*This is not a absolutely complete list, which would be an almost impossible endeavor to undertake, but is the most complete list on this subject that has ever been produced *The "..." are only to indicate that which is an excerpt from a much larger text, which has been removed for ease. This can be modified if so desired. *When possible, mainstream media and/or wikipedia articles have been utilized, and when not, lesser known media organizations, and when not, any source at all *When I had to choose between retaining one of their birth names, or using their more widely known legally changed names, I have decided to go for the former, which can be modified if so desired *This list is composed all of such attackers that commit short scale attacks, relatively speaking, while spree killers and/or serial killers that span a larger time period, have been excluded *There may be slight errors in a couple of the alphabetical order, which I have tried to minimize as much as possible. Please alert me to any of them. *When a foreign, non-English name contains more than five separate words, I cannot guarantee which part of that name is the beginning of their surname, so, admittedly, I just tried my luck. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Salman Ramadan Abedi 23 Killed – 1,017 Wounded Manchester bomber was rescued from Libya by Royal Navy https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/31/uk/manchester-bomber-royal-navy-intl/index.html London (CNN)The Manchester suicide bomber who killed 22 people at an Ariana Grande concert in May 2017 had been rescued from the civil war in Libya by Britain's Royal Navy just three years earlier. Salman Abedi, who was born in Manchester, was 19 when he was evacuated from the Libyan capital of Tripoli by HMS Enterprise in August 2014, along with his younger brother Hashem and more than 100 other British citizens. The ship took the passengers to Malta where they boarded a flight to the UK. In a statement a British government spokesperson confirmed the rescue: "During the deteriorating security situation in Libya in 2014, Border Force officials were deployed to assist with the evacuation of British nationals and their dependents." The government at the time advised British nationals to leave Libya as a result of heavy violence in Tripoli and large-scale military offensives against Islamist groups, the statement added. Abedi was being monitored by British security services when he traveled to Libya but his case was closed a month before he was rescued. It was later revealed that the former business and management student had been back in Libya for three weeks before carrying out the attack, returning to the UK just days before he walked into the Manchester Arena where he detonated a bomb that killed parents and children as they left the pop concert. A review into the Manchester attack concluded that the decision to close Abedi's case as a "subject of interest" was sound, based on the information available to British security services at the time. Abedi grew up in Manchester with parents who had fled Libya under the late Moammar Gadhafi. His father, Ramadan, had returned to Libya in 2011 after rebels overthrew the government. Ramadan Abedi's wife joined him in early 2017. Hashem Abedi, Salman's brother, is currently being held in prison in Libya by a militia group, though the British government has requested his extradition to face trial for alleged involvement in the attack. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab ("Umar Abdul Mutallab", "Omar Farooq al-Nigeri", "Underwear Bomber", "Christmas Bomber") 0 Killed – 3 Wounded (including perpetrator) Umaru Mutallab https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umaru_Mutallab Alhaji Umaru Abdul Mutallab (born 15 December 1939) is a Nigerian businessman and financier, who served under the military government of General Murtala Mohammed and Olusegun Obasanjo. Mutallab was described by The New York Times as "among Nigeria's richest and most prominent men",[1] by The Telegraph as being "one of Nigeria's most prominent bankers",[2] and by The Guardian as being "one of the country's most respected businessmen".[3] His son, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (the Christmas bomber) attempted to detonate plastic explosives aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on 25 December 2009 and is currently serving four life term sentences plus 50 years without parole at ADX Florence, a supermax federal prison in the United States. Jim David Adkisson 2 killed – 7 wounded The perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoxville_Unitarian_Universalist_church_shooting#The_perpetrator Jim David Adkisson (born June 25, 1950)[7] was a former private in the United States Army from 1974 to 1977. After his arrest, he said that he was motivated by hatred of Democrats, liberals, African Americans and homosexuals.[8][9][10] According to an affidavit by one of the officers who interviewed Adkisson on July 27, 2008:[11] During the interview Adkisson stated that he had targeted the church because of its liberal teachings and his belief that all liberals should be killed because they were ruining the country, and that he felt that the Democrats had tied his country's hands in the war on terror and they had ruined every institution in America with the aid of major media outlets. Adkisson made statements that because he could not get to the leaders of the liberal movement that he would then target those that had voted them into office. Adkisson stated that he had held these beliefs for about the last ten years. Additionally, one of Adkisson's former wives had been a member (in the 1990s) of the church where the attack occurred.[12] Adkisson's manifesto[13] also cited the inability to find a job. His manifesto stated that he intended to keep shooting until police arrived and expected to be killed by police. Adkisson had a waist satchel with more ammunition, totaling 76 shells of #4 shot. In his manifesto, Adkisson also included the Democratic members of the House and Senate,[13] and the 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America[13] of Bernard Goldberg in his list of wished-for targets. David Neiwert has written that anger over Barack Obama's candidacy was also a factor as Adkisson had written "I'm protesting the DNC running such a radical leftist candidate. Osama Hussein Obama, yo mama" comparing candidate Obama to the fictional chimp Curious George. He complained about inter-racial couples: "How is a white woman having a niger [sic] baby progress?"[4] Kafeel Ahmed 1 killed (including perpertrator) – 10 wounded Biography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kafeel_Ahmed#Biography According to police sources, Ahmed was an engineer pursuing a PhD in computational fluid dynamics at Anglia Ruskin University, in the UK, on the topic of "Computational Approach to Ink-jet Printing of Tactile Maps." He would have earned a bachelor of mechanical engineering from India, and an M.Phil. degree in aeronautical engineering from Queen's University Belfast.[8] As an aeronautics engineer, Ahmed worked from December 2005 to August 2006 for Infotech, an Indian outsourcing company servicing clients such as Airbus and Boeing, before resigning abruptly.[9] It is possible that he had access to sensitive design information about various aviation companies.[10] He was often mistakenly referred to as a medical doctor in news reports following the terrorist incidents.[11] Hasan Akbar 2 Killed Hasan Akbar https://murderpedia.org/male.A/a/akbar-hasan.htm Sergeant Hasan Akbar (born Mark Fidel Kools, about 1971) was a U.S. Army soldier convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of two fellow soldiers during the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. Upbringing Akbar was born in the United States and studied at the University of California, Davis taking a double major in aeronautical and mechanical engineering, and graduating with a bachelor's degree. After joining the United States Army, he was assigned to the 326th Engineer Battalion of the 101st Airborne, and was eventually deployed to Kuwait. Edward Charles Allaway 7 Killed – 2 Wounded Enough Is Enough: A Student Affairs Perspective on Preparedness and Response to a Campus Shooting https://books.google.bg/books?id=CB9eWO-Zj4kC&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=California+State+University,+Fullerton,+massacre+%09Edward+Charles+Allaway+marine&source=bl&ots=9_JEGBIBL0&sig=ACfU3U35iN6y3cElybNpM2_mFHenX9_LgQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiT-8uQ-fD0AhW_QvEDHdpLD0wQ6AF6BAgfEAM#v=onepage&q=California%20State%20University%2C%20Fullerton%2C%20massacre%20%09Edward%20Charles%20Allaway%20marine&f=false In 1976 at California State University at Fullerton, a custodian and former Marine, Edward Charles Allaway, opened fire with his .22 semiautomatic rifle in the school's film department, killing seven faculty/staff members who held diverse positions and wounding two others. He was motivated by the delusional belief that staff members in that department were compelling his estranged wife to peform as a sex slave in pornographic movies (Hardesty, 2006). Aaron Alexis 13 killed – 8 wounded Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Navy_Yard_shooting#Perpetrator Alexis was born May 9, 1979[26] in the New York City borough of Queens. He grew up in Brooklyn and was a resident of Fort Worth, Texas.[27] He joined the Navy in May 2007[10] and served in Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 46 at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth.[28] His rating was aviation electrician's mate, and he had attained the rank of petty officer third class when he was honorably discharged from the Navy on January 31, 2011, although the Navy originally intended for him to receive a general discharge.[29] According to a Navy official, Alexis was cited on at least eight occasions for misconduct.[30] In 2010, he was arrested in Fort Worth for discharging a weapon within city limits.[31][32] He was also arrested in 2004 in Seattle, Washington for malicious mischief after shooting out the tires of another man's vehicle in what he described as an anger-fueled "blackout",[26][33][34] and for disorderly conduct in 2008 in DeKalb County, Georgia.[35] None of his arrests led to prosecution.[36] Professional work https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Navy_Yard_shooting#Professional_work Alexis received a secret-level security clearance in March 2008 that was valid for ten years. Following the Navy Yard shooting, it was found that the federal personnel report, which led to the clearance's approval, did not mention that his 2004 arrest had involved a firearm. Alexis said on his clearance application that he had never been charged with a felony and that he had not been arrested in the last seven years; the personnel report said that he had given these answers because the 2004 charge had been dismissed.[37][38] This security clearance investigation was conducted by USIS, the same contractor that had vetted Edward Snowden. The Department of Justice has filed fraud charges against USIS in a whistleblower case filed as United States of America ex rel. Blake Percival vs USIS.[39][40] Alexis worked in Japan from September 2012 to January 2013 on the Navy Marine Corps Intranet network for an HP Enterprise Services sub-contracting company called The Experts.[41] After returning from Japan, he expressed frustration to a former roommate that he had not been paid properly for the work that he performed.[28][41] Another roommate said that he would frequently complain about being the victim of discrimination.[42][43] In July 2013, he resumed working for The Experts in the United States.[41] Alexis was working on a bachelor's degree in aeronautics from Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University, Worldwide.[44] He was Buddhist.[45][46][47] Mental health issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Navy_Yard_shooting#Mental_health_issues After the Navy Yard shooting, the media speculated that Alexis had appeared to be suffering from mental illness. The media reported that Alexis had filed a police report in Rhode Island on August 2, 2013. He claimed to be the victim of harassment and that he was hearing voices in his head.[48] According to an FBI official after the shooting, Alexis was under the "belief that he was being controlled or influenced by extremely low-frequency electromagnetic waves". A message later obtained by federal authorities from Alexis's personal computing devices said, "Ultra low frequency attack is what I've been subject to for the last 3 months. And to be perfectly honest, that is what has driven me to this."[49] On August 4, 2013, naval police were called to Alexis's hotel at Naval Station Newport and found that he had "taken apart his bed, believing someone was hiding under it, and observed that Alexis had taped a microphone to the ceiling to record the voices of people that were following him". At the time of the incident, he was working for the contractor at the base.[50] On August 23, Alexis showed up at a Providence, Rhode Island, emergency room complaining of insomnia. He was prescribed 50 milligrams of trazodone, a serotonin antagonist and reuptake inhibitor antidepressant.[51] Five days later, he sought treatment for insomnia in the emergency room of a VA medical center in Washington, D.C. where he told doctors he was not depressed and was not thinking of harming others. He was given ten more tablets of trazodone.[52] Prior to the shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Navy_Yard_shooting#Prior_to_the_shooting At the time of the shooting, Alexis had been working for a subcontractor on a Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services contract supporting a Navy-Marine Corps (NMCI) computer network.[15] Alexis arrived in the Washington, D.C., area on or around August 25, 2013, and stayed at various hotels to escape the voices. At the time of the massacre, he had been staying with five other civilian contractors at the Residence Inn hotel he booked into in southwest Washington D.C. since September 7.[15][53] On Saturday, September 14, two days before the massacre, Alexis visited the Sharpshooters Small Arms Range in Lorton, Virginia, 15 miles (24 km) south of Washington. He tested an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle but did not seek to buy it, a lawyer for the store said. After testing the rifle, Alexis inquired about buying a handgun at the store, but was told federal law does not allow dealers to sell such guns directly to out-of-state customers. Alexis instead purchased a Remington 870 Express Tactical 12-gauge shotgun and two boxes of shells, after passing a state and federal background check.[54][55][56][57][58] Before the shooting, Alexis sawed off the shotgun and scratched the phrases "Better off this way!", "My ELF weapon!", "Not what yall say!", and "End to the torment!" onto the gun's receiver.[59] William Andrews 3 Killed – 2 Wounded Hi-Fi murders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-Fi_murders ... Police only had enough evidence to convict three enlisted United States Air Force airmen: Dale Selby Pierre, William Andrews, and Keith Roberts.[4] Pierre and Andrews were both sentenced to death and executed for murder and aggravated robbery, while Roberts, who had remained in a getaway vehicle, was convicted of robbery. .... Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani 4 killed (including perpetrator) – 8 wounded Background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_Pensacola_shooting#Background Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, a second lieutenant in the Royal Saudi Air Force, was participating in a training program sponsored by the Pentagon as part of a security cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia.[15] A Department of Defense official said more than 850 Saudi nationals are in the U.S. participating in the training program, which includes English, basic aviation, and initial pilot training.[10] Saudi Arabia is one of many countries allied to the United States that send members of their military to the naval station for training.[9] At the time of the shooting, the program hosted 5,180 students from 153 countries, including the perpetrator.[16] Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_Pensacola_shooting#Perpetrator The FBI identified the gunman as Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, 21, a second lieutenant in the Royal Saudi Air Force, and said he was the sole shooter.[19] He was participating in aviation training at the station.[17][28][29] His training with the program began in August 2017 and was scheduled to conclude in August 2020, and included initial pilot training, basic aviation, and English-language instruction.[30] SITE Intelligence Group said that someone who may have been Alshamrani posted a justification of the planned attack on Twitter before the shooting. The post referred to U.S. wars in Muslim countries, wrote of his hatred for the American people, criticized the U.S. government's support of Israel, and quoted Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki.[31][32] Prior to the shooting, Alshamrani had hosted a dinner party at which he and three other Saudi Arabian students had watched videos of other U.S. mass shootings.[24] David Nathaniel Anderson 6 killed (including perpetrators) – 3 wounded Suspect in Jersey City Linked to Black Hebrew Israelite Group https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/11/nyregion/jersey-city-shooting.html The assailants were identified as David N. Anderson, 47, and his girlfriend, Francine Graham, 50. Mr. Anderson, a four-year veteran of the Army reserve, had spent more than a year in jail in New Jersey after pleading guilty to a weapons charge from more than a decade ago, according to court records. Ex-wife of NJ shooter says earlier life showed no signs of later violence and extremism https://edition.cnn.com/2019/12/12/us/ex-wife-nj-shooter-david-anderson-invs/index.html A 41-year-old woman named Kathleen had just backed her car into the garage after doing a little Christmas shopping in Atlanta on Wednesday when a man approached her in the driveway and introduced himself as an FBI agent. A whistleblower holding an envelope. He wanted to talk with Kathleen about an individual she hadn't spoken with since 2003: her ex-husband, David Anderson, the suspected 47-year-old gunman in a deadly shooting on Tuesday that authorities believe targeted Jewish people in a kosher supermarket in Jersey City, New Jersey. Kathleen, who asked that her last name not be used out of concern for her safety, said this came as a shock. "That was not the David I knew," she told CNN, speaking by phone Wednesday evening. Kathleen said the David Anderson she married in 2000 was outgoing, attentive and funny — not the David Anderson who, along with 50-year-old accomplice Francine Graham, killed four people and wounded a bystander in the hours-long firefight, according to police. Anderson and Graham were killed in the gun battle. At a news conference Thursday, New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal told reporters that both Anderson and Graham expressed interest in the Black Hebrew Israelites movement, but authorities have not found any definitive formal links between them and that organization or other groups. Authorities believe the shooters acted on their own, but were motivated by hate, and are investigating the crime as an act of domestic terrorism. Who are the Black Hebrew Israelites? "Based on what we have collected so far however, including based on recent witness interviews, we believe that the suspects held views that reflected hatred of the Jewish people, as well as a hatred of law enforcement," Grewal said. Kathleen and Anderson met while stationed together in Germany with the US Army. Her description of their time together is remarkable for its normalcy — a stark contrast from the violence and criminal activity that characterized his later years. https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/12/12/jersey-city-shooter-david-anderson-had-lengthy-criminal-history/4414579002/ Cedric Charles Anderson 3 killed (1 including perpetrator) – 1 wounded Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Park_Elementary_School_shooting#Perpetrator Cedric Anderson (1963 – April 10, 2017), a resident of Riverside,[15] was identified as the perpetrator. He was in a four-year-long relationship with Karen Elaine Smith, the slain teacher, but the two were only married from January to March.[16] Their marriage ended by separation.[32] At the time of the shooting, he was unemployed and attempting to start his own business.[2] He had a criminal history of weapons charges, accusations of domestic violence, and drug charges spanning from 1982 to 2013, but no convictions ever resulted from those arrests.[2][32] These charges predated his marriage to Smith.[33] Before meeting Smith, Anderson lived around Atlanta, Georgia; Las Vegas, Nevada; and other cities in Southern California. In the late 1990s or early 2000s, he participated in an exposé by Las Vegas NBC affiliate KSNV on housing fees at Nellis Air Force Base. The report said that Anderson had been in the U.S. Navy for eight years and was married to a nineteen-year Air Force veteran who had been deployed to Pakistan. Cedric Anderson served in the U.S. Navy, completing RTC in San Diego in November 1983, company 153. After boot camp he became a hull technician. Anderson went on to post a video of the exposé on YouTube.[34] Domestic troubles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Park_Elementary_School_shooting#Domestic_troubles Larry Gene Ashbrook 8 killed (including perpetrator) – 7 wounded DEATHS IN A CHURCH: THE OVERVIEW; An Angry Mystery Man Who Brought Death https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/17/us/deaths-in-a-church-the-overview-an-angry-mystery-man-who-brought-death.html The man who walked into the Wedgwood Baptist Church here on Wednesday did not look like he belonged to the congregation. No one knew what this man in blue jeans and a black leather jacket, Larry Gene Ashbrook, might want. People would later learn that he was a jobless loner, an ex-sailor prone to foul moods and feared by several of his neighbors. But at that moment, the only thing that seemed strange was that he was smoking a cigarette in church. A janitor approached him about the cigarette, and the authorities say Mr. Ashbrook shot him. He shot a woman sitting nearby in the head. And then he followed the sounds of music and voices into the main sanctuary, where hundreds of teen-agers had gathered for a contemporary Christian music concert. He walked inside and began firing. ''People were crying,'' said Bob Bollinger, a Sunday school director. ''They didn't understand it. They were in shock.'' By the time the night was over, seven people were killed, three of them teen-agers, and Mr. Ashbrook became the eighth fatality when he turned the gun on himself. Seven other people were wounded, two of whom remained in critical condition today. As investigators gathered evidence about Mr. Ashbrook's rampage and local officials sought to comfort a grieving city today, the gunman emerged as an angry, desperate man who apparently had called two local newspapers in recent months to fantasize about serial killers. To a large degree, Mr. Ashbrook remains a puzzle to investigators. At least publicly, Acting Police Chief Ralph Mendoza of Fort Worth and other officials said they were not certain of his motives. But he had apparently called The Fort Worth Star-Telegram and an alternative newspaper, The FW Weekly, in recent months. In an angry, rambling discourse, Mr. Ashbrook told a reporter at The FW Weekly that he fantasized about serial killers, particularly Ricky Lee Green, a mass murderer who was from Fort Worth and was executed in 1997 for four killings in Texas and was linked to at least eight other deaths. Mr. Ashbrook lived in a modest brick ranch house in Forest Hills, a lower-middle-class bedroom community in southeast Fort Worth, about seven miles from the church. At 47, Mr. Ashbrook was the youngest of five children and lived at home with his father, Jack, until he died two months ago. His father had retired after 35 years as a switchman for the Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad, and had been a fixture at the Pleasant Ridge Church of Christ for 40 years. Neighbors said the suspect had been close to his mother, Ethel Muriel Ashbrook, who died in 1990 after a period as an invalid. Chief Mendoza said Mr. Ashbrook screamed insults about ''the Baptist religion'' during the shooting, but investigators had not yet discerned his motives. Mr. Ashbrook did not leave a suicide note or any written evidence of his intentions, the chief said. Mr. Ashbrook lived several miles from Wedgwood Baptist, and members of the church had no idea why he chose them as a target. ''He was saying, 'Your religion is nothing, it's not worth anything, it means nothing,' '' said Mary Beth Talley, 17, who was wounded. This morning, local police officers and agents of the F.B.I. and the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms searched the house Mr. Ashbrook had shared with his late parents, and uncovered the raw materials for a pipe bomb. Chief Mendoza said Mr. Ashbrook threw a pipe bomb to the front of the sanctuary during his attack. Officers also found at the house what Chief Mendoza called ''ledgers'' or ''journals.'' Chief Mendoza said: ''These were things sometimes that were written possibly as far back as the 1980's and are complaints. He's complaining about people. He's complaining about his job. He believes people are out to get him.'' Chief Mendoza also said the house where Mr. Ashbrook lived was ''in total disarray.'' When investigators went there they found ''the walls had been destroyed in several of the rooms, by someone having used what we suspect is a crowbar and a shovel.'' The toilets had been broken and cement had been poured in them. As details from the shootings emerged, church members told of acts of heroism. As Mr. Ashbrook sprayed bullets, teen-agers ducked for cover in the pews. But Heather McDonald, a young woman with Down's Syndrome, remained sitting upright, apparently confused. Ms. Talley shielded the girl with her body as the gunman fired and hit her. ''I just kept saying to Heather, 'You've got to be quiet and stay down with me,' '' Ms. Talley said yesterday. Even after she was shot, Ms. Talley kept comforting her friend. ''I just wanted to make sure she was calm.'' In Washington, President Clinton denounced the attack and offered the nation's sympathy to the victims, their families and the people of Fort Worth. ''Yet again, we have seen a sanctuary violated by gun violence, taking children brimming with faith and promise and hope, before their time,'' Mr. Clinton said. Gov. George W. Bush, the Republican Presidential front-runner, canceled campaign appearances in Michigan and went to the hospital in Fort Worth to comfort the families of the victims. Even as people expressed horror that such a attack could happen in a house of worship, Mayor Kenneth Barr of Fort Worth alluded to the recent series of mass shootings across the country, notably the high school attack in Littleton, Colo. ''Fort Worth isn't the first place to have this kind of tragedy,'' Mayor Barr said. ''My great fear is it won't be the last.'' S. M. Gillette, a church member, was watching television in his nearby home when he noticed his dog, Jake, standing atop a chest and barking furiously at the window. Mr. Gillette, an off-duty Forth Worth police officer, saw people streaming out of the church. He radioed for police help, grabbed his service revolver and rushed inside the front door with a uniformed officer who had just arrived. Mr. Gillette said he ran toward the gunshots and arrived just after Mr. Ashbrook shot himself as he sat in a back pew of the church. Investigators said Mr. Ashbrook used semiautomatic handguns, a 9-millimeter Ruger and .380-caliber AMT. He fired at least 30 shots, and officers found 10 Ruger ammunition clips in his pockets and near his body. He bought both guns in February 1992 from licensed firearms dealers in a flea market operation called Trader's Village, just outside Forth Worth, investigators said. Fearing that Mr. Ashbrook may have had more than one pipe bomb at the church, investigators sent in robotic bomb sweeping equipment in the hours after the attack. No other explosives were found, and the bodies of the victims were removed from the sanctuary early this morning, about five hours after the attack. Chief Mendoza said Mr. Ashbrook had apparently never been treated for any mental illness nor sought any such help. His police record shows only one arrest, a 1971 conviction for possession of marijuana. But neighbors said he was given to extremes. ''You could never tell what kind of mood swing he was in, so I kept away from him,'' said Venita Hord, 50, who lived across the street. ''I never did trust him.'' Two years ago, as Mrs. Hord and another neighbor sat in her yard, Mr. Ashbrook pulled up and saw them laughing. Apparently thinking they were laughing at him, he slammed his car door shut and unzipped his pants, exposing himself. Mrs. Hord said she had not spoken to him since, even though she saw him almost every day. Records show that Mr. Ashbrook had a spotty education record and was in and out of the United States Navy. He enrolled in Tarrant County College in 1971, when he was 19, taking classes in remedial English, creative design, math, guitar and physical education. He served at least two stints in the Navy, the second from 1977 to 1983, said a spokesman for the Department of Veterans Affairs in Dallas. In the Navy, he was a sonar operator on a P-3 Orion plane that tracks and destroys enemy submarines. Neighbors said he rarely spoke to anyone. Mrs. Hord said she knew when he was home because he always slammed doors shut and often kicked them open. She said she could hear the noise across the street. Other neighbors often heard him arguing with his father, sometimes over borrowing his car. ''You never knew what his attitude would be,'' said Janet Gabhardt, 28, another neighbor. Asked if she was shocked that Mr. Ashbrook had become violent, she said, ''I wasn't shocked, I wasn't shocked at all.'' James Branum, who grew up a block away and last saw Mr. Ashbrook six months ago, said: ''Larry had turned weird. He was always strange to me a little bit.'' Mr. Branum and others said Mr. Ashbrook never held a steady job. ''He wouldn't work,'' Mr. Branum said. ''When his daddy died he got the house because nobody was left, but he couldn't pay for it. I guess he figured everything was so bad he took his own life. It's so sad with all these kids.'' A neighbor, Clifford Stewart, said Mr. Ashbrook's relationship with his elderly father had seemed explosive in recent years and the two had clashed publicly a year ago. ''His father accused him of something; he called his father a liar,'' Mr. Stewart said. ''He clenched his fists and let out a tirade of profanity and screamed at his father.'' Another neighbor, Patricia Wright, said the younger man often pushed his father around. ''When his father would pull up he would pull him and push him out of the way and take the car.'' On Wednesday night, the sanctuary at Wedgwood Baptist was filled with teen-agers from several area churches who had gathered to celebrate ''See You at the Pole,'' a national movement to affirm the Christian faith of schoolchildren. The police said Mr. Ashbrook paced back and forth in the back of the sanctuary, firing several times into the congregation. He reloaded two or three times, then lit the fuse to his pipe bomb and tossed it to the front of the church. The bomb exploded, sending shrapnel into the walls and floor, but Chief Mendoza said it caused little damage. Just as Mr. Gillette, the off-duty officer, and the uniformed officer rushed into the sanctuary, Mr. Ashbrook pointed the Ruger at his own head and pulled the trigger. Asked if the shooting had shaken his religious faith, Mr. Gillette answered, ''If it affects your faith, you have no faith.'' At least two prayer services were held today, and Mr. Gillette said the church planned to hold two services at the sanctuary on Sunday. ''We are grieving as a city and a state and as a nation,'' Mayor Barr said. ''We are going to have to grieve. But we are not going to let a senseless act of violence define this city.'' One of the last people who apparently saw Mr. Ashbrook before he drove to the church was a neighbor, Matthew White. Mr. White said he had been praying earlier in the day and felt a calling from God to take Mr. Ashbrook to church. He said he did not know Mr. Ashbrook and had never spoken to him, but regarded him as lonely and desperate. ''It was such a strong thought I said I was going to do it,'' he said. But Mr. White saw Mr. Ashbrook in his car early Wednesday evening and assumed that ''I'd missed the opportunity.'' As Mr. White and his wife drove to church, he said he kept thinking about Mr. Ashbrook. Mr. White, who is black, thought Mr. Ashbrook might be uncomfortable in his church. ''I was thinking, 'I wonder what church could I send him to?' '' Mark Wesley Bailey 2 Killed – 0 Wounded HAMPTON MAN FACES EXECUTION https://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-xpm-20040722-2004-07-22-0407220123-story.html HAMPTON — A clemency petition before Gov. Warner is the last chance to spare the Navy machinist's life. Hours after shooting his wife and 2-year-old son to death, Navy machinist mate Mark Bailey sat at his desk pretending to work. He brewed coffee that morning, chitchatted with co-workers and thought about how he would cover up the murder of his family. That morning, police discovered Katherine "Katie" Bailey, Mark's 22- year-old wife, in the couple's bed with three gunshot wounds to the head. His son, Nathan, was found in the bedroom next door, also shot in the head. The toddler had been climbing out of his crib when he was shot. Bailey, a Gulf War veteran, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at 9 tonight inside the Greensville Correctional Center. A final appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court was denied Wednesday. The 34- year-old, convicted of both murders in 1999, has one last chance, a clemency petition being considered by Gov. Mark Warner. In the last few weeks, family members, mental health advocates and a Gulf War veterans group have sent letters to the governor, asking for Bailey's life to be spared. His lawyers argued that undiagnosed mental problems caused Bailey to kill his wife, who was his first cousin, once removed. Supporters say if his mental illness had been treated, Bailey might not have killed his family. But some don't buy that argument and neither did the jury, said Hampton Commonwealth's Attorney Linda Curtis, who prosecuted the case. Curtis said Bailey's Grimes Road home was the worst crime scene she has ever seen. "The image is burned in my mind and I'm not sure I'll ever be able to lose it," Curtis said. "There's this image of a child laying on his bed with a pacifier in his mouth, in his footie pajamas, in that child's pose clutching his blanket ... with a bullet hole in the back of his head." Bailey began planning his wife's death days before the murders, according to trial testimony. He told co-workers that his wife had been receiving threatening notes. He had borrowed the .22 caliber pistol used in the shooting from a friend, and had bought the bullets at a discount store weeks earlier. Bailey's four-year marriage had begun to fall apart and he was convinced his young wife, who had dreams of being a paramedic, was having an affair. Bailey declined a request this week for comment. But in a prison interview in 2000, Bailey said he was suicidal when he killed his wife, as he had been during other tough times in his life. The morning of the shootings, Sept. 10, 1998, Bailey said, he slipped out of bed, put the gun to his head but couldn't pull the trigger. About 4:25 a.m. he went to his bedroom and shot his wife three times in the back of her head as she slept. "I was numb," Bailey said. "Looking back on it, it seems like my mind was a total blank. I guess I just went into shock." When he heard his 2-year-old son wake up in the room next door, Bailey said panic set in. He said he didn't want his son to see his mother's bullet-riddled body, so he shot him twice in the head. Bailey said he tried to kill himself again after the shootings, but couldn't. So he hatched a plan to cover up the murders, cutting a phone line and slicing a window screen. He cleaned up, went to work and told his boss he'd received a threatening phone call concerning his wife's safety. Bailey's boss called the police. Almost immediately after finding the bodies, police decided there hadn't been a break-in. After several hours of questioning, Bailey confessed to killing his family. Neither Mark nor Katie's immediate families had ever supported the decision for the cousins to get married. When they announced that they planned to marry, an emergency meeting was put together to talk them out of it. "But they were determined," Katherine Logan, Katie's mom said in a 2000 interview. "They told us, once she turned 18, there was nothing we could do to stop them." At the July 1999 trial, the once close-knit extended family sat on opposite sides of the courtroom. Witnesses testified Bailey had been raped on two occasions and had attempted suicide several times. A clinical psychologist testified that Bailey suffered from "an extreme mental state with a borderline personality disorder." The psychologist also testified that Bailey was impulsive and that people with such illnesses often end up sabotaging their own relationships. The trial also unearthed secrets about the Baileys' marriage. He and his twin brother had swapped wives while on vacation in Florida, according to testimony. Bailey said he became upset after the birth of his child because his wife seemed to only have time for their son. She had begun waiting tables, and would arrive home late in the night, arousing his suspicion. He started to believe that his marriage was ending, and he became severely depressed, he said. But his mental health diagnosis didn't sway the jury. "I did not believe it was significant nor did the jury," said Curtis who sought the death penalty against Bailey for both murders. The jury sentenced him to death for his son's murder and to life in prison for the shooting of his wife. Nathan's killing fell under a statute that mandates a capital murder charge when the victim is under 14 and the killer is 21 or older. After the trial, Logan rejoiced in hearing the verdict. "I never cared what the sentence was, whether he got death, or life," she said right after the trial. "As long as we got a verdict of guilty. For the world to know that he did what he did." The saga didn't end at the trial. Months after his conviction, Bailey's parents and Logan filed lawsuits in federal court about the proceeds of a $125,000 life insurance policy on Katie. Bailey's mother, Bonnie, was the second beneficiary -- the person who would receive the money in the event the primary spouse could not receive it. Virginia's so-called slayer laws prevent the person who caused someone's death to benefit from their insurance policy. Bonnie Bailey wanted to use the money to pay for a lawyer to represent her son in the appeals process. Logan was outraged. By the fall of 2000, the cases were settled in mediation, with the policy proceeds split between Logan and Bailey's parents, said John Bane, the Hampton attorney who represented Logan in the lawsuit. The judge didn't stipulate how the money could be used, which would have allowed Bonnie Bailey to spend the money on her son. It's unclear what she did with the money. She could not be reached for comment. In recent weeks, family members and others have been making last minute pleas to save Bailey's life. Steve Robinson, the executive director of the National Gulf War Resource Center, wrote a letter to Gov. Mark Warner on behalf of Bailey. Robinson reviewed the case, looked at his medical records and saw that Bailey had been a submariner and a Gulf War veteran. He said if Bailey had gotten prior treatment for his mental illness while in the military, he may not have committed the crimes. "While his crimes are inexcusable," Robinson said, "he is about to be executed, but not all of the facts were considered." Bailey's parents have asked the governor to spare the life of their son. "What he has done was a horrible thing but it can do no good for anyone if he should be executed," they wrote in a letter. "Katie was a part of our family and is missed every day. Nathan was a much loved grandchild with the smile of a cherub. His death has left a hole in our lives." It's also changed the families -- perhaps permanently. TIMELINE OF THE CASE 1993: Mark Bailey, a Gulf War veteran, marries Katie, his teenage first cousin once removed. 1998: Bailey kills Katie, 22, and their 2-year-old son, Nathan, at their Hampton home. He confesses to the crime that day. 1999: Bailey is sentenced to death for killing his son. He receives life in prison for killing his wife. At the trial, the defense argues that Bailey was suicidal, had been raped and had been suffering from mental illness. 2000: Bailey's parents and Katie's mother file lawsuits to determine who should get Katie's $125,000 insurance policy, which sets Bailey's mother as the contingent beneficiary. 2000: Concerned that Bonnie Bailey would use the money for lawyers for her son's appeals, Katherine Logan, the victim's mother, files suit. They settled in mediation, splitting the money. * The Associated Press contributed to this report. * Stephan Balliet 2 Killed – 3 Wounded (including perpetrator) Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halle_synagogue_shooting#Perpetrator The perpetrator, a male 27-year-old German neo-Nazi, was named by the media as Stephan Balliet, who lived in an apartment in Benndorf near Eisleben.[49][9][50] He grew up in Saxony-Anhalt and learned to handle weapons during his time in the German armed forces, having done his six-month military service in a Panzergrenadier battalion as an 18-year-old. There, he was trained on the use of the HK G36 assault rifle and the HK P8 pistol. No evidence of right-wing beliefs were found in his military file.[51] He studied "molecular and structural product design" for one year at the age of 22, and after that chemistry for one year at Halle University.[51] George Emil Banks 13 Killed – 1 Wounded Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Wilkes-Barre_shootings#Perpetrator George Emil Banks was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on June 22, 1942, to John Mack, who was black, and Mary Yelland, who is white. His parents were not married. According to his attorneys at his later trial, he suffered severely from racism while he was growing up because of being mixed race.[5] In 1961 at the age of 19, after being discharged from the Army, Banks and some accomplices robbed a tavern, shooting and injuring the unarmed owner.[5] He was sentenced to six to fifteen years in prison, which was extended when he briefly escaped in 1964; however, he was granted parole in 1969 and his sentence was commuted by then Governor Milton Shapp in 1974.[7] After his release, he married Doris M. Banks, who is black, on August 23, 1969. They had two daughters together. The couple divorced in 1976. As noted by his attorney during his trial, Banks seemed to have been deeply affected by racial issues. After his divorce, he dated white women. By September 1982 he had broken up with girlfriend Sharon Mazillo, who had lived with him at one time, and they were disputing custody of their young son. He was living with three women in his house; they were mothers of four of his children, and one had another daughter living with her.[5] Despite his criminal record for an armed offense, Banks had started working as a prison guard at Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, in 1980. In 1982 Banks had told coworkers at the prison that "the world would soon be consumed by a race war" and said he wanted "to prevent the five children he fathered with the four white girlfriends from [experiencing] the torment and agony of racism".[5] He was put on "an extended leave of absence" the first week in September 1982 after a conflict with a supervisor and threatening suicide. The prison ordered Banks to be examined for mental health issues at a Harrisburg-area hospital.[5] Mark Orrin Barton 12 Killed – 13 Wounded Background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_O._Barton#Background Barton was born on April 2, 1955, in Stockbridge, Georgia, to an Air Force family, and was raised in South Carolina. Barton attended Clemson University and the University of South Carolina, where he earned a degree in chemistry despite an ongoing drug habit. Back in Atlanta, he married Debra Spivey, with whom he had two children named Matthew and Mychelle.[5] Scott Paul Beierle 3 Killed (including perpetrator) – 3 wounded Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Tallahassee_shooting#Perpetrator Scott Paul Beierle (1978 – November 2, 2018)[12] was later revealed as the perpetrator by police. According to his social media profiles on Facebook and LinkedIn, Beierle was a military veteran and former teacher for the Anne Arundel County Public School System in Maryland, teaching both English and social studies at Meade High School and being affiliated with conservative groups FSU College Republicans and We Are Conservatives.[13][14][15] Additionally, Beierle has also taught at numerous other schools as a substitute teacher, yet only briefly due to performance issues and inappropriate behavior. In one instance, Beierle was fired for an incident where he reportedly asked a female student if she was "ticklish", while touching her "below the bra line" on her stomach.[16] He had been charged twice for battery, in 2012 and 2016, where he was accused of grabbing a woman's buttocks in both situations.[17] YouTube videos posted by Beierle in 2014 showed that he identified with the involuntary celibate community while often complaining about his sexual rejections from women.[18] He also sympathized with the shooter behind the 2014 Isla Vista killings, Elliot Rodger, as he too felt lonely and unloved as well as posting misogynistic songs on SoundCloud. Other videos depicted him ranting about African-Americans, illegal immigration and interracial relationships.[19][20][21] One of the videos was named "Dangers of Diversity".[22] The FBI and the Tallahassee Police Department attested to Beierle's hatred of women, saying he was "disturbed" during the shooting. They further noted he had planned the attack months in advance.[23] The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism lists the attack as an act of misogynist terrorism.[4] Earl Russell Behringer 2 Killed – 0 Wounded Earl Russell Behringer https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b1/behringer-earl.htm ... Behringer’s lack of criminal history leaves the reasons for his actions to speculation. Looney said during Behringer’s last couple of years of high school that he became more outgoing. But Behringer may have gone through a far more significant change after graduating from high school. “When he went into the army and came out, he became infatuated with weaponry and got into the Dungeons and Dragons game,” said Looney. “It seemed to change him a lot.” ... Timur Bekmansurov 6 Killed – 48 Wounded (including perpetrator) Father of the Perm shooter fought in Donbas, - media https://112.international/politics/father-of-the-perm-shooter-fought-in-donbas-media-65139.html The father of the Perm shooter Timur Bekmansurov was a mercenary and fought in hot spots, in particular in Donbas. The neighbor of the shooter reported this, as the Znak agency reports. "Timur's father does not live with them. It seems he is somewhere in Udmurtia. I know that he earns his living by war. He worked as a mercenary since Chechen war and then fought in almost all hot spots, in particular in Donbas," the interlocutor said. The man is sure that the money for the gun, used for mass murder, was given to the shooter by his parents. "Timur has seen weapons since childhood. Several of his parents' guns are still in this apartment, and Timur learned to shoot from them," he added. ... The father of the shooter from Perm fought in the Donbass – media https://www.perild.com/2021/09/21/the-father-of-the-shooter-from-perm-fought-in-the-donbass-media/ Timur Bekmansurov’s father fought in Chechnya and then “in almost all hot spots,” said a neighbor. Timur Bekmansurov’s father, who on September 20 killed six people and wounded another 29 at Perm State University, fought in the Donbass. This was announced on Tuesday, September 21st. Sign with reference to the Bekmansurovs’ neighbor. “Timur’s father does not live with them. It seems to be somewhere in Udmurtia. I know that he earns his living by the war. Since the Chechen (war – ed.) He worked as a mercenary and then fought in almost all hot spots, including Donbass,” he said. a man told reporters, asking not to disclose his name. He also said that Timur Bekmansurov was familiar with weapons from childhood. “Several of his father’s guns are still kept in this apartment, and Timur learned to shoot with them,” the man said. According to him, 38 thousand rubles for the gun, from which Bekmansurov shot the students, was given to him in the summer by his parents. “He and his classmate Volodya all went together to the shooting range in the summer,” the source added. Recall that Timur Bekmansurov’s mother during interrogation called her son “an ideal child.” According to her, he was calm, caring, sociable and very fond of animals. “My son had a dream to become a military man or work in the police, but for health reasons he would not have gone there,” the woman said and added that the boy had been interested in weapons since childhood. David Theodore Belfield ("Dawud Salahuddin", "Daoud Salahuddin", "Hassan Abdulrahman", "Hassan Tantai") 1 Killed – 0 Wounded Early life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawud_Salahuddin#Early_life ... He met a musician and a Korean War deserter who convinced him that "Islam was the way for black men to find their destiny."[10] He met most of the militant Islamic leaders in the U.S. and became more radicalized. He found himself at odds with the Chicago version of Islam taught by Elijah Muhammad.[10] He changed his name to Dawud Salahuddin at this time and began to visit Ernest Timothy McGhee, who had changed his name to Hamaas Abdul Khaalis.[10] Salahuddin frequented Khaalis' mosque. In 1973, when Khaalis' family was murdered Salahuddin had "a moment of clarity" and realized, "that the Black Islamic leadership in America was being run by, like, the Mafia".[10] ... An American Terrorist https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/08/05/an-american-terrorist Salahuddin discovered, in his early years in Iran, that even though he believed in violent jihad, there were limits to his militancy. In the eighties, he said, a branch of Iranian military intelligence asked him to hijack planes, but, he said,“there is something about being trapped inside of something that I would not give in to.” He added, “I might do other things if it’s just bang and gone, but the idea of keeping people under pressure. . . . ” Salahuddin says that he has received no direct payments from the Iranian government aside from the five thousand dollars for killing Tabatabai. “Some people believe that I am on some special government payroll, but no one has ever given me a sinecure job in Tehran, nor have I ever been subsidized in any meaningful way.” He said that he worked briefly for the Revolutionary Guardsbas an English teacher; that he was the moderator, last year, of a twice-weekly news program on Iranian television; and that for nine years he was an editor, editorial writer, and war correspondent for one of Tehran’s four English-language newspapers. Salahuddin told me that in February, ... Andrew Armandoz Benavidez ("Andrew Pixley") 2 Killed – 0 Wounded Early life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Pixley#Early_life Born Andrew Armandoz Benavidez in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Pixley joined the U.S. Army after being charged with passing bad checks. His father Columbus Pixley said he had dropped out of high school and had never held a job.[1] He served two years, mostly overseas.[2] He was described as "slightly built" and "nervous"[3][4] and as a transient and dishwasher.[5] There was a previous warrant out for his arrest in his home town on a charge of larceny. He was accused and cleared of being in possession of a stolen car in Davenport, Washington, two weeks before the murders.[6] He had been living in a trailer with two employees of the hotel where the murders took place, David Starling and Orval Edwards. Starling was described as having had prior knowledge of Pixley's violent tendencies.