scene of his murderous attack.

Police sources claimed the motive for his killing spree was being spurned by Ms Kaznikova, but his sinister manifesto, posted at 4.56am, drew immediate comparisons with Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik, who shot dead 69 people at a camp last year.
Police say Vinogradov came to the Rigla plant at Chermyanskaya Street, Moscow, where his ex-girlfriend worked, at 9am and was allowed in as a lawyer for the company.

Rifle and 200 bullets: He confessed: 'I came into the office where Anya worked and said "Hello, colleagues"... she saw how I began to shoot all of them'

The killer then went to the toilet where he changed into army fatigues and went out into the depot with a Saiga hunting rifle and an Italian-made Benelli shotgun.

He gunned down two men on the stairs before going into his ex-girlfriend's office where he shot his other victims.

In a chilling confession, he later told police: ‘We were dating for a long time but in January this year we split up.

‘I tried to get her back but failed. In March I bought a rifle and 200 bullets and a uniform.
‘My colleagues are to blame - they advised Anya to split with me.

‘I came into the office where Anya worked and said: “Hello, colleagues”, and she saw how I began to shoot all of them.

‘I wanted them to see how strong I was and then I planned to kill myself.’

His male victims were named as Alexander Biryuk, Andrei Tertiakov and Denis Moiseev, all 33, and the women were Elena Lapshina and Natalia Plekhanova, both 25.

Yaroslava Sergenyuk, 24, was struck by a bullet to her chest which pierced her lung, and another which damaged her nose. She was rushed to hospital by helicopter and is fighting for her life.

Nikita Strelnikov, 29, suffered bullet wounds to his lung, liver, stomach and both legs after acting as a human shield seeking to prevent bullets striking the women.

Ms Kaznikova said after the attack: 'We started dating in summer last year. He made me little sweet presents, took me to the cinema but he was too romantic for me, we never got too close.

'We finally split up in winter when he started being angry. He was really jealous. In January he sent me a text message and blamed me for making him feel angry. He also called me rude names.'

She did not speak about the shooting, though newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda said she was in her office during the horrific killings.

Vinogradov’s mother Elena Vinogradova revealed on Wednesday that the couple had rowed before breaking up over a romantic trip he had booked to take her to Scotland.

She said: ‘He quarrelled with that girl Anya from finance department. He is from the law department.
'I understand it that his shooting was in the finance department. It is likely that they mocked him somehow.

‘Before they split up, he bought her a trip to Edinburgh, ordered everything, paid for it all, and some two days before it she said: “I'm not going”.

'He was in a horrible depression after that.’

He had been on medication to cope with his depression but had not taken it the day before the shooting.
Ms Vinogradova said: ‘He was absolutely quiet yesterday,’ adding she had tried to discourage his interest in shooting.

In his manifesto posted on a Russian social site which also included racist images, Vinogradov declared: ‘I hate human society and I am disgusted to be a part of it! I hate the senselessness of human life! I hate this very life! I see only one way to justify it: to destroy as many parts of the human compost as possible.
‘This is the only right thing which everyone of us can do in his life, it is the only way to justify it, the only way to make this world better.

‘The way of surviving and self-perfection of a man is a mistake, it leads to a dead end, to destroying of all the rest, of all what is really alive.

‘Evolve! Become aware of your real meaning and place in this world! Understand that you are aliens here, you are the genetic rubbish which should not be here, rubbish which appeared accidentally, as a result of a mistake in evolution, rubbish which must be destroyed.’

One image carried the slogan 'End Racism Kill Everyone', featuring a black child with a gun.
He described his views as ‘ultra-conservative’ and also said on his site that the ‘main thing in life’ was ‘making the world better’.

He listed shooting as an interest and is believed to have legally owned the firearms he used.

One of his favourite films was listed as Natural Born Killers.
He hated television, describing it as the ‘sewage of human intellect’. His favourite quote is listed as ‘hope is the worst evil because it prolongs human suffering’ by Friedrich Nietzsche.
A police statement said: ‘Three men and two young women sitting at their desks died on the spot.
‘One more man and another young woman were wounded, they are receiving medical help.’
A source said: ‘He told investigators that he had fallen in love with a girl who was a pharmacist, but his feelings were not reciprocated.
‘Because of that he drank for five days and today he came in and opened fire.’
Another source said he would undergo psychological assessment. He said: ‘He is of course not Breivik but the analogy suggests itself.’
He graduated in 2009 from the Academic Law University in Moscow and worked as a company lawyer for the Rigla chain of pharmacies.

Gotta say, he was definitely aiming high with this chick...

 

[snuffbox]

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Video games nothin', this is the end result of communist socialist nazi democrat marxist progressive hippie terrorrism.

 

[2GOLD]

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He waited 10 months? Dude if you are going to do it, at least go the distance and make it a year. That's how you get a movie!

 

[BruiserBrody]

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http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/12/14/22-kids-1-adult-injured-in-knife-attack-outside-chinese-school/

 

[Edwin]

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Ineligible act of violence downfield, since no one died. Remains second down.

 

[Agent of Oblivion]

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Clipping