[7] William J. Benirschke 2 Killed – 0 Wounded William Benirschke | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of ... https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/benirschke-william.htm ... Mitigating Circumstances: no significant prior criminal history, a history of depression and antisocial personality, drug abuse, high school graduate, 3 year U.S. Marine Corps service in Germany ... Emile Pierre Benoist 6 Killed – 0 Wounded Marine Dropout Murders Six In Mass Spree, Commits Suicide . https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1891&dat=19770827&id=3d4pAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KtYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3878,3973758 Quarrels at Home Cited as Cause in Jersey Shootings https://www.nytimes.com/1977/08/29/archives/quarrels-at-home-cited-as-cause-in-jersey-shootings.html ... He and five other persons were ambushed at random—shot and killed, the police say, by Emile Pierre Benoist, a 20year-old former marine and he son of a prominent local politician. Mr. Benoist, who was pursued by the police to a cornfield in the gathering darkness Friday night. put a rifle to his head and shot himself as the police closed in on him He was killed instantaneously, like his victims, none of whom he apparently knew. ... Suspect in Jersey Sniper Killings Had Extensive Psychiatric Record https://www.nytimes.com/1977/08/30/archives/suspect-in-jersey-sniper-killings-had-extensive-psychiatric-record.html Quit the Marine Corps That arrest last September was the fourth for Mr. Benoist. His troubles with the law began after he left the Marine Corps, which he had joined at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on Oct. 10, 1975. According to Marine Corps records, Mr. Benoist was assigned for recruit training at Parris Island in South Carolina on Oct. 15. Such training would normally have lasted 7S days, and then Mr. Benoist would have been assigned to a regular Marine Corps unit. But after stormy sessions with instructors, he was discharged on Nov. 12, the records show. Since that time, Mr. Benoist worked in a variety of jobs around Hackettstown and sometimes did not work at all, according to his friends and family. Then. the records show, on Nov. 29, 1975. he was arrested on charges of destruction of property, for allegedly breaking the window of Bach's Pharmacy on Main Street. He was fined $15 and ordered to pay $10 in court costs. On Feb. 18, the youth reported to the police here that he had been stabbed in the chest while hitch-hiking. But the police records have an entry, made by law enforcement officials, that the wou,nds “had all the appearances of being self-inflicted.” On March 3 last year, Mr. Benoist was arrested in his car on Mountain Avenue here and charged with driving while his ability was impaired. He was fined $50, assessed $15 in court costs, and his driving license was suspended for six months. On Aug. 13, Mr. Benoist was arrested on a charge of public drunkenness, but the charge was dismissed by a local magdstrate. Finally, on Sept. 6 last year, he was arrested on the shotgun charges. It was a day after this incident that Mr. Benoist went to Lyons Hospital, and it was a month after that that he was found guilty, fined $230 and put on six months' probation. That, too, was when Judge Hibler ordered the psychiatric treatment. Connor Stephen Betts 10 killed (including the perpetrator) – 27 wounded Connor Betts: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know https://heavy.com/news/2019/08/connor-betts/ Demoy Howell told the Dayton Daily News that Betts was in the Junior ROTC program in high school, and the newspaper also reported that he was a lead in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” However, there was a dark side. A classmate told the Daily News that Betts had “fantasized about tying her up and slitting her throat” and he told her he was scared he had those thoughts. She said she was included on a hit list, but her concerns weren’t taken seriously when she reported them. Dayton Shooting: Suspect ID’d, reportedly had prior hit-list https://www.whio.com/news/local/bellbrook-police-conduct-investigation-home/74z9iRBtYqBqxOQ6kSsdzL/ BELLBROOK — The identity of the suspect in the Oregon District shooting has been released. The shooting suspect has been identified as Connor Betts, 24, of Bellbrook, government sources confirmed. Chris Baker, who just resigned this summer after 14 years as Bellbrook High School principal, was asked about Betts’ time as a Bellbrook student. Asked about reports that, while a Bellbrook student, Betts was suspended for causing a lockdown by writing a “hit-list” on a bathroom wall, Baker said, “I would not dispute that information, but I don’t want to get involved any more than just making that comment.” A woman who went to high school with Betts recalled the hit-list. “I know he made the list,” she said. “I’m not sure who the names were on there...He had a plan to shoot up the school.” When she first heard about the shooting, she said Betts’ name came to her mind. “I guessed it might’ve been him just from that list,” she said. She added that Betts was bullied at the high school and that he seemed “pretty normal” after he “got some help from making list.” Demoy Howell was a year behind Connor Betts at Bellbrook High School, where they were in Junior ROTC together. “He was always a little bit of an oddball,” said Howell, who graduated in 2014. “He had a dark sense of humor - jokes about people dying. He would wear all black. I remember sensing a dark energy around him.” He never had a problem with Betts, but remembers friends saying he made them feel threatened or uncomfortable. The rigor of the military program seemed to have a calming influence, as Betts didn’t seem to have many friends, he added. “Even though we all knew he was kind of weird, I felt like the colonels kind of kept him together,” Howell said. “There was a lockdown one year and it was because he wrote something in the bathroom. Then he kind of fell off the face of the earth. I don’t remember him walking (at graduation).” Later, Howell said, the two worked together at a fast-food restaurant. “Generally there was no issue,” he said. “He kind of kept it together.” Betts also worked at a gas station where Howell would sometimes stop in to grab a drink. “He was normal there, too,” he said. “He kept on a professional face.” He and his friends frequent the Oregon District where, authorities say, Betts opened fire overnight and left nine dead. Police officers in the area fatally shot Betts within a minute. After getting off work on Saturday night, Howell had decided against heading to Oregon. Hours later, he heard the news. “I think this is less of a hate crime and more of an ‘I hate everybody’ crime,” Howell said. “I honestly feel more comfortable now knowing that he’s gone.” Elizabeth Betz, a longtime Bellbrook school board member, said she only had passing memory of Betts, from an elementary school event, and from graduation, simply because their last names are pronounced the same. She said she was unaware of any incidents with Betts while he was in Bellbrook schools. Marvin Bieghler 2 Killed – 0 Wounded Hours before his execution, Bieghler joins Catholic Church https://www.archindy.org/criterion/local/2006/02-03/execution.html ... Father McNally said he spent time with the 58-year-old Marine Corps veteran—who fought in the Vietnam War—during the afternoon and early evening on Jan. 26 while the stay of execution was still in effect. ... Amy Bishop 3 Killed – 3 Wounded A Loaded Gun https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/02/11/a-loaded-gun The Bishop family home in Braintree, at 46 Hollis Avenue, is a gabled Victorian with a gracious covered porch. It was built in the nineteenth century by a dentist, who ran his practice from a cottage on the property. The front lawn is dominated by a giant copper beech whose knuckled branches are sturdy enough to support climbing children. When Amy’s little brother, Seth, was a boy, he would ascend the tree, then panic, unable to get back down. His mother, Judy, would issue branch-by-branch instructions until he reached the ground. Judy, whose maiden name was Sanborn, came from an old New England family in Exeter, New Hampshire, where her grandfather had owned a shoe factory. She met her husband, Sam, at the New England School of Art, in Boston. He was in many ways her opposite: born Sotir Papazoglos, he was raised by immigrants in a Greek enclave of Somerville. He joined the Air Force in 1954 and later changed his name to Sam Bishop. Judy was a gregarious woman with a curly blond mane and a raucous sense of humor; Sam was taciturn and burly, with an Old World reserve. “I chased him until he caught me,” Judy liked to say. William Bradford Bishop Jr. 5 Killed Biography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford_Bishop#Biography William Bradford Bishop Jr. was born August 1, 1936, in Pasadena, California, to Lobelia and William Bradford Bishop Sr.[6][7] He attended South Pasadena High School and received a bachelor of science degree in history from Yale University and a master of arts degree in international studies from Middlebury College.[2][8] Alternatively, Bishop has been reported to have a bachelor's degree in American Studies from Yale and a master's degree in Italian from Middlebury College.[9] He also holds a master's degree in African Studies from UCLA.[7][10] After graduating from Yale in 1959, Bishop married his high school sweetheart Annette Weis,[7] with whom he had three sons. He joined the United States Army and spent four years working in counterintelligence. Bishop spoke five languages fluently: English, Italian, French, Serbo-Croatian, and Spanish.[11] After leaving the Army, Bishop joined the U.S. State Department and served in the Foreign Service in many postings overseas.[2] This included postings in the Italian cities of Verona, Milan, and Florence (where he did post-graduate work at the University of Florence) from 1968 to 1972.[2] He also served in Africa, including posts in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and Gaborone in Botswana, from 1972 to 1974.[2] Bishop's last posting, which began in 1974, was at State Department headquarters in Washington, D.C., as an assistant chief in the Division of Special Activities and Commercial Treaties. He was living in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife and three sons as well as his mother, Lobelia.[2] Alexandre Bissonnette 6 killed – 5 wounded Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City_mosque_shooting#Perpetrator Alexandre Bissonnette (born December 1, 1989), a student at Université Laval and former Royal Canadian Army Cadet,[42] was identified as the suspect. He called police from the area near the Île d'Orléans Bridge, and told them he was involved and wanted to surrender.[43][44][45] Université Laval announced that Bissonnette would not be allowed on campus while judicial proceedings were underway.[46] Bissonnette grew up in Cap-Rouge. Neighbours said his father and mother were both present in his life and were model parents, adding that they had never had a problem with either him or his twin brother Mathieu.[46] Former acquaintances say he was introverted and sometimes bullied at school.[47] He was not known to police, and he had no court records other than traffic violations.[47] Before the shooting he had been living in an apartment near the mosque along with his twin brother.[48][49] People who knew him said he had far-right, white nationalist, and anti-Muslim views.[44][50][51] The manager of a refugee-support Facebook page said Bissonnette frequently denigrated refugees and feminists online.[46][47] A member of the mosque said he had met and talked with him outside the mosque on January 26, believing he was interested in Islam, but he veered away from the subject.[52][53] Bissonnette checked in on the Twitter account of Ben Shapiro, editor in chief of the conservative news site the Daily Wire, 93 times in the month leading up to the shooting.[54] Bissonnette was also a supporter of Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen.[55][56] He later confessed to police that he was motivated by the 2014 shootings at Parliament Hill, Ottawa, where a Canadian soldier guarding the National War Memorial was killed. Bissonnette was taking Paxil at the time of the attack.[57] Christopher Black Sr. 3 Killed – 0 Wounded Step-granddaughter, wife, daughter killed https://www.tdtnews.com/archive/article_692dd6cf-a32d-5b2e-8ba0-6f30e93fc3e2.html HUNTSVILLE (AP) -- A retired Army sergeant was executed Wednesday evening for murdering his 17-month-old step-granddaughter in a 1998 massacre where his wife and 5-month-old daughter also were gunned down. Asked by the warden if he wanted to make a final statement, Christopher Black Sr., said no. As the drugs began flowing, he made a groaning sigh and was pronounced dead at 6:19 p.m., seven minutes later. Black was convicted of killing Katrease Houston at the Killeen home of his estranged wife Gwendolyn Black, the toddler's grandmother. Katrease was found slumped in a high chair. She had been shot five times in the chest. Her grandmother was shot 10 times. Black's daughter, Christina Marie, was shot once. "I ran out of bullets," Black told a 911 operator he called after the Feb. 7, 1998, attack. Black is the 18th condemned Texas inmate to receive lethal injection this year and the second in as many weeks. Two more are set to die later this month. The U.S. Supreme Court in April refused to consider Black's appeal and no additional appeals were made, his lawyer, Jack Hurley, said. "We still miss our loved ones but we won't be thinking about him," Mardelouis Hawthorne, Gwendolyn Black's sister, said after watching Black die. "If Texas has an escaped convict, we won't worry that it's him." "It's really not satisfaction, really a kind of feeling you can bring it to closure but really won't be closure," added her brother, Alvin Prigett. "It'll always be on your mind and you think about it from time to time." Black bought a 9 mm semiautomatic pistol the day before the shooting. He mailed cassette tapes to relatives explaining plans to kill his 36-year-old wife and anyone else in the house. The tapes were timed to arrive after the shooting. The couple had married just over three years earlier but relatives said Gwendolyn Black, who worked as an elementary school teacher in Copperas Cove after leaving the Army, was seeking a divorce because she received little help from her husband with the children and he had moved out of town to take a security job. Police who responded to 911 calls from Black and neighbors found him unarmed and holding his daughter to his chest. "We approached him and he said he wasn't going to put the baby down on the cold ground," Officer Eric Bradley said. "As I reached up to grab the baby from him, he said: 'I want to kiss my baby.' I said go ahead. "As I pulled the baby toward me, the baby's head kind of just rolled to the left... The eyes were open, fixed, no pulse, no respiration, no nothing." It took a jury in Belton 15 minutes to convict Black of capital murder of Katrease. In Texas, murder of a child under the age of 6 can be a death penalty case and the same jury deliberated about seven hours before deciding his punishment. "I don't recall a case that was any more aggravated or any more vicious in the way the crime was committed and the consequences," Lon Curtis, the former assistant district attorney in Bell County who prosecuted Black, said this week. "The image of that baby, the little girl, slumped over in her high chair with five rounds in the chest... I wish I hadn't been reminded of that." Black declined to speak from death row with reporters. "My days are long and sad," he wrote on a Web site where inmates seek pen pals. "I do not want romance or money, the only thing that I want is a friend." "He made his choices," Bradley said. "And that's where he's at." Dermot Blake 1 Killed – 0 Wounded Soldier facing charges after wife dies in southeast Colorado Springs shooting Saturday morning https://www.kktv.com/2021/02/20/one-person-killed-in-shooting-early-saturday-morning/ COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - A Fort Carson soldier has been arrested after allegedly admitting to shooting and killing his wife over the weekend. Springs police say they got a call from suspect Dermot Blake around 1 a.m. Feb. 20 stating he shot his wife. When CSPD arrived at the home in the 2000 block of Squawbush Ridge Grove, they found a woman dead inside the house. The victim has been identified as 30-year-old Tashianna Blake, Blake’s wife. Two children were reportedly in the home at the time and were later released to family members. Police detained Blake on scene, and he was taken to the Police Operations Center. He was later arrested on charges of first-degree murder and two counts of child abuse. Fort Carson confirmed with 11 News Tuesday that Dermot Blake was an active-duty soldier assigned to the Mountain Post. Blake has reportedly served in the military for four years. ... Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. 4 Killed – 14–22 Wounded Education and career https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edwin_Blanton_Jr.#Education_and_career Blanton had a tenth-grade education and served as an aircraft mechanic in the Navy from 1956 to 1959. Blanton was a member of the Ku Klux Klan in the early 1960s, along with the other suspects in the bombing.[4] Sebastian Bosse 1 killed (including perpetrator) – 22 wounded School shooting and suicide in Germany https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2006/11/germ-n22.html Fellow students have confirmed that Bastian B. was an intelligent student who had in the past received good grades. However, he had developed a fascination with violence and killing, erecting his own Internet site where he posed dressed in combat gear and holding weapons. He had also told acquaintances he wanted to join the German army. At the same time in a number of comments on his web site he clearly outlined the basis for his growing frustration with the school system and society as a whole, which found such an explosive form. Sky Bouche 0 Killed – 1 Wounded Forest High shooter: ‘My first memory is violence and conflict’ https://www.ocala.com/news/20180420/forest-high-shooter-my-first-memory-is-violence-and-conflict He dreamed of joining the U.S. Marine Corps to get away from the chaos around him, Bouche said, but that hope was dashed after, at age 14, he was evaluated for mental health issues under the Baker Act. He said he is not mentally ill. Robert Gregory Bowers 11 killed – 7 wounded As questions linger about Pittsburgh suspect, details emerge from his early life https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/as-questions-linger-about-pittsburgh-suspect-details-emerge-from-his-early-life/2018/11/02/a643c506-dec7-11e8-b732-3c72cbf131f2_story.html PITTSBURGH — Nearly a week after 11 people were gunned down at a synagogue here, details about the man charged in the attack remain scant but suggest an early life that was in some ways tumultuous. Robert Bowers, 46, has been charged with dozens of counts in federal court, and prosecutors have signaled they are likely to seek a death penalty for crimes they said “represent the worst of humanity.” Bowers pleaded not guilty during a brief court appearance Thursday. But while rage-filled anti-Semitic online posts from an account bearing Bowers’s name have drawn considerable attention, his offline life left startlingly little impression on people who met him before the massacre, and details of how he spent his days remained scarce. The elements of his background that have emerged since the bloodshed at Tree of Life synagogue on Oct. 27 suggested moments of instability in his early life, including family divorces, moves and ultimately being raised by his grandparents. When Bowers was born, his mother was married to Randall G. Bowers. Court records show that the couple divorced in August 1973, just days before Robert Bowers’s first birthday. Authorities have not confirmed that this man is Bowers’s biological father, and the suspected attacker’s attorney did not respond to a request for comment Friday. When Bowers was as young as 3 or 4 years old, his mother, Barbara, married Robert Saiter in Florida, Saiter said in an interview Thursday. Saiter, who was in the Air Force at the time, said the couple stayed together for less than a year before separating. Saiter recalled Bowers as a “normal kid and well-behaved” while living as a toddler in Florida. “I never had any problems with him — he was a very good kid,” said Saiter, who said Bowers liked to play with trucks and cars as a young boy. “This is a shock to me. This completely blew my mind.” Bowers’s mother then moved back in with her parents in Pennsylvania, Saiter said. Her parents raised their grandson, Saiter said, because his mother developed health issues. Neighbors of Bowers’s grandfather said that the suspected attacker spent much of his high school years at the man’s home in Whitehall, Pa. Saiter said he did not know anything about Bowers’s father. Suspect identified as Robert Bowers, 46, in Pittsburgh synagogue shooting https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/robert-bowers-pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting-20181027.html "I don't understand why he would be angry at the Jewish people," said Terry Choate, a retired government contractor who said he knew Bowers since the suspect was a small child. "I can't believe he did that. I'd like to know what set him off." Kenneth Lee Boyd 2 Killed – 0 Wounded Is Kenneth Lee Boyd Dead or Alive? Where Are Julie Curry and Kenneth Lee Boyd’s Sons Now? https://thecinemaholic.com/is-kenneth-lee-boyd-dead-or-alive-where-are-julie-curry-and-kenneth-lee-boyds-sons-now/ ... Is Kenneth Lee Boyd Dead or Alive? A veteran of the United States Army, Kenneth Boyd married Julie Curry after getting a divorce from his first wife. Along with their three children, the couple lived in a mobile home, a little distance away from Julie’s parents’ house. They were married for 13 years, and with each passing year, their marriage grew stormier. Kenneth was even accused of hitting and bruising his wife (though he was never convicted for it). ... At trial, his lawyers tried to argue that Kenneth suffered from several mental health issues stemming from his time in the Army. Yet, the judge gave him the death sentence on May 16, 1988. The North Carolina Supreme Court later overturned this sentence, but a new trial resulted in the same death sentence for Kenneth Lee Boyd in 1994. After the second sentencing, his subsequent appeal and request for clemency were turned down. On December 2, 2005, Kenneth Lee Boyd was executed by lethal injection. He was the 1000th person to be executed in the United States since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. ... Earl Conrad Bramblett 4 Killed – 0 Wounded Murders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Bramblett#Murders Having found Blaine Hodges' body next to a gun, police at first theorized that Blaine had killed his family and then himself; Blaine, a former U.S. Postal Service employee, was about to serve six months in federal prison for embezzlement.[1] Further investigation determined that the barrel of the murder weapon had been removed after Blaine had been killed, and that Blaine had been killed before the rest of his family.[2] Nathaniel R. Brazill 1 Killed – 0 Wounded Nathaniel Brazill: A Profile https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/brazill_profile_1.2.pdf Prior to his attack, Brazill appeared to be destined for success. He was a bright boy who was in the school band, played chess, and was seen as a fun-loving kid, even a prankster.6 He aspired to be a lawyer, be a police officer, or have a military career and perhaps “fly Air Force One for the President.” ... Brazill also resembles many school shooters in other ways. First, he had asthma, which prevented him from playing sports.44 Medical problems and biological challenges to one’s masculinity have been found in many shooters. In addition, perhaps in response to their biological issues, many shooters have aspired to serve in the military or law enforcement; perhaps they viewed this as a way to establish a strong male identity for themselves. Brazill had dreams of being both a police officer and a soldier. In addition, like many school shooters, Brazill had at least one family member in the military (an uncle), perhaps serving as a role model for him (Brazill said he got the gun “with the idea of asking his military uncle to teach him to shoot it”). Anders Behring Breivik ("Andrew Berwick"; "Fjotolf Hansen") 77 killed – 319 wounded Names and early life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik#Names_and_early_life His family name is Breivik, while Behring, his mother's maiden name, is his middle name and not part of the family name. His family name comes from Breivika in Hadsel, and literally means "broad vik"[8] or "broad bay." In 2017, media reported his change of legal name—to Fjotolf Hansen.[41] Breivik was born in Oslo on 13 February 1979,[42][43] the son of Wenche Behring (1946–2013), a nurse, and Jens David Breivik (born 1935), a civil economist, who worked as a diplomat for the Norwegian Embassy in London and later in Paris.[44] He spent the first year of his life in London until his parents divorced when he was a year old. His father (who later married a diplomat) fought for custody of him, but failed. When Breivik was four, living in Oslo's Frogner district (now in Frogner borough), two reports were filed expressing concern about his mental health, concluding that he ought to be removed from parental care.[45] A psychologist in one of the reports made a note of the boy's peculiar smile, suggesting it was not anchored in his emotions but was rather a deliberate response to his environment.[46] In another report by psychologists from Norway's centre for child and youth psychiatry (SSBU) concerns were raised about how his mother treated him: "She 'sexualised' the young Breivik, hit him, and frequently told him that she wished that he were dead." In the report Wenche Behring is described as "a woman with an extremely difficult upbringing, borderline personality disorder and an all-encompassing if only partially visible depression" who "projects her primitive aggressive and sexual fantasies onto him [Breivik]".[47] Breivik lived with his mother and his six year older,[51] half sister in the West End of Oslo and regularly visited his father and stepmother in France, until they divorced when he was 12. His mother also remarried, to an officer in the Norwegian Army.[45] Freemasons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik#Freemasons At the time of the attacks, Breivik was a member of the Lodge of St. Olaf at the Three Columns in Oslo[283] and had displayed photographs of himself in partial Masonic regalia on his Facebook profile.[284][285] In interviews after the attacks, his lodge said it had only minimal contact with him, and that when made aware of Breivik's membership, Grand Master of the Norwegian Order of Freemasons, Ivar A. Skaar, issued an edict immediately excluding him from the fraternity based upon the acts he carried out and the values that appear to have motivated them.[286][287] According to the Lodge records, Breivik took part in a total of four meetings between his initiation in February 2007 and his exclusion from the order (one each to receive the first, second, and third degrees, and one other meeting[288]) and held no offices or functions within the Lodge.[289] Skaar said that although Breivik was a member of the Order, his actions showed that he was in no way a Mason.[288] Knights Templar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Behring_Breivik#Knights_Templar In his manifesto and during interrogation, Breivik claimed membership in an "international Christian military order", which he calls the new Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Solomonici (PCCTS, Knights Templar). According to Breivik, the order was established as an "anti-Jihad crusader-organisation" that "fights" against "Islamic suppression" in London in April 2002 by nine men: two Englishmen, a Frenchman, a German, a Dutchman, a Greek, a Russian, a Norwegian (apparently Breivik), and a Serb (supposedly the initiator, not present, but represented by Breivik). The compendium gives a "2008 estimate" that there are between 15 and 80 "Justiciar Knights" in Western Europe, and an unknown number of civilian members, and Breivik expects the order to take political and military control of Western Europe.[304] Breivik gives his own code name in the organisation as Sigurd and that of his assigned "mentor" as Richard, after the twelfth-century crusaders and kings Sigurd Jorsalfar of Norway and Richard the Lionheart of England.[305] He calls himself a one-man cell of this organisation, and claims that the group has several other cells in Western countries, including two more in Norway.[94] On 2 August 2011 Breivik offered to provide information about these cells, but on unrealistic preconditions.[306] After an intense investigation assisted internationally by several security agencies, the Norwegian police have not found any evidence that a PCCTS network existed, or that the alleged 2002 London meeting ever took place. The police now view Breivik's claim as a figment of imagination in light of his schizophrenia diagnosis, and are increasingly confident that he had no accessories. The perpetrator still insists he belongs to an order and that his one-man cell was "activated" by another clandestine cell.[307] On 14 August 2012, several Norwegian politicians and media outlets received an email from someone claiming to be Breivik's "deputy", demanding that Breivik be released, and making more threats against Norwegian society.[308] Lamar Z. Brooks 2 Killed – 0 Wounded Veteran again sentenced to death https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2002/02/26/veteran-again-sentenced-to-death/ A Persian Gulf War veteran stood without emotion Monday as a judge again gave him two death sentences for murdering an Air Force hospital technician and her 3-month-old baby. Lamar Brooks' new trial for the 1996 stabbings in this Florida Panhandle city ended last month the same way as the first in 1998 _ guilty of first-degree murder _ but the death sentences will give him another automatic appeal. The Florida Supreme Court last year ordered a retrial because secondhand, or hearsay, testimony was allowed during his first trial. Brooks, 29, of Chester, Pa., barred his lawyers from introducing mitigating evidence Monday to support sentences of life in prison, the only alternative to death for first-degree murder, and he refused to make a statement. Circuit Judge Jere Tolton said he considered several mitigating factors, anyway, but found most of them, including a life sentence given to co-defendant Walker Davis Jr., to be of little significance. "The scales of justice tilt unquestionably to the side of death," Tolton said before pronouncing sentence. Brooks, an Army veteran, and Davis conspired to kill Senior Airman Rachel Carlson, 23, of Aloha, Ore., and her daughter, Alexis Stuart. Davis had offered Brooks, his cousin, $10,000 from a $100,000 insurance policy Davis had on the baby. Davis, 31, originally from Marion, S.C., mistakenly believed he had fathered the child. He also was a senior airman stationed with Carlson at Eglin Air Force Base. Brooks committed the killings as he, Davis and the two victims were in a car. The judge found Carlson's death was especially cruel, noting she was stabbed at least 65 times. The baby died from a single stab wound, and then her body was mutilated. Vincent Edward Brothers 5 Killed – 0 Wounded The Mystery of the Lost Weekend https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna32086189 ... He went to college, served in the Marine Reserves, and headed west in the mid-eighties to complete his masters degree at Cal State Bakersfield. He wasn't perfect. There were two brief marriages which ended even as he rose quickly as a school administrator. ... Carl Robert Brown 8 Killed – 3 Wounded Biography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Robert_Brown#Biography Brown was born on November 26, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois. He joined the U.S. Navy and was honorably discharged in 1954. People later stated that Brown always kept a military bearing about himself and was quite militaristic. In 1955, he moved from Chicago to Florida,[1] where he graduated from the University of Miami in 1957 and in 1964 from East Carolina College in Greenville, North Carolina, earning a Master's degree in education. After working briefly for Keyes Realty, he got a full-time job as history teacher at Hialeah Junior High School in 1962[1] and moonlighted at Miami-Dade Community College as an accounting instructor from 1964 to 1970. James Wenneker von Brunn 1 Killed – 2 Wounded Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Holocaust_Memorial_Museum_shooting#Perpetrator Von Brunn was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the first of two children. His father was a native of Houston, Texas, and a superintendent at the Scullin Steel Mill in Houston during World War II. His mother was a piano teacher and homemaker. Von Brunn enrolled in Washington University in St. Louis in August 1938, and received his Bachelor of Science degree in journalism in April 1943. During his time at the university, von Brunn was said to have been president of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter, and a varsity football player.[33] He served in the United States Navy from 1943 to 1957, and was the commanding officer of PT boat 159 during the Pacific Theatre of World War II, receiving a commendation and three battle stars.[34][35][36] Von Brunn had worked as an advertising executive and producer in New York City for twenty years. In the late 1960s, he relocated to the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where he continued to do advertising work and resumed painting. ... James Burmeister II 2 Killed – 0 Wounded Another Soldier Convicted in Race-Based Killings https://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/03/us/another-soldier-convicted-in-race-based-killings.html A jury today convicted a second white former Army paratrooper on murder and conspiracy charges in the killings of a black couple in North Carolina in 1995. The former soldier, Malcolm Wright Jr., 22, of Lexington, Ky., was found guilty on two counts of first-degree murder and one count of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in the deaths of Jackie Burden, 27, and Michael James, 36, who were shot to death on Dec. 7, 1995, in Fayetteville, an Army town near Fort Bragg. The jury, 11 whites and 1 black, will now hear evidence on whether to impose the death penalty. On Feb. 27, a jury in Fayetteville convicted another white former Army private, James N. Burmeister 2d, on two counts of first-degree murder and conspiracy in the same deaths. Mr. Burmeister, 21, of Thompson, Pa., is serving two consecutive life sentences at the Central Prison in Raleigh after a jury deadlocked on March 6 on the question of execution. The vote was 11 to 1 in favor of executing him. Mr. Wright's trial was moved here, to New Hanover County Superior Court, 100 miles from the crime scene, because of pretrial publicity stemming from Mr. Burmeister's conviction. The prosecutors said that the killings of Ms. Burden and Mr. James had been racially motivated and that Mr. Burmeister and Mr. Wright were neo-Nazi skinheads who had chosen their victims randomly. Both men were once members of the elite 82d Airborne Division at Fort Bragg; the Army discharged them last summer. The killings led Army Secretary Togo D. West Jr. to initiate a worldwide inquiry into extremist activity in the ranks. Defense Department policy bars members of the armed forces from actively participating in groups that espouse racism or white supremacy, but it does not ban membership in such organizations. The inquiry found little evidence of overt racism, but it led to discharges for 22 soldiers, including those charged in the Fayetteville killings, who were found to have participated actively in extremist activity. Karon Knox, Mr. James's sister, expressed relief at the verdict. ''It's been a long year for us,'' she said, standing on the courthouse steps. ''But it's the beginning of the end. We're just so thankful to the judicial system, to the prosecutors and the judge and the jurors.'' Ms. Knox added, ''I have faith in our judicial system again.'' The jury deliberated in Mr. Wright's case for less than a day. The main prosecution witness was the same as at Mr. Burmeister's trial: Randy Lee Meadows Jr., another white former paratrooper at Fort Bragg who was also charged in the case and who pleaded guilty to conspiracy and accessory charges. Mr. Meadows, 23, of Mulkeytown, Ill., will be sentenced in the fall. Editors’ Picks Of Mouth Molds and Michelin Stars: Chef Finds Fame After Epic Takedown A One-Bedroom in Brooklyn or a Two-Bedroom in New Jersey? These First-Time Buyers Weighed the Options. ‘Tragedy of Macbeth’ Review: The Thane, Insane, Slays Mainly in Dunsinane Continue reading the main story Mr. Meadows testified that he had driven Mr. Burmeister and Mr. Wright to the area where Mr. James and Ms. Burden were first spotted. He said he had heard six gunshots just minutes after his friends had left the car. After the three were arrested, Mr. Meadows testified, Mr. Burmeister told him that he had shot Ms. Burden and Mr. James, joking that he had done a community service and ''they put me in jail for it.'' The prosecution argued that Mr. Burmeister had fired the shots because he wanted a spider-web tattoo, a sign in certain skinhead groups that its wearer had killed a black person. Mr. Wright has such a tattoo. The prosecution told the jurors that they should find Mr. Wright guilty because ''if you run with the pack, you're responsible for the kill.'' Mr. Wright's lawyer, Jonathan Broun, had argued that Mr. Wright ''did not shoot anybody and did not want anyone to die'' and that Mr. Burmeister had acted alone. Robert Butler Jr. 2 Killed (including the perpetrator) – 2 Wounded Robert Butler, Jr.: A Case History https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/butler_case_history_1.1.pdf Robert Butler, Jr. wanted to be a police officer, following in the footsteps of his father. Robert Butler, Sr., after serving in the navy, became a detective in the Omaha police department.1 Butler, Jr. and his friend, Mustafa Attaie, planned to go to college together and then join the police force. This was their dream. Instead, Butler became a murderer. What happened? Teen school shooter showed no signs of turning violent https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna40950411 Hours before he opened fire on two principals at his high school, a Nebraska teenager calmly accepted a suspension for driving on an athletic field. He went home to speak with his father and some friends — all the while giving no hint of turning violent, police said Thursday. But after his father left to run errands, 17-year-old Robert Butler Jr. took a handgun from a closet and headed back to the school to confront the administrator who had punished him. Butler, whose father is a detective for the Omaha Police Department, asked to see the assistant principal and fatally shot her in her office with his father's service weapon. He then wounded the principal and fled before killing himself. Samuel Joseph Byck 3 Killed (including perpetrator) – 1 Wounded (including perpetrator) Early life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Byck#Early_life Born to poor Jewish parents in South Philadelphia, Byck dropped out of high school in the ninth grade in order to support his impoverished family. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1954 and was honorably discharged in 1956. He married shortly thereafter, and fathered four children.[4] Mason Campbell 2 Killed – 2 Wounded Patterns Among School Shooters: Body-Related Issues and the Military https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/patterns_body_related_issues_and_military_1.28.pdf Mason Campbell – Uncle: Army Reserve, National Guard Steven Carrillo 2 Killed – 4 Wounded Suspects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_boogaloo_killings#Suspects Steven Carrillo is a 32-year-old Air Force sergeant from Ben Lomond, California. He was on active duty at Travis Air Force Base near Fairfield, California, as an airman in the Phoenix Ravens program,[15][22] a special unit tasked with guarding American military personnel and aircraft at unsecure foreign airfields.[4] He had worked at the base since 2018, though he had served in Kuwait for four months in 2019.[6] A former friend of Carrillo's told ABC News that Carrillo identified as a libertarian.[23] Robert A. Justus Jr. is a 30-year-old man from Millbrae, California.[18] Alvaro Castillo 1 killed – 2 Wounded Cops: N.C. suspect e-mailed Columbine official https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna14591327 A teenager accused of killing his father and opening fire outside his former high school was obsessed with school massacres and sent e-mail to the principal of Columbine High School in Colorado warning of his attack, authorities said Thursday. “Dear Principal,” the e-mail read. “In a few hours you will probably hear about a school shooting in North Carolina. I am responsible for it. I remember Columbine. It is time the world remembered it. I am sorry. Goodbye.” Alvaro Castillo sent the message Wednesday morning, shortly before two students were wounded by the gunfire in the Orange High School parking lot in Hillsborough, said Orange County Sheriff Lindy Pendergrass. One student was grazed by a bullet and another was injured by flying glass. Castillo, 19, was quickly arrested, and police found two pipe bombs and two rifles in the van he was driving and four additional pipe bombs at his home, authorities said. Columbine Principal Frank DeAngelis did not read the e-mail until after the attack, according to a statement Thursday by the Jefferson County, Colo., schools. DeAngelis called the district’s security director, who called the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. “In a case like this, he didn’t hesitate to pass it along to law enforcement,” spokeswoman Lynn Setzer said. ‘Obsessed with Columbine’ Castillo mentioned the Columbine massacre as he arrived Thursday morning for an initial court appearance. When asked why he fixated on the 1999 attack, in which two students wearing trench coats killed 13 people before committing suicide, Castillo said he didn’t know. “He was obsessed with Columbine, the (Kip) Kinkel shooting in Oregon, the (Jonesboro) Arkansas high school shooting,” the sheriff said. Investigators found numerous diaries at Castillo’s home in which he wrote about attacks, Pendergrass said. Castillo told deputies he had killed his father, Pendergrass said. Rafael Huezo Castillo was found shot to death in the family’s home. It was unclear when the killing took place. The Chapel Hill News, a twice-weekly newspaper, received a package Thursday with a videotape and a letter signed with Castillo’s name in which several references were made to school shootings. The letter was dated Aug. 29, the day before Castillo was arrested, and Castillo appears on the videotape, The News & Observer of Raleigh reported on its Web site. The two newspapers share a reporting staff. I will die ... I’m sorry The letter described a father who was verbally abusive and sometimes hit members of his family. The letter ends with, “I will die. I have wanted to die for years. I’m sorry.” Castillo was charged with murder and 10 other charges. Castillo was assigned a lawyer and ordered held without bond at Raleigh’s Central Prison. He didn’t speak during the brief hearing. His mother, Victoria, declined to comment about the case Thursday after attending her son’s court hearing. North Carolina National Guard officials said Thursday Castillo entered the guard as a recruit in 2004 and completed basic combat training in August 2005. He was never deployed and was being processed out of the guard after being determined to be medically disqualified for military service, according to the statement. The guard declined to comment on Castillo’s medical disqualification, citing confidentiality laws. Threatened suicide But according to court records released Thursday, Castillo was involuntarily committed to a state psychiatric hospital in April after he told his family he was going to kill himself with a shotgun. “He stated that he was not going to go back into the Army and was going to kill himself,” an affidavit attached to the commitment order said. He was released eight days later, according to court records. Tiffaney Utsman, a senior, was grazed on her right shoulder by a bullet. “My feeling about Tiffaney is absolute relief that she really was not hurt at all,” said her mother, Champe Revis. Hillsborough is in the Raleigh-Durham area of north-central North Carolina. Arcan Cetin 5 Killed – 0 Wounded Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade_Mall_shooting#Perpetrator Arcan Cetin[3] (pronounced [a?'d?an t?e'tin], August 20, 1996 – April 16, 2017) was born in Adana, Turkey. He immigrated to the United States as a child after his mother married a U.S. citizen. Authorities initially identified him as a "permanent resident" until further investigation found that he was a naturalized American citizen.[21] He graduated from Oak Harbor High School in 2015[22] and worked as a bagger at the Commissary in Naval Air Station Whidbey Island.[23][24] Cetin was arrested without incident on the evening of September 24 while he was walking on Oak Harbor Road at Northeast Seventh Avenue in Oak Harbor, Washington.[22] Two days later, he confessed to the shooting.[25] Cetin was charged with five counts of aggravated murder. He was being evaluated for mental health concerns.[26] Cetin had prior arrests; he was a defendant in seven cases in Island County District Court from 2013 to 2015 and was arrested in July 2015 on charges of assault in the fourth degree.[22] Cetin was ordered to undergo mental health counseling, which he completed in March 2016. The court also imposed an order for him not to take drugs or drink alcohol. As of August 25, 2016, no breach of the court order against Cetin had been identified.[27] On April 17, 2017, the media reported that Cetin had hung himself the previous night in the Snohomish County Jail.[28][29][30] An investigation by the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office concluded that Cetin had committed suicide.[7][8] Oba Chandler 3 Killed – 0 Wounded Background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oba_Chandler#Background Chandler was the fourth of five children born to Oba Chandler Sr. and Margaret Johnson, and was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio.[1] When he was ten years old in June 1957, his father hanged himself in the basement of the family's apartment.[1] At the funeral, Chandler reportedly jumped into his father's open grave as the gravediggers were covering the coffin with dirt.[1][2] Between May and September 1991,‍—‌concurrent with the police investigation of the Rogers family triple murder‍—‌ Chandler was an informant for the U.S. Customs Bureau's Tampa office.[2][3] Douglas Chanthabouly 1 Killed – 0 Wounded Patterns Among School Shooters: Body-Related Issues and the Military https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/patterns_body_related_issues_and_military_1.28.pdf Douglas Chanthabouly After his attack, told an officer he was thinking of joining the police Mark David Chapman 1 Killed – 0 Wounded Background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_David_Chapman#Background Mark David Chapman was born on May 10, 1955, in Fort Worth, Texas.[1] His father, David Chapman, was a staff sergeant in the U.S. Air Force and his mother, Diane (née Pease), was a nurse. His younger sister, Susan, was born seven years later. As a boy, Chapman stated he lived in fear of his father, who he said was physically abusive towards his mother and unloving towards him. Chapman began to fantasize about having God-like power over a group of imaginary "little people" who lived in the walls of his bedroom. He attended Columbia High School in Decatur, Georgia. By the time he was 14, Chapman was using drugs and skipping classes. He once ran away from home to live on the streets of Atlanta for two weeks. He said he was bullied at school because he was not a good athlete.[5] In 1971, Chapman became a born-again Presbyterian and distributed Biblical tracts. He met his first girlfriend, Jessica Blankenship, and began work as a summer camp counselor at the South DeKalb County, Georgia YMCA. He was very popular with the children, who nicknamed him "Nemo" and was made assistant director after winning an award for Outstanding Counselor.[6] Those who knew him in the caretaking professions unanimously called him an outstanding worker.[7] Chapman read J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye on the recommendation of a friend. The novel eventually took on great personal significance for him, to the extent he reportedly wished to model his life after its protagonist, Holden Caulfield.[8] After graduating from Columbia High School, Chapman moved for a time to Chicago and played guitar in churches and Christian night spots while his friend did impersonations. He worked successfully for World Vision with Vietnamese refugees at a resettlement camp at Fort Chaffee in Arkansas, after a brief visit to Lebanon for the same work. He was named an area coordinator and a key aide to program director David Moore, who later said Chapman cared deeply for the children and worked hard. Chapman accompanied Moore to meetings with government officials, and President Gerald Ford shook his hand. Derek Michael Chauvin 1 Killed – 0 Wounded Early life and education https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Chauvin#Early_life_and_education Chauvin was born on March 19, 1976.[10][11] His mother was a housewife and his father was a certified public accountant.[12] When he was seven, his parents divorced and were granted joint custody of him.[12] Chauvin attended Park High School in Cottage Grove, Minnesota, but did not finish and later obtained a GED certificate.[13] He earned a certificate in quantity food preparation at Dakota County Technical College and worked jobs as a prep cook at McDonald's and a buffet restaurant.[11][14] He served in the United States Army Reserve from 1996 to 2004,[15] including two stints in the military police between 1996 and 2000.[13][16][17] During that time, he also attended Inver Hills Community College from 1995 to 1999[14][15] and later transferred to Metropolitan State University where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in law enforcement in 2006.[13][14][15] Bobby Frank Cherry 4 Killed – 22 Wounded Life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Frank_Cherry#Life Bobby Frank Cherry was born on June 20, 1930, in Mineral Springs, a neighborhood of Clanton, Alabama. He was born on the same day as Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., but 8 years earlier. He joined the United States Marine Corps as a youth, where he gained expertise in demolitions and working with explosives. After his time with the Marines, Cherry worked a series of low-paying jobs, including a long stint as a truck driver. John Daniel Christian 1 Killed – 0 Wounded Austin’s Secret: Killing in the Classroom 1978 https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/austins-secret-murder-in-the-classroom-1978/ Career https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Christian_(journalist)#Career Christian was born in Austin, Texas, to George Eastland Christian Sr. (1888–1941), a district attorney and a member of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, and Ruby Scott (1900–1995).[2] After graduating from Austin High School in 1944, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and saw duty in the Pacific theater and in Japan during the occupation. Upon his discharge from the military, Christian returned to Austin and studied journalism at the University of Texas at Austin under the G.I. Bill of Rights. He subsequently spent seven years covering Texas state government for the International News Service. He left journalism for politics, serving as press secretary first for Governors Price Daniel, and then for John B. Connally Jr.. Christopher Bernard Coleman 3 Killed – 0 Wounded The Case of Christopher Coleman https://standdown.typepad.com/weblog/2009/09/the-case-of-christopher-coleman.html ... Prado would identify Christopher Coleman, a 27-year-old Army veteran, as the gunman, and her testimony provided the key evidence that led a jury to convict him of capital murder and sentence him to die. That she had originally told authorities the four were simply lost on the night they were attacked in December 1995, when in fact they were parties to a drug deal gone wrong, did not sufficiently undermine her claim that Coleman had been the one to riddle their Toyota Paseo with bullets. ... Michael Andrew Clark 4 Killed (including perpetrator) – 10 Wounded 1960s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States#1960s 1965 Highway 101 sniper attack: A 16-year-old stole his father's military rifle and shot at automobiles driving down the highway, killing two and injuring eleven before committing suicide. A third victim died later at the hospital.[187] Richard Wade Cooey II 2 Killed – 0 Wounded Youth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cooey#Youth Cooey was born in Akron, Ohio. He lived in Stow with his parents until they divorced when he was 11. He spent his junior high years and high school years between Stow, with his father, and Akron, with his paternal grandmother. Cooey graduated from Stow High School in 1985 and enlisted in the U.S. Army. The following summer, he returned on leave.[1] Gary Bradford Cone 2 Killed – 0 Wounded Withheld evidence angers justices https://www.denverpost.com/2008/12/09/withheld-evidence-angers-justices/ WASHINGTON — A convicted killer on death row in Tennessee since 1984 could be spared execution following arguments Tuesday at the Supreme Court. The justices showed rare bursts of anger in discussing a prosecutor’s failure to give key evidence to lawyers defending Gary Bradford Cone. The withheld information appears to bolster claims that Cone was in a drug-induced psychotic state when he beat an elderly couple to death during a robbery in Memphis, Tenn. “You’re saying that the lawyer, the trained lawyer for the government, who knew this information and knew the defense, just what? Just overlooked it by accident? Just what?” Justice Stephen Breyer demanded of Jennifer Smith, representing Tennessee. A few minutes later, Justice David Souter addressed Smith after she said prosecutors were not required to hand over the evidence in question. “I believe you have just made a statement to me that is utterly irrational,” Souter said. Cone does not deny killing Shipley Todd, 93, and his wife, Cleopatra, 79. But Cone put on an insanity defense at trial, arguing that he was a drug addict suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after military service in Vietnam. The prosecutor referred to the defense as “baloney,” and a jury sentenced Cone to death. The evidence that was not provided to his lawyers included police and FBI communications identifying Cone as a drug addict and witness statements describing his behavior as “weird” and “wild-eyed.” The Supreme Court has twice reinstated Cone’s death sentence on different grounds. His lawyer, Thomas Goldstein, argued Tuesday that Cone has never had a hearing that considered the concealed evidence. In a second case Tuesday, the court debated whether a police officer may frisk a passenger in a car that has been stopped for a traffic violation when there is nothing to indicate the passenger has committed a crime or is about to do so. The justices appeared willing to accept Arizona’s argument that traffic stops are inherently dangerous for police and pat-downs are permissible when there’s a reasonable suspicion that the passenger may be armed and dangerous. But the court seemed more skeptical of the Bush administration argument that police may frisk anyone they encounter without some indication of criminal behavior. Peter C. Contos 3 Killed – 0 Wounded Accused Killer Led Double Life https://apnews.com/article/80468649682e5acb75e5efb380303f22 LOWELL, Mass. (AP) _ Peter C. Contos had a wife in one town and a girlfriend and two sons in another community 15 miles away. And neither woman knew of the other, since he used his post in the Air National Guard as an excuse for his long absences from home. If Contos was starting to feel the pressures of keeping his two worlds separate, as some suspect, he didn’t wait to get caught in a lie. Instead, he killed the girlfriend and the boys and stashed the youngsters’ bodies in his locker at a military base on Cape Cod, authorities say. Contos, 31, is jailed without bail, charged with murder for allegedly strangling 35-year-old Catherine Rice and their sons, Benjamin, 4, and Ryan, 2 months old, at their apartment in Lowell on Sept. 27. Only last year, Contos had married Robyn Hetu, and the couple were living in a house in Stoneham that they shared with Ms. Contos’ parents. Within two months, however, Ms. Rice became pregnant with Contos’ second child. More recently, he assured her they would get a house together south of Boston. ``She was ecstatic. She thought he was moving in with her and they were looking for a bigger place and she thought everything was going well,? said Ms. Rice’s college friend Ann Gale. Friends said Ms. Rice had long believed that it was Contos’ Air Force duties that kept him away from home. He apparently told his wife the same story. ``There were so many stories about him being in different places,? said Ms. Rice’s father, Cecil Rice. (In truth, Contos was no longer in the Air Force full time; he was in the National Guard and had worked some security jobs.) Ms. Rice even arranged recently to have all her calls forwarded to a cellular phone so she wouldn’t miss Contos’ calls. ``She was always bumming when she’d miss his call,? Gale said. ``He’d call her and say, `I can’t give you the number where I am but I’ll call you back.? Over the years Contos had refused to meet Ms. Rice’s parents. He was a shadowy figure in their lives, occasionally mentioned by Benjamin. They thought it was strange, but deferred to their daughter’s judgment. More recently, however, Ms. Rice had been expecting Contos to be around more often, her parents said. They said she told them he’d be there for the birth of their second child. But she went into labor two weeks early, and on July 21, Contos never responded to her pages, said her mother, Shirley Rice. Eventually, Ms. Rice called her parents, and Cecil Rice acted as labor coach for Ryan’s birth. Still, Ms. Rice gave Ryan his father’s last name, something she hadn’t done four years earlier when Benjamin was born. In recent weeks, Ms. Rice had brought the two boys to Otis Air Force Base, 75 miles away on Cape Cod, several times to see Contos. The young mother had planned to go there again on Sept. 27, the day she was found slain, her mother said. Ms. Rice’s body was found in her bathtub. The boys’ bodies were found stuffed in a plastic bag in Contos’ locker at the base. Steven Hrones, Contos’ lawyer, said Thursday that he hadn’t met his client yet, and he wouldn’t comment on the murder charges except to note that Contos had pleaded innocent. Contos’ wife has refused to comment. Her husband’s arrest devastated her, said a friend, who identified herself only as Stacy. ``She’s a mess,? Stacy said. ``No one knew.? Frederick William Cowan ("The Neptune Murderer") 7 Killed (including perpetrator) – 4 Wounded Nazi Admirer Also Wounds 5 in Wild Attack Followed by a Siege at Moving Conpany https://www.nytimes.com/1977/02/15/archives/nazi-admirer-also-wounds-5-in-wild-attack-followed-by-a-siege-at.html ... A twice court martialed Army veterar who lifted weights, appeai-ed as a model n body-building magazines and lived with parents in New Rochelle, Mr. Cowan was known to acquaintances as a gun collector with a fascination for the Nazi period. ... DeWayne Antonio Craddock 13 Killed – 4 Wounded Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Virginia_Beach_shooting#Perpetrator Craddock graduated in 1996 from Denbigh High School in Newport News.[3] Between 1996 and 2002, he served in the Virginia Army National Guard in Norfolk as a cannon crew member with the First Battalion, 111th Field Artillery Regiment. At the time of his discharge he held the rank of Specialist (E-4) and had not been deployed for combat service.[26] In 2002, he graduated from Old Dominion University with a degree in civil engineering.[27] Nicholas Jacob Cruz 17 Killed – 17 Wounded Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoneman_Douglas_High_School_shooting#Perpetrator Nikolas Jacob Cruz was born September 24, 1998 in Margate, Florida[78][79][80] and was adopted at birth by Lynda and Roger Cruz.[81] Both his adoptive parents died, Roger at age 67 on August 11, 2004, and Lynda at age 68 on November 1, 2017, leaving Cruz orphaned three months before the shooting.[82][83] Since his mother's death, he had been living with relatives and friends.[84] At the time of the shooting, he was enrolled in a GED program and employed at a local Dollar Tree.[85][86] Cruz was a member of the JROTC and had received multiple awards "including academic achievement for maintaining an A grade in JROTC and Bs in other subjects," according to CNN.[87] He was also a member of his school's varsity air rifle team.[87][88] Nikolas Cruz's Foster Parents Say They Knew All About His Gun Arsenal https://www.newsweek.com/nikolas-cruz-parents-florida-mass-shooting-parkland-810332 A Florida couple that took in orphaned school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz late last year said they knew all about his gun arsenal—but never suspected the "monster" 19-year-old would trick them to gain access to the secured weapons. James and Kimberly Snead of Parkland, Fla., said they allowed Cruz to keep his guns—an AR-15, two other assault rifles, BB guns and pellet guns—as long as he stored them in a locked safe, the couple revealed in an exclusive interview with the Sun-Sentinel published on Saturday. Cruz had to ask permission to use his weapons, as James Snead said he had the only key to the safe. But it turned out Cruz had a spare key. "We had this monster living under our roof and we didn't know," Kimberly said. "We didn't see this side of him." ... The couple maintains they were unaware of Cruz's apparent plan to shoot up Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine's Day. In all, Cruz is charged with killing 14 students and three staff members. A neighbor had reported to the FBI suspicious activity by the alleged gunman, but the agency failed to act in time. "Everything everybody seems to know, we didn't know. It's as simple as that," Snead added. ... Snead, 48, is a military intelligence analyst and a decorated war vet "who served stints in the Middle East between 1988 and 1996," according to the Sun-Sentinel. Kimberly Snead, 49, is a neonatal intensive care nurse who cares for premature and ill babies. ... Ronnie Curtis 2 Killed – 0 Wounded Case Highlights Military's Struggle With Death Penalty https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1999/03/02/case-highlights-militarys-struggle-with-death-penalty/da218d86-ff73-48ab-a8c3-58f07c13627e/ On an April night 12 years ago at a sprawling Marine Corps base in North Carolina, Lance Cpl. Ronnie Curtis took an eight-inch knife and, in a drunken rage, stabbed his supervising officer and the officer's wife, then sexually molested the wife and stole the family car. The murder of Lt. James Lotz and Joan Halpin Lotz brought a swift judgment of Curtis. Within four months, he was tried, convicted and sentenced to death. But his fate is still hanging in the balance. Appeals have lasted more than a decade, bouncing up to the military's highest court four times. Last week, the top military lawyer for the Navy and Marine Corps moved to send it there again, contesting a recent ruling that replaced Curtis's death sentence with life imprisonment and made him immediately eligible for parole. "Something is wrong here," said Grace Halpin, a police investigator in Scranton, Pa., who is one of Joan Lotz's 11 surviving siblings. "We never thought Curtis would ever be eligible to walk the streets again." ... Jake Davison 6 Killed – 2 Wounded Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_shooting#Perpetrator The gunman was named by police as Jake Davison,[19] a 22-year-old apprentice crane operator at security and defence company Babcock International.[8][20][21] The chief constable of Devon and Cornwall Police, Shaun Sawyer, said that Davison's motive was unknown, but that police believed the shooting was a "domestic incident [that] spilled into the streets".[4] He stated that police were not considering terrorism as a motive,[4] although commentators have questioned whether Davison's ideologies constitute terrorism.[22][23] George Harold Davis 1 Killed – 10 Wounded Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Ennis_shooting#Perpetrator George Harold Davis (born June 20, 1958)[11] was identified as the man responsible for the shooting rampage in Ennis. He was a proponent of white supremacy and anti-Semitism. He was also a trained killer and a paramilitary veteran, who had served as a mercenary in Nicaragua.[12] CIA activities in Nicaragua https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Nicaragua CIA activities in Nicaragua have been ongoing since the 1980s. The increasing influence gained by the Sandinista National Liberation Front, a left-wing and anti-imperialist political party in Nicaragua, led to a sharp decrease in Nicaragua–United States relations, particularly after the Nicaraguan Revolution. In 1981, President Ronald Reagan authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to support the Contras, a right-wing Nicaraguan political group to combat the influence held by the Sandinistas in the Nicaraguan government. Various anti-government rebels in Nicaragua were organized into the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, the first Contra group, at the behest of the CIA. The CIA also supplied the Contras with training and equipment, including materials related to torture and assassination. There have also been allegations that the CIA engaged in drug trafficking in Nicaragua. James Floyd Davis 3 Killed – 0 Wounded Vietnam Vet on Death Row Receives His Medals and Waits for Execution https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/vietnam-vet-on-death-row-receives-his-medals-and-waits-for-execution DEATH ROW A recent article in the Fayetteville Observer in North Carolina captures the poignant story of one man’s life on death row. James Floyd Davis is a Vietnam veteran who lashed out with a burst of violence fourteen years ago, killing three people including his boss who had fired him a few days before. He suffers from mental illness and post-traumatic stress disorder. Through the intervention of a therapist who also served in Vietnam, it was learned that Davis was entitled to a Purple Heart and other medals earned during his service. The army agreed to award him the medals and the prison eventually agreed to let him receive them. The reporter, Chick Jacobs, sums up the story this way: “This is a story of how one veteran, wounded in body and spirit, reached into the demon-filled darkness of a fellow veteran who lost his way long ago. It’s the unlikely tale of how a medal earned in one horror helped bring a touch of humanity to another.” The entire article can be read below: Sept. 5, 2009 N.C. death row inmate receives medals earned in Vietnam By Chick Jacobs, Staff writer James Floyd Davis would never know freedom again. Now 62 years old, slightly stooped with thick reading glasses and pasty skin, he looks far removed from the wild-eyed loner who snapped in a violent, bloody spree 14 years ago. And he looks far removed from the tanned, wiry young man who traded an abusive home life for two tours in the jungles of Vietnam - and a chunk of shrapnel that still throbs in his thigh when the weather turns cold. All of that past, all of that horror and hurt, stared through thick reading glasses at Jim Johnson as the retired Fayetteville therapist tried to discover who James Davis was. This is a story of how one veteran, wounded in body and spirit, reached into the demon-filled darkness of a fellow veteran who lost his way long ago. It’s the unlikely tale of how a medal earned in one horror helped bring a touch of humanity to another. It’s probably best to get the unpleasant truth out of the way: James Floyd Davis is a killer. On a spring morning in 1995, just before lunchtime, Davis calmly strolled into an Asheville tool company where he’d recently been fired for fighting. Instead of his usual bag lunch, the 47-year-old was carrying a semiautomatic rifle and a pistol. Davis wasn’t looking for a fight; he was looking for death. He fired about 50 shots, killing three people - including two bosses who had fired him two days earlier. Then he lit a cigarette, stepped outside and surrendered to police. At his trial, testimony told the court what everybody already seemed to know: James Davis was crazy. He lived alone, had no life beyond work, ate by himself, talked to himself and picked fights with co-workers, threatening to “take everyone with him” if he were fired. He also used a .44 magnum to shoot imaginary groundhogs in his front yard. But the trial presented much more. As a child in western North Carolina, Davis lived with an abusive, drunken dad who would threaten to cut his children’s throats in their sleep and burn down the house. Davis was regularly beaten with a leather strap that drew blood; if he spoke at the dinner table, he was beaten with a mop handle. He was left hungry, and his father locked the freezer and kept the key. This was the man, the monster, the cowering child that Jim Johnson saw staring blankly at him at Raleigh’s Central Prison. Johnson, a trained therapist, pastor and counselor, had dealt with the abused and mentally ill before. In Davis, he saw “a throwaway kid with little hope from the beginning. “He had nobody who’d visit him, nobody he could relate to,” Johnson said. “You’re trained to remain professional, but you begin to develop an understanding of what leads a person to become what they are.” Johnson, however, wasn’t there because Davis was disturbed. He was there because Davis, like Johnson, was a soldier. Both had served in Vietnam during the maelstrom of the Tet Offensive. Johnson was a chaplain along the Mekong River, armed only with faith as he stepped into a daily barrage of shelling and suffering. He saw children die and young men grow old quickly - if they got the chance. Davis served on a firebase in the Central Highlands, losing his hearing and gaining a chunk of shrapnel along the way. He spent a week in the hospital recovering from the wounds; part of the metal remains in his leg. “He was a corporal at one of the 105 mm howitzer bases,” Johnson said. “Those were key targets of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese during Tet.” The men also shared post-traumatic stress disorder, the result of battle stress during the war. Johnson, though eventually a lieutenant colonel and a successful therapist, struggled with its effects for decades. His condition gave him a unique perspective as a family and marriage counselor at Snyder Memorial Baptist Church. The effects of PTSD on the already-fragile psyche of Davis were far more damaging. Although he reached the rank of sergeant, “He said the war just wore him out,” Johnson said. After coming home, Davis’ marriage collapsed, he attempted suicide and he was diagnosed by a Veterans Administration physician as suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and depression. The two were brought together by Ken Rose, a lawyer with the state’s Center for Death Penalty Litigation. The group says Davis received inadequate counsel during his trial, leading to a death sentence. “Make no mistake, James Davis needs to be confined for the remainder of his life,” Rose said. “I think he’s the most mentally ill person on death row today. “However, his defense did not ever raise the issue of his mental illness until well into the trial.” Rose had learned about Johnson and hoped his training and military background “could help me understand my client.” Johnson, who had worked with inmates in California’s San Quentin prison, was aware of Davis’ bloody past. But, he said, “I wasn’t looking at a criminal. I was looking at a fellow veteran, wounded physically and mentally in service to his country.” Johnson, close to Davis’ age and sharing the bond of combat, was able to get him to open up. They talked about life and death, combat and fear. That’s when Johnson learned that Davis had never received the award due him as an injured soldier. “You have to remember, this was during the chaos of Tet,” Johnson said. “There were so many people injured and killed, so much going on, it’s not surprising that a number of soldiers never received the proper recognition.” “No soldier’s service to our country should be ignored,” Johnson said. “A lot of people would say, ‘It’s just a medal. Forget it.’ “Not to me, it’s not. To me, it’s the recognition that every soldier deserves. No matter what happened, his service should be recognized.” Davis was “meek, humbled by the idea” of getting the medal, Johnson said. “It was as if he never expected anyone to do something for him.” His lawyers were less than encouraging. “To a person, everyone said not to get my hopes up,” Johnson said. Rose admitted, “It was a long shot at best. As far as I could tell, there had never been a death row inmate in North Carolina receiving a medal. And I didn’t think this would be the first.” In November, the Army agreed that Davis’ medical records were enough proof that he should receive the Purple Heart. As the only military medal that is awarded by action, rather than recommendation, any soldier injured by enemy action is entitled to it. But Johnson and the lawyers learned something else: Davis had been awarded other medals as well, including the Good Conduct Medal. The Army was happy to send the medals. The prison was less enthusiastic about letting him receive them. “They said no, like we expected,” Rose said. “It was something that was just too unusual. It would take intervention by someone higher up the ladder.” Johnson found that someone in James French, a former warden of Central Prison and now deputy director of the state’s correction system. He also was a Vietnam veteran. He was wounded during the war and received a Purple Heart. Would he be willing to allow a fellow veteran the same honor? French thought about it and agreed. On July 29, James Davis was unshackled and escorted into a small hearing room just off death row. Johnson and Rose were there. So were two fellow veterans, Ray Shurling of Fayetteville and Ron Miriello of Sanford. Johnson, at 6-foot-6, towered over the slouched prisoner standing before him. “But when I prepared to pin his medals on, he stood straight up, hands cupped to the side,” he recalled. Johnson pinned on two of the medals: the Purple Heart and the Good Conduct award. He stepped back and saluted. Davis replied with a textbook-sharp salute. For a moment, it seemed he wasn’t a prisoner. Forty years later, he was a soldier again. “Jim, you’ve just pulled off a miracle,” Rose said afterward. “It wasn’t a miracle,” Johnson replied. “It was just the right thing to do.” Davis wasn’t allowed to keep the medals. He’ll never be able to touch them again. His world has returned to the unyielding routine of Unit III in Raleigh. There’s no certainty that Davis will be executed, although he has given up his appeals. Rose and the Center for Death Penalty Litigation continue to speak on his behalf. Still, James Floyd Davis will never know freedom again. But his service to country has been recognized. “Jim said that regardless of what he had done later, he was a soldier,” Rose said. “And it was important to recognize that sacrifice. “In 30 years of working here, I’d never seen anything like it. I’ll probably never see it again.” Walker Davis Jr. 2 Killed – 0 Wounded Chester native sitting on death row in Fla. hopes for new beginning https://www.delcotimes.com/2011/08/22/chester-native-sitting-on-death-row-in-fla-hopes-for-new-beginning/ CHESTER — For more than 15 years, Walker Davis Jr. and Lamar Z. Brooks have sat behind bars in separate Florida Department of Corrections prisons, convicted of brutally murdering a woman and her infant daughter in 1996. During that span, the family of Davis and Brooks, who are cousins, adamantly have proclaimed the pair’s innocence to no avail. Davis, who grew up in Chester and South Carolina, is serving a life sentence without parole. Brooks, a Chester native and 1990 graduate of Chester High, sits on death row. But they have new hope. A witness has come forward saying he has information that proves Davis and Brooks could not have murdered Rachel Carlson, 23, and her 3-month-old daughter, Alexis Stuart, in Crestview, Fla., on the night of April 24, 1996. Citing newly discovered evidence, both Davis, 40, and Brooks, 38, have filed post-conviction relief motions in the Okaloosa County Circuit Court in Florida. The evidence comes via Ira Ferguson, an inmate incarcerated at the same prison as Davis. Ferguson, 41, claims he was in Crestview on the night of the murders and saw the victims alive at a time after Brooks and Davis had returned to Eglin Air Force Base, about 17 miles away, according to Assistant State Attorney Robert Elmore. Davis and Carlson were senior airmen with the U.S. Air Force stationed at the base. Brooks, a Gulf War veteran, was visiting his cousin at the time of the murders. If Ferguson’s claims are true, they’ll have to be proven in court. The family of Brooks and Davis believe the new evidence, and note a private investigator has confirmed its legitimacy. Elmore, who prosecuted both Davis and Brooks, maintains the state has convicted the correct murderers. There’s not much common ground between the family and Elmore, but both agree on this — the murders of Carlson and Stuart were heinous. Carlson was stabbed 75 times while sitting in her idle car. Stuart, her daughter, was killed by a single slash to her heart while still strapped in her car seat. Police arrested Davis, who was Carlson’s lover, in Florida six days after the murders. They picked up Brooks in Chester the next day. They have been incarcerated ever since. If the new evidence proves true, Brooks and Davis have spent almost all of their adult lives wrongly imprisoned. In that new evidence, Ferguson claims a man named Gerald Gundy, 36, committed the murders, Elmore said. Ferguson claims to have seen Carlson and Gundy, both of whom Ferguson knew, with another blond female on the night of the murder, Elmore said. After the murders, a wildlife officer’s dog tracked footprints located on a dirt road about 15-20 yards from the car back to a house associated with Gundy, Elmore said. A confidential individual added that they saw, from down the street, that Gundy’s vehicle was at the crime scene, Elmore said. Gundy has served two prison sentences, most recently for cocaine possession, according to online public records. He also served time for aggravated battery, grand theft auto, burglary, criminal mischief and aggravated assault with intent to commit a felony. Daniel Ashton, the investigator who examined the legitimacy of Ferguson’s claims, declined to comment because of the possibility of being called as a witness. Attorneys D. Todd Doss and Glenn Swiatek, who represent Brooks and Davis, respectively, did not respond to messages seeking comment. However, the family of Brooks and Davis recently spoke openly with the Daily Times . More than 20 family members, including cousins, aunts and uncles, gathered at the home of Dorothy Brooks, Lamar’s mother, to vouch their support of Brooks and Davis. “I’ve never lost hope,” said Diane Davis, the mother of Walker Davis Jr. “I truly believe they will find the person or persons who did this.” For years, the family has been adamant that those persons are not Lamar and Walker Jr. The family noted that Lamar and Walker Jr. were convicted largely on circumstantial evidence and cite what they believe are several holes in the case: * No DNA evidence ever linked Brooks or Davis to the crime scene, nor was a weapon recovered. No blood was found on their clothing or at the house of Davis. “How can you have someone stab someone 50-60 times and have no blood on their clothes?” said Horace Davis, Brooks and Davis’ uncle. * A clump of blond, Caucasian hair was found in the hand of Carlson. Davis and Brooks are both black. Carlson was white. “She was struggling with somebody,” Diane Davis said. “It couldn’t have been Walker or Lamar.” * An official time of death was never determined. Prosecutors claimed the murders happened between 8:30 and 11:45 p.m. The family cites the fact that the cousins were stopped for a traffic violation at the time of the murders, several miles away. “If we get the correct time of death, this would solve the case — and they know it,” Diane Davis said, noting the coroner that went to the crime scene never testified. * The tracking dog did not lead to Brooks or Davis. It instead went to the house of Gundy. The families learned of Ferguson’s testimony within the last year. After years of proclaiming the cousins’ innocence, Donna Davis said the new evidence was long awaited. “We started asking questions like we were lawyers,” said Davis, who, like her cousins, served in the military. “It was like our prayers had been answered, slowly but surely. We were trying to get the message to Lamar that all the faith, love and prayers may finally be answered.” Brooks is in maximum security and has limited opportunities to interact with his family. Davis is in close custody. “I know Lamar and Walker Jr.,” said Crystal Davis a cousin of them. “We grew up as little kids. None of this is something they would do. We come from a good family. We come from a praying family. “Lamar was just down there visiting his cousin and having a good time. I know this is something that they wouldn’t do.” The state attorney’s office has a different view on the matter. “We have no doubt — and neither did any jury hearing the case, nor any judge — that Walker Davis and Lamar Brooks are responsible for the heinous murder of Rachel Carlson and her infant daughter,” Elmore said. “The evidence is very powerful that that’s what happened.” In response to the family’s claims that the cousins were convicted without DNA evidence and an established time of death, Elmore said, “There was no forensic evidence that links either of them to the car or the bodies, but there’s a whole lot of other evidence that links them to them.” He cited a taped video confession in which Davis admitted to being at the murder scene and watched Brooks commit the murders. He also noted that Davis took out a $100,000 insurance plan on the baby, a fact prosecutors used as the motive for the murders. Though married, Davis was Carlson’s lover, but it was eventually determined that Davis did not father Stuart. As for the new testimony presented by Ferguson, Elmore isn’t convinced. “It goes without saying we highly suspect the credibility of his testimony,” Elmore said. Ferguson is serving time for second-degree murder, three counts of armed robbery, robbery without a weapon and grand theft auto. He is set to be released Sept. 2, 2019, according to online public records. In regard to the tracking dog that traced footprints to Gundy’s house, Elmore said the car containing the victims was located on a paved road and that officers never had dogs trace items from the car. Ferguson is being held at the same prison as Davis. That, Elmore said, is the only connection he knows of between Ferguson and Davis or Brooks. Asked about the frequency of inmates of collaborating to bring new evidence forward, Elmore said such attempts weren’t out of the ordinary. “It’s not an unusual thing for inmates to try to help each other and to give testimony designed to do so,” Elmore said. Davis was convicted of the murders and sentenced to life without parole in 1997. Brooks was convicted of the two murders in 1998, but that conviction was unanimously vacated in 2001 by the Florida Supreme Court, which ruled a trial judge had allowed improper hearsay evidence at Brooks’ trial. Thus, Brooks was granted a retrial, but was again convicted of the murders, this time in 2002. He was again given the death sentence. Airman convicted of killing his girlfriend and her baby https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1997/03/29/airman-convicted-of-killing-his-girlfriend-and-her-baby/ A jury recommended two life prison terms Friday for an Air Force enlisted man convicted in the slayings of his girlfriend, also a service member, and her 3-month-old baby. The same 12-member jury Thursday convicted Walker Davis Jr. on two counts of first-degree murder for the stabbing deaths of Rachel Carlson and her daughter, Alexis, April 24 in this Florida Panhandle city. Circuit Judge Jere Tolton is not bound by the recommendation but must give it great weight when he sentences Davis in May. The only other sentence possible is death in the electric chair. Davis, 26, originally from Marion, S.C., had thought he might have been the baby's father, but blood tests after his arrest proved that was not the case. He and Ms. Carlson, 25, a native of Aloha, Ore., both had the rank of senior airman and were hospital technicians at nearby Eglin Air Force Base. "Nobody won," Clarissa Stuart, Carlson's mother, said after the verdicts Thursday. "I can't say we feel victorious. Our daughter won't be coming home. And now his family is facing the same pain we feel." Prosecutors accused Davis, who was married, of committing the murders to cover up his affair with Carlson and to collect $100,000 in life insurance he had bought on the child. The bodies were found in Carlson's car on a street in Crestview. Carlson had been stabbed and cut more than 70 times. The baby died of a stab wound to the heart and was mutilated after death. A cousin of Davis, Lamar Brooks, 26, also was charged with the murders and is to be tried in April. Robert Lewis Dear Jr. 3 Killed – 9 Wounded Robert Dear, Suspect in Colorado Killings, ‘Preferred to Be Left Alone’ https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/us/robert-dear-suspect-in-colorado-killings-preferred-to-be-left-alone.html He was born in Charleston and grew up in Louisville, Ky., but he had strong ties to South Carolina. His father was a graduate of the Citadel, Charleston’s famous public military college. Robert Lewis Dear Sr., the father, died in 2004. He was a Navy veteran who served in World War II and worked 40 years for the Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company. Matthew de Grood 5 Killed 2014 Calgary stabbing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Calgary_stabbing On April 15, 2014, Matthew de Grood, son of Calgary Police Inspector Doug de Grood, stabbed five young adults to death at a house party in the Brentwood neighbourhood of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The party was several blocks away from the University of Calgary campus, and held to mark the end of its school year. It was Calgary's deadliest massacre.[1] Scott Evans Dekraai 8 Killed – 1 Wounded Details Emerge on Seal Beach Shooting Suspect https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/seal-beach-shooting-suspect-suffered-from-pstd/1910334/ Scott Evans Dekraai, 41, a former tugboat crewman who served in the military, is being held on suspicion of murder after the massacre at the Salon Meritage in Seal Beach Wednesday afternoon. His ex-wife, Michelle Fournier, was among those killed. Branimir Donchev Delchev 8 Killed – 8 Wounded Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_shooting#Perpetrator Branimir Donchev Delchev was born on October 4, 1957. He was of the highest class, lived in the central part of Sofia, he had everything he wanted. His father was the Deputy General Director of DSO "Stara Planina". Because of work, he traveled abroad a lot and spent little time with children. His mother was a cyclophenic or schizophrenic and was often treated in hospital for this. In 1971, she hanged herself in the attic of the family home. He had a twin brother and an older sister. He was mentally unstable and had a mental illness. He was greatly influenced by everything he saw. According to friends, he did not like Asians.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Directory of Officials of the Bulgarian People's Republic https://books.google.com/books?id=VCJJRQgkLpoC&pg=PA120&lpg=PA120&dq=DSO+"Stara+Planina"&source=bl&ots=9c85s79UX8&sig=ACfU3U0ap2AfpI7jhdRoIKQGdAyZhuTAHA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj27_vKif70AhWTsDEKHb-NALIQ6AF6BAgJEAM#v=onepage&q=DSO%20"Stara%20Planina"&f=false Jonathan Doody 9 Killed Youth Testifies Teen Admitted Killing Monks ‘Mercenary Style’ https://apnews.com/article/6654e2bf13e99ac2fff22c5302f8cc00 PHOENIX (AP) _ A teen-ager charged with killing nine people at a Buddhist temple claimed to be an assassin for military intelligence and admitted shooting monks ?mercenary style,? a fellow ROTC cadet testified. ?He said the monks were invading on some type of national security so OSI (the Office of Special Investigations) had to eliminate them,? Benjamin Leininger testified Tuesday during the fourth day of hearings. The hearings are to determine if Jonathan Doody, 17, should be tried as an adult in the Aug. 10 massacre at the Wat Promkunaram Temple in which six monks, two young male followers and an elderly nun were shot to death. A similar hearing is scheduled later for co-defendant Alessandro ?Alex? Garcia, 16. Doody, whose younger brother frequented the temple, was a member of the ROTC at Agua Fria High School in suburban Avondale. His adoptive father was stationed at nearby Luke Air Force Base until August. Leininger, 16, said he approached Doody at the ROTC compound two days before Doody’s arrest last fall, saying Doody appeared troubled. ?He started off saying he was involved in OSI and OSI had used Alex and himself for snipers to do various things ... assassinations and stuff,? Leininger said. ?He said if you ever shot anybody mercenary style, you’ll always see and hear the blood rushing from their heads.? Leininger testified that after saying the monks were an OSI target, Doody told that him he, Garcia and a couple of others carried out the killings. Transcripts of Doody’s interrogation indicate he told authorities the temple murders started as a war game to beat the temple’s security system. Christopher Jordan Dorner 5 Killed (including perpetrator) – 6 Wounded Navy Reservist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dorner_shootings_and_manhunt#Navy_Reservist Dorner was a United States Navy Reserve officer, commissioned in 2002. He commanded a security unit at the Naval Air Station Fallon (Fallon, Nevada), served with a Mobile Inshore Undersea Warfare Unit from June 2004 to February 2006, and was deployed to Bahrain with Coastal Riverine Group Two from November 2006 to April 2007.[17] He was honorably discharged from the Navy Reserve as a lieutenant on February 1, 2013.[18] In 2002, while a student at Undergraduate Pilot Training at Vance Air Force Base (Enid, Oklahoma), Dorner and a classmate found a bag containing nearly US$8,000 (equivalent to about $11,500 in 2020) that belonged to the nearby Enid Korean Church of Grace. The two handed the money to the police. When asked their motive, Dorner replied that, "The military stresses integrity. ... There was a couple of thousand dollars, and if people are willing to give that to a church, it must be pretty important to them." Dorner also stated his mother taught him honesty and integrity.[19] During his time as a reservist, Dorner received a Navy Rifle Marksmanship Ribbon and a Navy Pistol Shot Ribbon with expert device.[20][21] Carl Drega 4 Killed - 4 Wounded Carl Drega https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/170726585/carl-drega Carl Drega is well-known for having shot and killed NH State Troopers, Scott Phillips and Les Lord; attorney and part-time judge Vickie Bunnell; Dennis Joos, editor of the local Colebrook News and Sentinel; and wounded several other police officers and U.S. Border Patrol agents before finally being shot to death. In the midst of all this he burned down his house in Columbia, where he lived alone since his wife Rita had died. Later the police found it stockpiled with pipe bombs, rifles, explosives, and projectile casings for a grenade launcher in the ashes of his home. It is not known when he and Rita married, but it was sometime after she divorced her last husband, Kenneth Cole (who she had married in 1955). She died in 1972. Carl was cremated and his ashes buried here behind her stone. His headstone is right behind hers, almost under it. Age: 62yrs Cause of Death: Shot to Death ~ Carl Drega was a man and US Army veteran from Bow, New Hampshire, who killed two state troopers, a judge and a newspaper editor and wounded three other law enforcement officers before being shot to death in a firefight with police. The book 'The Ballad of Carl Drega' by Vin Suprynowicz is named for him. Dennis Thurl Dowthitt 2 Killed – 0 Wounded MURDERERS WHO HAVE SERVED IN THE U.S. MILITARY: A DATABASE https://ajaor.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/murderers-who-have-served-in-the-u-s-military-a-database/ Dennis Thurl Dowthitt Killed 2 – 0 Wounded Dowthitt v. Johnson, 180 F. Supp. 2d 832 (S.D. Tex. 2000) https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp2/180/832/2475187/ ... Alleged Brain Damage. Petitioner also alleges that he suffered from brain damage and that counsel was constitutionally ineffective in failing to investigate.[31] In support of his allegation that he is brain damaged, Petitioner presents the following evidence: he was beaten and "almost killed" while he was in the military; ... Kevin Wayne Dunlap 3 Killed – 0 Wounded Case of former soldier before U.S. Supreme Court https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2014/08/08/case-of-former-soldier-before-u-s-supreme-court/ SMITHLAND, Ky. – The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing whether to take the case of a former Fort Campbell soldier sentenced to death for killing three children and attacking a woman in southwestern Kentucky. Attorneys for 42-year-old Kevin Wayne Dunlap and Kentucky prosecutors have filed briefs with the high court in the last month. Dunlap, a former soldier with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, a unit known as the "Night Stalkers," pleaded guilty in February 2010 to attacking a woman and her three children at their Trigg County home 16 months earlier. Dunlap killed the three children and repeatedly stabbed their mother before lighting the house on fire. He was sentenced to death and sought expedite his execution. Dunlap and defense attorneys later reached an agreement allowing the high court Man arraigned in slayings of teen sisters, boy https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna27287067 A man charged with killing three children and wounding their mother made an initial court appearance by video Monday in a western Kentucky courtroom. Kevin Wayne Dunlap, 36, was represented by a public defender and did not enter a plea. He appeared by video from the jail in neighboring Christian County, wearing an orange jumpsuit. Police have charged Dunlap with three counts of capital murder in the deaths of 17-year-old Kayla Williams, 14-year-old Kortney Frensley and 5-year-old Ethan Frensley. Their mother, Kristy Frensley, was wounded but survived. Dunlap also faces charges of kidnapping, rape, attempted murder, burglary and tampering with physical evidence. Police have not said who they believe was raped. A coroner's statement Saturday said the older girl died from a cut to the neck and the younger children died of multiple stab wounds. Arrest made on Saturday An announcement was made in the courtroom Monday that family members of the victims were present but did not wish to speak to reporters. Dunlap was arrested Saturday, three days after authorities responding to a fire at a residence in the rural Roaring Spring community near the Fort Campbell Army post found the children's bodies and their injured mother. Military police from the post on the Kentucky-Tennessee border have been assisting Kentucky authorities in collecting evidence from the crime scene. Dunlap is a father of at least two young children, according to records from a Christian County divorce case that was dismissed in 2004 without dissolving the marriage. Records in the divorce case show Dunlap was living at a southern Trigg County address near Fort Campbell when the case was filed. Other records show a landlord sought to evict Dunlap and his wife from a Hopkinsville address in September 2007 but the case was dismissed. At his court appearance Monday, Dunlap said he had lived at his current address a little over a year. When contacted by phone, Harry Lehman of Hopkinsville identified himself as Dunlap's father-in-law but declined to answer questions. "I'd rather not talk about it," he said. Served in the Army Dunlap served in the Army from 1989 until 2002, according to Master Sgt. Keith O'Donnell, spokesman for U.S. Army Human Resources Command. He was ranked a staff sergeant, and his last assignment was at Hunter Army Airfield in Georgia. Some of his service awards included a good conduct medal, a national defense service medal and an overseas service ribbon. After being released from the Army, he served two years with the Kentucky National Guard in a now defunct unit based in Hopkinsville, guard spokesman David Altom said. He did not deploy anywhere while serving with the guard, Altom said. Dunlap is an employee of DirecTV, spokeswoman Caley Cronin said Monday. "We are fully cooperating with authorities right now as they carry out their investigation," Cronin said. Dunlap responded to a few questions from Judge James R. Redd III on Monday, including whether he is employed. "I was," Dunlap said. Asked if he still was employed, Dunlap replied, "Probably not." A preliminary hearing in the case was set for Friday. Shirley Prunitsch, who lives down the street from Dunlap but didn't know him, said news of the arrest "shocked" her. She said the houses are in a quiet residential area of a one-way street heading out of town. "It's a wonderful neighborhood," she said. "We feel very safe here." Bruco Strongeagle Eastwood 0 Killed - 2 Wounded Colo. school shooting suspect says he heard voices https://www.denverpost.com/2010/03/12/colo-school-shooting-suspect-says-he-heard-voices-2/ Eastwood’s father, War Eagle Eastwood, has said he believes his son suffers from schizophrenia and that he was upset because he recently failed a GED test he took to try to enlist in the military. Larry Bill Elliot 2 Killed – 0 Wounded 2009 Larry Bill Elliott https://richmond.com/2009-larry-bill-elliott/image_c7c168d4-dda0-11e6-97a0-0bdebb2cbed3.html Larry Bill Elliott, a former Army intelligence officer from Hanover, Md., was executed Nov. 17, 2009 for the murder of Dana Thrall of Prince William County. Thrall, 25, was pistol-whipped and shot three times in the head in her Dale City town house. Robert Finch, 30, who lived with Thrall, was shot in the head, chest and back. In Virginia's death chamber, a rare death by electrocution http://voices.washingtonpost.com/crime-scene/josh-white/larry-bill-elliott-60-was.html The really shocking story here got covered up by our corrupt secret government and its colluding press that focused on a DUPED lovesick military intell agent gone rogue instead of Rebecca Gragg's ADMITTED BLACKMAILABLE SEXPLOITS with married Congressmen, Senators, etc.!!! It doesn't make sense that Elliott would murder two people over a hooker's custody battle. Did Elliott really have the money and desire to support her kids too?? The real motive was silencing the government-destroying blackmail secrets Finch and Thrall learned from Gragg's sordid profession that would come out in family court! Gragg probably worked for the MURDERED DC Madam! Clearly, federal authorities told local law enforcement not to investigate Gragg OR HER FAMOUS CLIENTS! I remember an earlier Post article mentioning that married Congressmen paraded her hot looks off at "private parties"! Why wasn't this enormous scandal pursued?? Did lobbyists hire Gragg to bribe Congressmen on their votes with sex?? Why is her picture never posted? Why is her privacy and criminal profession getting a free pass from everyone? This scandal deserves as much attention as the DC Madam and Chandra Levy! While Gragg is too narcissistic and greedy to name her famous clients, Finch and Thrall unwittingly remained a threat to numerous powers that be. Elliott struck me as something of a manipulated Oswald Manchurian Candidate, and child custody doesn't seem enough of a motive here. Posted by: clonedlamb | November 18, 2009 10:08 PM | Report abuse Mark James Robert Essex 9 Killed – 13 Wounded Mark Essex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Essex Mark James Robert Essex (August 12, 1949[1] – January 7, 1973) was an American serial sniper and black nationalist who killed a total of nine people, including five policemen, and wounded 13 others in New Orleans on December 31, 1972 and January 7, 1973. He was killed in the second armed confrontation. He was also a one-time member of a New York-based branch of the Black Panthers and allegedly sought to kill white people and police officers due to racism he said he has experienced while enlisted in the Navy as well as his increasingly extremist anti-police views following a violent clash between Baton Rouge police officers and student civil rights demonstrators, during which two black demonstrators were shot and killed. Background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Essex#Background Essex joined the United States Navy as a dental technician in 1969, stationed in San Diego, California, where he said he was subjected to two years of ceaseless racial abuse from whites.[2] He went on "unauthorized absence" ("UA") from October 19 until November 16, 1970. He was given a general discharge for unsuitability on February 10, 1971, for "character and behavior disorders". After his discharge, he became involved with black radicals in San Francisco, California, and later joined the New York Black Panthers.[3] Valery Iosifovich Fabrikant 4 Killed – 1 Wounded Patterns Among School Shooters: Body-Related Issues and the Military https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/patterns_body_related_issues_and_military_1.28.pdf RELATIVES IN THE MILITARY OR LAW ENFORCEMENT Valery Fabrikant – Father: reportedly physician in Russian Army MILITARY ASPIRATION / OBSESSION AND OUTCOME College Shooters Valery Fabrikant May have served in Russian army, but if so, this was presumably mandatory Richard Wade Farley 7 Killed – 4 Wounded Early life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Farley#Early_life Richard Farley was born July 25, 1948 in Texas. He was the oldest of six children. His father was in the military, therefore the family frequently relocated, and eventually settled in California. He graduated from high school in 1966 and attended Santa Rosa Junior College. Farley then joined the United States Navy in 1967 where he stayed for ten years. After his discharge in 1977, Farley began working as a software technician at ESL Inc., a defense contractor in Sunnyvale, California.[2] ESL Incorporated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESL_Incorporated ESL primarily supplied domestic intelligence agencies, NASA and the U.S. military, but had certain direct relations with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and also provided some services for a variety of state agencies. Principal historic areas of competence are: (a) reconnaissance systems; (b) data communications systems (including advanced sonar and laser light scattering); (c) phased array radar surveillance systems; (d) advanced data processing systems; and (e) environmental systems. The company employed a large technical staff, most of them holding advanced academic degrees. Highly Sensitive Research https://murderpedia.org/male.F/f/farley-richard.htm Industry sources say the company, a subsidiary of TRW Inc., is involved in some of the most highly classified research projects of any concern in the high-technology industrial community south of San Francisco. According to these sources, ESL Inc. specializes in the development of electronic systems that eavesdrop on and decode encrypted communications of foreign nations, jam enemy communications and perform other functions for customers that include the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency. Lieutenant Grijalva said that, in the telephone negotiations before his surrender, Mr. Farley said he initially intended only to "shoot out" some of the company's computers. When employees confronted him in the building, he said he then felt compelled to shoot them for "defensive" reasons, Lieutenant Grijalva said. Then, the authorities said, he stalked and shot Laura Black, a 26-year-old electrical engineer, the object of his unrequited affections, and the cause of his dismissal. James Alex Fields Jr. 1 Killed – 35 Wounded Biography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlottesville_car_attack#Biography ... When he was a senior in high school, Fields applied to join the army, and Derek Weimer, Fields's history teacher and a former Ohio National Guard officer, helped him because Weimer believed that the military "would expose Fields to people of different races and backgrounds and help him dispel his white supremacist views." Fields was eventually rejected, which Weimer called a "big blow."[7] Fields graduated from Randall K. Cooper High School in 2015.[8] Fields entered the Army on August 18, 2015, and was released from active duty "due to a failure to meet training standards" on December 11 the same year.[7][34] Army spokeswoman Lt. Col. Jennifer Johnson said that Fields "was never awarded a military occupational skill nor was he assigned to a unit outside of basic training."[6] Weimer lost contact with Fields after he had graduated and was "surprised" when he heard that Fields had managed to enlist in the army.[7] ... Charlottesville Driver Who Rammed Crowd Washed Out of Army https://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/08/14/charlottesville-driver-who-rammed-crowd-washed-out-of-army.html The driver accused of ramming his vehicle into a crowd in Charlottesville on Saturday served a brief stint in the U.S. Army but ultimately washed out. James Alex Fields Jr., the 20-year-old from Ohio who was charged with second-degree murder after allegedly killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and critically injuring several others in the incident, served on active duty for about four months from August to December 2015, according to an emailed statement from William Sharp, a public affairs officer for the service at the Pentagon. "The Army can confirm that James Alex Fields reported for basic military training in August of 2015," Sharp said. "He was, however, released from active duty due to a failure to meet training standards in December of 2015. As a result, he was never awarded a military occupational skill nor was he assigned to a unit outside of basic training." Video of the incident in Charlottesville circulated on social media, and Ryan Kelly, a photographer for The Daily Progress, snapped an iconic photograph that shows a gray Challenger plowing into a crowd of people, throwing victims into the air. In addition to the fatality, 19 others were injured, several critically. Just hours after Fields drove into the crowd, a state police helicopter that was providing surveillance to the rally crashed, killing troopers Jay Cullen and Berke Bates. The incident in Charlottesville started when white nationalists gathered Friday for a "Unite the Right" rally to protest the city's decision to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee -- a memorial that in 2015 was vandalized with the words, "Black Lives Matter." Another group of counter-protesters held their own rally Saturday and marched while holding signs that read "Black Lives Matter" and "Love." In addition to second-degree murder, Fields is charged with three counts of malicious wounding and failing to stop at the scene of a crash that resulted in a death, The New York Times reported. White House National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said the attack could be defined as domestic terrorism but legally is a criminal act. "I certainly think any time that you commit an attack against people to incite fear, it is terrorism," he said Sunday on ABC's "This Week" news talk show. "It meets the definition of terrorism." McMaster added, "But what this is, what you see here, is you see someone who is a criminal, who is committing a criminal act, against fellow Americans. A criminal act that may have been motivated, and we'll see what the -- what's turned up in this investigation, by this hatred and bigotry, which I mentioned we have to extinguish in our nation." Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday said he has opened a federal investigation into the racially charged case, which he described as an "evil attack" and domestic terrorism. John McCain, a Republican from Arizona and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, on Saturday released an impassioned statement about the matter. "Our Founders fought a revolution for the idea that all men are created equal. The heirs of that revolution fought a Civil War to save our nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to that revolutionary proposition," he said. "Nothing less is at stake on the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, where a violent attack has taken at least one American life and injured many others in a confrontation between our better angels and our worst demons." McCain added, "White supremacists and neo-Nazis are, by definition, opposed to American patriotism and the ideals that define us as a people and make our nation special. As we mourn the tragedy that has occurred in Charlottesville, American patriots of all colors and creeds must come together to defy those who raise the flag of hatred and bigotry." Charlottesville Murder Suspect James Alex Fields May Be A Veteran, But He Was Never A Soldier https://taskandpurpose.com/news/james-alex-fields-army-charlottesville/ The Department of Defense Manpower Data Center may list James Alex Fields, Jr., as having served on active duty in the U.S. Army, but that sure as hell doesn’t mean he was a soldier. The 20-year-old Kentucky native was booked and charged on Aug. 12 with one count of second-degree murder and three counts of malicious wounding, among others, after allegedly targeted protesters with his car amid violent clashes between white nationalists and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, VA that day, the Washington Post reports. The attack left one dead and 19 injured, five critically; video shows a 2010 Dodge Challenger, later identified as registered to Fields, accelerating into a crowd of bystanders on a pedestrian mall. Shortly after the incident, as media outlets rushed to piece together whatever they could on the hit-and-run, Mediaite reported that Fields had served in the Army for less than four months, from August 18th to December 11th, 2015 (a Facebook post from his mother marks his arrival at boot camp). “The Army can confirm that James Alex Fields reported for basic military training in August of 2015,” Army spokesman Lt. Col. Jennifer Johnson told Task & Purpose in a statement. “He was, however, released from active duty due to a failure to meet training standards in December of 2015. As a result, he was never awarded a military occupational skill nor was he assigned to a unit outside of basic training.” A mass attacker’s military background can often fuel media stereotypes about violent veterans. Wade Michael Page, who killed four people at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin in 2012, served from 1992 to 1998. Aaron Alexis, who killed 13 people at the Washington Navy Yard in 2013, was an aviation electrician's mate at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth from 2007 to 2011. And in 2016, Army veteran Micah Johnson shot and killed five police officers in Dallas, Texas. More than a third of the 43 worst mass killings in the U.S. since 1984 were carried out by military veterans. But it’s worth noting that this logic doesn’t necessarily apply to the case of Fields. Though Fields may technically qualify as a veteran for lasting more than 90 days in the armed forces, he was barely even a soldier: he never recieved an MOS, never felt loyalty to a unit outside of basic. His Army career is worth exactly nothing. The Army clearly didn’t make Fields a war machine; according to media reports, was Nazi-obsessed long before he ever set foot in a barracks. A former high school teacher of Fields’ told the Lexington Herald-Leader that the boy, who expressed “radical idea on race” during his time as his student, had “wanted to join the Army, but couldn’t because of his mental health history.” “He was very infatuated with the Nazis, with Adolf Hitler,” the teacher, Derek Weimer, told the Herald-Leader. “He also had a huge military history, especially with German military history and World War II. But, he was pretty infatuated with that stuff.” (A classmate of Fields’ suggested to the New York Times that his obsession with Nazis stretched back to middle school). This is, frankly, unsurprising, and it helps knock down the subtle media narrative of the unstable U.S. service member ravaged by PTSD and ready to explode. After all, Wade Michael Page was a white supremacist who targeted Sikhs, a group often mistaken for Muslims; Aaron Alexis had severe mental health issues long before his service, so far that he thought his rifle was speaking to him; and Micah Johnson was a black militant intent on bringing down what he perceived as a racist police state. Like Fields, none of their motivating ideologies were molded by the Pentagon. But unlike these other psychos, Fields apparently didn’t even make it through basic training; for the last several months, he’s been living with his mother in Ohio, according to the New York Times. He may have had his head shaved on that hot day in August 2015 when he arrived for his first day in Army, but nothing about his time in the military suggests that he ever even came close to being considered a soldier, let alone a man — and his alleged hit-and-run on Aug. 12 only proves it. UPDATE: The article has been updated with a statement from the U.S. Army. (Updated 8/13/17, 9:50 pm ET). Robert William Fisher 3 Killed – 1 Wounded Adult life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_William_Fisher#Adult_life Fisher enlisted in the United States Navy and attempted to become part of the SEALs, but was not successful.[6] He was an avid outdoorsman, hunter, and fisherman. Fisher worked as a firefighter in California but was forced to retire after a back injury. He then moved his family to Arizona and embarked on a career in the medical field. He worked as a surgical catheter technician, and respiratory therapist. Fisher was a surgical technician at a Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale at the time of the murders.[1][7] ... Syed Rizwan Farook 14 Killed – 22 Wounded Raheel Farook, Tatiana Farook, and Mariya Chernykh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_San_Bernardino_attack#Raheel_Farook,_Tatiana_Farook,_and_Mariya_Chernykh Raheel Farook served in the U.S. Navy in the Iraq War from 2003 to 2007, and was awarded two medals for service during the War on Terror. He was described by friends and neighbors as sociable and extroverted compared with his brother Rizwan. In 2011, he married Tatiana, a Russian citizen who immigrated to the U.S. in 2003 from her home village of Vysokiy, located 400 miles (640 km) from Moscow.[158][184][185][186] Brent Fleming Killed – Wounded Patterns Among School Shooters: Body-Related Issues and the Military https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/patterns_body_related_issues_and_military_1.28.pdf h RELATIVES IN THE MILITARY OR LAW ENFORCEMENT Secondary School Shooters [Brent Fleming] [Father: police officer] Robert Stewart Flores, Jr. 4 Killed (including perpetrator) – 0 Wounded Arizona Gunman Chose Victims in Advance https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/30/us/arizona-gunman-chose-victims-in-advance.html A man who the police and witnesses say killed three nursing instructors and then himself at the University of Arizona on Monday was a Persian Gulf war veteran who qualified as an expert marksman, his military records show. The man, Robert S. Flores Jr., arrived at the university armed for the apocalypse and with his victims already chosen, the Tucson police said. Although he was trained on an M-16 assault rifle in the military, he was carrying five handguns and more than 200 rounds of ammunition when he walked into the nursing school and methodically killed three instructors. University officials said Mr. Flores was on the verge of flunking out of the nursing program and chose to take retribution on the teachers who gave him failing grades. Witnesses said he mocked one of his victims, Barbara Monroe, with the words, ''Are you ready to meet your maker?'' before shooting her three times in front of a class of terrified students. His arsenal included a Norinco .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol, a Glock .40-caliber semiautomatic, a Smith & Wesson .357 revolver, a Colt .357 and a Czech-made 9 millimeter semiautomatic, a Tucson police spokesman said. The police seized a Russian-made SKS rifle at his apartment, but it had not been fired recently, officials said. Mr. Flores, 41, bragged to fellow students last year that he had received a permit to carry a concealed weapon in Arizona. Requirements for the permit include a 16-hour safety training course and a background check by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the state Department of Public Safety said. While in the Army, Mr. Flores served six months in Saudi Arabia as a mechanic during and after the Persian Gulf war in 1991. He had previously served in Germany and South Korea, where he received training as a sniper. He also received training in an airborne battalion and with elite Ranger units. Mr. Flores received several service awards and commendations, including three good-conduct medals. The Army did not release the terms of his discharge, in 1992, citing privacy laws. His discharge status was blacked out on a record of his military service that the government provided today. He joined the Army in 1981 after graduating from high school in Alhambra, Calif. He served 11 years on active duty, receiving his basic training at Fort Benning, Ga. He moved a half-dozen times during his service career, including a three-year tour as a generator repairman at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., near Tucson. He mustered out at Fort Carson, Colo., in May 1992. Joe Brink, the manager of the modest apartment complex where Mr. Flores lived, said he was ''astounded'' to hear that Mr. Flores was involved in the killings at the university. Mr. Brink said he had seen Mr. Flores leave for his nursing classes on Monday morning carrying a backpack that he assumed was full of schoolbooks. ''That blew me away,'' Mr. Brink said. ''He said he was off to school. He had his backpack on, and to think, that puppy was loaded with weapons. I had no idea.'' The Tucson police released few new details of the shootings today. Sgt. Marco Borboa, a spokesman, said officials were conducting autopsies on the four bodies to determine how many shots were fired and by what weapons. Sergeant Borboa also said that Mr. Flores was not carrying any explosives and that none had been found in any university buildings. Officials were nervous that Mr. Flores might have planted or been carrying bombs because dogs indicated the presence of explosives in his car and near his body. They said they were also mindful that 18 months ago Mr. Flores threatened to ''put something under'' the nursing school. An instructor, who also said Mr. Flores was contemplating suicide, had reported the threat to the university police. The police handled the matter quietly, said Anthony Daykin, chief of the University of Arizona police, and it was ''deemed at the time to be resolved.'' The nursing school will remain closed until next Monday, but the rest of the university tried today to return to some semblance of normality, although with an increased police presence and counseling for those in need of it. Officials are planning a memorial service for the three dead instructors, Robin E. Rogers, Cheryl McGaffic and Ms. Monroe. Zane Michael Floyd 4 Killed – 1 Wounded Background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zane_Floyd#Background After attending high school, Floyd enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. He was honorably discharged, but was told that he was not welcome to re-enlist because of his heavy drinking.[3] Before the shooting that led to his conviction, he worked as a security guard and part-time as a bouncer at a bar.[4] Eric Matthew Frein 1 Killed – 1 Wounded He grew up listening to his father’s anti-police rants. A lawsuit claims it drove him to murder. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/09/27/was-a-pennsylvania-cop-killer-driven-to-murder-by-his-fathers-anti-government-rants/ ... Frein’s relationship with his mother and father shadowed his criminal trial. Eugene Frein, in particular, emerged as the household’s dominating ego. A career Army and National Guard officer, the older Frein retired after 28-years of military service with the rank of major. Eugene regaled friends and family with constant war stories about serving as a tank commander in Vietnam, according to the Morning Call. He also claimed he had fought as a sniper, trucking out regularly one particular anecdote about covering himself with excrement to hide from the Viet Cong. But all those stories were fabrications, Eugene admitted at his son’s trial. He had never seen combat. “It was a household full of false stories of a hero who was not a hero,” Frein’s attorney Michael Weinstein argued in court. “A child was raised amid that hero worship, and it was all a lie.” The elder Frein also regularly sounded off about the current state of the government. One of the defendant’s friends — Warren Ahner — testified Frein’s father “ridiculed his son while complaining that Americans have become ‘sheep’ in a country where the Constitution is no longer respected,” the Morning Call reported. When Eugene Frein testified in court, he spoke openly about his feelings for police. “The more they become militarized, the more they become like an army, and this country already has an Army,” the father said, according to PennLive. Eugene, however, told the court he never encouraged his son to acts of violence. “If [Eric] had a plan to shoot and kill anybody, I would have stopped him,” the father told jurors. According to Dickson’s recent lawsuit, that strange relationship between father and son is the skeleton key to understanding the younger Frein’s revolutionary furor. “Eugene M. Frein, exercised significant influence over his son, Eric … with respect to Eugene M. Frein’s views on government, the police, and the use of firearms,” the lawsuit says. “Eugene regaled Eric with exaggerated stories about Eugene’s career in the military. Eric attempted to emulate his father but could not measure up.” The father also “related to Eric” his “theories about how he believed that the police wielded too much power.” This amounted to, the complaint argues, a situation where the father “psychologically manipulated” the son “into developing a strong dislike for the police and acting upon that dislike by engaging in the aforementioned actions.” ... Slain Pa. trooper's widow sues parents of Eric Frein https://www.post-gazette.com/news/state/2017/09/24/Eric-Frein-Pennsylvania-state-trooper-Bryon-Dickson-widow-lawsuit-parents-sued/stories/201709240156 The parents of convicted cop-killer Eric Matthew Frein were aware of and fostered their son’s disdain for law enforcement that led to his slaying of state police Cpl. Bryon K. Dickson II outside the Blooming Grove barracks three years ago, the officer’s widow alleges in a lawsuit. Tiffany Dickson, Dunmore, filed the survival and wrongful death action Thursday in Lackawanna County Court, seeking damages from Frein and his parents, Eugene M. and Deborah Frein of Canadensis. The lawsuit contends Eugene and Deborah Frein psychologically manipulated their son “into developing a strong dislike for the police and acting on that dislike” in carrying out his Sept. 12, 2014, ambush attack at the barracks. “The psychological manipulation ... was the direct and proximate cause of the actions taken by” Eric Frein, Tiffany Dickson, who is represented by attorney Marion Munley, maintains in her complaint. Eric Frein, 34, was living with his parents at their 308 Seneca Lane home when he shot and killed Bryon Dickson and seriously wounded Trooper Alex T. Douglass of Olyphant. He spent the next 48 days evading a massive manhunt in Pike and Monroe counties before his capture outside an abandoned airport hangar in Pocono Twp. He was convicted of first-degree murder and other charges April 19 and later sentenced to death. The lawsuit contends Eugene and Deborah Frein supported their son financially and knew he was storing weapons, ammunition and other supplies that he subsequently used in his attack on the barracks and while evading police during the manhunt. They also understood Eric Frein believed police were too militarized and had an unfavorable view of government, the complaint says. In particular, Eugene Frein, an Army veteran who passed on his military firearms and demolition explosives skills to his son, exercised “significant influence” over Eric Frein with respect to his views on government, police and the use of firearms, it says. “Eugene regaled Eric with exaggerated stories about Eugene’s career in the military,” the suit alleges. “Eric attempted to emulate his father but could not measure up.” Eugene and Deborah Frein were negligent in keeping more than four dozen guns, including the .308-caliber rifle used to kill Bryon Dickson, in their home “in an unsecured manner easily accessible to Eric, whom his parents knew maintained an extreme antipathy for government and the police.” The parents, who also provided financial and emotional support for Eric Frein’s military simulation hobby, should have known their son was mentally ill or had difficulty separating reality from fantasy, the suit alleges. Eric Frein had a history of acting in a strange and threatening manner “which would evidence he should not be entrusted with dangerous items such as firearms and materials for building explosive devices,” according to the complaint. His parents knew or should have known he had “violent, terroristic plans.” Efforts to reach the Freins’ attorney, Joseph B. Mayers of Blue Bell, were unsuccessful Friday. Tiffany Dickson initially filed a writ of summons against the Freins, putting them on notice that a lawsuit would follow, in August 2016. Similar actions against the killer and his parents have been filed in Monroe County by Douglass and in Pike County by Nicole Palmer, a civilian dispatcher who tried to assist Bryon Dickson after he was shot. Suspected Penn. cop-killer Eric Matthew Frein is an excellent marksman who ‘doesn’t miss’: dad https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/at-large-pa-killer-police-trained-officials-article-1.1941230 A manhunt is underway for a "survivalist" who has expressed a desire to kill law enforcement officers and commit mass murder after killing a trooper and critically wounding another outside a Pennsylvania barracks, authorities said. State Police Commissioner Frank Noonan said Eric Matthew Frein, 31, of Canadensis, Pa., is considered armed and "extremely dangerous," and is wanted for Friday's murder of Pennsylvania Trooper Cpl. Bryon Dickson. "He has made statements about wanting to kill law enforcement officers and also to commit mass acts of murder," Noonan said. "What his reasons are, we don't know. But he has very strong feelings about law enforcement and seems to be very angry with a lot of things that go on in our society." Noonan says about 200 law enforcement officials are combing the rural area of northeastern Pennsylvania marked by dense forests, but "we have no idea where he is," Noonan said. Frein's father, Michael Frein, a retired major in the U.S. Army with 28 years of service, told police that his son is an excellent marksman who "doesn't miss," according to a police affidavit released Tuesday. He also told police that two weapons were missing from the home — an AK-47 and a .308 rifle with a scope, according to the affidavit. ... Kenneth Junior French 4 Killed – 0 Wounded Luigi's Restaurant shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi%27s_Restaurant_shooting On August 6, 1993, 22-year-old Fort Bragg soldier Kenneth Junior French, armed with two shotguns and a rifle, opened fire inside a Luigi's restaurant in Fayetteville, North Carolina, killing four people and injuring seven others. The case was featured in the 1997 documentary film Licensed to Kill.[1][2] Gunman Who Killed Four in Restaurant Escapes Death Sentence https://apnews.com/article/2b512c3b87b4dd2f14cee792f510bb24 WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) _ The soldier convicted of gunning down four people in a restaurant while shouting about homosexuals in the military escaped the death penalty Friday, then was sentenced to life in prison. The jury deadlocked over whether Kenneth Junior French should be sentenced to die, which meant an automatic life sentence. Superior Court Judge Coy Brewer imposed four consecutive life sentences, and 35 years for the assaults. French was convicted April 1 of four counts of first-degree murder and eight counts of assault in the 1993 attack. ?I hope the jurors who made the decision can sleep at night,? said Kiki Manis, daughter of victims Pete and Ethel Parrous, who owned the restaurant. Two customers were also killed. French, a 23-year-old sergeant stationed at nearby Fort Bragg, admitted firing his shotgun inside the Luigi’s restaurant in Fayetteville. Witnesses said French, who was armed with two shotguns and a .22-caliber rifle, stormed into the restaurant shouting about the president and gays in the military and opened fire. The siege ended when a police officer sneaked into the restaurant and shot him down. Defense lawyers contended French had been drinking heavily and snapped emotionally because of memories of his abusive father. Jaylen Ray Fryberg 5 Killed (including perpetrator) – 3 Wounded Patterns Among School Shooters: Body-Related Issues and the Military https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/patterns_body_related_issues_and_military_1.28.pdf Jaylen Fryberg – Grandfather: U.S. Marine Corps Buford O'Neal Furrow, Jr. 1 Killed – 5 Wounded History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Jewish_Community_Center_shooting#History Buford O'Neal Furrow, Jr. (born November 25, 1961) grew up in Lacey, Washington and graduated from Western Washington University in 1986 with a degree in engineering. During the 1980s, Furrow worked for Boeing and Northrop Grumman. In the 1990s, Furrow became involved with white supremacist Richard Girnt Butler's movement and was part of the security detail at Butler's Hayden Lake, Idaho compound.[1] Months prior to the shooting, Buford O. Furrow had been treated for mental illness while in the custody of the state of Washington.[2] He reportedly spent some time living with Debbie Mathews (the widow of Robert Jay Mathews, the deceased neo-Nazi terrorist who founded The Order) whom he had met at the Aryan Nations headquarters in Idaho.[3] David Livingston Funchess 2 Killed – 0 Wounded VIETNAM VETERAN IS PUT TO DEATH IN FLORIDA https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/23/us/vietnam-veteran-is-put-to-death-in-florida.html A man who was wounded in Vietnam and convicted in the slaying of two bar employees in Jacksonville in 1974 was executed here today in the electric chair. The convict, David Livingston Funchess, 39 years old, was executed 90 minutes after the United States Supreme Court voted 7 to 2 not to extend a five-hour stay it issued earlier today. He was pronounced dead at 5:11 P.M. ''I feel sorry for his family,'' said Madge Stewart, whose father, Clayton Ragan, was killed, along with Anna Waldrop, by Mr. Funchess. ''They're going to lose a loved one. But they got to see him 11 years longer than I got to see my loved one.'' She and Betti Shupe, the daughter of Mrs. Waldrop, hugged when told that Mr. Funchess was dead. The execution had been set for 7 A.M. but was stayed by a Federal appeals court in Atlanta. It was later stayed again by the Supreme Court. Convicted in 1975 Mr. Funchess, diagnosed as suffering from stress stemming from duty in Vietnam, was the 56th person executed in the United States since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, and the third in eight days. Peter Erlinder, a professor at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minn., who has researched the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder on Vietnam veterans, said Mr. Funchess was the first veteran executed despite being diagnosed as suffering from the disorder. Mr. Erlinger said at least two Vietnam veterans had been acquitted of murder charges after asserting that they suffered from the disorder, which was not recognized until 1980. Mr. Funchess was convicted in 1975. Mr. Funchess was condemned to die for killing a woman and a man in a holdup Dec. 16, 1974, in a Jacksonville bar, where he worked a year earlier. Served Two and a Half Months Mr. Funchess's lawyer, Jeff Thompson, also a Vietnam veteran, had argued that Mr. Funchess was a victim of post-traumatic stress disorder, an affliction said to have affected thousands of veterans who are unable to adjust to civilian life after combat in an unpopular war. Symptoms include experiencing flashbacks and suppressing memories of violence. Mr. Funchess was 19, had no criminal record and had graduated in the top third of his high school class when he was drafted in 1967. He was wounded when he stepped on a land mine after serving two and a half months and was then discharged. Vernon Bradford, a spokesman for the State Department of Corrections, said Mr. Funchess's parents, Wenis Funchess and Alice Roberts; his wife, Christine, and three sisters and two brothers visited him from late Monday until early today. Nathan Miles Gale 5 Killed – 3 Wounded Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_nightclub_shooting#Perpetrator In February 2002, Gale enlisted in the United States Marine Corps.[2] Clark was proud of her son's military service, and felt that he had successfully recovered from his drug problems. As a Christmas present in 2002, she bought him the gun that he would later use in the shooting.[21][22] Gale was stationed at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina with the 2nd Marine Division until October 2003, when he was discharged.[23][24] A spokesperson for the Marines declined to reveal the reasoning for Gale's discharge, citing privacy rules.[25] Clark stated after the shooting that Gale had told her he was discharged due to a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia.[26] After his discharge, the Department of Veteran Affairs secured a job for Gale as a mechanic. His employer, Rich Cencula, later reported that Gale had also told him he was schizophrenic.[9][27] Clark believed that Gale was not taking medication for the illness; an autopsy performed by the Franklin County coroner's office found that no drugs were in Gale's system.[26][28] Ilya Ilyich Galkin 8 Killed – 46 Wounded Perpetrators https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sochi_bombings#Perpetrators ... Ilya Ilyich Galkin[7] was born in 1983. He had a mother Nadezhda Galkina, father Ilya Deshko and a brother-in-law on his father Alexander Deshko.[5][8] After school, he studied at a police school. After which he worked in the Sochi police. The first time Galkin made explosives in February 2008. At the time of his arrest, he was a lieutenant.[9] ... David R. Garvin 3 Killed – 0 Wounded Manhattan: Details of Killer’s Marine Discharge https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/21/nyregion/21mbrfs-killer.html David R. Garvin, the man fatally shot by the police after he killed a bartender and two auxiliary police officers in Greenwich Village last week, was discharged from the Marine Corps in the fall of 1988 for failing to show up for required training that was part of his military commitment as a reservist, a spokesman for the Marines said yesterday. The spokesman, First Lt. Brian P. Donnelly, said that Mr. Garvin, a private, was discharged on Oct. 24, 1988, and that the discharge was classified as “general under other than honorable conditions.” Mr. Garvin began his service on March 4, 1986, and his specialty was field radio operator. Dionisio Garza III 2 Killed (including the perpetrator) – 6 Wounded Family ID's "troubled" Army vet as gunman in Houston rampage https://www.cbsnews.com/news/family-ids-troubled-army-vet-dionisio-garza-as-gunman-in-houston-rampage/ HOUSTON -- The family of a "troubled" Army veteran from California says he was the gunman who killed one person and injured several others in a shooting rampage at a Houston auto detail shop. According to military service verification information obtained by 48 Hours Crimesider, Garza enlisted in the Army in Los Angeles in 2009. He trained at Fort Benning, Georgia, and was stationed in Vicenza, Italy from 2009 to 2011 and then in Fort Bliss, Texas from 2011 to January 2014, when he was discharged. He was deployed twice to Afghanistan, from December 2009 to November 2010 and from December 2012 to August 2013. The Sergeant received numerous awards and medals including two stars for the Afghanistan campaign. Gamil Rodrigue Liass Gharbi("Marc Lépine") 15 Killed – 14 Wounded Adolescence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Lépine#Adolescence ... Lépine applied to join the Canadian Forces as an officer cadet in September 1981 at the age of 17, but was rejected during the interview process. He later told his friend it was because of difficulties accepting authority, and in his suicide letter noted that he had been found to be "anti-social".[18][35] An official statement from the military after the massacre stated that he had been "interviewed, assessed and determined to be unsuitable".[4] ... Kimveer Singh Gill 2 Killed – 19 Wounded Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson_College_shooting#Perpetrator Gill briefly received military training from the Canadian Forces Leadership and Recruit School in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, from January 17 to February 16, 1999. He had told his friends he wished to eventually become a mercenary. He did not complete his basic training for unknown reasons.[24] He was deemed unsuitable for military service and was voluntarily discharged before receiving extensive weapons training. Shooter had brief military service https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/shooter-had-brief-military-service/article18169346/ The gunman who went on a rampage at Montreal's Dawson College on Wednesday, killing one woman and leading to the injury of 20 other people, was briefly a member of the Canadian Forces. Kimveer Gill did basic training at the Canadian Forces Leadership and Recruit School in Saint-Jean, Que., from Jan. 17 to Feb. 16, 1999. "We can confirm that the perpetrator served for a one-month period," John Knoff, a spokesman for National Defence, said last night. He stressed, however, that Mr. Gill did not get any weapons training, nor did he do anything but rudimentary basic training, which is largely physical exercise and disciplinary training. "He did not complete his basic training," Mr. Knoff said. The spokesman said he did not know the circumstances of Mr. Gill's premature departure. Friends said that, even in high school, Mr. Gill spoke of joining the Armed Forces, in large part because of his fascination with guns. Patterns Among School Shooters: Body-Related Issues and the Military https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/patterns_body_related_issues_and_military_1.28.pdf Kimveer Gill – Family served in military in India Daood Sayed Gilani ("David Coleman Headley") 175+ Killed – 300+ Wounded Early life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Headley#Early_life In 1977, at the age of seventeen, Gilani left a contentious relationship with his Pakistani stepmother and moved to the U.S. with the help of his biological mother, Serrill Headley. Gilani settled with his mother in Philadelphia, where he helped her manage the Khyber Pass Pub and the adjacent Miss Headley's Wine Bar. Employees at the pub nicknamed him "The Prince." Gilani enrolled at a military high school, Valley Forge Military Academy, but dropped out after one semester.[20][21] He was a student at the Community College of Philadelphia but dropped out without a degree in the 1990s.[18][22][23] In 1985, he married a Pennsylvania State University student, but they divorced two years later due to cultural differences.[24] He eventually moved to New York City and opened a video rental business.[25] Indian suspicion about U.S. relationship with Headley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Headley#Indian_suspicion_about_U.S._relationship_with_Headley While government officials in India cite full cooperation by U.S. authorities, the opposition parties and others in India have demanded explanations of why Headley was allowed to travel freely for years between India, Pakistan, and the U.S., and why he was working undercover for the DEA. Some Indian analysts have speculated that David Headley was a double agent for the Central Intelligence Agency that had infiltrated LeT,[50] an accusation denied by the CIA.[51] As soon as Headley was arrested in Chicago, the Indian media had a barrage of questions for the government about him, whose answers were slow in coming. Among other questions, Indian investigators wanted the FBI to share its tapes of Headley's communications with his Pakistani handlers to match with the voices taped on cell phones during the 2008 Mumbai attacks.[52] Sergei Glazov 2 Killed – 4 Wounded Shooting in the Moscow Multifunctional Center (2021) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_in_the_Moscow_Multifunctional_Center_(2021) On 7 December 2021, a mass shooting took place in the Moscow Multifunctional Center in Moscow, Russia. 2 were killed and 4 more were injured. The perpetrator was identified as 45-year-old Sergei Glazov, who had previously served in the Federal Security Service. Julio González 87 Killed – 6 Wounded Background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Land_fire#Background Julio González served three years in prison in Cuba during the 1970s for desertion from the Cuban Army.[4] In 1980, he faked a criminal record as a drug dealer to help him gain passage in the Mariel boatlift.[4] The boatlift landed in Florida; he then traveled to Wisconsin and Arkansas and eventually settled in New York, sponsored by the American Council for Nationalities in Manhattan.[4] Sergey Gordeyev 2 Killed – 1 Wounded Shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Moscow_school_shooting#Shooting At around 11:40 A.M., Gordeyev, concealing his weapons with a bag and fur coat,[3] went to his school armed with a small-caliber rifle and shotgun that belonged to his father,[4] a police colonel.[5] He threatened the security guard and went to his geography classroom, where he shot his teacher, 29-year-old Andrey Kirillov (Russian: ?????? ????????), first in the stomach, then fatally shot him in the head upon seeing he was still alive.[citation needed] After killing Kirillov, he then took the class of 29 students hostage.[6] Gordeyev then shot at responding police officers in the school, wounding Warrant Officer Sergei Bushuyev, 38, and Senior Sergeant Vladimir Krokhin, 29; Bushuyev later died at the scene, while Krokhin survived a gunshot wound to the shoulder.[1][4] John "Jack" Gilbert Graham 44 Killed – 0 Wounded The Advocate Newsletter Volume 39 Number 6 November 2015 http://auroracohistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/November-Advocate-2015.pdf Crash of United Flight 629 ... During the investigation into the backgrounds of all the passengers who boarded the plane in Denver, Mrs. King and her relatives came under close scrutiny. The investigation uncovered the fact that on the death of Mrs. King, Jack Graham would inherit a substantial amount of money. The investigation also revealed that Jack and his mother had argued frequently. A friend who had business dealings with Mrs. King revealed that when Mrs. King owned and operated a drive-in restaurant in Denver, she often argued with her son over its operation; and that the restaurant had been damaged by an explosion at one time. The friend revealed that Jack had been taking money from the receipts of the business, and that Jack had performed demolition work for the Navy. He also revealed that Jack had purchased a new truck and wrecked it in an attempt to collect insurance. This was verified by another friend. ... Jack Gilbert Graham - FBI [insert link] Nehemiah Griego 5 Killed Alleged Teen Killer Nehemiah Griego's Girlfriend Cleared in Family Murders https://abcnews.go.com/US/alleged-mexico-family-killer-nehemiah-griegos-girlfriend-tells/story?id=18290148 Though surviving relatives conceded in an unsigned "family statement" that Nehemiah Griego is a "troubled young man," the statement also described him as an outgoing boy who loved music and hoped one day to serve in the military. ... The statement noted that several family members were military veterans. "Pictures of [Nehemiah Griego] being circulated in his dad's old fatigues were part of his interest in someday being a soldier," the family statement noted. ... ... Nehemiah Griego - Killer https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341638987_Nehemiah_Griego_-_Killer_ChildChild Nehemiah Griego – Killer ChildNehemiah Griego was born on 20 March 1997 to a largeChristian family located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was oneof ten children, Nehemiah being the seventh. Everyone that knewthe boy said he seemed like a normal happy child with a lovingfamily. Family members stated he was a gifted young athlete, atalented musician from an early age and was very active in thechurch youth services. Others who knew the Nehemiah stated thathe wanted to join the army like his father, sometimes takingpictures of himself while wearing his father’s army fatigues.Every Sunday, Nehemiah would go to the church with his familywhere he volunteered in the church services. It was also reportedthat there were also times Nehemiah would travel down to Mexicowith his father and older brothers to partake in missionary andrescue work.Nehemiah’s father, Greg Griego was a very well known personin the South Valley area. Greg was a veteran of the United StatesArmy, the New Mexico National Guard after graduating from highschool. When his first marriage ended, he became involved in gangactivity and heavy drugs which landed him in prison for someserious time. The experience in prison turned him to God and uponhis release be became a pastor at the Calvary Chapel in1 Albuquerque. He also worked as a chaplain for the AlbuquerqueFire Department as well as a veteran advocate at the prison, andironically working as a counselor for troubled children detainedat the Metropolitan Detention Center. Hesham Mohamed Hadaye 3 Killed (including perpetrator) – 5 Wounded Gunman's Uncle Doubts Terror Motive https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/06/us/gunman-s-uncle-doubts-terror-motive.html ... ''He never talked about politics, here or anywhere,'' said the uncle, a retired army engineer. ''He never talked about Sadat or Abdel Nasser -- all of us are shocked.'' ... Harvey Lee Green Jr. 2 Killed - 0 Wounded Harvey Lee Green Jr. https://murderpedia.org/male.G/g1/green-harvey-lee.htm ... III. The court denied Green's motion, but ultimately permitted Green to place his proposed statement into the record, presumably for purposes of appellate review. J.A. vol. II at 451. That proposed allocution is an approximately ten page statement that details aspects of Green's life story, specifically, how his earlier crime of attempting to rape a woman while he was in the Army led to his dishonorable discharge; his inability to find gainful employment; his descent into alcohol and drug abuse; and his poverty, which he claims eventually forced him to forge checks in his father's name and then steal money from Young's Cleaners in order to pay it back. Second Sentencing Transcript at 2216-2225. In his statement, Green denies having had the intent to kill his victims; he explains that he was simply "trying to rob [Young's Cleaners] with a toy gun," id. at 2222, and that he "didn't mean to hurt anyone" when he killed Sheila Bland and Michael Edmondson. Id. at 2224. The proposed allocution concludes with Green's plea for the jury's forgiveness. Id. 2225. ... V. ... Second, Green contends that he was denied the effective assistance of counsel at his second death penalty proceeding because his attorneys did not adequately investigate the events surrounding one of his prior violent felony convictions that was used by the state as an aggravating circumstance.11 Green's prior felony was a court martial for an attempted rape he committed while in the Army. Had his penalty-phase counsel investigated the events surrounding that rape conviction, Green argues, counsel would have discovered significant mitigating evidence. ... According to an affidavit of one of his attorneys, these aspects of Green's life history include his dependence on alcohol and drugs, the death of Green's half-brother, his parent's marital infidelities and subsequent divorce, and Green's poverty after being discharged from the military. See J.A. at 167 Michael Frederick Griffin 1 Killed – 0 Wounded Murder of David Gunn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_David_Gunn ... The New York Times described Griffin as "a fundamentalist Christian and a loner with a bad temper".[4] Griffin originally claimed to be acting on behalf of God; but his attorneys later argued that he had been "brainwashed" by another anti-abortion activist, John Burt.[5] ... Association with John Burt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_David_Gunn#Association_with_John_Burt ... During his trial, Griffin's lead defense attorney, Robert Kerrigan, argued that John Burt "brainwashed" Griffin and drove him to commit murder.[7] At the time, Burt was the Northwest Florida regional director of the national pro-life group Rescue America.[7] Burt was a retired U.S. Marine and former member of the Ku Klux Klan (though he claims to have "abandoned the group's racist doctrine when he became a born-again Christian"[7]) and a self-professed "spiritual adviser" to a group of activists who bombed three abortion clinics in 1984.[7] He ran a "safe-house" for pregnant teenagers who had decided to take their pregnancies to term, called "Our Father's House". In 2005, Burt was convicted of five counts of lewd or lascivious conduct for improperly touching and propositioning a 15-year-old girl at the house, and sentenced to 18 years in state prison.[8] ... Marcus Hall 1 Killed – 0 Wounded Former MOD police officer 'claimed he shot Mark Duggan' https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-50662397 A former Ministry of Defence police officer who boasted about shooting a man stole money collected for a colleague, a misconduct panel heard. Marcus Hall allegedly told customers at his local pub in Essex that he was the police officer who shot Mark Duggan, whose death sparked riots in 2011. The hearing was told Mr Hall stole from a colleague's retirement fund and was over the alcohol limit on duty. Mr Hall, described as a "Walter Mitty" character, denies the allegations. The former PC is facing a misconduct hearing at the Ministry of Defence (MOD) police headquarters in Wethersfield, Essex. The panel heard that between 2016 and April 2019, Mr Hall regularly told customers of the White Horse pub in Ridgewell that he was the man who killed Mr Duggan - although he had never worked for the Metropolitan Police. One man claimed Mr Hall told people he had Mr Duggan "in the cross hairs of my rifle". "We had named him Walter Mitty… We didn't believe a word coming out his mouth, it became a standing joke," said one witness in a statement read to the hearing. Edward Pleeth, representing the police, said Mr Hall lied about being a former soldier with the British Army. Other ex-servicemen in the pub noticed irregularities in his stories, he said. The panel heard Mr Hall had kept about £48 of a £70 retirement collection he arranged for a colleague, opting to buy cheap gifts and not returning the unspent money. He also failed a breathalyser test while on duty, the hearing was told. Mr Hall, who resigned from the force on 29 November, is not attending the hearing and is not represented. The hearing continues. Biswanath Halder 1 Killed – 2 Wounded Ex-Employee Held in Campus Attack https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/11/us/ex-employee-held-in-campus-attack.html ... According to a résumé for Mr. Halder posted on the Internet, he appears to have grown up in India, attended military school there and served in the Indian military's corps of electrical and mechanical engineers. Calls to a number listed on the résumé were not returned. ... Shooting suspect called a graduate with a grudge https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2003/05/11/shooting-suspect-called-a-graduate-with-a-grudge/ The man accused of a shooting rampage at a Cleveland university had military training with the Indian army and a grudge against an employee, authorities said Saturday. ... Indian ex-armyman in US school shooting https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/indian-ex-armyman-in-us-school-shooting/articleshow/46042485.cms Shane Joseph Halligan 1 Killed (including perpetrator) Shane's Kindness http://shaneskindness.com/?page_id=9 Shane Joseph Halligan had dreams of joining the military. He admired all the veterans, especially those who served in World War II. He was taking flying lessons in the hopes of serving and protecting his country. Shane earned the respect of others through hard work and showing initiation by becoming an Eagle Scout and joining the Oreland Fire Company on the first day he was eligible. He was going to become a pilot with hopes of enlisting in the Air National Guard after high school. He wanted to protect us all. Sadly, on Dec. 12, 2006, he took his own life at the age of 16. His family’s tragedy is a shared tragedy that affected so many in his township. Student Shoots, Kills Self at Pa. High School https://www.theledger.com/article/LK/20061213/News/608118071/LL Castor said that Halligan was told by his parents that if his grades did not improve he would have to cut back his hours as a volunteer firefighter and would not be allowed to go to National Guard boot camp next summer. Student Gunman Was An Eagle Scout https://www.cbsnews.com/news/student-gunman-was-an-eagle-scout/ Thomas Watt Hamilton 18 Killed (including the perpetrator) – 15 Wounded Call to lift veil of secrecy over Dunblane https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/feb/14/ukguns.scotland George Robertson, now general secretary of Nato, withdrew his son from a club run by Hamilton amid concern about its militaristic nature. Scottish town devastated by gun violence has advice for America: Say ‘no more’ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/scottish-town-devastated-by-gun-violence-has-advice-for-america-say-no-more ... Former Dunblane pupil Malcolm Robertson is particularly aggrieved by what he sees as the failure of American politicians to protect children. He's from a political family. His father, George, was Britain's defense secretary and later the NATO secretary-general. Robertson recalls Thomas Hamilton, the Dunblane shooter, arguing with his father over a grievance years before Hamilton's anger morphed into carnage. ... Eric David Harris 15 Killed (including perpetrators) – 24 Wounded ["recruiter associate"] Early life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Harris_and_Dylan_Klebold#Eric_Harris Eric David Harris was born on April 9, 1981, in Wichita, Kansas. Harris's parents were both born and raised in Colorado. His mother, Katherine Ann Poole, was a homemaker. His father, Wayne Harris, was working in the United States Air Force as a transport pilot, forcing the family to move around the country sporadically. In 1983, the family moved to Dayton, Ohio, when Harris was two years old. Six years later, the family relocated to Oscoda, Michigan. Michigan pastor William Stone lived across the street from the Harris family while they were located in Oscoda. Stone recalled them as "great neighbors" and would often see Wayne very engaged with his sons.[9] The Harris family then moved to Plattsburgh, New York, in 1991. During his tenure at Stafford Middle School, Harris played Little League Baseball, regularly went to birthday parties and was "part of the crowd." Kyle Ross, a former classmate of Harris, said, "He was just a typical kid."[10] The Harris family finally settled back in Colorado the next year when Wayne retired from the military.[11] Journals and investigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Harris_and_Dylan_Klebold#Journals_and_investigation Harris wanted to join the United States Marine Corps, but his application was rejected shortly before the shootings because he was taking the drug fluvoxamine, an SSRI antidepressant, which he was required to take as part of court-ordered anger management therapy. Harris did not state in his application that he was taking any medications. According to the recruiting officer, Harris did not know about this rejection. Though some friends of Harris suggested that he had stopped taking the drug beforehand,[102] the autopsy reports showed low therapeutic or normal (not toxic or lethal) blood-levels of Luvox (fluvoxamine) in his system, which would be around 0.0031–0.0087 mg/ml,[103] at the time of death.[104] After the shootings, opponents of contemporary psychiatry like Peter Breggin[105] claimed that the psychiatric medications prescribed to Harris after his conviction may have exacerbated his aggressiveness.[106] Patterns Among School Shooters: Body-Related Issues and the Military https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/patterns_body_related_issues_and_military_1.28.pdf 2 RELATIVES IN THE MILITARY OR LAW ENFORCEMENT Secondary School Shooters Eric Harris – Father: pilot in Air Force Maternal grandfather: military Christopher Sean "Chris" Harper-Mercer Killed 10 (including perpetrator) – Wounded 8 Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umpqua_Community_College_shooting#Perpetrator ... Harper-Mercer joined the U.S. Army in 2008, but was discharged after five weeks for his failure to meet the "minimum administrative standards" of basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina.[37][51] Officials linked to the investigation said that he was discharged as the result of a suicide attempt, but Army officials did not comment on this.[52] In 2009, he graduated from Switzer Learning Center, a school for teenagers with learning disabilities or emotional issues.[19][53] Laurel Harper was reportedly protective of him[54] and tried to shield him from various perceived annoyances, some of them minor, in their neighborhood in Torrance.[51] From early 2010 to early 2012, Harper-Mercer attended El Camino College in Torrance.[55] ... Mickaël Harpon 5 Killed (including perpetrator) – 2 Wounded Attacker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_police_headquarters_stabbing#Attacker The attacker was reported as being 45-year-old Mickaël Harpon, an IT specialist who worked in the intelligence unit of the police headquarters for the last 16 years and held a military secrecy security clearance, giving him access to restricted information like the watchlist of terror suspects, addresses of police officers and data on French citizens and their families who had returned after they fought in the Syrian Civil War.[7][8][10] He was born in Fort-de-France in the Caribbean overseas department of Martinique in 1974,[11] and had been deaf since childhood.[12] The murder weapon was a ceramic knife of a type undetectable by metal scanners.[13] Nidal Malik Hasan 13 Killed (plus 1 unborn child) – 32 Wounded Nidal Hasan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidal_Hasan Nidal Malik Hasan (born September 8, 1970) is a former American Army Major convicted of killing 13 people and injuring more than 30 others in the Fort Hood mass shooting on November 5, 2009.[3] Hasan was a United States Army Medical Corps psychiatrist. He admitted to the shootings at his court-martial in August 2013.[4][5] A jury panel of 13 officers convicted him of 13 counts of premeditated murder, 32 counts of attempted murder, and unanimously recommended he be dismissed from the service and sentenced to death.[6][7][8] Hasan is incarcerated at the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas awaiting execution. During the six years Hasan was a medical intern and resident at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, colleagues and superiors were concerned about his job performance and comments. Hasan was not married at the time, and was described as socially-isolated, stressed by his work with soldiers, and upset about their accounts of warfare.[9] Two days before the shooting, less than a month before he was due to deploy to Afghanistan, Hasan gave away many of his belongings to a neighbor.[10][3][11] Prior to the shooting, Hasan expressed critical views described by colleagues as "anti-American". An investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) concluded his e-mails with the late Imam Anwar al-Awlaki were related to his authorized professional research and he was not a threat. The FBI, Department of Defense (DoD) and U.S. Senate all conducted investigations after the shootings. The DoD classified the events as "workplace violence", pending prosecution of Hasan in a court-martial.[12] The Senate released a report describing the mass shooting as "the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil since September 11, 2001".[13][14] The decision by the Army to not charge Hasan with terrorism is controversial.[15] Early life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidal_Hasan#Early_life Hasan was born in Arlington County, Virginia at Virginia Hospital Center to American parents of Palestinian descent; they immigrated years earlier from al-Bireh, a city in the West Bank near Jerusalem.[16][17][18][19] Raised in the Muslim faith with his two younger brothers, he attended Wakefield High School in Arlington for his freshman year in 1985. His family moved to Roanoke in 1986, to join his father who moved to the city a year prior to set up what would become a number of successful family-owned businesses which included a market, restaurant, and olive bar.[20] George Jefferson Hassell 9 Killed – 0 Wounded George Jefferson Hassell: Serial Family Annihilator https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/george-jefferson-hassell-serial-family-annihilator-494dbcfb010d ... George told them how he had lived a life of chaos from the beginning. His father was a violent abuser, and when George was only 13, had beaten his mother to death. George ran away after that and became a drifter. He couldn’t seem to hold down a job — usually because he kept stealing and ripping off his employers or customers. He enlisted in the Army, then deserted to join the Navy under an assumed name, before getting caught and serving time in a military prison. ... The Case of George J. Hassell https://www.criminallyintrigued.com/blog/2017/8/17/the-case-of-george-j-hassell ... George’s story begins in a small Texas town known as Smithville in July of 1888. The youngest of 8 children, and from an early age George seemed to be straying away from the straight and narrow. While in his teens he allegedly got a woman pregnant and abandoned her. Shortly thereafter George joined the Merchant Marines where again he abandoned responsibility, leaving his assigned post. A string of short lived marriages would follow his trail until he found himself in Whittier, CA in 1917. ... Louis D. Hastings 6 Killed – 2 Wounded Life https://amok.fandom.com/wiki/Louis_Hastings#Life Hastings was born in Leawood, Kansas on January 1, 1944. When his father, who was said to have been a difficult person, returned home after the end of World War II, he disapproved of his infant son and abused him psychologically. He later left the family. According to his mother and sister Hastings was a shy child and as a youth was treated for chronic depression, though he grew up to become a caring and gentle adult who loved animals. Being an environmentalist he once volunteered to clean birds after an oil spill off the Californian coast. After school he served in the Air Force, later became a computer programmer and began to work in this profession at Stanford University around 1975. His colleagues described him as introverted person, who didn't talk much and was excessively worried about his personal safety. They also stated that he had a high opinion of his work, although his programming skills were only mediocre.[39][40] Radcliffe Franklin Haughton 4 Killed (including perpetrator) – 4 Wounded Perpetrator and victims https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azana_Spa_shooting#Perpetrator_and_victims Radcliffe Franklin Haughton, a 45-year-old male from Brown Deer, was tentatively identified as the shooter. Haughton was raised in Jamaica and moved to the United States as an adult, first taking up residence in Illinois, and later moving to the Milwaukee area. He had one daughter, age 12, with estranged wife Zina Haughton, and a stepdaughter, age 20, who was working in the building with her mother Zina Haughton at the time of the shooting.[18][19] Haughton formerly served in the U.S. Marines.[20] Robert Arthur Hawkins 9 Killed – 6 Wounded Shooter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westroads_Mall_shooting#Shooter Robert Arthur Hawkins was the 19-year-old perpetrator of the Westroads Mall shooting.[23] He was born at the RAF Lakenheath station in Suffolk, England, U.K., to American U.S. Air Force personnel parents Ronald Hawkins and Maribel "Molly" Rodriguez.[24] He was hospitalized at the age of four after persistent violent behavior in pre-school. He was diagnosed with attention-deficit disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder due to his chaotic homelife.[24] The day after he turned 14, he was sent to a mental health treatment center for threatening to kill his stepmother.[25] Four months later, he became a ward of the State of Nebraska, which lasted nearly four years until he was discharged completely due to his unwillingness to improve.[25] ... In the summer of 2007, Hawkins tried to enlist in the U.S. Army but was turned down on account of his mental health record.[29] ... Georges Pierre Hennard ("George Jo Hennard") 24 Killed – 27 Wounded Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luby%27s_shooting#Perpetrator George Pierre Hennard was born on October 15, 1956, in Sayre, Pennsylvania in a wealthy family.[11] Hennard was the son of a Swiss-born surgeon and a homemaker.[16] He had two younger siblings, brother Alan and sister Desiree.[17] Since the age of 5, Hennard and his family moved across the country as his father worked at several army hospitals.[11] Hennard's family later moved to New Mexico, where his father worked at the White Sands Missile Range near Las Cruces. After graduating from Mayfield High School in 1974, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served for three years, until he was honorably discharged.[18] Hennard later worked as a merchant mariner, but was dismissed for drug use.[6] Several months later, Hennard enrolled in a drug treatment program in Houston.[11] Clemmie Henderson 5 Killed (including perpetrator) – 2 Wounded GUNMAN SLAIN AFTER KILLING 4 ON WEST SIDE https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1988-09-23-8802010552-story.html ... Residents of the area said that Henderson, an army veteran of Vietnam during the late 1960s, grew up across the street from the school, and still lived in the neighborhood. They said he is married and has two children. ... Timothy Baily Hennis 3 Killed – 0 Wounded Eastburn family murders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastburn_family_murders The Eastburn family murders were the murders of Kathryn "Katie" Eastburn and her daughters, Kara and Erin, which occurred in Fayetteville, North Carolina in May 1985. In 1986, United States Army Sergeant Timothy Hennis was tried and convicted for the three murders. In 1988, Hennis' conviction was overturned on appeal and he was acquitted the following year. In 2006, the Cumberland County Sherriff's Office obtained DNA evidence linking Hennis to the crime. Despite the Fifth Amendment's Double Jeopardy Clause prohibiting retrials after acquittals, the United States Army was able to initiate prosecution and trial proceedings against Hennis under the dual sovereignty doctrine. In 2010, Hennis was tried and convicted by an Army court-martial for the triple murders and sentenced to death.[1][2][3] Timothy Hennis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastburn_family_murders#Timothy_Hennis Timothy Baily Hennis (born February 24, 1958)[5] grew up in Rochester, Minnesota, and graduated from Mayo High School in 1976. His father, Robert Hennis, was a manager at IBM Rochester during the 1970s. Hennis worked in Rochester until he joined the United States Army in 1980.[6] Hennis later married Angela and the couple had a newborn daughter named Kristina in 1985.[2] Around May 1985, Hennis worked as a parachute rigger at Fort Bragg.[6] Paul Jennings Hill 2 Killed – 1 Wounded Early life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Jennings_Hill#Early_life Paul Hill was born in Miami, Florida on February 6, 1954, to Oscar Jennings Hill, an airline pilot, and his wife Louise. He was raised in Coral Gables. At the age of 17, Hill was charged with the assault of his father when his parents attempted to get him treatment for his drug problem. Hill said he experienced a religious conversion two years later in 1973, after being sent to a military school.[3] Hill later enrolled in Belhaven University where he met his future wife, Karen Demuth, with whom he had three children. Eero Samuli Hiltunen 2 Killed – 8 Wounded Manipulated Shootings: The Profile ? https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/signofthetimes/manipulated-shootings-the-profile-t1355-s10.html "Police had earlier told the Finnish News Agency STT that the young man had entered the army at the beginning of the year and left before completing his stint." James Thomas Hodgkinson 1 Killed (including perpetrator) – 6 Wounded James Hodgkinson's neighbors recall strange behavior, simmering anger https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/06/15/james-hodgkinson-neighbors-recall-strange-behavior-simmering-anger/102877828/ Hodgkinson also let Knepper’s son, Matt, an Army soldier who married Hodgkinson’s daughter Tosha, know he wasn’t a fan of the military, Knepper said. “He saw the military as being part of the problem, part of the system,” Knepper told USA TODAY. Jason Hoffman 0 Killed – 6 Wounded Patterns Among School Shooters: Body-Related Issues and the Military https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/patterns_body_related_issues_and_military_1.28.pdf MILITARY ASPIRATION / OBSESSION AND OUTCOME Secondary School Shooters Jason Hoffman – Rejected by the Navy for being too heavy, having a skin condition, and an assault and battery charge Brandon Scott Hole 9 Killed – 7 Wounded REVEALED: FedEx mass shooter, 19, 'acted alone' in 'suicidal murder' in Indianapolis - though investigators say motive is STILL a mystery and found 'no indication of racial bias' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9835921/FedEx-gunman-fatally-shot-eight-expressed-joining-military.html The former FedEx facility worker killed eight in a murder-suicide shooting in Indianapolis wanted to join the military to experience killing people, according to investigators. ... The special agent in charge of the field office in Indianapolis said Hole has said i he wanted to join the military. ... James Eagan Holmes 12 Killed – 70 Wounded James Holmes: Accused Colorado shooter is grandson of decorated veteran, has family roots in Monterey County https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2012/07/20/james-holmes-accused-colorado-shooter-is-grandson-of-decorated-veteran-has-family-roots-in-monterey-county/ MONTEREY COUNTY — James Holmes, the man believed responsible for killing 12 people Friday during one of the largest mass shooting in U.S. history, is the grandson of a decorated military veteran who was a respected educator at prestigious York School in Monterey. Lt. Col. Robert M. Holmes, who served in the Okinawa campaign during World War II, retired in 1963 as the last commander of the Nike missile group in San Francisco Bay. He was one of the first Turkish language students at the Army Language School, now the Defense Language Institute, graduating in 1948, a school spokesman confirmed Friday. After his military retirement, Holmes taught math and science at York School for 17 years. He died in 1990. His wife, Mary Jane Crawford Holmes, attended Stanford University and worked at the Monterey City Library, Fort Ord Library and Pacific Grove High School before finishing her career as librarian and college counselor at York School. She died in 2010. A 1945 graduate of Pacific Grove High School, she was also a member of numerous historical societies, including the Order of the Crown of Charlemagne, Descendants of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston and the Monterey Bay Colony of Mayflower Descendants, of which she served as governor. Their personal histories, taken from their obituaries in The Monterey County Herald, are difficult to reconcile with the most indelible image of their 24-year-old grandson. Shortly after midnight Thursday, police say, James Holmes outfitted himself in black clothing and a gas mask, jimmied the lock on an exit door in an Aurora, Colo., movie theater, then opened fire with three weapons on a theater packed with people watching the premiere of “The Dark Knight Rises.” Twelve people died and 58 were wounded, making it the largest mass shooting in U.S. history. Holmes, a postgraduate student of neuroscience at the University of Colorado-Denver, was arrested outside the theater. Police spent Friday trying to diffuse explosives found in his Aurora apartment. Holmes also may have personal roots in Monterey County. Online records show his parents, Robert and Arlene Holmes of San Diego, may have lived in Oak Hills in North Monterey County in the late 1980s and 1990s. The Herald was unable to confirm if their son, who was born in December 1987, attended local schools before he graduated from a San Diego high school. Kris Edmunds, director of advancement for York, said 24-year-old James Holmes never attended that school, though the academy was a family tradition for the older Holmes boys. His uncle, James Holmes, after whom he was apparently named and who lives in the family’s Carmel home, graduated in 1967. His father, Robert Holmes Jr., graduated in 1969. The two also have a sister, Betty, recently of Santa Cruz. None of the family was responding to requests for comment after Friday morning. Colorado Shooter James Holmes’ Family History Goes Back to the Mayflower https://www.thedailybeast.com/colorado-shooter-james-holmes-family-history-goes-back-to-the-mayflower ... As would be recorded in their obituaries by the Monterey County Herald, her husband, Robert Holmes, had been a career officer in the standing army that was subsequently established to keep the country secure. He fought in the Pacific during World War II and stayed on, serving as a lieutenant colonel in charge of a Nike antiaircraft battery in San Francisco at the time of the Cuban missile crisis. He retired in 1963 and began a second career as a teacher at the private York School in Monterey, where his wife served as a librarian. Both their sons graduated from York: the older James in 1967; Robert Jr. in 1969. The younger Robert went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in mathematics at Stanford, a master’s in biostatistics at UCLA, and a doctorate in statistics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1981. His doctoral thesis was titled “Contributions to the Theory of Parametric Estimation in Randomly Censored Data.” He subsequently authored studies for the Navy and the Marine Corps on how to forecast personnel changes using something called “tree classifications,” the trees in question being statistical. Eventually, reports say, he signed on as a low-six-figure-a-year senior scientist with FICO, which produces management systems, fraud protection, and credit scores. He married Arlene Holmes, a nurse. ... Shooter James Holmes and DARPA Weird Science https://newslog.cyberjournal.org/shooter-james-holmes-and-darpa-weird-science/ Appearing on the Alex Jones Show today, investigative journalist Wayne Madsen said accused shooter James Holmes had a number of links to U.S. government-funded research centers, including the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency, or DARPA. James Holmes was one of six recipients of a National Institutes of Health Neuroscience Training Grant at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in Denver, Madsen writes for the Wayne Madsen Report. “The Anschutz Medical Campus is on the recently de-commisioned site of the U.S. Army’s Fitzsimons Army Medical Center and is named after Philip Anschutz, the billionaire Christian fundamentalist oil and railroad tycoon who also owns The Examiner newspaper chain and website and the neo-conservative Weekly Standard,” Madsen explains. “The Anschutz Medical Campus was built by a $91 million grant from the Anschutz Foundation.” Holmes also worked as a research assistant intern at the Salk Institute at the University of California at San Diego in La Jolla. The Salk Institute teamed up with DARPA, Columbia University, University of California at San Francisco, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Wake Forest University, and the candy bar company Mars “to prevent fatigue in combat troops through the enhanced use of epicatechina, a blood flow-increasing and blood vessel-dilating anti-oxidant flavanol found in cocoa and, particularly, in dark chocolate,” according to Madsen’s research. The DARPA program was part of the military’s “Peak Soldier Performance Program,” which involved engineering brain-machine interfaces for battlefield use and other bionic projects. In addition, James Holmes’ father, Dr. Robert Holmes, worked for San Diego-based HNC Software, Inc., a company that worked with DARPA to develop “cortronic neural networks” that enable machines to translate aural and visual stimuli and simulate human thinking. The Holmes family appears to have deep connections to the military-industrial complex. Lt. Col. Robert Holmes, the grandfather of James Holmes, was a graduate Turkish language graduates of the Army Language School, later the Defense Language Institute, in Monterey, California (the same military installation, incidentally, where alleged 9/11 hijacker Saeed Alghamdi trained). The elder Holmes, Madsen notes, more than likely worked in intelligence. “Typically, U.S. military officers conversant in Turkish served with either the Defense Intelligence Agency or the Central Intelligence Agency at either the U.S. embassy in Ankara or the Consulate General in Istanbul, or both,” he writes. “Was James Holmes engaged in a real-life Jason Bourne TREADSTONE project that broke down and resulted in deadly consequences in Aurora, Colorado?” Madsen concludes. Operation Treadstone was a fictional top-secret CIA project under which the character Jason Bourne underwent behavioral modification. James Holmes Family Tied To DARPA And Mind Manipulation Work (attorney, soldiers) https://www.city-data.com/forum/politics-other-controversies/1649583-james-holmes-family-tied-darpa-mind.html The research was part of a larger DARPA program known as the "Peak Soldier Performance Program," which involved creating brain-machine interfaces for battlefield use, including human-robotic bionics for legs, arms, and eyes. DARPA works closely with the Defense Science Office on projects that include the medical research community. Fitzsimons was at the forefront of DARPA research on the use of brain-connected "neuroprosthetic" limbs for soldiers amputated or paralyzed in combat. According to his LinkedIn profile, James Holmes's father, Dr. Robert Holmes, who received a PhD in Statistics in 1981 from the University of California at Berkeley, worked for San Diego-based HNC Software, Inc. from 2000 to 2002. HNC, known as a "neural network" company, and DARPA, beginning in 1998, have worked on developing "cortronic neural networks," which would allow machines to interpret aural and visual stimuli to think like humans. The cortronic concept was developed by HNC Software's chief scientist and co-founder, Robert Hecht-Nielsen. HNC merged with the Minneapolis-based Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO), a computer analysis and decision-making company. Robert Holmes continues to work at FICO. It has also emerged that Holmes, when he was 20, worked as a camp counselor at Camp Max Straus of the Jewish Big Brothers and Sister of Los Angeles. According to the Jewish Journal, among other tasks, Holmes helped to teach boys between the ages of 7 to 10 archery. In another unusual detail, the car Holmes used to drive to the Aurora movie theater had Tennessee plates. Holmes is originally from San Diego. Daryl Keith Holton 4 Killed Crime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Holton#Crime Holton, a Gulf War Veteran, was 36 years old when he shot his three young sons and their half-sister (Stephen Edward Holton (12), Brent Holton (10), Eric Holton (6), and Kayla Marie Holton (4)) with a Chinese-made semi-automatic rifle on November 30, 1997, at the garage where he worked in Shelbyville, Tennessee. Holton was divorced, and his ex-wife had custody of the children. About an hour later, Holton turned himself in to the Shelbyville police; he told investigators that he had killed the children because "families should stay together; a father should be with his children." He said he had also planned to kill his ex-wife and then himself, but had changed his mind.[2][3] Frederick Hopkins Jr. 2 Killed – 10 Wounded Suspects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence,_South_Carolina_shooting#Suspects The suspect, 74-year-old Fred Hopkins, a Vietnam War veteran and a former lawyer who was disbarred in 1982, was arrested at the scene before being taken to the hospital for a head injury. On October 5, police charged Hopkins with one count of murder and six counts of attempted murder.[9] A magistrate denied bond for Fred Hopkins on the murder count and the attempted murder charges so that a global bond could be applied to all charges on a later date.[13] Eric Christopher Houston 4 Killed – 10 Wounded Patterns Among School Shooters: Body-Related Issues and the Military https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/patterns_body_related_issues_and_military_1.28.pdf MILITARY ASPIRATION / OBSESSION AND OUTCOME Secondary School Shooters Eric Houston – Wanted to join the army but failed to graduate high school and thus could not apply Lawrence Thomas "L.T." Horn 3 Killed – 0 Wounded Career https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Horn#Career Horn gained experience working as a disc jockey on the USS Lake Champlain (CV-39)'s radio station.[2] He began working with Motown Records in Detroit, during their heyday in the early 1960s as a sound engineer. He was the chief technician for artists such as The Temptations ("My Girl") and Junior Walker and the All-Stars ("Shotgun").[3][4] Horn left Motown in 1968 to join a company owned by former Motown songwriting team Holland–Dozier–Holland, with which he stayed throughout the 1970s, until he left to become an independent producer. In 1983, he went back to Motown until he was laid off in 1990.[2] David Lee Huber 3 Killed (including perpetrator) – 3 Wounded FBI identifies suspect in slaying of two agents https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/david-lee-huber-fbi-florida/2021/02/03/08301f00-6664-11eb-886d-5264d4ceb46d_story.html ... Many details of the encounter remain unclear, and the FBI’s Inspection Division is investigating the matter. Efforts to reach Huber’s relatives were not successful Wednesday. According to an online obituary, his father, Gary D. Huber, an Air Force veteran who served in Vietnam, died in 2019. The Dayton Daily News reported that he had shot himself in the chest; his stepdaughter told the newspaper he had been widowed and was battling depression and other health problems. ... Kyle Aaron Huff 7 Killed (including perpetrator) – 2 Wounded Capitol Hill Mass Murder Case https://web.northeastern.edu/jfox/Documents/CapHillRepBTCI.pdf The frustrations in Kyle’s life may have started in his own family. His father, Willis S. Hough, served in the military and was assigned to Vietnam. It is believed that he may have suffered from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) upon his return home. We do not know if he suffered depressive symptoms or how emo- tionally available he was to the twins. But Huff’s parents divorced when the twins were entering their teen years, and his father late Joshua Hunter 2 Killed – 0 Wounded Vet charged with murder in Fort Drum killings https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna34275880 A Fort Drum military policeman accused of stabbing his two Army buddies to death was arraigned on second-degree murder charges on Friday. A not guilty plea was entered on behalf of 20-year-old Spc. Joshua Hunter in Jefferson County Court in Watertown. Authorities say he killed 20-year-old Waide James and 23-year-old Diego Valbuena inside their apartment just outside Fort Drum. Their bodies were found Tuesday. All three had served in Iraq and shared the apartment in Evans Mills near the main gate to the Army post that's home of the 10th Mountain Division. Hunter, who was raised in West Virginia, was arrested early Wednesday in southern Ohio and returned by police to Jefferson County Thursday night. Fort Drum officials said he served in Iraq for a year and returned in May. James and Valbuena both served in Iraq as drivers in the same battalion and were both from Florida. The pair spent the night together at James' grandparents' home in Port St. John this summer before returning to Fort Drum. James' grandfather, Chuck Mills, remembered Valbuena as the perfect guest: He made his bed military-style and did his own breakfast dishes. People in the small communities that surround Fort Drum like a necklace wondered if post-traumatic stress disorder played a role. PTSD is a potentially crippling condition that can emerge after terrifying events like combat and is thought to affect as many as one in five veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq. Friend 'blow to pieces'? On Thursday, Hunter's relatives said that he told them he saw his best friend "blown to pieces" in Iraq and came back a changed man: abusive, violent, sleepless, edgy and plagued by flashbacks. Hunter and his alleged victims were all were based at the wind-swept Army post near the Canadian border, home of the much-deployed 10th Mountain Division, and shared an off-base apartment. Hunter's wife, Emily Hunter, told The Associated Press in a phone interview that her husband was outgoing before he went to war, but when he returned stateside, he was an emotional wreck. "He wasn't in any good mental shape at all," Emily Hunter said. "I tried to get him to go to therapy. They prescribed him medicine and stuff, but it just wasn't enough." She said he saw a therapist at Fort Drum because of his volatile emotions and violent outbursts. "He'd just burst into tears; spouts of anger or sadness," she said. "There'd be one emotion but it would be really deep, just extremely happy or extremely sad. His emotions were always on the rocks." "He'd take his rage out on the wall, or throw something," she said. Haunted While he wasn't violent toward his buddies, he was toward her, she said, adding that she went to the hospital a couple of times for treatment of an injured arm and thumb. Ernest "Ernie" Ingenito 5 Killed – 4 Wounded Early life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Ingenito#Early_life ... At age 17, Ingenito married 16-year-old Doris Breslin. Breslin became pregnant soon after and later gave birth to the couple's first child, a daughter Dorothy. During the marriage, Ingenito was reportedly abusive towards his wife.[3] Two years into the marriage, Ingentio was drafted to serve in the US Army; during World War II, he was stationed at Fort Belvoir in Virginia. He was dishonorably discharged in 1946 after being court-martialed twice: once for going AWOL (Ingenito left without permission after hearing that his wife was living with another man), and a second for striking two superior officers.[4] He served two years of an eight-year sentence at Green Haven Correctional Facility, the military prison at Sing Sing, for the second offense. ... Bruce Edwards Ivins 5 Killed – 17 Wounded Bruce Edwards Ivins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Edwards_Ivins Bruce Edwards Ivins (/'a?v?nz/; April 22, 1946 – July 29, 2008)[1] was an American microbiologist, vaccinologist,[1] senior biodefense researcher at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Maryland, and the suspected perpetrator of the 2001 anthrax attacks.[2] Ivins died on July 29, 2008, of an overdose of acetaminophen (Tylenol) in an apparent suicide after learning that criminal charges were likely to be filed against him by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for an alleged criminal connection to the attacks.[3][4][5] ... Education and career https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Edwards_Ivins#Education_and_career Ivins graduated with honors from the University of Cincinnati (UC) with a B.S. degree in 1968, an M.S. degree in 1971, and a Ph.D. degree in 1976, all in microbiology.[2] Ivins conducted his Ph.D. research under the supervision of Dr. Peter F. Bonventre. His dissertation focused on different aspects of toxicity in disease-causing bacteria.[23] Ivins was a scientist for 36 years[1] and senior biodefense researcher at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Fort Detrick, Maryland for 18 years.[2] After conducting research on Legionella and cholera, in 1979, Ivins turned his attention to anthrax after the anthrax outbreak in the Soviet city of Sverdlovsk (now known as Yekaterinburg), which killed at least 105 after an accidental release at a military facility.[25] Ivins had published at least 44 scientific papers dating back to May 18, 1969.[27][28] His earliest known published work pertained to the response of peritoneal macrophages, a type of white blood cell, to infection by Chlamydia psittaci, an infectious bacterium that can be transmitted from animals to humans.[29][30] Ivins often cited the 2001 anthrax attacks in his papers to bolster the significance of his research in years subsequent to the attacks.[31] In a 2006 paper published in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, he wrote with his co-authors Shortening the duration of antibiotic postexposure prophylaxis in a bioterrorism event involving B. anthracis by adding postexposure vaccination could greatly alleviate problems of noncompliance and side effects associated with prolonged antibiotic therapy. The value of adding vaccination to postexposure antibiotic prophylaxis should be considered in planning the public health response to bioterrorism events involving inhalational anthrax.[31] Ivins was a co-inventor on two United States patents for anthrax vaccine technology, U.S. Patent 6,316,006 and U.S. Patent 6,387,665. Both of these patents are owned by his employer at the time, the United States Army. On March 14, 2003, Ivins and two of his colleagues at USAMRIID received the Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service — the highest award given to Defense Department civilian employees — for helping solve technical problems in the manufacture of anthrax vaccines.[32] James Harris Jackson 1 Killed – 0 Wounded Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Timothy_Caughman#Perpetrator James Harris Jackson, a Baltimore, Maryland native, turned himself in to police and said he took the bus to Manhattan to kill black men, whom he said he had hated for over ten years. The weapon used by Jackson was a "Roman short sword" hidden in his pants. Jackson was born to a conservative republican household, and lived in an "almost all-white" area outside Baltimore. His grandfather, who was from Louisiana, supported racial integration and frequently was the target of cross burnings on his lawn. Jackson expressed racist views as young as three and shared them only with "like-minded people."[9] Jackson had also voted for Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election and opposed Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, saying, "I couldn't let Palin get in there. She's stupid."[9] Jackson had graduated in 2007 from Friends School of Baltimore a Quaker school. Jackson would later serve in the United States military as an intelligence analyst in the Afghan capital of Kabul in 2009 stating he enjoyed "the sense of mission" in 2010 and 2011 before being honorably discharged after winning several awards in 2012. Jeffrey T. Johnson 2 Killed (including perpetrator) – 9 Wounded Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Empire_State_Building_shooting#Perpetrator Johnson was born in Japan in 1953 to a Japanese mother and American father and moved to the United States when he was 10 months old, where he grew up in Gainesville, Georgia.[3][15] He had worked at the company for six years and lived alone in a walk-up apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side at the time of the attack. His building's superintendent and neighbors described him as a quiet and polite man who was seen every morning wearing a suit, greeting his neighbors and getting takeout from a nearby McDonald's, then usually remaining in his apartment for the rest of the day.[6] He had no known criminal record or history of psychiatric problems and the handgun used in the shooting was legally purchased in Sarasota, Florida in 1991, but he did not have a license to carry a handgun in New York City. He served in the United States Coast Guard from 1973 to 1977 and was honorably discharged with the rank of petty officer second class.[16] Johnson attended the Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida from 1978 to 1980, and owned a T-shirt design company entitled St. Jolly's Art. He was also involved with a community of birdwatching photographers who were interested in hawks in Central Park. His snapshots regularly appeared on blogs tracking the birds in the area.[3][6][17][18] Micah Xavier Johnson 6 Killed – 11 Wounded Early life and education https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_shooting_of_Dallas_police_officers#Early_life_and_education Micah Xavier Johnson was born in Magee, Mississippi[63] and raised in Mesquite, Texas.[12][58][64][65] He once described his childhood as "stressful" during a VA visit on August 15, 2014, but further details were redacted on the visit report.[66] When he was four, his parents divorced.[65][67] Johnson transferred into John Horn High School when he was 17 and participated in its Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program, according to the Mesquite Independent School District.[65][67] He struggled academically, graduating in 2009 with a 1.98 grade-point average and a ranking of 430 out of 453 students in his class.[65][68][69] In the spring of 2011, he enrolled in four classes at Richland College, but never completed any of them.[70] Investigators believed that Johnson had access to El Centro College through his enrollment at Richland, citing his pre-planned and coordinated movements throughout Building B.[20] Military service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_shooting_of_Dallas_police_officers#Military_service Immediately after high school,[71] Johnson enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve and served from March 2009 to April 2015 as a 12W carpentry and masonry specialist.[72] He completed basic training, which required qualification on handling of an M16 rifle or M4 carbine, basic rifles for U.S. military personnel.[73] According to Justin Garner, a high-school friend and classmate who later served alongside Johnson in the same unit, Johnson lacked proficiency in certain required technical skills, such as marksmanship.[65] Johnson was activated at the rank of private first class in September 2013 in support of the War in Afghanistan, where he was deployed from November 2013 to July 2014[3][68][74] with the 420th Engineer Brigade.[75] People who knew Johnson during his time in the Army described him as openly religious and often socializing with white soldiers.[70] A squad leader, who trained Johnson in tactical maneuvers and protection in 2009 and 2010, described him as "klutzy", "goofy sometimes", and "a nice guy", but also quiet and unmotivated.[76][77] Documents released by the Army on July 29 detailed early signs of disturbing behavior being exhibited by him, but specific details were redacted.[78] They also said that while Johnson was sociable, he was generally described by soldiers as a loner who sometimes ate his lunch in a vehicle alone while the rest of his unit ate outside together.[79] Discharge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_shooting_of_Dallas_police_officers#Discharge On May 1, 2014,[80] during his deployment, he was accused of sexual harassment by a female soldier, who sought a protective order against him and said that he needed mental health counseling.[65][81][82][83] The accusation was made after the soldier reported four pairs of women's underwear missing from her laundry bag. A "health and welfare inspection" of soldiers' rooms found one pair in Johnson's quarters, while a soldier discovered the remaining three in Johnson's pocket. Upon being confronted about it, Johnson fled with the undergarments and attempted to dispose of them in a nearby dumpster. He then lied that a female civilian acquaintance gave the underwear to him, but the female soldier confirmed that they were in fact hers.[78][79][84][85] The female soldier told investigators that she and Johnson had been platonic friends for five years, but had stopped talking to each other. She described their relationship as being tumultuous and involving fights and disagreements. She specifically recalled one incident where Johnson punched out a car window over her leaving for college and severed an artery, then forced her to bring him to a hospital for treatment. However, Johnson claimed that he punched out the window when the soldier missed a movie they planned to see together, and added that he had been under stress from his job and turbulent home life at the time.[80][86][87][88] According to the soldier, Johnson asked her for a pair of her underwear before the May 1 incident, but she declined. Also, during a Facebook conversation with her, Johnson mentioned "tying her down and having her face down on the bed" but then claimed the statement was a joke. Though she told him that rape was "never a joke" and to stop contacting her, the soldier did not report him for harassment at the time because she was used to that kind of rhetoric, as she was frequently around men at home and work.[80][89] Though the May 1 incident did not meet the Army's criteria for sexual harassment, investigators found that Johnson's sexually suggestive comments to the female soldier met said criteria.[78][79][84][85] Following the inspection, he was disarmed under the recommendation of his platoon sergeant, who felt he posed a potential threat. Another Army official later described the action as unusual, as Johnson did not appear to be visibly agitated or a threat to himself or others at the time.[86][87] Johnson was then placed under 24-hour escort, which was reportedly a shameful and ostracizing experience,[65] before being temporarily moved to Bagram Airfield on May 3, but he did not have enough time to pack all of his belongings. While soldiers were emptying Johnson's quarters and packing his belongings for him on May 14, they discovered an unauthorized single M430I High Explosive Dual Purpose 40mm grenade, a .50-caliber round, and another soldier's prescription medication in his sleeping bag.[78][79][80][85] Later, the Army sent Johnson back to the U.S., and according to the military lawyer who represented Johnson at the time, the Army initiated proceedings to give Johnson an "other than honorable" discharge. The lawyer claimed this was "highly unusual" because written reprimands are usually issued before more drastic steps are taken, and also because the decision was allegedly based on a single sexual harassment allegation. The lawyer was evidently unaware of the grenade and other contraband discovered in Johnson's possession shortly before he was repatriated to the United States from Afghanistan as well as other factors in Johnson's possibly redacted record.[71][81][83] On the advice of his attorney, Johnson waived his right to a hearing in exchange for a more favorable general discharge under honorable conditions.[81][90] He was honorably discharged in September 2014, apparently as a result of an Army error.[82] Johnson remained in the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR), meaning he could be recalled into the Army if needed, and was part of the IRR at the time of his death.[68][86] Johnson received the Afghanistan Campaign Medal with campaign star, Army Achievement Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Armed Forces Reserve Medal, and NATO Medal for his tour of duty in Afghanistan.[31][75] Some of Johnson's fellow soldiers criticized the Army's handling of the case.[65][90] Mitchell Scott Johnson 5 Killed – 10 Wounded Mitchell Johnson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westside_School_shooting#Mitchell_Johnson Mitchell Scott Johnson (born August 11, 1984) was born in Rochester, Minnesota to Gretchen and Scott Johnson.[14] When Mitchell was seven, his parents divorced, and he and his brother moved with their mother to Jonesboro, Arkansas. His mother soon remarried to Terry Woodward, an inmate at the prison where she was employed as a Correctional Officer. Johnson had a good relationship with his stepfather and brother, and adults who remembered him described him as being quiet and respectful. He was a former member of the Central Baptist Church youth choir, later joining the youth group at the Revival Tabernacle Church, in Jonesboro. Following the shooting, Johnson's attorney claimed that he had been sexually abused when he was 6 and 7 years old by a "family member of the daycare where he was placed". One year before the shooting, Mitchell, then aged 12, was charged with molesting a 3-year-old girl while visiting southern Minnesota with his family. However, the record of the case was expunged because of Mitchell's age.[14] James Rodney Johnson 4 Killed – 1 Wounded 3 Police Officers, Sheriff’s Wife Killed in Missouri Rampage https://apnews.com/article/e7c0fa0650d4409b0c3f44362b96f03a CALIFORNIA, Mo. (AP) _ More than 150 officers searched house to house today for a sniper believed to have killed three law enforcement officers and a sheriff’s wife and wounded another deputy in a rampage that began at his home. Authorities believe the same man - identified as 42-year-old James R. Johnson, a full-time helicopter technician for the Missouri National Guard and lifelong area resident - was responsible for all the shootings. The gunman was believed to be armed with a .22-caliber rifle and two pistols. An officer using a loudspeaker outside the Moniteau County Jail, the target of some sniper shots, warned his colleagues that ″Suspect is a Vietnam veteran. He is experienced in sniper fire. This man is known to have sniper experience.″ In the Army, Johnson had qualified as an expert marksman with a rifle, the top qualifying grade, said Col. Bob Morgan, chief of staff in the Missouri National Guard. By afternoon, officers were concentrating their search on the business district of California, a community surrounded by pasture and rolling hills. The gunman hunted down the law officers systematically, said state Highway Patrol Sgt. Terry Moore. ″There’s no doubt in my mind that he knew who he was after and where they were,″ he said. A Moniteau County sheriff’s deputy was shot Monday night when he went to Johnson’s home in Jamestown to respond to a report of a domestic disturbance. He died this morning. Later Monday night, the wife of county sheriff was killed while her husband was investigating the shooting of the deputy. The woman, who was a teacher of Johnson’s stepdaughter, was shot through a window while acting as host of a church group of about 20 people in her home, said Highway Patrol Capt. Roy Bergman. Then, early today, a sniper opened fire outside the Moniteau County Jail, killing two more police officers and wounding a third. The gunman also fired several shots into the jail complex, said Bergman. No one inside the building was injured. Johnson is ″not the type of person you’d expect would do this. I always thought him to be a pretty quiet person,″ said John Kay, the Moniteau County prosecuting attorney. At daybreak, officers began a house-to-house search, asking occupants of each house to step outside and inquiring whether they had seen or heard anything. Col. C.E. Fisher, superintendent of the Missouri Highway Patrol, said three Special Emergency Response Teams, with 15 patrol officers to a team, were called in and fanned out from the scene. They were joined by 30 patrolmen from Jefferson City and about 75 local and county officers. Schools and many businesses were closed during the search. The bodies of two of the victims, Cooper County Sheriff Charles R. Smith and Miller County Deputy Sandra Wilson, were removed from the streets this morning, about eight hours after they were shot. During the night, searchlights from two circling helicopters illuminuated streets around the Moniteau County jail and courthouse. Intersections were blocked and roads were closed. The shooting spree began Monday night when Deputy Les Roark answered a call at Johnson’s Jamestown home, said Moore of the Highway Patrol. When Roark was shot and Sheriff Kenny Jones went to help him, the gunman is believed to have gone to the sheriff’s home in nearby Clarksburg and killed his wife, Pam Jones. Roark died today at the University of Missouri Hospital and Clinics in Columbia, a spokesman said. Mrs. Jones, 38, also was flown to the hospital after she was shot and died shortly thereafter. Then, early today, Deputy Russell Borts was shot at his home two blocks away from the jail after he returned from the Jones home, where he was investigating that shooting. Borts, who was shot three times, was in stable condition today at the University of Missouri Hospital, the spokesman said. Smith and Moore rushed out of the jail when they heard the shots, Moore said. As they went outside, shots rang out and Moore saw Smith fall. Another officer dived beneath a car. Wilson was climbing out of her car about a half- block from the jail when she was shot. She screamed once before falling to the ground. ″You couldn’t tell where the shots were coming from,″ Moore said. ″Everybody wants to get him before he hurts somebody else. He’s a local resident and he knows the community well.″ Smith was shot ″in the back of the head, at close-range, ″ said Moniteau County Deputy Keith Connell. The sniper apparently was hiding behind a storage building behind the jail and stepped out and opened fire. Johnson’s car was found on the property of another deputy who lives about a half mile from Borts’ home. Susan Dudley, a neighbor of Johnson’s parents, described the family as ″very quiet people, churchgoing - they go to my church - very good people, salt-of-the-earth type people.″ Dudley described the suspect as a ″quiet″ man. ″I know that he’s been, this is his third marriage. He has no kids. He was in Vietnam.″ Kay said Johnson had no previous trouble with authorities. No motive had been determined, authorities said. Jamestown is about 30 miles northwest of Jefferson City, and about 10 miles north of California in central Missouri. Willie James Johnson 1 Killed – 0 Wounded Former soldier arrested on suspicion of murder 45 years after young mother was found stabbed to death in her Texas home https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3274106/Former-solider-arrested-suspicion-murder-45-years-young-mother-stabbed-death-Texas-home.html James Warren Jones 909 or 918 Killed – 0 Wounded Early life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones#Early_life James Warren Jones was born on May 13, 1931, in the rural area of Crete, Indiana, to James Thurman Jones and Lynetta Putnam.[1][2][3][4] Jones went by the nickname Jimmy during his youth. Jones was of Irish and Welsh descent;[5] he and his mother both claimed partial Cherokee ancestry, but there is no evidence of such ancestry.[5][6] Jones's father was disabled World War I veteran; he was severely injured by a chemical weapons attack. His injuries left him with severe breathing difficulties. The military pension he received for his injuries was not sufficient to support his family and he attempted to supplement his income by periodically working on local road repair projects.[7] Dwight Lamon Jones 7 Killed (including perpetrator) – 0 Wounded Where Are Dr. Connie Jones and Her Son Now? https://thecinemaholic.com/where-are-dr-connie-jones-and-her-son-now/ ... Following this, she went on to do a Radiology residency at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas. She has also completed an intense year-long fellowship in Clinical Breast Imaging from the same institution in 1998. With so many accomplishments under her belt, Connie’s aspirations of being successful in the medical field were finally being met. So when Dwight dropped out of the military after three years of enrolment, Connie was annoyed with his lack of ambition. ... Theodore John Kaczynski 3 Killed – 23 Wounded Harvard College https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski#Harvard_College In his second year at Harvard, Kaczynski participated in a study described by author Alston Chase as a "purposely brutalizing psychological experiment" led by Harvard psychologist Henry Murray. Subjects were told they would debate personal philosophy with a fellow student and were asked to write essays detailing their personal beliefs and aspirations. The essays were given to an anonymous individual who would confront and belittle the subject in what Murray himself called "vehement, sweeping, and personally abusive" attacks, using the content of the essays as ammunition.[25] Electrodes monitored the subject's physiological reactions. These encounters were filmed, and subjects' expressions of anger and rage were later played back to them repeatedly.[25] The experiment lasted three years, with someone verbally abusing and humiliating Kaczynski each week.[26][27] Kaczynski spent 200 hours as part of the study.[28] Kaczynski's lawyers later attributed his hostility towards mind control techniques to his participation in Murray's study.[25] Some sources have suggested that Murray's experiments were part of Project MKUltra, the Central Intelligence Agency's research into mind control.[29][30] Chase and others have also suggested that this experience may have motivated Kaczynski's criminal activities.[31][32] Kaczynski stated he resented Murray and his co-workers, primarily because of the invasion of his privacy he perceived as a result of their experiments. Nevertheless, he said he was "quite confident that my experiences with Professor Murray had no significant effect on the course of [his] life".[33] World War II, Office of Strategic Services, 1939–45 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Murray#World_War_II,_Office_of_Strategic_Services,_1939–45 During World War II, he left Harvard and worked as lieutenant colonel for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). James Miller, in charge of the selection of secret agents at the OSS during World War ll, said the situation test was used by British War Officer Selection Board and OSS to assess potential agents. In 1943 Murray helped complete Analysis of the Personality of Adolph Hitler, commissioned by OSS boss MGen. William "Wild Bill" Donovan. The report was done in collaboration with psychoanalyst Walter C. Langer, Ernst Kris, New School for Social Research, and Bertram D. Lewin, New York Psychoanalytic Institute. The report used many sources to profile Hitler, including informants such as Ernst Hanfstaengl, Hermann Rauschning, Princess Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Gregor Strasser, Friedelinde Wagner, and Kurt Ludecke. The groundbreaking study was the pioneer of offender profiling and political psychology. In addition to predicting that Hitler would choose suicide if defeat for Germany was near, Murray's collaborative report stated that Hitler was impotent as far as heterosexual relations were concerned and that there was a possibility that Hitler had participated in a homosexual relationship. The report stated: "The belief that Hitler is homosexual has probably developed (a) from the fact that he does show so many feminine characteristics, and (b) from the fact that there were so many homosexuals in the Party during the early days and many continue to occupy important positions. It is probably true that Hitler calls Albert Forster "Bubi", which is a common nickname employed by homosexuals in addressing their partners." Harvard human experiments, 1959–62 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Murray#Harvard_human_experiments,_1959–62 In 1947, he returned to Harvard as a chief researcher, lectured and established with others the Psychological Clinic Annex. From late 1959 to early 1962, Murray was responsible for unethical experiments in which he used twenty-two Harvard undergraduates as research subjects.[6] Among other goals, experiments sought to measure individuals' responses to extreme stress. The unwitting undergraduates were submitted to what Murray called "vehement, sweeping and personally abusive" attacks. Specifically-tailored assaults to their egos, cherished ideas and beliefs were used to cause high levels of stress and distress. The subjects then viewed recorded footage of their reactions to this verbal abuse repeatedly. Among the subjects was 17-year-old Ted Kaczynski, a mathematician who went on to be known as the 'Unabomber', a domestic terrorist who targeted academics and technologists for 17 years.[7] Alston Chase's book Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist connects Kaczynski's abusive experiences under Murray to his later criminal career.[7] In 1960, Timothy Leary started research in psychedelic drugs at Harvard, which Murray is said to have supervised.[8] Some sources have suggested that Murray's experiments were part of, or indemnified by, the US Government's research into mind control known as the MKUltra project.[9][10][11] Gordon Wendell Kahl 3 Killed – 4 Wounded Gordon Kahl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Kahl Gordon Wendell Kahl (January 8, 1920 – June 3, 1983) was an American member of the far right Posse Comitatus movement who was involved in two fatal shootouts with law enforcement officers in the United States in 1983.[1] Early life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Kahl#Early_life Gordon Kahl was born in Wells County, North Dakota, on January 8, 1920. Kahl had one sister, Loreen, who died in 1937 at the age of seven. Raised on a farm,[2] Kahl was a highly decorated turret gunner during World War II.[3] After the war, "he had a 400-acre (1.6 km2) farm near Heaton, Wells County, North Dakota,[4] [but] bounced around the Texas oilfields in later life as a mechanic and general worker."[2] In 1967, Kahl wrote a letter to the Internal Revenue Service stating that he would no longer pay taxes to the, in his words, "Synagogue of Satan under the 2nd plank of the Communist Manifesto."[5] During the 1970s, Kahl organized the first Texas chapter of the Posse Comitatus. In 1976 he appeared on a Texas television program stating that the income tax was illegal and encouraging others not to pay their income taxes.[citation needed] Steven Phillip Kazmierczak 6 Killed – 21 Wounded (17 by gunfire) Personal life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Illinois_University_shooting#Personal_life Kazmierczak graduated from Elk Grove High School in 1998, during which he was treated temporarily for mental illness at the Elk Grove Village Thresholds-Mary Hill House psychiatric center,[34] for being "unruly" at home, according to his parents Gail and Robert Kazmierczak. He was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder as a teenager.[35] He later went on to study sociology at Northern Illinois University (NIU). Though his family moved to Florida in 2004, Kazmierczak continued his education in Illinois.[36][37] He enlisted in the United States Army in September 2001, and was discharged before completing basic training in February 2002 for lying on his application about his mental illness.[38][39] His mother died in Lakeland, Florida in September 2006 from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease or ALS).[40][41][42] At the time of Steven's death, his father was living in a retirement community in Lakeland.[43] Education ... He was enrolled at NIU in the spring of 2007,[36] where he took two courses in Arabic and a course called Politics of the Middle East. His research paper was on the subject of Hamas and its social service projects.[48] He left to begin graduate work in the School of Social Work at the University of Illinois, where he intended to study mental health issues. He was enrolled part-time at the University of Illinois during the fall of 2007 and worked from September 24 through October 10 at the Rockville Correctional Facility for Women near the Illinois–Indiana border. His reasons for leaving were unclear; he simply, "did not come back to work," according to Doug Garrison of the Indiana Department of Correction. By early 2008, at the time of the shooting, he was again enrolled full-time at the University of Illinois.[39] ... An Open Letter to students taking Arabic to join the CIA, FBI or the military https://www.michigandaily.com/michigan-in-color/open-letter-students-taking-arabic-join-cia-fbi-or-military/ Wanted: Spies who speak Arabic https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna3071401 CIA unusually public over need for Arabic, Farsi speakers https://www.marketplace.org/2010/06/25/cia-unusually-public-over-need-arabic-farsi-speakers/ James Alan Kearbey Killed 1 – Wounded 3 A school shooting in Goddard, 30 years later https://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article8073096.html GODDARD On the morning of Jan. 21, 1985, 14-year-old James Alan Kearbey walked into Goddard Junior High School armed with an M1A .308-caliber semiautomatic rifle and a .357-caliber Magnum pistol. He killed one person, principal James McGee, and wounded three others – two teachers and a student. It is the only fatal school shooting in Kansas history, and it led to a change in the state’s judicial process related to prosecuting juveniles. It preceded similar school-shootings in Springfield, Ore., Paducah, Ky., and Littleton, Colo., by more than a decade, but the striking similarities between what happened in those places and in Goddard – most important the irrevocable damage to the lives of the people involved – can’t be denied. ‘THEN, KABLOOEY’ It was cold that morning – about 16 degrees – and Kearbey’s car wouldn’t start. After several tries, he gave up and began to dig around in the backseat. He came out with two guns that belonged to his father, Wayne, a Vietnam veteran, and plenty of ammunition for both. ... Andrew Philip Kehoe 45 Killed (including perpetrator) – 58 Wounded Andrew Philip Kehoe https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7845578/andrew-philip-kehoe Mass Murderer. He was responsible for the series of bombings made on May 18, 1927, in Bath Township, Michigan that killed forty-four people, mostly school children, and injured fifty-eight others. He was the Bath Township School Board Treasurer, the building's maintenance man and school bus driver when he was not working his farm. He was interested in explosives and had been involved with them in the military. Kehoe became angry over the increase in school taxes which be blamed for his financial woes. It is believed his act was caused when he became obsessed with a desire for revenge on the School Board. On the day of the massacre he used hundreds of pounds of dynamite and wire to blow up the school. Most of his victims were all the school-age children of the very small community. Earlier in that same morning he had also murdered his wife, Nellie and blew up his house and barn. He then drove the school bus with many of the students to school. When he dropped them off, he was heard to say, "Well kids, this is your last day." He then went home and, after the initial explosion, drove to the school where he then called three prominent community men over to his truck and blew it up, killing himself and 4 more people, which included the School Superintendent, Emory Hyuck, whom he hated. There was no mass nor mourners at his burial, as he was childless. His wife was buried separately in another cemetery under her maiden name. This disaster remains as the worst attack upon a school in the history of the United States. Devin Patrick Kelley 27 Killed – 22 Wounded Military service and violent behavior https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutherland_Springs_church_shooting#Military_service_and_violent_behavior After graduating, Kelley enlisted in the United States Air Force. He served in logistics readiness at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico from 2009 until 2014. He married in April 2011.[38][39] In October 2012, he was charged with assaulting his wife and fracturing his toddler stepson's skull. In response, Kelley made death threats against the superior officers who charged him, and he was caught sneaking firearms onto Holloman Air Force Base.[40] Around that same time, he made threats of self-harm to a coworker.[36] He was then admitted to Peak Behavioral Health Services, a mental health facility in Santa Teresa, New Mexico.[40] In June 2012, Kelley escaped from Peak Behavioral Health Services but was soon apprehended ten miles away at a bus terminal in El Paso, Texas.[40][41] The facility's director of military affairs later recalled that Kelley had stayed at the facility for several weeks, until he was brought to court-martial. While there, he had expressed a desire for "some kind of retribution to his chain of command" and was discovered to have used computers to order "weapons and tactical gear to a P.O. box in San Antonio".[41] Kelley and his wife divorced in October 2012.[38] In an interview with Inside Edition, his ex-wife said she lived in constant fear of him, as their marriage was filled with abuse. He once threatened her at gunpoint over a speeding ticket, and later threatened to kill her and her entire family.[42] Kelley was brought before a general court-martial on four charges: assault on his wife, aggravated assault on his stepson, two charges of pointing a loaded gun at his wife, and two counts of threatening his wife with an unloaded gun. In November 2012, Kelley pleaded guilty to two counts of Article 128 UCMJ, for the assault of his wife and stepson. In return, the weapons charges were dropped.[43][44][45] He was sentenced to 12 months of confinement and a reduction in rank to Airman Basic. He appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, but was unsuccessful.[46] In 2014, he was dismissed from the Air Force with a bad conduct discharge.[47][48] Leo Kelly, Jr. 2 Killed – 0 Wounded Patterns Among School Shooters: Body-Related Issues and the Military https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/patterns_body_related_issues_and_military_1.28.pdf College Shooters Leo Kelly Served in Air Force Kipland Phillip Kinkel 4 Killed – 25 Wounded Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurston_High_School_shooting#Perpetrator ... Classmates described Kinkel as strange and morbid. Others characterized him as psychotic or schizoid, and as someone who enjoyed listening to rock bands such as Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine, and Marilyn Manson.[13][14][15] He constantly talked about committing acts of violence, telling friends that he wanted to join the U.S. Army after graduation to find out what it was like to kill someone. When asked about a family trip to Disneyland, he commented that he wanted to "punch Mickey Mouse in the nose."[16] He once gave a "how-to" speech in bomb-making to his speech class and set off "stink bombs" in the lockers of classmates. Kinkel studied William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet in his English class and related with the protagonists, and became enamored with the 1996 modernized film adaptation, which featured heavy use of firearms. ... Barton Kay Kirkham 2 Killed – 0 Wounded Background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barton_Kay_Kirkham#Background Barton Kay Kirkham was the eldest of five children raised by a Mormon family in Salt Lake City. He was a fan of bop music and described himself as "a rebel." Kirkham left his family's church life and school in the 11th grade and joined the United States Air Force. After 18 months, he committed a robbery while absent without leave in Colorado, and was given an undesirable discharge from the service. Kirkham spent the next 9 months in a reformatory and was paroled in July 1956.[2][3] Julian Knight 7 Killed – 19 Wounded Background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoddle_Street_massacre#Background Knight's father was involved in the military and, as a result, Knight moved around frequently as a child. His lifelong dream was to defend Australia in a war. After a troubled high-school life, Knight entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory on 13 January 1987, at the age of 18. While a military career had long been a dream, he lacked self-discipline and performed poorly at his studies and gained good results only in weapons expertise exercises.[4] Knight did not like authority and he hated the social hierarchy of the army which allowed people only a few months older than him to boss him around. One night, despite being confined to the base, Knight was involved in a fight and stabbing at a bar after being confronted by a senior.[4] Knight was consequently discharged and sent back to Melbourne 16 days prior to the massacre. Upon returning to Melbourne, Knight found out that his longtime girlfriend would no longer see him and his mother, on whom he had always relied, had turned his childhood bedroom into an extra living room.[4] Furthermore, Knight was without money, and had no ability or experience to earn a decent wage and, consequently, took on menial work. Military career https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Knight_(murderer)#Military_career Knight joined the Australian Army Cadets at the age of 14 and served in two cadet units, the Norwood High School Cadet Unit and the Melbourne HSCU. He later enlisted in the Army Reserve at the age of 17 while still in high school, serving as a trooper the 4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse Regiment, an armoured reconnaissance unit. Knight entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon on 13 January 1987, at the age of 18. While a military career had long been a dream, he performed poorly at studies and gained good results only in weapons expertise exercises. Knight was advised to leave the army after an incident in which he stabbed his superior, a sergeant, while drinking. Su Nam Ko ("One L. Goh"; One Goh Ko; One Ko Goh") 7 Killed – 3 Wounded Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oikos_University_shooting#Perpetrator One L. Goh (born Su Nam Ko; also known as One Goh Ko or One Ko Goh), a 43-year-old former student at Oikos University, was identified as the shooter. He was residing in Oakland at the time of the attack.[13][14] A native of South Korea, he followed his parents and two older brothers to the United States at a young age and later[when?] was naturalized as a U.S. citizen.[15][16] When Goh arrived to the United States, he first resided in Springfield, a community in Fairfax County, Virginia, outside of Washington, D.C., and then moved to Hayes, in rural Southeast Virginia, where he had minor traffic citations and debts. In February 2002, he legally changed his name to One Goh because he felt his birth name sounded "like a girl's name."[17] Goh later moved from Virginia to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he took up residence in Castro Valley and Oakland.[18] His mother Oak-Chul Kim also lived in Oakland, while his brother Su-Wan Ko, a non-commissioned officer in the United States Army, and another brother Su-Kwon remained in Virginia.[18][19] On March 8, 2011, Su-Wan was killed in an automobile accident in Virginia while on assignment for the George C. Marshall Center.[19][20] Later that year, his mother returned to Seoul, South Korea, where she died as well.[18] While a student at Oikos University, Goh had disciplinary problems, and was asked to leave the school a few months prior to the shooting.[18] Fairfax County, Virginia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairfax_County,_Virginia Fairfax County, officially the County of Fairfax, is located in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. Part of Northern Virginia, Fairfax County borders both the City of Alexandria and Arlington County and forms part of the suburban ring of Washington, D.C. The county is thus predominantly suburban in character, with some urban and rural pockets. ... The county is home to the headquarters of intelligence agencies such as the Central Intelligence Agency, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and National Reconnaissance Office, as well as the National Counterterrorism Center and Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The county is also home to seven Fortune 500 companies, including three in the Falls Church area; although not located in the independent municipality of Falls Church.[5] ... Adam Peter Lanza 28 Killed (including perpetrator) – 2 Wounded Lanza wanted to join the Marines https://www.chron.com/newtownshooting/article/Lanza-wanted-to-join-the-Marines-4133313.php NEWTOWN, Conn. — Adam Lanza aspired to be a Marine, one of "the few, the proud." Failing that, he planned to join another branch of the military. That is what he told his mother Nancy Lanza, his biggest cheerleader, and that is what she relayed to one of her closest friends, Ellen Adriani of Sandy Hook. At first, Nancy Lanza supported her youngest son's dream. She liked the idea that the military would give him purpose, a career path and structure to his life. But the more she thought about it, the more she saw a downside. "It became overwhelmingly clear to her that it [military service] wasn't right for him," Adriani said. "She squashed" any notion of Adam joining the Marines or any branch of the armed services by reminding him "that he didn't like to be touched," said Adriani, and that if he were injured "doctors and medics would have to handle him to treat him." Lanza, 20, harbored a dream of joining the military after he stopped taking college-level courses at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, said a local merchant who knew Nancy and her son. Lanza first made his military aspirations known when he was 17, about the time his older brother Ryan was attending Quinnipiac University in Hamden. The Adam Lanza who went on a shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown last Friday was outfitted for war. Only his targets were civilian, not military. He was clad in body armor, black clothing and wielding a Bushmaster rifle, equivalent to a military M16. He was also armed with a 9mm Glock originally used by the Austrian military -- and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. Lanza was a familiar face at area shooting ranges in recent years, federal agents said, but not in the past six months. Nevertheless, he had ample opportunity to hone his skills firing off as many virtual rounds as he wanted in the comfort of his own home. It was clear he was an avid gamer from the trove of gory video and Internet gaming material investigators seized. Peter Wlasuk, a Newtown plumber who claims he worked at the Lanzas' home, informed The Sun of London that Lanza would play soldier in violent video games such as "Call of Duty" for hours in a windowless, bunker-like basement. "They had one poster of every piece of military equipment the U.S. ever made," Wlasuk told the British newspaper. Lanza's dreams are hauntingly similar to another school shooter, Eric Harris, who along with Dylan Klebold killed 12 people at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999. Harris had hoped to join the Marines, too, according to the Rocky Mountain News. Five days before the shootings a recruiter told Harris he wasn't eligible because he had used psychiatric medicine. Like Harris, Lanza enjoyed playing violent computer and video games. All three weapons Lanza used when he stormed Sandy Hook Elementary School were lawfully owned and registered to his mother, who grew up on a New Hampshire farm where she learned early how to shoot and handle guns. Adriani visited Lanza's girlhood home last October, when the two of them attended a retirement party for Lanza's brother, James Champion, a police officer. "She was a real farm girl," Adriani said, and had a respect for firearms. "She was one of the most responsible people I know. She kept them locked up. She was safety conscious in every aspect of her life. If you got into her BMW and didn't buckle up, as soon as the car started making that ding-ding-ding sound she'd stop driving and wouldn't start until you were safely buckled in." Adriani met Nancy Lanza several years ago at the My Place restaurant in Newtown, where a number of their mutual friends hang out. The two shared a passion for gardening and good food. All of what Adriani knows of Adam Lanza she concedes she learned from his mother, whom police said he shot in the head. He then drove to the school to kill 20 children and six women before killing himself. "Nancy was proud of both of her sons," Adriani said. "They were the world to her. Adam had been doing some computer work for someone I know. He was incredibly bright. And Nancy was looking into some schools for him and the possibility of moving, too." As he progressed through the school system he did well academically, but socially he was an outcast. When anyone passed him in the hallway between classes, fellow classmates say, he would press himself against the wall, shunning even inadvertent physical contact. Whether Adam Lanza was depressed about giving up his military dream or resuming his education, Adriani said she has no idea. In the past year or so, Nancy Lanza had started traveling more, leaving him home alone more often, Adriani said. And Adam Lanza had started taking on more responsibility at home, grocery shopping and venturing out alone. Santino William Legan 4 Killed – 17 Wounded Santino William Legan: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know https://heavy.com/news/2019/07/santino-william-legan/ ... Interestingly, Legan is a descendant of a 1940s-era Hollywood legend, actor William Holden. ... Legan’s paternal grandfather was Tom Legan, a West Point graduate who died in May 2018. According to his obituary, the elder Legan served as a “captain in Korea as a Nuclear Weapons Officer and completed his military service in Germany. As a civilian, Tom was Western Regional Marketing Director for Kaiser Cement and was thereafter appointed and then elected as Santa Clara County Supervisor for two terms.” In 1988, he was acquitted by a jury of the alleged rape of his eldest daughter. The Los Angeles Times reported that he was “found innocent Friday of three counts of molesting his elder daughter in 1982.” Legan was seeking re-election at the time. ... William Holden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Holden Early life and education https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Holden#Early_life_and_education His younger brother, Robert W. "Bobbie" Beedle, became a U.S. Navy fighter pilot and was killed in action in World War II, over New Ireland, a Japanese-occupied island in the South Pacific, on January 5, 1944. World War II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Holden#World_War_II Holden served as a second and then a first lieutenant in the United States Army Air Force during World War II, where he acted in training films for the First Motion Picture Unit, including Reconnaissance Pilot (1943). Tom Andrew ("Tommie") Hughes 2 Killed – 0 Wounded Tommie Hughes https://en.everybodywiki.com/Tommie_Hughes ... Hughes served in the United States Marine Corps and received a bad-conduct discharge after being convicted by a special court-martial in June 1994 of a drug offense and possessing false ID. ... Leonard Marvin Laws 24 Killed? Leonard Marvin Laws https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20872740/leonard-marvin-laws Leonard Laws was executed on May 17, 1990 by lethal injection. Inscription Private, U.S. Army, Vietnam Sergei Lepnev 6 Killed – 2 Wounded Cadey shoots comrades, commander https://murderpedia.org/male.L/l/lepnev-sergei.htm Sergei Lepnev, 18, a first-year cadetat the Kamyshin Military Construction Academy in Volgograd Oblast, shotdead the 32-year-old captain of his guard detachment and five other cadets on 9 March, Russian media reported. The incident, in which three other cadets were also wounded, occurred during a routine changing of the guard at the academy. Lepnev fled the scene with another cadet, but was later tracked by police to a local home, where officers convinced him to surrender. The motive for the shootings remains unclear, although military investigators cited by NTV suggested that it could have resulted from severe hazing, a chronic problem for young recruits in the Russian military. John Emil List 5 Killed – 0 Wounded Early life and education https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_List#Early_life_and_education Born in Bay City, Michigan, List was the only child of German-American parents, John Frederick List (1859–1944) and Alma Barbara Florence List (1887–1971). Like his father, List was a devout Lutheran and a Sunday school teacher. In 1943, he enlisted in the United States Army and served as a laboratory technician during World War II. After his discharge in 1946, List enrolled at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he earned a bachelor's degree in business administration and a master's degree in accounting, and was commissioned a second lieutenant through ROTC.[2] Military service and civilian career https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_List#Military_service_and_civilian_career In November 1950, as the Korean War escalated, List was recalled to active military service. At Fort Eustis, Virginia, he met Helen Morris Taylor, the widow of an infantry officer killed in action in Korea, who lived nearby with her daughter, Brenda. John and Helen married on December 1, 1951, in Baltimore, Maryland, and the family moved to northern California. The Army, realizing List's accounting skills, reassigned him to the Finance Corps.[3] After completion of his second tour in 1952, List worked for an accounting firm in Detroit, and then as an audit supervisor at a paper company in Kalamazoo, where his three children were born.[4] By 1959, List had risen to general supervisor of the company's accounting department; but Helen, an alcoholic, had become increasingly unstable.[5] In 1960, Brenda married and left the household, and List moved with the remainder of his family to Rochester, New York, to take a job with Xerox. There, he eventually became director of accounting services.[6] In 1965, List accepted a position as vice president and comptroller at a bank in Jersey City, New Jersey, and moved with his wife, children, and mother into Breeze Knoll, a 19-room Victorian mansion at 431 Hillside Avenue in Westfield.[7] Patrick Lizotte 1 Killed – 2 Wounded A LONER FASCINATED WITH GUNS https://www.mayheminthedesert.com/schoolshooting Patrick Lizotte was an Air Force brat, moving every few years when his father received orders for a change of station. These frequent moves made it difficult for Lizotte to establish any long-term friendships. As a result, Lizotte spent most of his free time in his room playing fantasy games and listening to music. The shooter was also known for sitting alone at lunch and reading Soldier of Fortune magazine, likely due to his reported fascination with guns. A classmate later reported an occasion when she tried to befriend Lizotte by handing him a note, but he just tore up the letter without reading it. On top of the self-imposed isolation, Lizotte also suffered routine bullying at school. And while teachers along the way told students to go easy on the quiet kid, these admonishments did little to ease the torment experienced by Lizotte. Gang Lu 6 Killed – 1 Wounded Patterns Among School Shooters: Body-Related Issues and the Military https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/patterns_body_related_issues_and_military_1.28.pdf RELATIVES IN THE MILITARY OR LAW ENFORCEMENT College Shooters Gang Lu (Mother: military hospital — the family lived in the compound) Wayne Lo 2 Killed – 4 Wounded Background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Lo#Background Lo was born in Tainan, Taiwan,[2] to Chia Wei Lo, a fighter pilot, and Lin Lin Lo, a violin teacher, both Mainland Chinese immigrants to Taiwan.[3] The Lo family moved to the United States in spring 1981, living in a suburban neighborhood in Rockville, Maryland while Chia Wei Lo was assigned to a diplomatic post in Washington, D.C.[3] While living in Maryland, the 7-year-old Lo became a violinist with the Montgomery County Youth Orchestra.[3] ... Here’s the story behind today’s StoryCorps episode https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/12/08/heres-the-story-behind-todays-storycorps-episode ... At trial, Lo's father, a retired colonel in the Nationalist Chinese Taiwan's Air Force, said his son told him shortly after his arrest that he had done 'God's will' because 'there were too many sins on campus.' ... Gavin Eugene Long 4 Killed (including perpetrator) – 3 Wounded Personal life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_shooting_of_Baton_Rouge_police_officers#Personal_life Long served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a data network specialist from August 22, 2005, to August 1, 2010. He was honorably discharged with the rank of sergeant.[7][19][42][48][49] During his military service, he was deployed to Iraq from June 2008 to January 2009.[50] He was also assigned to units in San Diego, California, and Okinawa, Japan.[48] Long was awarded the Good Conduct Medal, along with an Iraq Campaign Medal, a National Defense Service Medal, a Navy Unit Commendation, and others.[19][49] Following his military service, Long told relatives and friends that he suffered from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). He reportedly had prescriptions for Ativan and Valium, both anti-anxiety drugs; Lunesta, a sleep aid; and citalopram, an antidepressant.[51][52] Health records from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) reportedly indicated contacts with Long from 2008 to August 2013.[53] The VA records said that Long told doctors that he contracted PTSD after a friend showed him photos of maimed and decapitated bodies while they were in Iraq. In November 2011, doctors contradicted Long's suspicions of PTSD and instead diagnosed him as having "adjustment disorder with depressed mood." They eventually concluded that he was mentally stable, with no evidence that he was a threat to himself or others.[52] According to Long's mother, the VA then sent him a letter denying him further treatment on the grounds that his disorder was not related to his military service.[54] Long's mental health and related combat experience may have been a factor leading to the shooting.[55] Long graduated from Central Texas College, attending the college's San Diego site at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar and via an online education program from fall 2007 to summer 2011; he received an associate of arts degree in general studies.[56] Long studied at Clark Atlanta University during the 2012–13 academic year.[57] Long also spent one semester at the University of Alabama, in spring 2012,[56] with his name making it to the Dean's List as a general business major.[25][45][50] According to local court records, Long had no criminal record and was married for two years before the couple divorced.[5][58] Ian David Long 13 Killed (including perpetrator) – 16 Wounded Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Oaks_shooting#Perpetrator Long attended Newbury Park High School for his junior and senior years, graduating in June 2008.[12] He served in the United States Marine Corps from August 2008 to March 2013, reaching the rank of corporal, and he had gone to Afghanistan from November 2010 to June 2011. After being honorably discharged, Long attended California State University, Northridge as an athletic training major from 2013 to 2016, but he did not graduate.[12][39] During this time, he had been involved in a motorcycle accident that left him with a collapsed lung; his motorcycle helmet was cracked, and he was diagnosed with "adjustment disorder with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), combat and military operational stress reaction, and chronic pain."[12] According to his mother, he had begun to "unravel" after the incident. Long had two prior contacts with the Ventura County Sheriff's Office, one in 2006 involving a traffic collision and the other in 2015 involving a bar fight; no charges were filed in either incident.[12] Ivan A. Lopez-Lopez 4 Killed – 14 Wounded Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Fort_Hood_shooting#Perpetrator Ivan A. Lopez-Lopez[10][25] (October 23, 1979 – April 2, 2014) was an Iraq War veteran who was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico. He enlisted in the Puerto Rico National Guard on January 4, 1999, but was unable to pass a required English language course and was subsequently discharged on November 30 of the same year. Lopez reenlisted on April 30, 2003, as an infantryman and served until 2010. He served on active duty in the United States Army in June 2008. He was married and had four children, two of them from a previous marriage.[6][10][15][16][27][28] Service in the U.S. Army https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Fort_Hood_shooting#Service_in_the_U.S._Army Lopez was a specialist, and at the time of the shooting, he was assigned to the 13th Sustainment Command, a logistics and support unit at Fort Hood. He was previously assigned in Fort Bliss, but was transferred to another base for four months, then moved to Fort Hood two months prior to the shooting.[26] Lopez previously reported at Fort Hood in 2006 during his time in the Puerto Rico National Guard, where he was given orders to deploy to Egypt from February 15, 2007, to February 10, 2008. From August 6 to December 18, 2011, Lopez served a tour in Iraq, participating in Operation New Dawn as security detail. On or about December 12, his convoy was involved in a roadside bombing.[6] Though Lopez would allege that he had experiences in direct combat in Iraq and cited the bombing of his convoy, investigators determined he was not within the blast radius of the bomb used.[11] On November 29, 2013, he began receiving MOS reclassification training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, graduating three months later. During his time there, he attempted to purchase a weapon on two occasions. On the second occasion, Lopez was persuaded by a classmate to reconsider the purchase.[6] Eusebio Lopez 2 Killed – 0 Wounded Quantico Marine base killings report: Shooter suffered brain injury https://www.newsleader.com/story/news/2013/12/16/quantico-marine-base-killings-report-shooter-suffered-brain-injury/1582318/ McLEAN – A distraught Marine who fatally shot his ex-girlfriend and a colleague before killing himself at the Quantico Marine Corps base was suicidal, had signs of traumatic brain injury and should have received better psychological care, a military investigation found. Sgt. Eusebio Lopez was receiving treatment in North Carolina after his vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device in Iraq, but his medical care stopped abruptly when he was transferred to Quantico in 2012, according to a report obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The reason appeared to be two-fold: His new doctors didn’t know about his previous treatment and he didn’t speak up. The report also found problems with the response to the shooting because unarmed Marines were deployed to secure the perimeter around the barracks. Two of the bodies were not found until nearly four hours after the shots were fired. Lopez shot Lance Cpl. Sara Castromata, 19, and Cpl. Jacob Wooley, 23, inside a barracks at the Officer Candidates School after a night of drinking. Lopez was upset Castromata had ended a relationship with him and had begun dating Wooley, according to the report obtained Thursday. The day of the shooting, Lopez sent numerous despondent text messages to Castromata, including “See u on the other side sara im out” and “U could have saved me.” The report found Lopez’s problems began on a 2007 deployment to Iraq, when he was inches away from stepping on a homemade bomb. It worsened after a stint in Afghanistan in 2011, when he was a passenger on a vehicle struck by a roadside bomb. He was diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury and post-concussion syndrome. The report also referenced symptoms related to post-traumatic stress disorder and said Lopez was going through a separation with his wife. Your stories live here. Fuel your hometown passion and plug into the stories that define it. Create Account Lopez received treatment at a Concussion Recovery Center while stationed at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, but the report indicates his medical records were not transferred to Quantico when he was reassigned. “There should have been a conscientious and deliberate transfer of Sergeant Lopez’s medical case,” the investigating officer found. Some of his mental health records were in a database available to Quantico, but not until several months after he arrived in June 2012. The investigation concluded Lopez’s mental health problems should have caused him to fail a screening he received in November 2012 to qualify for arms, ammunitions and explosives duty. At the time of the shootings, Lopez was a tactics instructor at the Officer Candidate School whose specialty was machine gunner. The failure to carefully review his medical history in that screening was a missed opportunity, the investigation found. The report also found that Lopez should not even have been eligible to live in the barracks where the shootings took place and he and other Marines regularly disregarded regulations that required Marines to register personal firearms and store them in the armory when on base. Lopez used his personal handgun in the shootings. The Officer Candidates School “was functioning in a climate lacking accountability, cognizance of and adherence to orders and personal responsibility,” according to the report. The biggest warning in the report, though, was a call for the Marine Corps to do more to treat Marines suffering from brain injuries. “To address what is noticeable and evident may be the easy part, to address what sinks in and becomes seemingly invisible ... is our greatest challenge,” wrote the investigating officer, a brigadier general whose name was redacted from the report. “We are getting pummeled by the ‘invisible wounds,’ and that tidal wave has not likely fully hit us yet.” The investigating officer made disciplinary recommendations, but the specifics were also redacted. The commander of the Officer Candidate School, though, was relieved of his post a month after the shootings. The general who received the report challenged some of its findings. “Notwithstanding the investigating officer’s findings ... the murder-suicide in this case was not reasonably foreseeable by individual or command,” Lt. Gen. Richard Mills wrote in August, when he was leading the Marine Corps Combat Development Command. Wooley’s uncle, Thomas McGill of Corinth, Miss., said in a phone interview that to his knowledge, no one in the family had been provided with a copy of the report or told of its contents. McGill said he was largely unmoved by the possibility that Lopez’s actions may have been different if he received better treatment. “You can’t use that as an excuse,” McGill said. Jared Lee Loughner 6 Killed – 13 Wounded Substance use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Lee_Loughner#Substance_use After struggling with drugs for more than two years, Loughner gave up alcohol, tobacco, and recreational drugs in late 2008 and has not used since, according to one of his longtime friends.[20] The U.S. Army confirmed that Loughner had been rejected as "unqualified" for service in 2008.[21][22][23] According to military sources, Loughner admitted to marijuana use on numerous occasions during the application process.[9] Dwight J. Loving 2 Killed – 0 Wounded Obama commutes death sentence for ex-soldier from Texas https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Ex-soldier-from-Texas-gets-new-life-from-Obama-10863376.php A former Army soldier once based at Fort Hood and facing a death sentence got a new shot at life from President Barack Obama. Among the 209 commutations the president handed down on Jan. 17, 2017, one went to Dwight Loving, a private first-class in 1988 when he killed two cab drivers in Killeen, Texas. Loving's sentence was taken down from death to life in prison without parole. Obama also specified that Loving will be unable to appeal his conviction or be eligible in any way for release in the future. A military judge sentenced Loving, now 47, in 1996 for two counts of premeditated murder and one count of attempted murder. Army Pvt. Christopher Fay, 20, a 13th Corps Support Command soldier and part-time Killeen cab driver, and retired Master Sgt. Bobby Sharbino, 44, were were found dead in their taxis on Dec. 12 and Dec. 13, 1988, both from gunshot wounds. Howard Harrison, 28, another cab driver, was injured when he struggled with Loving in his cab. Harrison managed to escape after knocking the gun from Loving's hand. A military court also found Loving guilty of robbing two 7-Eleven convenience stores on Dec. 11, 1988. Loving was one of six service members on military death row at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. The military hasn't carried out an execution since 1961. Jeffrey Don Lundgren 5 Killed Background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Lundgren#Background Lundgren enrolled at Central Missouri State University[1] and spent time at a house that was specially built for RLDS youth. While at the house, he became friends with Alice Keeler and Keith Johnson. Keeler, who had also been abused by her father, quickly bonded with Lundgren, and the two became lovers. The couple married in 1970 and Lundgren enlisted in the United States Navy, and on December 2, 1970, the couple's first child, a boy, was born.[2] By 1974, Keeler was pregnant for the second time. Prior to receiving an honorable discharge from the Navy at the end of his first term of duty, Lundgren sought an early release by arguing that his presence was necessary for the sustenance of his family. He was denied an early release for reasons that were non-necessary according to military recommendations. Lundgren received an honorable discharge days before his four-year enlistment was completed. His second son was born soon afterward. Jeffrey Robert MacDonald 3 Killed (including 1 unborn child) – 0 Wounded Jeffrey R. MacDonald https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_R._MacDonald Jeffrey Robert MacDonald (born October 12, 1943) is a former American medical doctor and United States Army captain who was convicted in August 1979 of murdering his pregnant wife and two daughters in February 1970 while serving as an Army Special Forces physician. MacDonald has always proclaimed his innocence of the murders, which he claims were committed by four intruders—three male and one female—who had entered the unlocked rear door of his apartment at Fort Bragg, North Carolina[3] and attacked him, his wife, and his children with instruments such as knives, clubs and ice picks. Prosecutors and appellate courts have pointed to strong physical evidence attesting to his guilt. He is currently incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Maryland. The MacDonald murder case remains one of the most litigated murder cases in American criminal history.[4] ... Medical school https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_R._MacDonald#Medical_school ... Shortly after MacDonald graduated from medical school in 1968, he and his family relocated to Bergenfield, New Jersey as he completed a one-year internship at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, specializing in thoracic surgery. MacDonald later described his internship year as "a horrendous year" for both himself and Colette, adding he frequently worked thirty-six hours with only twelve hours at home. Consequently, when at home, he was frequently exhausted and had limited interaction with his wife and daughters. At the completion of his internship, MacDonald and Colette vacationed in Aruba before MacDonald joined the Army.[17] ... U.S. Army https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_R._MacDonald#U.S._Army MacDonald enlisted in the United States Army on June 28, 1969,[18] and was sent to Fort Sam Houston, Texas to undergo a six-week physician's basic training course. While at Fort Sam Houston, he volunteered to be assigned to the Army's Special Forces ("Green Berets") to become a Special Forces physician.[19][20] He was then assigned to Fort Benning, Georgia, where he completed their paratrooper training course. Although MacDonald had joined the Army knowing he might be deployed to serve in the Vietnam War, he later learned that, as a Green Beret doctor, he was unlikely to serve overseas.[21] Fort Bragg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_R._MacDonald#Fort_Bragg In late August,[22][13] MacDonald reported to the 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) at Fort Bragg, North Carolina to serve as the group's surgeon.[22][n 2] He was joined by his wife and children,[13][24] and the MacDonald family resided at 544 Castle Drive,[25] in a section of the base reserved for married officers and afforded security by military police.[n 3] The couple quickly became popular among their neighbors, although MacDonald and Colette are known to have argued occasionally.[n 4] By the time the MacDonalds moved into their new apartment at Fort Bragg, Colette had accrued two years of studies, with aspirations to obtain a bachelor's degree in English literature and teach part-time. Both daughters had developed distinctive personalities: Kimberley being markedly feminine, intelligent, and shy; Kristen a boisterous tomboy who would "run over and crack someone" if she observed her older sister being bullied by other children.[27] On December 10, the 3rd Special Forces Group was deactivated,[28] and MacDonald was transferred on base to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 6th Special Forces Group (Airborne), 1st Special Forces,[18] to serve as a preventive medical officer.[29] Shortly before Christmas 1969, with his wife approximately three months pregnant with their third child and first son, MacDonald bought his daughters a Shetland pony, anticipating the family would soon relocate to a farm in Connecticut.[7] He kept this purchase a secret from his wife and children, and he and his stepfather-in-law drove them to the stable as a surprise on Christmas Day. His daughters chose to name the pony "Trooper".[30] The same month, Colette is known to have penned a letter to college acquaintances in which she described her life as "never [being] so normal or happy", adding she and her husband were content, that their baby son was due to be born in July, and her family would be complete.[31] By 1970, MacDonald had earned the rank of captain. He was planning to study advanced medical training at Yale University upon completion of his tour of duty as a Green Beret doctor.[32] Jennifer San Marco 8 Killed (including perpetrator) – 0 Wounded Goleta postal facility shootings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goleta_postal_facility_shootings The Goleta postal facility shootings were a spree killing perpetrated by Jennifer San Marco on January 30, 2006. San Marco, a former U.S. Postal Service employee, shot and killed seven people in Goleta, California before taking her own life. Background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goleta_postal_facility_shootings#Background Jennifer San Marco was born in Brooklyn, New York. She went to Edward R. Murrow High School, later attending Brooklyn College. She then studied natural resources management at Rutgers University in New Jersey but did not graduate. In 1989 she came to California, where after studying she was hired as a guard at medium-security Chuckawalla Valley State Prison in Blythe. She quit two days before her probationary period ended. She never gave a reason for quitting but was described as a good worker. She held down a number of jobs, including a dispatcher for the Santa Barbara Police Department in the mid-1990s, a job for which she underwent a background check and psychological evaluation. She left the job after several months.[5] San Marco worked at a high school serving lunch before quitting in 2000. She eventually bought a condominium and went to work for the postal service as a clerk. She left on psychological disability following a 2003 incident in which she was pulled out from under a mail-sorting machine and had to be wheeled from her workplace by police in handcuffs.[1] She did return briefly, but was again removed from the building due to her erratic behavior and never returned. She was institutionalized at a Ventura mental hospital for three days in February 2001. Michael McDermod Martinez ("Michael Morgan McDermott") 7 Killed – 0 Wounded Story of accused killer depends on whom you ask https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Story-of-accused-killer-depends-on-whom-you-ask-11713389.php ... In 1978 he joined the Navy, and served six years aboard the nuclear submarine USS Narwhal. He was an electrician and was honorably discharged as a petty officer second class. ... Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield_massacre#Perpetrator On June 28 of the same year, McDermott enlisted in the United States Navy and served in several submarine training schools until September 1, 1977, when he was assigned to the Nuclear Power Training Unit in Idaho Falls. From April 5, 1978 to April 23, 1982, he served as an electrician on the USS Narwhal and was finally sent to the Personnel Support Detachment at the naval station in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1980, he changed his name to Michael Morgan McDermott. On June 27, 1982, McDermott was honorably discharged with the rank of Electrician's Mate Petty Officer Second Class. Manipulated Shootings: The Profile https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/signofthetimes/manipulated-shootings-the-profile-t1355-s10.html Michael "Mucko" McDermott, 42, joined the Navy at age 17, serving aboard a nuclear submarine. Courtney B. Matthews 4 Killed – 0 Wounded Former soldier convicted in killings of four Taco Bell employees https://apnews.com/article/1221ea4d74cbfb0531ae4a9b50530281 CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ A second former soldier was convicted of murder Friday in the shooting deaths of four Taco Bell workers during a robbery in 1994. David Housler confessed to being the getaway driver and lookout man, and the jury that convicted him on four counts of murder also sentenced him to life in prison with the possibility of parole. ``The system’s not working,″ Housler said as he was led away from the courthouse. ``You’ve just convicted an innocent 23-year-old man,″ defense attorney Michael Terry told the jury as the sentencing hearing began. ``I have no faith in your ability to determine the proper sentence.″ Tennessee law at the time of the crime makes Housler eligible for parole after 25 years. The judge said he will decide on Dec. 12 whether the four life terms will run consecutively or concurrently. Prosecutors had sought a life-without-parole sentence. Housler, of Radcliff, Ky., was found guilty of helping gunman and fellow Fort Campbell soldier Courtney Mathews, 23. Mathews, who had worked at the Taco Bell for 10 days as a part-time dishwasher and food handler, forced his co-workers to lie on the floor after the restaurant closed, then shot them. The safe and the cash register were cleaned out, but the amount taken was not disclosed. Mathews was convicted last year and is serving a life sentence without parole. Prosecutors believe a half-dozen or more people were involved, though only Mathews and Housler were charged. ``We firmly believe there are several people who have gotten away with murder,″ said Tracey Campbell Hoover, sister of murder victim Kevin Campbell. Housler was in jail on an unrelated robbery charge in 1995 when he confessed his involvement in the Taco Bell killings. During his trial, however, he said he lied. He said he had been trying to bargain for leniency on the robbery charge. Myron May 1 Killed (including perpetrator) – 3 Wounded Myron May: Descent into Delusions https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/may_descent_into_delusions_1.1_0.pdf Very little is known about Myron May’s childhood, but it apparently was not stable. His parents were Lorenzo May from Ohio and Nadine Freeman (her married name was May) from Florida. Myron was born in Dayton, Ohio. His father was from a large family, with three brothers and five sisters. Myron’s father served in the navy and one of his father’s brothers served in the marines. Mr. May reportedly was addicted to crack-cocaine and Myron reportedly lived with his mother. Ernest Timothy McGhee ("Hamaas Abdul Khaalis", "Ernest "XX" McGee", "Ernest 2X McGee") 9 Killed – 5 Wounded Early life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamaas_Abdul_Khaalis#Early_life Khaalis was born to Seventh-day Adventist[3] parents in Gary, Indiana[4] as Ernest Timothy McGhee. He graduated 22nd in a class of 135 at Roosevelt High School, and he played percussion instruments and eventually converted to Roman Catholicism.[4] As McGee, he attended Purdue University and Mid-Western Conservatory. He was discharged from the U.S. Army on grounds of mental instability.[5] He was a talented jazz drummer and played with Bud Powell, Charlie Parker, Max Roach, Billie Holiday, and J.J. Johnson in New York City.[6][3] Thomas McIlvane 4 Killed – 0 Wounded The Legacy of ‘Going Postal’ https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5pabb/the-legacy-of-going-postal ... "They pushed the wrong guy" is a phrase that comes up a lot when reading about Royal Oak. According to McIlvane's disciplinary files, he was a mentally unstable worker with a history of vulgar and disrespectful conduct towards managers. His military records back that up, detailing a number of strange incidents like driving a tank over a car without authorization—it was empty, intended for a fire extinguishing exercise—and generally not following basic orders. He admitted to a military doctor he had a "short fuse" but thought he could control it. ... McIlvane ‘Didn’t Mince Words Too Much,’ Former Co-Worker Says With AM-Postal Shooting, Bjt https://apnews.com/article/86d4f389023ad194af4a405820c3d191 ROYAL OAK, Mich. (AP) _ Mark Mitchell worked with Tom McIlvane at the Royal Oak Post Office for four years after they served in the Marine Corps together. They were friends, but Mitchell didn’t want to get on McIlvane’s wrong side. ... Two Sides Of A Gunman: Affable, Then Intensely Angry https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19911115&slug=1317398 ... Friends and neighbors remembered McIlvane, who died early today from his wounds, as an affable, earnest man who drenched his omelets with ketchup, an ex-Marine like his father and a skilled kickboxer not inclined to fight outside the ring. ... Like his late father Richard McIlvane Sr. - a tough ex-Marine who chain-smoked Pall Malls - Tom McIlvane was proud, tough and self-sufficient with a streak of niceness, as long as you didn't cross him. ... Tom's fascination with karate and the martial arts began in high school. He worked out in the garage with a heavy bag hung from the rafters. Following his father's footsteps, McIlvane joined the Marines, serving in Okinawa, Japan, and Twentynine Palms, a base near Palm Springs, Calif. "One time at Twentynine Palms, there was a guy he was mad at and he drove a tank over his car," said Mark Mitchell, who served in the Corps with McIlvane and later worked with him at the post office. McIlvane continued his martial-arts training after leaving the Marines. In the winter of 1984-85, he entered and won the amateur division of a Tough Man contest, a no-holds-barred competition. James Vyse, 29, said McIlvane then began a professional kick-boxing career. It took him to Europe, where he was unsuccessful. But McIlvane did get featured on television's "Bernie's Bloopers," which ran a clip in which McIlvane and another fighter punched each other simultaneously, knocking each other out. ... John Jason McLaughlin 2 Killed – 0 Wounded Psychological Evaluation of John Jason McLaughlin https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/John_Jason_McLaughlin_Psychological_Evaluation_0.pdf ... Jason's interest outside of school included making “things.” He describes making explosives such as bombs. He is unclear as to the sophisticated nature of what he made but he was, as he describes, responding to a voice in his head telling him to try to make or build bombs using gunpowder from shotgun shells, wires, and a test tube from school. Jason is fascinated with the idea of becoming a military specialist in explosives. Jason's description of this interest appears immature and out of touch with what is necessary for such a career because he described believing that he no longer needed schooling. ... Rocori teen testifies he took his dad's gun https://www.postbulletin.com/news/rocori-teen-testifies-he-took-his-dads-gun ... McLaughlin selected the weapon that he had shot before at a Twin Cities metro area gun range, his father, David McLaughlin, a Stearns County sheriff's deputy, testified. ... Michael Kenneth McLendon 11 Killed – 6 Wounded Motive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_County_shootings#Motive Witnesses said that McLendon was disturbed by his parents' divorce years ago, and had been depressed about his failure to start a career and disappointed that he had failed to qualify for the U.S. Marines or law enforcement.[1] He had recently complained that his mother was not getting enough support from her family. At the time of the shooting, officials did not know where his father was.[14] Detectives discovered a handwritten list by McLendon in his home which identified several people from previous jobs, with notations about their actions or comments against him, described as people who "had either disciplined him or had reported him to supervisors for work related infractions".[15] The Alabama Bureau of Investigation noted that none of the people named in the list was among those he killed,[7] but police were trying to determine if he had intended to attack them.[16] Investigators found a letter in which McLendon said he had killed his mother and planned to commit suicide. The letter also noted he was having a dispute over a legal issue with his mother's family, as they held a family Bible that he wanted.[17] He said that he and his mother had "suffered enough".[18] McLendon was described as very familiar with guns. The investigators "found dozens of ammunition boxes, military and survival gear and medical supplies at McLendon's Kinston home".[1] Jerry Lynn McCracken 4 Killed – 0 Wounded McCracken executed for four Tulsa murders https://www.newson6.com/story/5e3681d62f69d76f620963cf/mccracken-executed-for-four-tulsa-murders ... McALESTER, Okla. (AP) _ An Army veteran who killed four people during a 1990 robbery at a Tulsa nightclub was executed Tuesday. ... Clifton McCree 5 Killed – 0 Wounded FIRED WORKER SHOOTS 5 DEAD, KILLS HIMSELF https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/02/10/fired-worker-shoots-5-dead-kills-himself/fe3750b6-0748-4f95-a3b6-bb8948705e80/ ... Clifton McCree, 41, a former Marine, worked for 18 years cleaning the beaches of this seaside town but was fired in December 1994 after he tested positive for illegal drug use. Police today did not identify the drug. ... Shooter sought racial revenge https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1996/02/11/shooter-sought-racial-revenge/ Clifton McCree killed five former co-workers because he "wanted to punish some of the cowardly, racist devils" responsible for firing him in 1994, according to his suicide note released Saturday. Behind in his bills and convinced he was wrongly let go, the black former Marine sharpshooter pumped at least 13 bullets into the all-white group of parks employees early Friday. He then put a bullet through his head and died. ... Fired City Worker Kills Five, Then Himself https://apnews.com/article/adc337f35d161d2a42c624a55a0208c0 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) _ For 18 years, Clifton McCree cleaned beaches for the city, working in the fresh air and enjoying the landscape so attractive to tourists. Friends and neighbors say they never saw him with a beer, much less a gun. But when he was fired in 1994 for being rude to the public, threatening co-workers and failing a drug test, the former Marine vowed revenge. ... Clifton McCree | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers https://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/mccree-clifton.htm The life and death of Clifton McCree ... Becoming a pilot was his dream, but he failed the required Air Force tests and settled on the Marines. He excelled during his two years at Camp Pendleton near San Diego, where he became an expert rifleman, a team leader with two soldiers under his command and earned a promotion from private to lance-corporal. McCree came home in 197 ... Timothy James McVeigh 168 Killed – 680+ Wounded Military life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh#Military_life In May 1988, at the age of 20, McVeigh enlisted in the United States Army and attended Basic Training and Advanced Individual Training at the U.S. Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia.[17] While in the military, McVeigh used much of his spare time to read about firearms, sniper tactics, and explosives.[18] McVeigh was reprimanded by the military for purchasing a "White Power" T-shirt at a Ku Klux Klan protest where they were objecting to black servicemen who wore "Black Power" T-shirts around a military installation (primarily Army).[19] McVeigh was a top-scoring gunner with the 25mm cannon of the Bradley Fighting Vehicles used by the 1st Infantry Division and was promoted to sergeant. After being promoted, McVeigh earned a reputation of assigning undesirable work to black servicemen and using racial slurs.[1] He was stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, before being deployed on Operation Desert Storm. In an interview before his execution, McVeigh said that he decapitated an Iraqi soldier with cannon fire on his first day in the war and celebrated.[20][page needed] He said he was later shocked to be ordered to execute surrendering prisoners and to see carnage on the road while leaving Kuwait City after U.S. troops routed the Iraqi army. McVeigh received several service awards, including the Bronze Star Medal,[1] National Defense Service Medal,[21] Southwest Asia Service Medal,[22] Army Service Ribbon,[22] and the Kuwaiti Liberation Medal.[21] McVeigh aspired to join the United States Army Special Forces (SF). After returning from the Gulf War, he entered the selection program, but washed out[clarification needed] on the second day of the 21-day assessment and selection course for the Special Forces. McVeigh decided to leave the Army and was honorably discharged in 1991.[23] Dean A. Mellberg 5 Killed – 22 Wounded 1994 shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Air_Force_Base#1994_shooting On 20 June 1994, Dean Mellberg, an ex-Air Force member, entered the base hospital and shot and killed four people and wounded 22 others.[41][42] Previously, psychologists Major Thomas Brigham and Captain Alan London at Fairchild AFB had found him unfit for duty, which resulted in a transfer to the Wilford Hall Medical Center at Lackland AFB for further psychological examination.[43] With Congressional pressure brought by Mellberg's mother, Airman Mellberg was found to be fit for military service. Airman Mellberg then was reassigned to Cannon Air Force Base where similar events led to him being returned to psychologists for evaluation. After this evaluation, he was discharged from Cannon AFB as being unfit for military service; he had been diagnosed with mild autism, generalized anxiety disorder and paranoid personality disorder.[44][45] He traveled to Spokane, Washington, near Fairchild AFB, where he purchased a rifle and planned his attack on the base. At the time of the shooting, Fairchild's hospital was an ungated facility. The gunman, armed with a Chinese-made MAK-90, an AK-47 clone,[46] entered the office of Brigham and London and killed both men. Mellberg continued to move through the hospital, injuring several people, and killing eight-year-old Christin McCarron. The gunman then walked out of the building into the parking lot and killed Anita Lindner. He then was confronted by a security policeman, Senior Airman Andy Brown. From approximately 70 yards away, Brown ordered Mellberg to drop his weapon. After Mellberg refused, Brown fired four shots from his 9mm pistol, with two rounds hitting the perpetrator in the head and shoulder, killing him.[47] After an investigation it was concluded that Airman Brown was justified in his actions, probably having saved lives, and he was awarded the Airman's Medal by President Bill Clinton. In 2016, Brown published Warnings Unheeded: Twin Tragedies at Fairchild Air Force Base. The book reveals the pre-incident indicators of the shooting and the fatal crash of a B-52 bomber that occurred four days afterward. Darrell Mease 3 Killed – 0 Wounded Crime Traveler: How triple-murderer Darrell Mease was saved by a twist of faith https://www.ozarksfirst.com/crimetraveler/crime-traveler-how-triple-murderer-darrell-mease-was-saved-by-a-twist-of-faith/ ... 1987 Darrell Mease, a Vietnam Veteran, was living in Reeds Spring, Missouri when he met Lloyd Lawrence. The two struck up a partnership. However, their business wasn’t a conventional one ... Murderer Reaps Benefits of Religious Conversion https://www.npr.org/transcripts/5656270 ... Mr. CUNEO: A decisive factor in Darrell's life was Vietnam. When he returned from Vietnam, he was markedly different and everyone noted that. His life wound up going into a downward spiral. And so he was scuffling about for work. And by this point, he had fallen in love with a 19-year-old woman from Branson, Missouri. Darrell, at this point, was in his early 40s; Mary Epps, his girlfriend, was just 19. He wanted to make some money. A guy that he'd known since a child - Lloyd Lawrence - said to Darrell, you want to make millions of dollars, you come to work with me. I'll set you up in a meth lab and I'll teach you the tricks of the trade. ... Mohammed Merah 8 Killed (including perpetrator) – 5 Wounded Biography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Merah#Biography In January 2008, Merah tried to join the French Army, but was rejected because of his criminal past. In July 2010, he went to the recruitment centre of the Foreign Legion and stayed overnight, but left before he could be evaluated.[21] Background of shooter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toulouse_and_Montauban_shootings#Background_of_shooter Merah had tried to enlist in the French Army, but was rejected because of his criminal convictions.[26] Some sources have noted connections of Merah's family (through his mother's second marriage) to a man who was aligned with the terrorist group al-Qaeda.[27] They also reported Merah's history of psychological issues[19] as factors in the shootings.[28] George Peter Metesky ("Mad Bomber") 0 Killed – 15 Wounded Industrial injury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Metesky#Industrial_injury Following World War I, Metesky joined the U.S. Marines, serving as a specialist electrician at the United States Consulate in Shanghai. Returning home, he went to work as a mechanic for a subsidiary of the Consolidated Edison utility company and lived in Waterbury, Connecticut, with his two unmarried sisters. In 1931, Metesky was working as a generator wiper at the company's Hell Gate generating plant when a boiler backfire produced a blast of hot gases. The blast knocked Metesky down and the fumes filled his lungs, choking him.[5][6][7][8] The accident left him disabled and, after collecting 26 weeks of sick pay, he lost his job. According to claims disputed by Consolidated Edison, the accident led to pneumonia that in turn developed into tuberculosis. A claim for workers' compensation was denied because he waited too long to file it. Three appeals of the denial were also rejected, the last in 1936. He developed a hatred for the company's attorneys and for the three co-workers whose testimony in his compensation case he believed was perjured in favor of the company.[5][6][7][8] Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. 3 Killed – 0 Wounded Early life and education https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frazier_Glenn_Miller_Jr.#Early_life_and_education Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., a native of North Carolina, dropped out of high school and joined the United States Army, where he served 20 years[12] and rose to the rank of master sergeant.[13] He served two tours of duty in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.[13] Miller was introduced to white racialist politics by reading a copy of The Thunderbolt, a newsletter published by Dr. Edward Reed Fields of the National States' Rights Party, which had been given to him by his father. He was present as a member of the National Socialist Party of America during the Greensboro massacre on November 3, 1979.[14] He was discharged from the U.S. Army later that year for distributing racist propaganda.[15][16] Alek Minassian 10 Killed – 16 Wounded Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_van_attack#Perpetrator In late 2017, Minassian enrolled in the Canadian Armed Forces for two months, before requesting voluntary release after 16 days of recruit training.[45] A senior military official said that Minassian "wasn't adapting to military life, including in matters of dress, deportment and group interactions in a military setting" and "there were no red flags and nothing that would point to anything like this."[46] Following the attack, a Facebook post made by Minassian was uncovered in which he identified himself as an incel ("involuntary celibate").[24][47] The state of involuntary celibacy refers to being unable to find sexual partners[48] and its subculture consists of primarily male online communities.[49][50] The post, dated shortly before the beginning of the attack on April 23, allegedly read: Private (Recruit) Minassian Infantry 00010, wishing to speak to Sgt 4chan please. C23249161. The Incel Rebellion has already begun! We will overthrow all the Chads and Stacys! All hail the Supreme Gentleman Elliot Rodger![8][51] "Chad" and "Stacy" are nicknames used on incel-related forums within 4chan and Reddit, to refer to popular, attractive, sexually active men and women, respectively.[52][53] The term "Incel Rebellion" is sometimes used interchangeably with the term "Beta Uprising" or "Beta Male Uprising", which refers to a violent response to sexlessness.[54] Elliot Rodger was the mass murderer behind the 2014 Isla Vista killings in California, and someone whom Minassian claimed to have had contact with up until the days before the 2014 attacks.[55][56][57] Rodger intended to target attractive women and sexually successful men, which led to him being posthumously idolized by some people on misogynistic online fringe communities, including several incel websites.[58] Facebook, Inc. verified the account as Minassian's.[24][56] A source in the Department of National Defence told media that C23249161 was Minassian's military identification number during his army training.[59] Stephen Morgan 1 Killed – 0 Wounded Six Years After Insanity Acquittal, Killer Of Wesleyan Student Could Gain Greater Freedoms https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-news-wesleyan-killer-stephen-morgan-freedoms-0413-story.html Six years into a 60-year commitment at Connecticut Valley Hospital in Middletown, the former naval petty officer who threatened, stalked and then killed Wesleyan junior Johanna Justin-Jinich at the campus bookstore cafe, is ready for a transfer out of maximum security, his psychiatrists are now saying in documents filed this week with security officials. ... Stephen Morgan says he shot Wesleyan student because he believed she hacked his computer https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Stephen-Morgan-says-he-shot-Wesleyan-student-11577104.php ... Following several school changes, Morgan took an extra half-year to graduate from high school, then immediately went into the Navy. ... Duane Roger Morrison 2 Killed (including perpetrator) – 0 Wounded Patterns Among School Shooters: Body-Related Issues and the Military https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/patterns_body_related_issues_and_military_1.28.pdf 2 RELATIVES IN THE MILITARY OR LAW ENFORCEMENT Aberrant Adult Shooters Duane Morrison Father: military MILITARY ASPIRATION / OBSESSION AND OUTCOME Aberrant Adult Shooters Duane Morrison Served in the Navy for 6 months; discharged a month after going AWOL Leon Jerome Moser 3 Killed – 0 Wounded Murders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Moser#Murders On March 31, 1985, Leon Moser, a Vietnam veteran and former seminarian,[3] attended Palm Sunday services at the St. James Episcopal Church in Evansburg, Lower Providence Township, Pennsylvania.[4] He had arranged to meet his ex-wife, Linda Moser, and his two daughters, Donna and Joanne Moser. Leon and Linda had divorced in September 1984. The girls were to spend the afternoon with Leon once the service ended. After the service, the four of them went outside to Leon's car. Leon asked Linda if he could take his daughters back to visit his parents' home in Wisconsin. Linda declined, and an argument ensued. Joanne got into the back seat of Leon's car, while Donna remained standing by the front of the car. As Linda walked back towards the church, Leon went to the back of his car and took out a bolt-action rifle.[5] He aimed the gun at the back of Joanne's head and pulled the trigger. Linda turned around and screamed as Leon aimed at her and fatally shot her in the chest. He then took aim at Donna and shot her in the head. After the shootings, Leon placed the rifle at his side and fired into the air. He fell to the ground as if shot, and remained there until the police arrived.[6] Linda and Joanne were pronounced dead at the scene, while Donna later died at Norristown State Hospital.[7] Matthew John Murray 5 Killed – 5 Wounded Murray obsesses with guns, shootings https://www.denverpost.com/2008/03/27/murray-obsesses-with-guns-shootings/ ... Murray had gone to the store to open a mail box so he could receive ammunition by mail. Shortly afterwards, the employees noted that Murray was receiving “boxes and boxes of ammunition.” Employees noted, for instance, that on Sept. 18, he received a box of “six clips” – three of the clips held 16 bullets and three clips held 30 bullets. One of the employees asked Murray if he went to a shooting range a lot. Murray replied he did because he was trying to get into the Army. ... Oleg Vladimirovich Naumov 7 Killed – 1 Wounded Background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Naumov#Background Oleg Naumov was born in 1978, and was serving as a private in the Russian Ground Forces, having been conscripted into the military a year before the attack. He was stationed at a military base located in Pobedino, a village on the island of Sakhalin in the Russian Far East region. Naumov had a criminal record and a history of drug abuse from as early as 13-years-old, which was unknown to his commanders at the time.[1] Attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Naumov#Attack On 26 January 1998, while serving on guard duty, Naumov attacked another soldier at random with an axe before grabbing his automatic rifle, when he then shot dead another soldier on guard duty and his commander, before shooting eight more soldiers in the base cafeteria and in a restroom, killing five of them.[1] Arrest and conviction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg_Naumov#Arrest_and_conviction Naumov fled the base but was detained a few hours later while hiding in a nearby village, and was hospitalized where he was put under heavy sedation. During his interrogation about the crimes at the base, Naumov claimed that he had been high off of acetone vapors, and did not recollect committing the killings. Private Naumov was sentenced by the Far Eastern Military District Court to life imprisonment in a maximum-security penal colony. Jay Wesley Neill 4 Killed Background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Wesley_Neill#Background Jay Wesley Neill was born on April 9, 1965, and at 18-years-old he joined the United States Army in 1983. Neill met Robert Grady Johnson in February 1984 at a bar, and the two became romantically involved. He was discharged from the military in the summer of 1984 after disclosing that he was homosexual, and quickly began having financial difficulties. John Robert Neumann Jr. 6 Killed (including perpetrator) Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_factory_shooting#Perpetrator John Robert Neumann Jr. (May 2, 1972 – June 5, 2017) received an honorable discharge from the U.S. Army in 1999.[1] He did not have a concealed weapons permit.[1] He had a history of minor crimes before the shooting, mostly associated with traffic.[1] Simon Peter Nelson 6 Killed – 0 Wounded Dad expresses remorse for kids' deaths https://www.rrstar.com/story/news/2014/05/15/dad-expresses-remorse-for-kids/37285564007/ ... Nelson's second wife, Ann, the mother of the six deceased children, divorced him after the murders. Nelson said he was married the first time in the early 1950s when he served in the Air Force. ... Rockne Warren Newell 3 Killed – 4 Wounded Rockne Newell’s long history of mental illness revealed https://www.poconorecord.com/article/20140709/NEWS/407090324 New details emerging about accused Ross Township shooter Rockne Newell reveal that he had been institutionalized twice in mental health facilities and left the U.S. Army soon after joining with an honorable medical discharge. ... Newell’s father, Lyndon “Pete” Newell, recalled that his son joined the Army when he was about 18 years old. He was only enlisted for a month or so, Pete Newell remembered. “He probably didn’t get out of boot camp,” he said. He thought Rockne Newell may have checked himself into a mental institution following his Army experience. But Pilas said Rockne Newell got an honorable medical discharge from the Army, and that it was probably the Army that put him into the institution. Pilas remembered Rockne Newell telling her “they had me locked up for a year, and it didn’t help me because I still talked as much.” ... Terry Lynn Nichols 168 Killed – 680+ Wounded Adulthood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Nichols#Adulthood Nichols had never liked farm life, and in 1988, at the age of 33, he tried to escape it by enlisting in the United States Army.[21] He was sent to Fort Benning next to Columbus, Georgia for basic training. As the oldest man in his platoon, he had difficulty with the physical aspect of the training,[22] and was sometimes called "grandpa" by the other men. However, he was soon made the platoon guide because of his age.[5] Timothy McVeigh was in his platoon, and they quickly became close friends. They had a common background: both men grew up in white rural areas and disliked working with black people. Both had tried college for a while and had parents who were divorced.[23] They shared political views[2] and interests in gun collecting and the survivalist movement.[5] The two were later stationed together at Fort Riley in Junction City, Kansas,[5] where they met and became friends with their future accomplice, Michael Fortier.[24] Peter Odighizuwa 3 Killed – 3 Wounded Retired CIA officer releasing book on the Virginia Tech tragedy https://www.nbc12.com/story/24606062/retired-cia-officer-releasing-book-on-the-virginia-tech-tragedy/ GRUNDY, VA (WWBT) - In the dusty coal town of Grundy Virginia, the Appalachian School of Law became a gruesome crime scene. Six people were shot by a mentally ill former student, Peter Odighizuwa. Three were killed - a dean, a professor and a student: Angela Dales. "She was bleeding profusely. I thought I knew what it felt like, but you really don't until it is your family," said David Cariens. He was sitting in the living room of his Kilmarnock home 12 years ago when he got that dreaded phone call. The mother of his oldest grandchild was gone. That moment sparked a 12-year journey for Cariens to discover why this country is seeing so many mass shootings. "There's a very good chance most of these shootings could be prevented. There's no doubt in my mind because the warning signs are there," said Cariens. He knows better than most the pain and helplessness of Virginia Tech, Aurora, Colorado and Sandy Hook. "It's very good people making very poor decisions and the decision not to do something about a very clear warning that violence is about to occur," added Cariens. He says there are obvious patterns with the mentally ill shooters. He believes the warning signs at Grundy were clear and missed. "Peter Odighizuwa was known to be violent. He had created incidents in classrooms. He had gone to the Grundy Police saying that his house was bugged and that they were harassing him. He was a time bomb waiting to go off. So, all of the signs were there and nobody did anything," said Cariens. Cariens was sitting in that same room five years later when another time bomb went off - Seung Hui Cho at Virginia Tech. He believes, "the tragedy at Virginia Tech was inevitable, because of the incompetence and ignorance and inaction on the part of school officials, mental health officials and law enforcement officials, and I do think it needs to be exposed." Cariens spent 31 years with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He turned his analytical mind to research and spent three and a half years looking into to the tragedy at Tech. His book is called 'Virginia Tech: Make Sure It Doesn't Get Out.' "In one chapter, I draw the parallels of before, during and after between Columbine, the Appalachian school of Law and Virginia Tech. The parallels are there and no one is paying any attention to them," said Cariens. The State Supreme Court recently overturned a jury verdict in a wrongful death suit against the university. The justices wrote, "there was no duty for the Commonwealth to warn students about potential criminal acts." Cariens puts much of the blame for mass shootings on the mental health system in Virginia. "As of right now, we spend less in Virginia on mental health than we did on April 16, 2007. The politicians are able to use the most vulnerable section of society to cut budgets, and they pay little cost." Virginia, with state Senator Creigh Deeds leading the charge, is pushing to add more money into mental health care, an effort Cariens is watching closely. 11 Virginia Tech families helped Cariens with the book. They shared their experiences from the shooting and its aftermath. In the book, Cariens questions the integrity of the taxpayer-funded state report on Virginia Tech, which details what happened and went wrong. "The one thing that the families need more than anything else, and I can speak from personal experience, the families need the truth. The truth is absolutely central to healing. Yet, the truth is the thing that we never get." We reached out to Virginia Tech for comment. The university is aware of the upcoming book, but a spokesperson told us, because they haven't read it, it would not be possible for the school to issue a comment at this time. Cariens says he's taking no money from the sale of his book, which will be released next week. He says after taxes and expenses, all profits will go to charities and to the victims' families who contributed to the book. Ex-CIA officer pens book on shootings https://www.thedailystar.com/archives/ex-cia-officer-pens-book-on-shootings/article_71440eaf-2e0f-531b-8481-d25c2dbc9ee9.html ONEONTA _ A book by a retired CIA intelligence officer examines how a law school shooting in Virginia in 2002 was inevitable because law enforcement, school authorities and elected officials failed in their responsibilities. David Cariens Jr. signed copies of ``A Question of Accountability: The Murder of Angela Dales'' in front of the Southside Mall's Border's Express on Sunday afternoon. Dales, the mother of Cariens' granddaughter, Rebecca Cariens, was gunned down Jan. 16, 2002 along with a dean and a professor at Appalachian School of Law in Cariens' homestate of Virginia. Three students were wounded by the shooter, Peter Odighizuwa, a then 43-year-old Nigerian immigrant and former student at the college with a history of bizarre and threatening behavior. Odighizuwa was sentenced to multiple life terms in prison in 2005 after three years of psychiatric treatment. The 217-page book chronicles the attempt by his and Dales' families to get answers to why the warning signs of the shooting were ignored on several occasions. "You can never, 100 percent, prevent a school shooting," Cariens said. But in his book Cariens laid out specific examples of what went wrong at Appalachian when Dales, 33, was killed. "I'm not talking about vengeance," Cariens said. The book is about accountability, he said. In his book, Cariens contends that staff members at Appalachian raised several red flags about Odighizuwa before the shooting and had even explicitly asked for the college, which opened for classes in 1997, to enact a campus security program. He said he also questions why no one lost their jobs in the aftermath of the shooting. "It's a very honest book," Cariens said. The Appalachian shooting occurred five years before the Virginia Tech massacre, but Cariens suggested the commonwealth of Virginia did not have the political will after the Appalachian shooting to enact measures that might have prevented Seung-Hui Cho's murderous rampage. Much of the United States remains ripe to the possibility of school shootings like the one that claimed Dales, Cariens said. "It's just a matter of time," he said Cariens cited examples of how things went wrong either at Appalachian or Virginia Tech. They include: "¢ Not paying attentions to warning signs that a student may be emotionally disturbed. "¢ Not having, such as with Appalachian, campus security. "¢ Having a security plan and then not following it, as was the case with Virginia Tech. "¢ Not bringing the students on board with the security plan so that they know what the expectations and procedures are. There are conflicting reports of what happened when Odighizuwa was subdued after the shooting by students at the Appalachian. The version supported by Second Amendment advocacy groups is that two students who were law enforcement officers retrieved personal firearms from their cars and were able to halt any further shooting from Odighizuwa. But Cariens said that Odighizuwa had already been subdued when those two students returned with their weapons. Cariens said he does not have a problem with campus security being armed, but said he is against students having firearms on campus. Because the book "names names" of people who Cariens said are at fault for not doing enough to either prevent the Appalachian shooting or other campus massacres, its content was vetted by an attorney to ensure none of it was libelous, he said. Cariens had a 31-year-career in the CIA during which he produced finished intelligence for all levels of U.S. government, including presidents. "I'm absolutely thrilled," Cariens said of the feedback he received at Southside Mall, where he sold six copies of his book and talked to several more people about the subject. Cariens is donating copies of the book to the State University College at Oneonta and Hartwick College. He said he is familiar with the area because he has family in the town of Maryland. All profits are going to Dales' daughter, who is now 14, Virginia Intermont College and a shelter for battered women in rural Virginia, Cariens said. Bryan Oliver 0 Killed – 1 Wounded Oliver on the stand: I don’t remember events leading up to school shooting https://www.bakersfield.com/archives/oliver-on-the-stand-i-don-t-remember-events-leading-up-to-school-shooting/article_f464ef66-31d2-5184-a0f1-ef11c13a59e2.html ... Pafford pointed out a number of similarities between Oliver and the main character in a story Oliver wrote his sophomore year called “Phycopath” (sic). Pafford said Oliver posted a portion of the revenge tale online the day before the shooting. The character, named “Demian,” has both a younger and an older brother, as does Oliver. Both Demian and Oliver were bullied in high school, and both wanted to join the U.S. Army. And Demian, like Oliver, blacked out before committing a shooting. Oliver told Pafford he included some parts of himself in the character, but that it’s not him. Pafford asked Oliver if the story was his final manifesto. Oliver responded it was “just a story.” ... John Leonard Orr (“The Pillow Pyro”) 4 Killed – 0 Wounded Early Life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Leonard_Orr#Early_Life John Orr was born on April 26th 1949, in Los Angeles, California. He was 1 of 3 boys. His parents divorced when Orr was young. Following high school, Orr joined the US Air Force; in 1967, he shipped out for basic training, later transferring to Air Force firefighting school. He was stationed in Spain (where he went on to marry his high school girlfriend); in 1970, he was transferred to Montana. He was honorably discharged from the Air Force in April 1971. In reflecting on his time in the military, Orr later said he did not like his commanding officers. Orr returned to Los Angeles, where he applied to 2 police departments and 2 fire departments; while waiting to hear back, his wife gave birth to his daughter. Orr and his wife divorced not long after. He was then invited to test for the LAPD. Orr passed all the tests except for those based on mental health, prompting the Police Department to send him a letter saying he was unsuitable. Orr was then accepted to test for the Los Angeles Fire Department; he went through the fire academy but struggled with both the written and physical test and was rejected. Desperate to be a firefighter, he applied to the Glendale Fire Department (at the time the Glendale FD was at the bottom in Los Angeles County for pay); he was accepted in 1974. Orr studied fire science at a local college and worked at a 7-Eleven and as store security at SEARS part time. John earned a carry permit, applying and becoming an arson investigator and attaining the rank of captain. During that time, Orr married 3 more times. Lee Harvey Oswald 2 Killed – 2 Wounded Lee Harvey Oswald https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Harvey_Oswald Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was a former U.S. Marine who assassinated United States president John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Oswald was placed in juvenile detention at the age of 12 for truancy, during which time he was assessed by a psychiatrist as "emotionally disturbed", due to a lack of normal family life. After attending 22 schools in his youth, he quit repeatedly, and finally when he was 17, joined the Marines. Oswald was court-martialed twice while in the Marines, and jailed. He was honorably released from active duty in the Marine Corps into the reserve, then promptly flew to Europe and defected to the Soviet Union in October 1959. He lived in Minsk, Byelorussia, married a Russian woman named Marina, and had a daughter. In June 1962, he returned to the United States with his wife, and eventually settled in Dallas, where their second daughter was also born. ... Early life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Harvey_Oswald#Early_life Oswald was born at the old French Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 18, 1939, to Robert Edward Lee Oswald Sr. (1896–1939) and Marguerite Frances Claverie (1907–1981).[7] Robert Oswald was a distant cousin of Confederate general Robert E. Lee and served in the Marines during World War I.[8] Robert died of a heart attack two months before Lee was born.[9] Lee's elder brother Robert Jr. (1934–2017)[10] was also a former Marine. Through Marguerite's first marriage to Edward John Pic Jr., Lee and Robert Jr. were the half-brothers of Air Force veteran John Edward Pic (1932–2000).[11] ... As a teenager in 1955, Oswald attended Civil Air Patrol meetings in New Orleans. Fellow cadets recalled him attending C.A.P. meetings "three or four" times, or "10 or 12 times" over a one- or two-month period.[29][30][31] Marine Corps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Harvey_Oswald#Marine_Corps Oswald enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on October 24, 1956, just a week after his seventeenth birthday; because of his age, his brother Robert Jr. was required to sign as his legal guardian. Oswald also named his mother and his half-brother John as beneficiaries.[32] Oswald idolized his older brother Robert Jr.,[33] and wore his Marine Corps ring.[34] John Pic (Oswald's half-brother) testified to the Warren Commission that Oswald's enlistment was motivated by wanting "to get from out and under ... the yoke of oppression from my mother".[35] Oswald's enlistment papers recite that he was 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 meters) tall and weighed 135 pounds (61 kg), with hazel eyes and brown hair.[32] His primary training was in radar operation, which required a security clearance. A May 1957 document stated that he was "granted final clearance to handle classified matter up to and including confidential after careful check of local records had disclosed no derogatory data".[36] At Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi, Oswald finished seventh in a class of thirty in the Aircraft Control and Warning Operator Course, which "included instruction in aircraft surveillance and the use of radar".[37] He was given the military occupational specialty of Aviation Electronics Operator.[38] On July 9, he reported to the Marine Corps Air Station El Toro in California then departed for Japan the following month, where he was assigned to Marine Air Control Squadron 1 at Naval Air Facility Atsugi near Tokyo.[39] Like all marines, Oswald was trained and tested in shooting. In December 1956, he scored 212, which was slightly above the requirements for the designation of sharpshooter.[22] In May 1959 he scored 191, which reduced his rating to marksman.[22][40] Oswald was court-martialed after he accidentally shot himself in the elbow with an unauthorized .22 caliber handgun. He was court-martialed a second time for fighting with a sergeant who he thought was responsible for his punishment in the shooting matter. He was demoted from private first class to private and briefly imprisoned. Oswald was later punished for a third incident: while he was on a night-time sentry duty in the Philippines, he inexplicably fired his rifle into the jungle.[41] Slightly built, Oswald was nicknamed Ozzie Rabbit after the cartoon character; he was also called Oswaldskovich[42] because he espoused pro-Soviet sentiments. In November 1958, Oswald transferred back to El Toro[43] where his unit's function "was to serveil [sic] for aircraft, but basically to train both enlisted men and officers for later assignment overseas". An officer there said that Oswald was a "very competent" crew chief and was "brighter than most people".[44][45] While Oswald was in the Marines, he taught himself rudimentary Russian. Although this was an unusual endeavor, on February 25, 1959, he was invited to take a Marine proficiency exam in written and spoken Russian. His level at the time was rated "poor" in understanding spoken Russian, though he fared rather reasonably for a Marine private at the time in reading and writing.[46] On September 11, 1959, he received a hardship discharge from active service, claiming his mother needed care. He was placed on the United States Marine Corps Reserve.[22][47][48] Jared Michael Padgett 2 Killed (including perpetrator) – 1 Wounded Oregon school shooter was in JROTC, "liked" gunmakers on Facebook https://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/11/justice/oregon-school-shooter/index.html ... During seventh and eighth grades, Padgett took part in track and field at Reynolds Middle School. He was also a member of the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps. A former teacher and coach there called him "a leader." "He was a hard worker and wanted to please everyone," the teacher said through tears. "He was just a good kid." The teacher said Padgett idolized his older brother who was serving in the military. ... Stephen Craig Paddock 61 Killed – 867 Wounded Career and gambling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Paddock#Career_and_gambling Paddock worked as a letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service from 1975 to 1978. After that, he worked as an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent until 1984. He was a Defense Contract Audit Agency auditor for one year, in 1985. Toward the end of the 1980s, Paddock worked for three years as an internal auditor for a company that later merged to form Lockheed Martin.[24] He was known to have run a real-estate business with his brother Eric.[25] Las Vegas Gunman’s Criminal Father Vanished From Sons’ Lives https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/us/benjamin-paddock-stephen-paddock.html ... Benjamin Hoskins Paddock was born in Sheboygan, Wis., in 1926, and served in the Navy during World War II. Afterward, he landed in Chicago on the wrong side of the law: he was imprisoned in 1946 for stealing cars and running a confidence game. He was out long enough to marry in Reno, Nev., in 1952 and to father Stephen, before being imprisoned again in 1953 for a fraudulent check scheme, according to an Associated Press report. ... Patrick Paddock II said that he and his brothers all grew up with anger that they had to learn how to manage, in his case through military training over 17 years of service in the Air Force. But he said he thought Stephen seemed the least affected. “My brother was the most boring one in the family,” Patrick said of Stephen. “He was the least violent one.” ... Wade Michael Page 8 Killed (including perpetrator) – 3 Wounded Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Sikh_temple_shooting#Perpetrator Wade Michael Page (November 11, 1971 – August 5, 2012)[41] was an American white supremacist living in Cudahy, Wisconsin.[42] Page was born and grew up in Colorado.[43] He served in the U.S. Army from April 1992 through October 1998,[44][45] In the Army, Page had learned to repair the Hawk missile system, before becoming a psychological operations specialist.[25][46] He was demoted and received a general discharge[25] for "patterns of misconduct," including being drunk while on duty and going absent without leave.[12][13][46] Bruce Jeffrey Pardo 10 Killed – 3 Wounded Motive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covina_massacre#Motive Police speculate that the motive of the attack was related to marital problems. Pardo's wife of one year had settled for divorce in the prior week.[8] However, Pardo held no criminal record and had no history of violence. He had been fired from his job as an electrical engineer at ITT Electronic Systems, Radar Systems in July.[3] There is some speculation that the divorce may have been caused by Pardo concealing a child from a previous relationship. This child was severely injured in a swimming pool accident several years prior. He did not support his child, nor did he pay any support to his ex-wife and her children. Cops: Santa Slayer Planned To Flee Country https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cops-santa-slayer-planned-to-flee-country/ ... Pardo had also recently lost his job at military defense supplier ITT, Evening News reported. ... Plans thwarted when attacker suffered burns as he torched ex-in-laws' house https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/plans-thwarted-when-attacker-suffered-burns-as-he-torched-ex-in-laws-house/ ... Other details about Pardo also emerged Friday. According to his divorce papers, he was fired in July from his job as a software engineer at a defense contractor. A spokesman for ITT said Pardo worked in the air and surface surveillance radar division for three years but declined to say whether he left of his own accord or was fired. Another source said Pardo once had worked at Northrop Grumman and that he had claimed on his company profile that he had a master's degree from the University of Southern California. Although Pardo had been enrolled there, he never received the degree. ... Man in Santa suit kills 9, self on Christmas Eve https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/822980 ... Court documents showed Pardo had been employed at the radar division of ITT Electronic Systems, a military defense supplier, until July. ... John C. Patsalos ("John Patler") 1 Killed – 0 Wounded Biography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Patler ... Patler served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1958 to 1960, when he was honorably discharged on grounds of "unsuitability"[2] after being arrested at an American Nazi Party rally.[3] He joined the party in 1960 and soon changed his name to Patler to make it sound more like "Hitler".[3] Patler later became a captain in the American Nazi Party and the editor and cartoonist for the party's magazine, Stormtrooper. However, he was expelled from the Party in March 1967 for alleged "Bolshevik leanings" after disagreeing with party leader George Lincoln Rockwell about some of the party's policies.[4] Patler later described his relationship with Rockwell in very endearing terms, stating "I loved him like a father and he loved me like a son".[5] In his last known letter to Rockwell, Patler wrote "I don't think there are two people on earth who think and feel the same as we do. ... You are a very important part of my life. I need you as much as you need me. Without you there is no future".[5] ... Tyler James Peterson 7 Killed (including perpetrator) – 1 Wounded Crandon shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crandon_shooting The Crandon shooting was a mass murder that occurred about 2:45 a.m. CDT on October 7, 2007, at a post-homecoming party inside a duplex in Crandon, Wisconsin, United States.[3] The perpetrator, 20-year-old Tyler James Peterson (March 6, 1987 – October 7, 2007), who was a full-time deputy in the Forest County Sheriff's Department and a part-time officer with the Crandon Police Department, shot and killed six people and critically injured a seventh before committing suicide.[4] One of the victims, 18-year-old Jordanne Michele Murray, was Peterson's former girlfriend, and it was believed that a dispute within the apartment motivated the shooting. Dale Selby Pierre 3 Killed – 2 Wounded Hi-Fi murders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-Fi_murders ... Police only had enough evidence to convict three enlisted United States Air Force airmen: Dale Selby Pierre, William Andrews, and Keith Roberts.[4] Pierre and Andrews were both sentenced to death and executed for murder and aggravated robbery, while Roberts, who had remained in a getaway vehicle, was convicted of robbery. ... Convictions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-Fi_murders#Convictions ... Dale Selby Pierre (January 21, 1953 – August 28, 1987): Pierre was 21 years old at the time of the crime. He was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago, and moved to Brooklyn, New York at the age of 17. In May 1973, Pierre entered active service with the United States Air Force and in September 1973 was transferred to Hill Air Force Base, as a helicopter mechanic. Almost on arrival, Pierre became the prime suspect in the October 5, 1973, murder of Edward Jefferson, an Air Force Sergeant at Hill Air Force Base, although police lacked enough evidence to file charges. At the time of the Hi-Fi murders, Pierre was out on bail for car theft from a Salt Lake City car dealer. On November 16, 1974, Pierre was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated robbery for the Hi-Fi crimes. On November 20, 1974, he was given three death sentences, one for each of the murder victims. While in prison, Pierre changed his name 27 times, reportedly to protect his family name from notoriety, finally settling on "Pierre Dale Selby" (transposing his first, middle, and last names from birth) as his legal name. After exhausting his appeals, Pierre was executed by lethal injection on August 28, 1987, at the age of 34. At the time of his death, Pierre bequeathed all of his money ($29) to Andrews. The Deseret News reports that Dale Selby Pierre said, to no one in particular, moments before his execution: "I'll be glad when this is over."[16] ... Karl Pierson 1 Killed – 0 Wounded Karl Pierson: “A Psychopath with a Superiority Complex” https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/pierson_psychopath_superiority_complex_1.1.pdf MILITARY ASPIRATIONS Pierson apparently was interested in both the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and the Air Force Academy. Because some of the people interviewed simply referred to the “academy” it isn’t clear which military school was meant. Pierson talked about his military aspirations with his peers. According to one of his classmates, Pierson “constantly talked down to him and would tell him he didn’t have a chance to get into the military, but he (KARL) was a ‘shoe in.’ Based on comments by his mother, he seems to have begun the application process for West Point, but later “learned that his file had been closed because he had not been actively working on it. When this occurred is unknown. On 3 September 2013, someone wrote on his Facebook page, “Hope your Academy application process is running smoothly.” Pierson may have given up this aspiration both because of his disciplinary record and because his grades were so poor during his senior year. He reportedly talked about his suspension ruining his chances.101 He also reportedly found out that his grades were too low to qualify. He apparently had hoped to be nominated for West Point by Congressman Coffman, but the congressman did not nominate him. School gunman Karl Pierson liked debate, running, but acted "weird" at times https://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/14/us/colorado-school-gunman-karl-pierson/index.html To many of his neighbors, Colorado school gunman Karl Pierson was the wholesome boy next door who liked achievement and ran on the cross country team. He even worked on an Eagle Scout project two years ago. ... Sergey Aleksandrovich Pomazun 6 Killed – 1 Wounded 2013 Belgorod shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Belgorod_shooting The 2013 Belgorod shooting was a mass murder that occurred on April 22, 2013, in Belgorod, Russia, where six people were killed. 31-year-old Sergey Pomazun shot three people at a gun store and three people on the street outside with a semi-automatic rifle in downtown Belgorod before fleeing to Kursk Oblast, where he was apprehended the next day after an extensive manhunt. Pomazun, an army veteran with a history of petty crime and unstable behavior, confessed to the killings, and in his widely covered trial claimed to have murdered many more innocent people during the Second Chechen War in classified missions as an agent of the GRU. Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Belgorod_shooting#Perpetrator Sergey Aleksandrovich Pomazun (?????´? ??????´??????? ??????´?) was born on June 3, 1981, in Kupino, a village in Shebekinsky District, Belgorod Oblast, Soviet Union. His father, Alexander Pomazun, was a long-time employee at a fertilizer factory until leaving in the 1990s due to a serious salary delay, and ran a private hunting farm in the Shebekinsky district. His mother, Lyudmila Pomazuna, worked as an accountant in the local department of education. Pomazun attended Belgorod secondary school No. 42, where he was recorded as having poor grades at academic subjects but strong grades at practical subjects. In 1996, he entered the vocational school No. 33 training to be an auto mechanic. In 1999, Pomazun was conscripted into the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and approved for service by the military medical board, who placed him into Category "A" – those deemed fully mentally and physically fit without restrictions to their service. Pomazun was designated to an electronic warfare battalion in Belgorod Oblast, where he was appointed an electrician at the battalion's headquarters. According to colleagues, Pomazun was considered strange and people rarely noticed him. ... According to Alexander Pomazun, he had begun to behave aggressively returning from the test, and upon arriving home shouted about Chechnya and the GRU then attacked his father with a knife which he had previously purchased. Alexander fended off Pomazun, receiving only minor wounds and the next day handed him in to the local police station. Pomazun was not charged and was given advice by a police officer before being released, after which he failed the taxi practical test two more times. Upon failing his third test, Pomazun threatened to kill the instructor and their children, and began shouting about Chechnya and the GRU ... Trial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Belgorod_shooting#Trial Pomazun claimed to the court that, during his service in the Russian armed forces, he had developed a tolerance to killing civilians after being involved in war crimes while fighting in the Second Chechen War between 1999 and 2001, first as a conscript with the regular Russian Army and then as a sharpshooter in a unit of the secretive Spetsnaz GRU. Pomazun claimed that his battalion participated in a series of special operations in Chechnya in order to intimidate the population, where they killed nearly a thousand innocent people "all the way from Mozdok to Khasavyurt". He claimed Chechen civilians were crushed under tanks and that women and children were being beheaded, something that he says has since plagued him in his nightmares. But according to court documents, Pomazun never saw combat in the military and has never been to the North Caucasus, to which Pomazun replied that his service and missions were classified and refused to provide any more details.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] ‘I was firing into Hell’: Belgorod shooter kills 6 after 'being insulted in shop' https://www.rt.com/news/belgorod-shooting-triggered-insults-322/ ... The suspect reportedly acquired his shooting skills in the army, where he served in the Special Forces at a nuclear missile base for two years. ... Richard Andrew Poplawski 3 Killed – 3 Wounded (including the perpetrator) Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_shooting_of_Pittsburgh_police_officers#Perpetrator Richard Andrew Poplawski (born September 12, 1986)[15] lived with his mother and grandmother in the Stanton Heights neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Poplawski had previously enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, but he was discharged from boot camp after throwing a food tray at a drill instructor.[5] ... George Porter Jr. 2 Killed – 0 Wounded Supreme Court throws out Korean war veteran's death sentence https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-dec-01-la-na-court-combat1-2009dec01-story.html Robert Poulin 3 Killed (including perpetrator) – 5 Wounded St. Pius X High School shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Pius_X_High_School_shooting Poulin hailed from a military family and held military aspirations of his own, having repeatedly remarked to his parents of his desire to become a pilot within the Royal Canadian Air Force. These were largely thwarted by his physical condition and psychological immaturity, resulting in his being rejected from the officer training program he applied to. His physical problems included poor eyesight and a chest deformity. Patrick Edward Purdy 6 Killed (including perpetrator) – 32 Wounded Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Elementary_School_shooting_(Stockton)#Perpetrator Patrick Edward Purdy (November 10, 1964 – January 17, 1989) was an unemployed former welder and drifter. He was born in Tacoma, Washington, to Patrick Benjamin Purdy and Kathleen Purdy (nee Toscano). His father was a soldier in the U.S. Army and was stationed at Fort Lewis at the time of his son's birth. When the younger Purdy was two years old, his mother filed for divorce against her husband after he had threatened to kill her with a firearm. Toscano later moved with her son to South Lake Tahoe[6] before settling in Stockton, California.[7] Purdy attended Cleveland Elementary from kindergarten through second grade.[7][8] Patterns Among School Shooters: Body-Related Issues and the Military https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/patterns_body_related_issues_and_military_1.28.pdf Patterns Among School Shooters: Body-Related Issues and the Military 2 RELATIVES IN THE MILITARY OR LAW ENFORCEMENT Aberrant Adult Shooters Patrick Purdy Father: military MILITARY ASPIRATION / OBSESSION AND OUTCOME Aberrant Adult Shooters Patrick Purdy Had military aspirations but never applied, perhaps because he knew he would be rejected because of his many arrests, alcoholism, and drug abuse; tried to be security guard: quit one job and was fired from two others; he then gave up on that career Jarrod Warren Ramos 5 Killed – 2 Wounded Jarrod Ramos’ Family & Parents: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know https://heavy.com/news/2018/06/jarrod-ramos-family-parents/ 1. Jarrod Ramos’ Father, Miguel Ramos, Used to Work for the NSA According to Miguel Ramos’ Facebook profile, he used to work for the NSA. After that, he worked for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. He studied at the Data Processing Institute. His Facebook profile also mentions that he went to Arundel High School. Some people, in an attempt to start false flag conspiracy rumors, have pointed out that Edward Snowden also went to Arundel High School. However, Snowden has said that he struggled in high school and dropped out. Snowden is also much younger than Miguel Ramos, so their time at the school did not overlap. His father posted on Facebook about just marrying his wife 15 years ago, so it’s not known if she is Jarrod’s mother or if his mother is someone else. 3. Many People in Jarrod’s Family Are Military Veterans Many people in Jarrod’s family have served in the military. On Veteran’s Day in 2017, Miguel Ramos listed many of the men who have been in military service. He mentioned that his father and uncle were both veterans, along with his cousin, brother-in-law, and nephew. Even his sister, Jarrod’s aunt, served in the military. Everything we know about the Maryland newsroom shooting suspect https://www.vice.com/en/article/qvn78d/capital-gazette-shooting-suspect-jarrod-ramos ... Ramos grew up in nearby Severn, Maryland, and his father, Miguel Ramos, is an ex-employee of the National Security Agency and attended Arundel High School, which also counts Edwards Snowden as a former pupil, according to his Facebook account. ... Evan E. Ramsey 2 Killed – 2 Wounded Patterns Among School Shooters: Body-Related Issues and the Military https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/patterns_body_related_issues_and_military_1.28.pdf 2 RELATIVES IN THE MILITARY OR LAW ENFORCEMENT Evan Ramsey Father: Navy Terry Michael Ratzmann 8 Killed (including perpetrator) – 4 Wounded A trail of blood, tears and questions https://www.gmtoday.com/news/a-trail-of-blood-tears-and-questions/article_1d5c51f5-d88d-5a1e-bedc-35a2ed0817ed.html ... Served in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1978 to 1982 and was honorably discharged ... Living Church of God brethren mourn, bury their dead, ponder what happened, move on http://www.thejournal.org/issues/issue98/brookfield2.html ... I had noticed while watching the slide show before the service that some of the photos showed Mr. Ratzmann in a uniform. I heard later that he had been a member of the Coast Guard. ... James Earl Ray 1 Killed – 0 Wounded Early life and education https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Earl_Ray#Early_life_and_education Ray was born on March 10, 1928, in Alton, Illinois, the son of Lucille Ray (née Maher) and George Ellis Ray. He had Irish, Scottish and Welsh ancestry and had a Catholic upbringing.[2] In February 1935, Ray's father, known by the nickname Speedy, passed a bad check in Alton, Illinois, and then moved to Ewing, Missouri, where the family changed their name to Raynes to avoid law enforcement.[3] Ray was the firstborn of nine children,[4] including John Larry Ray,[5] Franklin Ray, Jerry William Ray,[6] Melba Ray, Carol Ray Pepper, Suzan Ray, and Marjorie Ray. His sister Marjorie died in a fire as a young child in 1933.[7] Ray left school at the age of 12. He later joined the U.S. Army at the close of World War II and served in Germany. Ray struggled to adapt to military life and was eventually discharged for ineptitude and lack of adaptability in 1948.[8] Jason Todd Ready 5 Killed (including perpetrator) – 0 Wounded Military service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._T._Ready#Military_service Ready served in the U.S. Marine Corps, achieving the rank of lance corporal. He attended MCRD Parris Island and went to the School of Infantry in North Carolina. Ready was assigned to MCB Camp Pendleton with Reconnaissance Company and 1st LAR Bravo company. He was expelled from Reconnaissance Company and eventually became a Scout for a LAV-25 with an M249 light machine gun being his main weapon. During a field exercise at Twentynine Palms Base, he arrived without his M249 and was duly punished in the field by his platoon sergeant. Because of his weight and a knee injury sustained from a PT football game, he did not serve aboard the USS Anchorage when Bravo Company left with the 15th MEU in November 1995.[citation needed] Court martial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._T._Ready#Court_martial Ready was twice court-martialed during his service. The first resulted in a demotion and three months' imprisonment, the second resulted in six months' imprisonment and a Bad Conduct Discharge from the Corps in 1996.[8] Convictions in the courts-martial included theft, assault, failure to follow orders, and unauthorized absence.[9] The revelation of this history caused him to be removed as the master of ceremonies for a Mesa, Arizona, Veterans' Day parade in 2006.[10] James Earl Reed 2 Killed – 0 Wounded Killings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Earl_Reed#Killings Reed and 28-year-old Laurie Rego dated briefly while they were both in the United States Army. Sometime after Rego tried to end the relationship, Reed pleaded guilty to assault and was sentenced to 37 months in prison. While incarcerated, he wrote numerous threatening letters to Rego.[2] In May 1994, Reed was released from prison. Shortly afterwards he bought a gun and hitchhiked to the home of Rego's parents, Joseph and Barbara Ann Lafayette, who lived in Adams Run, South Carolina, looking for her. Reed shot the couple five times before fleeing the scene. Although no physical evidence linked Reed to the murder scene, he was arrested and questioned by police. He then cooperated with police in an attempt to locate the murder weapon and spent casings, however they were never recovered.[2] Jose Horacio Reyes (Urtiz?) 2 Killed (including perpetrator) – 2 Wounded Patterns Among School Shooters: Body-Related Issues and the Military https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/patterns_body_related_issues_and_military_1.28.pdf 3 MILITARY ASPIRATION / OBSESSION AND OUTCOME Secondary School Shooters Jose Reyes Aspired to join police or Marines, but committed attack before he was old enough to enlist Jose Reyes: A Profile https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/reyes_profile_1.1.pdf EXTERNAL INFLUENCES Another interesting factor is that like many school shooters, Reyes aspired to join the military (as well as to be a police officer).50 He had a collection of 27 military magazines and some military clothes and helmets.51 Other shooters struggled with their identities and may have been drawn to the military in an effort to establish a sense of masculinity. Whether this was true for Reyes is not clear. A peer had taunted him, however, about not having enough muscle to participate in physical education.52 During the incident in which his father abused him, Horacio told Reyes, “You don’t have to be a crybaby.”53 In addition, teachers reported that Reyes cried easily. It would not be surprising if he felt unmanly and aspired to manhood through his interest in law enforcement and the military. Michael Landsberry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Landsberry Michael Terrence Landsberry (January 20, 1968 – October 21, 2013) was an American math teacher, and Afghanistan war Marine. During the Sparks Middle School shooting, he unsuccessfully attempted to reason with the shooter, Jose Reyes, before being shot and killed. Earl J. Richmond Jr. 4 Killed – 0 Wounded Ex-Army Drill Sergeant Earl Richmond, Jr. was Sentenced to Death for Murder of Army Specialist at Fort Dix and a Mother & Two Children in North Carolina (1991) https://militaryjusticeforall.com/1991/04/04/army-sgt-earl-richmond-jr-was-sentenced-to-death-for-the-murder-of-two-women-two-children-1991/ Sgt. Earl Richmond, Jr was stationed at Fort Dix from 1988 until he was discharged for misconduct in the fall of 1990 for taking money from trainees. On April 15, 1989, a female Air Force officer stationed at Fort Dix and her male companion were held at gunpoint and robbed at a bus stop. The Air Force officer was sexually assaulted as well. Richard Stevens was a civilian who worked at the base. He was charged, convicted of the crimes, and sentenced to fourteen years by a federal court. Eventually it was determined that he was wrongfully convicted of these crimes. He served more then three and a half years in jail before he was exonerated. Stevens resembled Earl Richmond Jr. who was identified as a suspect in this case yet never officially charged. While Stevens was getting out of jail in 1992, Richmond was awaiting trial on state charges for the rape of a 17-year-old girl at a motel near Fort Dix in April 1989. The burglary and rape case involving the Air Force officer at Fort Dix is considered unsolved. Shortly after the rape accusations surfaced, Earl Richmond, Jr. was charged with four murders. In 1991, Richmond raped and murdered both Army Spc Lisa Nadeau in Fort Dix, New Jersey and Helisa Hayes in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He murdered Helisa Haye’s two children who were witnesses to the crime as well. DNA evidence helped solve these four cases and tied him to the 1989 rape of the 17-year-old girl at the motel near Fort Dix. Spc. Lisa Nadeau, 24, raped & strangled on April 4, 1991 in base housing. Helisa Hayes, 27, raped and strangled in her home in November 1991. Phillip Hayes, 8, stabbed 60 times with a pair of scissors. Darien Hayes, 7, strangled with an electric cord. Earl Richmond, Jr. was sentenced to death for the four murders and executed by lethal injection in North Carolina on May 6, 2005. Matthew Edward Riehl 2 Killed – 6 Wounded Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_Canyon_Apartment_Homes_shooting#Perpetrator Matthew Edward Riehl (September 9, 1980 – December 31, 2017) grew up in Andover, Massachusetts and attended Colorado University, graduating magna cum laude in 2004. He had joined as an army reserve in 2003[11] before serving in the Iraq War as a combat medic whilst attending law school at the University of Wyoming, which he graduated from after returning from Iraq. He then went to work for a law firm in Rawlins, Wyoming for three years before leaving to set up his own practice. He joined the United States National Guard in 2006 reaching the rank of Specialist and serving from 2009 to 2010, again as a medic, in Kuwait and Iraq in the 300th Field Artillery Regiment[11] where he didn't face combat. Riehl was involved in escorting convoys of troops 130 miles (210 km) through the desert at night.[12] After being honourably discharged in 2012,[11] Riehl suffered from mental health issues; in March 2014, his brother phoned the police for a welfare check on Matthew and he later went to hospital for treatment. In April, he was in a United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) mental health ward having experienced a psychotic episode before he escaped and was later found and brought back.[13][14] On June 9, 2016, Lone Tree Police Department (LTPD) responded to an altercation between Riehl and his father. On June 8, 2017, LTPD again met with Riehl to conduct a welfare check; they talked for 14 minutes and claimed to have seen rifles in his basement, but had no reason to believe he was a danger to himself or others.[13] ... Jacob Tyler Roberts 3 Killed – 1 Wounded Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clackamas_Town_Center_shooting#Perpetrator Prior to the shooting, Roberts worked at a Portland gyro restaurant, Big Bertha's on S.E. Hawthorne Blvd., a popular late night eatery in the infamous "Barmuda Triangle" known for six hard pouring bars within a two-block radius.[9][11] He was loved by his employer, as well as many friends.[10] Roberts lived with a few roommates in a house ten minutes away from the shopping center. He had plans of joining the United States Marine Corps, but he abandoned these dreams after a bicycle accident that broke his foot. Over the month prior to the shooting, Jacob had slowly sold his belongings, including a legal handgun, resigned from his job at the gyro shop, and told his friends and colleagues that he was planning to move to Hawaii. He told several friends the Friday before the shooting he had missed his flight and told them he had rebooked it. He also purchased at least four magazines and hundreds of rounds of ammunition from local stores during that same timeline.[1][5] ... Charles Carl Roberts IV 6 Killed (including perpetrator) – 5 Wounded Personal life https://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/roberts-charles.htm Charles Carl Roberts IV was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. His father is retired from the local police force. In 2004, his father applied to the state for a special license to provide paratransit service to the Amish. Charles earned a diploma through a home-school association, and neither he nor his family were Amish. Patterns Among School Shooters: Body-Related Issues and the Military https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/patterns_body_related_issues_and_military_1.28.pdf 2 RELATIVES IN THE MILITARY OR LAW ENFORCEMENT Aberrant Adult Shooters Charles Roberts IV Father: police officer Jillian Robbins 1 Killed – 1 Wounded SNIPER KILLS STUDENT AT PENNSYLVANIA STATE https://www.deseret.com/1996/9/18/19266489/sniper-kills-student-at-pennsylvania-state Former co-workers called her "Crazy Jill" and neighbors said the woman with the purple Mohawk haircut had a history of mental problems and had tried to commit suicide. Nineteen-year-old Jillian Robbins, an avid hunter with Army Reserve training, was lying on a tarp under a tree on the Pennsylvania State University campus Tuesday morning when she opened fire with a rifle equipped with a telescopic sight, police said.From her position in front of the student union, Robbins fired five rounds, killing a student and wounding another, both people she said she didn't know, police said. ... 1 SLAIN IN PENN STATE RAMPAGE https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/09/18/1-slain-in-penn-state-rampage/c30d5d08-931d-4b6f-bb94-6387f4f1b797/ A 19-year-old woman with a Mohawk haircut spread out a tarp in the middle of the Penn State University campus and opened fire with a rifle, killing one student and wounding another before she was tackled while trying to reload. Jillian Robbins, a hunter with Army Reserve training who acquaintances said had a history of mental problems and was known as "Crazy Jill," was hospitalized in serious condition with a stab wound suffered in a struggle with the student who came to the rescue and knocked her down. ... The mother of Jillian Robbins struggles to understand why https://c0atimundi.tumblr.com/post/92153903463/the-mother-of-jillian-robbins-struggles-to ... At 17, Jillian moved out of her mother’s house and went to live with her father, an administrator with the Army Reserves in DuBois. That year, still in high school, she signed up with a reserve company in Bellefonte. After basic training, Jillian dropped out of high school and checked into a mental hospital, Mrs. Robbins said. One year later, the army discharged her for not finishing high school. ... Shooting suspect to face capital murder charge https://c0atimundi.tumblr.com/post/82399477511/shooting-suspect-to-face-capital-murder-charge ... A short while later, the Army Reserve-trained dropout with a punk haircut became the news. Before she was subdued, police said, she killed one student and injured another. ... Attempts to reach Robbins’ mother, an international students adviser, at Penn State’s Harrisburg campus weren’t successful. Her father, a coordinator for the U.S. Army Reserve in DuBois, had no comment. ... Robbins claims wanted to kill self https://www.collegian.psu.edu/archives/robbins-claims-wanted-to-kill-self/article_e989b639-5d5d-51bb-ba95-79209b2ba2f2.html ... Both the rifle and knife were presents from her father, who is an employee at the U.S. Department of the Army at Dubois, Robbins said on the tape. She said she planned to kill herself that day with the rifle, which is marked with a smiley face decal on the stock. Robbins said she saw two people fall, one of whom was shot in the back. Robbins, who was also in the U.S. Army Reserve, said she is qualified as an expert on the M16 and the M50, both military weapons, according to the tape. Four cartridges were recovered from the rifle. ... Brendon Malovrh testified that before he approached Robbins, he saw her in a crouched position. She had a rifle and was scouting out her next targets, Malovrh said. Malovrh (senior-aerospace engineering), 21, testified that he spotted Robbins holding a rifle in a 45 degree angle after he heard several bang sounds and noticed gray smoke coming from the northwest bushes in the corner of the lawn. Malovrh ran toward her and grabbed the rifle with his left hand; Robbins released the rifle. Malovrh then identified Robbins to be the woman he approached on the lawn that day. Robbins attempted to proceed to stab him with a seven-inch knife but missed and stabbed herself in her own left leg, Malovrh said. Robbins was bleeding badly, so he took the belt off his trench coat and tied it around her leg. ... Larry Keith Robison 5 Killed – 0 Wounded A suspect who has orally confessed today signed a... https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/08/12/A-suspect-who-has-orally-confessed-today-signed-a/1609397972800/ ... Friends and relatives of Robison said he was bedeviled by LSD, flights of imagination about the CIA and a personal relationship gone bad. 'It's a shame a fellow has to commit some horrendous crime before he can get help,' said Robison's father, Kenneth, 51, a Spanish teacher at Tarrant County Junior College. Robison was a former Boy Scout and Air Force veteran whose mental troubles surfaced when he began experimenting with drugs as a young teen, his parents say. In 1978, they remembered, he swallowed LSD at a Halloween party and became wildly hallucinogenic. 'I sat there watching him watch TV,' recalled his mother, Lois, a third-grade teacher in Crowley, Texas. 'And he was talking about how he was getting messages from the CIA or how people on the TV were laughing at him. ... Elliot Oliver Robertson Rodger 7 Killed – 14 Wounded Early life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Isla_Vista_killings#Early_life Elliot Oliver Robertson Rodger was an English-born American college student. Born in London, England, he moved to the United States with his parents at age five.[7] He was raised in Los Angeles. His father is British filmmaker Peter Rodger, his paternal grandfather photo-journalist George Rodger.[5][8] His mother is a Malaysian Chinese research assistant for a film company.[9][10][11] A younger sister was born before his parents divorced. After his father remarried, Peter and his second wife Soumaya Akaaboune,[12] a Moroccan actress with whom Elliot had a strained relationship,[13] had a son together. George Rodger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Rodger Life and career https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Rodger#Life_and_career Born in Hale, Cheshire, of Scottish and German descent, Rodger went to school at St. Bees School in Cumberland. He joined the British Merchant Navy and sailed around the world. While sailing, Rodger wrote accounts of his travels and taught himself photography to illustrate his travelogues. He was unable to get his travel writing published; after a short spell in the United States, where he failed to find work during the Depression, Rodger returned to Britain in 1936. In London, he found work as a photographer for the BBC's The Listener magazine. In 1938 he had a brief stint working for the Black Star Agency. With the outbreak of the Second World War, Rodger had a strong urge to chronicle the war. His photographs of the Blitz gained him a job as a war correspondent for Life magazine, based in the United States. Rodger covered the war in West Africa extensively and, towards the end of the war, followed the Allies' liberation of France, Belgium and Holland. He also covered the retreat of the British forces in Burma. He was probably the only British war reporter/photographer allowed to write a story on the Burma Road by travelling on it into China, with special permission from the Chinese military.[citation needed] Rodger was one of many photographers to enter the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen in 1945, the first being members of the British Army Film and Photographic Unit. His photographs of the survivors and piles of corpses were published in Life and Time magazines and were highly influential in showing the reality of the death camps. Rodger later recalled how, after spending several hours at the camp, he was appalled to realise that he had spent most of the time looking for graphically pleasing compositions of the piles of bodies lying among the trees and buildings. This traumatic experience led Rodger to conclude that he could not work as a war correspondent again. Leaving Life, he travelled throughout Africa and the Middle East, continuing to document these areas' wildlife and peoples. Jacob Leon Rubenstein ("Jack Leon Ruby") 1 Killed – 0 Wounded Early life and career https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ruby#Early_life_and_career ... In the 1940s, Ruby frequented race tracks in Illinois and California. He was drafted in 1943 and served in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II, working as an aircraft mechanic at U.S. bases until 1946. He had an honorable record and was promoted to Private First Class. Upon discharge, in 1946, Ruby returned to Chicago.[3] ... Eric Robert Rudolph ("Olympic Park Bomber") 2 Killed – 122 Wounded Early life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Rudolph#Early_life Rudolph was born in Merritt Island, Florida, in 1966.[3] After his father, Robert, died in 1981, he moved with his mother and siblings to Nantahala, Macon County, in western North Carolina.[4] He attended ninth grade at the Nantahala School but dropped out after that year and worked as a carpenter with his older brother Daniel. When Rudolph was 18, he spent time with his mother at a Christian Identity compound in Missouri known as the Church of Israel.[5] After Rudolph received his GED, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, undergoing basic training at Fort Benning in Georgia. He was discharged in January 1989, due to marijuana use, while serving with the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.[6] In 1988, the year before his discharge, Rudolph had attended the Air Assault School at Fort Campbell. He attained the rank of Specialist/E-4. Dylann Storm Roof 9 Killed – 1 Wounded What we know so far about Charleston church shooting suspect Dylann Roof https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/06/20/what-we-know-so-far-about-charleston-church-shooting-suspect-dylann-roof/ From The Washington Post’s Thursday profile: It was Roof’s sister, Amber, who called authorities after seeing the surveillance photo of her brother on television, said law enforcement officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, citing the ongoing nature of the investigation. Amber Roof was due to be married Sunday, according to ­theknot.com, a wedding Web site. Although authorities haven’t said why Roof fled to Shelby, his sister’s fiance, Michael Tyo, lives three miles from where Roof was captured in a residential neighborhood of brick ranch-style houses. Tyo, a recruiter for the U.S. Army Reserve, declined to comment Thursday while packing up his children and the family dog for what appeared to be a trip. Gary Lee Roll 3 Killed – 0 Wounded Three Executions Nationwide https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=95962&page=1 Aug. 30, 2000 -- Three condemned prisoners — one repentant, the other two defiant — were put to death today in a rare triple execution nationwide. Missouri carried out the first execution today at 12:07 a.m. CT when Gary Lee Roll was put to death by lethal injection. Roll, 47, was executed for killing three members of a Cape Girardeau family during a robbery at their home in 1992. He became the third Missouri inmate put to death this yearand the 44th since the death penalty was reinstated in 1989. Atypical Death Row Resident Roll didn’t fit the profile of a condemned killer. Unlike many on death row, he didn’t grow up facing physical, emotional, mental or sexual abuse. He was from a respected, hard working Cape Girardeau family. His brother became a top FBI agent in Kansas City. Death penalty opponents often point out that many on death row are borderline mentally retarded. Roll had an IQ of 125, well above average. And he wasn’t a drifter — he was a Vietnam veteran who droppedout of college 10 hours short of graduation to help run the family heating and air conditioning business. As he awaited death, Roll accepted his fate and apologized to his family and the relatives of his three victims, Sherry Scheper and her sons Randy and Curtis. “I failed my family,” Roll said in his final statement. Healso expressed his remorse to the Scheper family. Drug Path to Death RowIn an interview the day before his execution, Roll said it was a single, painful event in 1973 that turned his life down the wrong path. Roll had dropped out of Southeast Missouri State University to volunteer for the Army at the height of the Vietnam War. Stationed in Germany, Roll suffered from six impacted teeth. An Army oralsurgeon extracted all six at once, in the process exposing a nerve in Roll’s lower mouth. The excruciating pain never went away, Roll said. “It hurts to talk about it,” Roll said. “It affected my life so much. It changed me.” Roll first sought help through conventional means, even suing the Veteran’s Administration when officials there wouldn’t provide the medication he felt he needed. Eventually, Roll said he would do anything to relieve the pain, including experimenting with illegal drugs. In 1991, his drug use was a factor in his wife’s decision to divorce him. Through two teenage friends of his son, Roll began to use LSD. Roll said his need to relieve his pain through LSD eventually led him to murder during his fateful robbery-gone-bad at the Scheper household. ... Jon W. Romano 0 Killed – 1 Wounded An Incident of School Violence in East Greenbush,New York https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/romano_incident.pdf February 9, 2004: The Shooting ... Jon’s half-brother, Matt, who was nine years older than Jon, was stationed in Iraq in February of 2004, and the two had been e-mailing back and forth for months. Occasionally, depending specifically on where Matt was in Iraq, they had even been able to instant message each other. Matt was scheduled to return home in the Spring, and he had been promising Jon they would go deer hunting the following Fall. Near the end of January, Jon talked to his psychologist about the hunting idea, and got the green light for it from him. ... Jon Romano (Note he wrote and left at home on the morning of Feb. 9, 2004) ... I’m just too afraid of the future. I could do all I’ve planned, but then what if some bum gets a gun and shoots me? What if there’s a huge war? What if terrorists strike and I lose family? What if some fuck up kidnaps me, rapes me, tortures me, then kills me? Too much I’m afraid of. I’ve had issues the majority of my life. I still do, obviously. But I hoped I would get better and become a state trooper. I don’t ask for help, because what if I get better, then can’t be a cop? That’s all I want to do. But now I’m just too afraid. I believe whatever I believe will happen in the after-life, will happen. When I die I’m going to heaven. I’m NOT A MONSTER. I’ve been happy for a while, but it wasn’t true happiness, I just made it seem that way. Who should you blame? SOCIETY. ... Patterns Among School Shooters: Body-Related Issues and the Military https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/patterns_body_related_issues_and_military_1.28.pdf 2 RELATIVES IN THE MILITARY OR LAW ENFORCEMENT Jon Romano Half-brother: served in Iraq; Romano said he was a role model 3 MILITARY ASPIRATION / OBSESSION AND OUTCOME Jon Romano Wanted to be a state trooper: “That’s all I want to do.” Vladislav Igorevich Roslyakov 21 Killed (including perpetrator) – 70 Wounded Life Kerch shooter: his father threatened his neighbors with a sword, his mother was in poverty https://www.forumdaily.com/en/zhizn-kerchenskogo-strelka-otec-ugrozhal-sosedyam-sablej-mat-bedstvovala/ The bloody slaughter in an educational institution was arranged by his student Vladislav Roslyakov. Edition “??”Collected information about the childhood and the killer's family. Roslyakov’s father, after serving in Afghanistan, drank, mocked his mother, and ran around the yard with a saber. The family lived very poorly. Most teenagers avoided the Kerch shooter: they were frightened by the bayonet that he carried in his bag. ... According to her, Vladislav’s father is a little afraid in the yard. “He's very tall. When a drunk walks, we all hide, he will surely find something to find fault with, start to make a row, ”says neighbor Taisia. Neighbors remember the murderer's father more drunk than sober. At one time, according to the stories of tenants, Igor served in Afghanistan, was contused. Once, when the tipsy man was returning home from work, he was severely beaten. He fell and hit his head on the curb. Since then, he began to have severe headaches. As a result, he received the second group of disability. “You have no idea how tired we are of this brawler. Igor, as he drank his disability pension, begins to kick the door open for his parents, demanding money to get drunk. Only a few days ago they called the police to calm down their son, ”said one of the residents of the house. According to the neighbors, Igor used to run around the yard with a saber. He and his father were Cossacks, even at one time went to meetings. And when he took cold arms in his hands, the residents quickly hid in the apartments. Vladislav Roslyakov: A Profile https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/roslyakov_profile_1.0.pdf ROSLYAKOV’S BACKGROUND Vladislav Roslyakov was born in Kerch on 2 May 2000.17 He grew up in the rural exurb of Kerch known as Arshintsevo. As a child, his family called him ‘Vladik.’ He was raised in the home of his paternal grandparents by his father, Igor, and mother, Galina. A quiet, thin woman, Galina was a low-paid orderly at the hospital in Kerch. Igor was a former soldier who had served in Afghanistan for several years. After he returned, he was assaulted. This resulted in brain damage; he began collecting disability payments.18 ... Roslyakov began displaying an interest in firearms and weapons around the time he began college. According to a media report, he began seeking out military veterans online, pestering them for information about firearms and explosives.34 This also matches with reports that neighborhood children began avoiding Roslyakov after they once saw him carrying the bayonet of a machine gun on the bus.35 One friend reported Roslyakov always carried a hunting knife with him, even when he had to pass through the school’s metal detector.36 ... Despite previously considering joining the military, Roslyakov expressed disdain at the prospect of joining the armed forces.49 ... James Ellison "Jamie" Rouse 2 Killed – 1 Wounded Patterns Among School Shooters: Body-Related Issues and the Military https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/patterns_body_related_issues_and_military_1.28.pdf 2 RELATIVES IN THE MILITARY OR LAW ENFORCEMENT Jamie Rouse – Grandfather: military Uncle: military Leonard Uresti Rojas 2 Killed – 0 Wounded Leonard Uresti Rojas http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/rojas811.htm ... Records from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice show he served a prison sentence in Germany while serving in the U.S. Army, for drug offenses. Leonard Uresti Rojas, 52, was executed by lethal injection on 4 December 2002 in Huntsville, Texas for the murder of two people. ... Esteban Santiago-Ruiz 5 Killed – 42 Wounded Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale_airport_shooting#Perpetrator Esteban Santiago-Ruiz (born March 16, 1990), a 26-year-old resident of Alaska, unemployed, and a former National Guard member[18] was arrested immediately after the shooting.[5] Santiago flew on a Delta Air Lines flight from Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport in Alaska, connecting through Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport. Investigators say that he declared a 9mm pistol with two magazines, locked in a secure container, his only checked baggage. He retrieved it in Fort Lauderdale and loaded the gun in the airport bathroom just before the attack.[2][19][20] Santiago was reported to be carrying military identification at the time of the shooting.[21] Santiago was born in New Jersey in 1990 and moved to Puerto Rico two years later.[22] He lived most of his life in Peñuelas, Puerto Rico, and attended high school there.[23] He joined the Puerto Rico National Guard on December 14, 2007, and served in the Iraq War from April 23, 2010, to February 19, 2011, as a combat engineer. He later served in the Alaska Army National Guard from November 21, 2014, until receiving a general discharge in August 2016 for "unsatisfactory performance."[22] He was a private first class and received ten awards during his time in the military.[24] According to his family members, he had become mentally ill after his tour in Iraq and was severely affected by seeing a bomb explode near two of his friends while in service. They also stated he had recently received psychological treatment,[25][26] which was confirmed by federal officials.[27] ... While in Alaska, Santiago worked as a security guard for a private company,[17] where he was described as being "quiet and solitary." He became increasingly violent over the following year.[33] In January 2016, Santiago was arrested and charged with assault in an incident involving his girlfriend in Anchorage, Alaska. Police alleged that Santiago yelled at her, broke down the door, and choked her. The case resulted in a deferred prosecution agreement, and a domestic violence temporary protection order had expired.[34] Santiago was subsequently scheduled to appear by telephone for sentencing in the domestic violence case in mid-April 2017.[35][36] Santiago visited the FBI field office in Anchorage in November 2016 and reported that the U.S. government was controlling his mind and making him watch online videos by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant,[37] and that he was being forced to join that group by the CIA.[38] He stated that he was hearing voices in his head telling him to commit acts of violence, but he also said that he was in control and did not intend to hurt anyone.[5][6][39] The FBI urged the man to seek mental health treatment[6] and notified the local police who detained him and took him to a medical facility for a mental health evaluation.[5][40] He was later investigated by the FBI, which discovered no links to terrorism or any violation of laws occurring during the Alaska incident.[41] Alaska police took his handgun from him due to the incident, holding it for twenty nine days, but returned it in December because Santiago had not been convicted of a serious crime, involuntarily committed to a mental institution, or adjudicated as mentally defective.[42][43] His weapon was not seized by the FBI, nor was he prevented from checking it for a flight, according to Karen Loeffler, the Alaska U.S. Attorney. She said federal law requires someone to be “adjudicated” as mentally ill before they can be kept from flying with a firearm. “This is not somebody that would have been prohibited, based on the information that they had,” she said of the Anchorage Police Department and the F.B.I. “We’re a country of laws, and they operate within them.”[3] He had also been dismissed as a security guard at Signal 88 Security on November 15, due to his mental health problems.[44][45] Mitchell Rupe 2 Killed – 0 Wounded Ex-Death Row inmate ties the knot; Mitchell Rupe marries woman in prison ceremony; officials say no conjugal visits https://lmtribune.com/northwest/ex-death-row-inmate-ties-the-knot-mitchell-rupe-marries-woman-in-prison-ceremony-officials/article_0f24a2c9-0581-5ac9-ae10-0d42bdc82820.html WALLA WALLA -- Former death row inmate Mitchell Rupe has gotten married but won't be allowed conjugal visits, prison officials say. The wedding ceremony was performed at the Washington State Penitentiary, prison spokeswoman Mary Christensen said Wednesday. "If the marriage takes place post-incarceration, inmates aren't allowed overnight rights," she said. The Tri-City Herald in Kennewick reported Thursday that the bride is a Walla Walla restaurant worker whose identity was not immediately available. Neither Rupe nor his lawyer would discuss the marriage. No marriage license in Rupe's name was obtained in Benton, Franklin or Walla Walla counties, but one could have been gotten in any of the state's other 36 counties. Rupe, about 42, an Army veteran and former Boy Scout leader, is one of the state's most notorious convicted killers. He was sentenced to die for the killing of two bank tellers as they pleaded for their lives during a holdup in Tumwater in 1981. The death penalty was overturned by a federal judge in 1994, largely because jurors in the penalty phase of his trial were not told that a prosecution witness flunked a lie-detector test. U.S. District Judge Thomas S. Zilly also ruled that because Rupe had grown to 400 pounds, partly from prodigious consumption of candy bars and other junk food in prison, he might be decapitated if he were hanged, violating the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. A state appeal for reinstatement of the death sentence is pending in the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, Rupe has developed kidney problems. Citing confidentiality restrictions, state officials have refused to discuss published reports indicating he might need a liver or kidney transplant. In October and November, he had a hernia and complications which required surgery, the Herald reported. James Urban Ruppert 11 Killed – 0 Wounded Leonard Rudolph Ruppert Jr. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54106674/leonard-rudolph-ruppert Murdered (along with his mother, wife, and their 8 children) by his brother, James Urban Ruppert, in what is referred to as the Easter Sunday Massacre. Leonard served in the military from 1952-1960. John M. Russell 5 Killed – 0 Wounded Background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Liberty_killings#Background Sergeant John M. Russell (born 1965) was serving his third tour of duty in Iraq as a communications NCO with the 54th Engineer Battalion.[3] According to a fellow NCO, Russell was a quiet soldier who seemed to have trouble with new computer systems and learning how to make repairs.[3] Russell was "very good" with traditional radio devices, but a lack of new skills degraded his performance and relationship with peers.[3] Over time, the NCO said Russell became increasingly distant and visibly disturbed.[3] Russell has been previously diagnosed with depression and dyslexia.[3] In the days before the killings, witnesses stated Russell became distant and began having suicidal thoughts.[3] Russell had been to the Camp Liberty Combat Stress Clinic on three prior occasions. On May 11, 2009, Russell went to the clinic for a fourth time for a noon appointment.[4] Matti Juhani Saari 11 Killed (including perpetrator) – 11 Wounded Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kauhajoki_school_shooting#Perpetrator Matti Juhani Saari (20 May 1986 – 23 September 2008) was identified as the gunman responsible for the shooting. Saari, a Hospitality Management student at the school,[29] was expelled from the Finnish Army in 2006, after serving for only a month, for opening fire in a woodland exercise against orders.[30] Saari had been the victim of bullying in secondary school and dropped out of his classes for this reason.[21] A friend of Saari also reported that he had been seeing a psychologist in the months before the shooting, and had been obsessed with guns.[31] Saari said that he "always wanted to kill as many people as possible." In his youth, Saari suffered from health problems. His early childhood was marked by slow growth and frequent illness. His brother died when he was 17 years old, which devastated him. He was very shy and sensitive. According to psychologist Peter Langman, Saari seems to have displayed signs of avoidant personality disorder and later possibly schizotypal personality disorder. He was a target of bullying in his school years and he suffered from anxiety, panic attacks and depression. During his month-long service in the Finnish Army, Saari was described as "weird and silent" and had difficulties fitting in. In his last years, he heavily used alcohol and was arrested for driving under the influence.[32] Allen Lawrence "Lance" Scarsella 0 Killed – 5 Wounded Jamar Clark protest shooter takes the stand in his own defense https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/01/27/scarsella-jamar-clark-protest-shooter-testifies In a surprise twist, Allen Scarsella agreed to testify in his defense on charges he shot five men in November 2015 who were protesting the fatal police shooting of Jamar Clark. Scarsella has pleaded not guilty to the seven felony counts. On Friday, he began by talking mostly about his background but didn't get to the details of the shooting. He is expected to resume testifying on Monday Dressed in a dark suit and tie, 24-year-old Allen Scarsella spoke calmly to jurors about his life. He said he grew up in Lakeville and attended the University of St. Thomas as well as the West Point military academy. Scarsella said he is a former Boy Scout and Eagle Scout. ... Joseph Raymond Scolaro III 6 Killed – 0 Wounded A Web of Intrigue https://www.hourdetroit.com/community/a-web-of-intrigue/ ... Joseph Scolaro III had spent three years in the Army and a year at Harvard before joining Robison’s firm in 1965. He was a stocky 6-footer with a high I.Q. and an interest in guns, Link says, a competitive trap shooter used to hitting fast-moving targets. The bookish-looking Scolaro “had no history of violence,” Link says. “But detectives determined he had embezzled about $60,000 over a couple of years from the company and Robison had just found out about it. There was the motive.” ... Omar Mir Seddique ("Omar Mir Seddique Mateen") 49 Killed – 53 Wounded Post-secondary education and employment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Mateen#Post-secondary_education_and_employment In October 2006, Mateen began working as a recruit for the Florida Department of Corrections, being assigned to the Martin Correctional Institution. In a letter explaining his juvenile record as part of his successful application, Mateen explained the incident of when he was arrested at school when he was fourteen. He also wrote that he had experimented with marijuana as a young teenager. Following the Virginia Tech shooting in April 2007, Mateen suggested in a corrections officer training class that he would bring a gun to class. P.H. Skipper, who was the warden at the institution, wrote that "in light of the tragic events at Virginia Tech officer Mateen's inquiry about bringing a weapon to class is at best extremely disturbing." Days later on April 27, 2007, Mateen "was involuntarily dismissed" from the program and never became a certified corrections officer.[22][28][30][31] Mateen then worked for British-based security firm G4S Secure Solutions in Jupiter, Florida, from September 2007 until his death.[21][32][33][34] In 2010, Mateen, while working for G4S, was interviewed for and appears in The Big Fix, the 2012 documentary about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.[35][36] Mateen said of those working on the cleanup: "Nobody gives a shit here. Everybody's just, get out to get paid. They're like hoping for more oil to come out and more people to complain so they'll have jobs. They want more disaster to happen."[37][38] Screening issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Mateen#Post-secondary_education_and_employment G4S said two screenings of Mateen—one conducted upon hiring and the other in 2013—had raised no red flags.[39] Under Florida state law, for him to work as an armed guard the company was required either to make a full psychiatric evaluation of Mateen, or to administer a "validated written psychological test".[40] The test administered was the updated Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2), a test used for job screenings and court cases requiring those subjected to it to agree or disagree with statements such as "My soul sometimes leaves my body" and "Once in a while I think of things too bad to talk about."[40] Carol Nudelman, the psychologist listed on the character certification submitted by G4S to the state, said she stopped working for the company in 2005. After the shooting, Nudelman, who according to the records of the security company G4S, was said to have evaluated and cleared Mateen for his firearms license in 2007, denied ever meeting him or having lived in Florida at the time, and said she had stopped her practice in Florida in January 2006. G4S said Mateen was not actually interviewed by a psychologist, but rather, a psychologist evaluated the results of a standard test used in job screenings and his test was evaluated by the firm that bought Nudelman's practice, Headquarters for Psychological Evaluation.[41][42] On September 10, 2016, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services fined G4S $151,400 for providing inaccurate psychological testing information after it found the psychologist whose opinion was necessary to permit Mateen to carry a weapon was not practicing as a screener. Between 2006 and 2016, 1,514 forms were submitted erroneously listing Nudelman's name. Mateen's form was among those investigated.[43] He had taken the MMPI-2 and Dr. Syed Shafeeq Rahman, a family physician who had close ties with Mateen's family, gave him a medical clearance.[20] Rahman was also the imam of the Fort Pierce mosque to which the family belonged and said that Mateen had become progressively more "reclusive," and did not speak to other congregants before or after services.[44] G4S admitted Mateen's form had a "clerical error", and clarified that he had instead been cleared by Rahman, who was from the same firm that bought the wrongly named doctor's practice. Rahman had not interviewed Mateen, but evaluated the results of a standard test used in the screening he undertook before being hired.[45] Nonetheless, G4S removed Mateen from his job post at a courthouse because of threats he made towards coworkers, including one threat where he claimed he would have al-Qaeda kill a deputy's family.[46][47] Mateen had claimed that his coworkers and courthouse deputies were making racist comments towards him.[47] Despite this, G4S "kept Mateen as an employee" but moved him "to a kiosk at a gated community in Palm Beach County."[45] They never informed the community or its property management company about why he was transferred there.[47] CIA connections with the families of Omar Mateen and the Tsarnayev brothers https://www.voltairenet.org/article192381.html Seddique Mir Mateen, father of Omar Mateen (the individual that killed around fifty gays in Orlando in the name of Isis), worked for the US secret services in Afghanistan during the war against the communist government and its ally, the Soviet Union (1979-89). After that, he migrated to the US where Omar was born. He is a media presenter for the Afghan diaspora. Currently, he is presenting a program, The Durand Jirga Show [1], on Payam-e-Afghan Satellite TV (based in San Francisco). Descendant of the Pashtun tribe, he lent his support to the Taliban (which succeeded the “Mujahideens of Freedom” that the CIA had organized with the Saudi billionaire, Bin Laden to fight against the Russians). After President Hamid Karzai’s departure in September 2014, he refuses to recognize the agreement between Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah and comes out in favour of the president in exile of Afghanistan [2]. His son, Omar Mateen, was employed by the multinational security firm G4S. He had never been singled out as either politically or religiously radicalized. Although married, he used to visit the gay nightclub where he committed his crimes and engaged in sexual relations with at least one other clubber. The brothers Djokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnayev, who carried out the attacks at the sidelines of the Boston marathon, on 15 April 2013, were the political nephews of Graham E. Fuller, a former CIA senior official who directed operations, notably in Afghanistan. Ansor Tsarnayev, the father of the two terrorists, is a Chechen who worked with the CIA in the Soviet Union before migrating to the US. In 2012, one of the two terrorists, Tamerlan, had participated in a seminar of the Georgian association Foundation for Caucasia (?????????? ????) [3]. This NGO, established by the Jamestown Foundation, which is in turn established by CIA, used to prepare young people to “destabilize Russia”. The Tsarnayev brothers had never been singled out as politically or religiously radicalized. The analyst Webster Tarpley says: “the pattern is by now familiar: former foreign fighters, who have worked for the CIA or the State Department in conflict zones emigrate to the United States to live the “American Dream”. They stay in close contact with the US intelligence community. Their children, often born in the United States, devote themselves to terrorist operations just like among European nobility, the youngest son was destined for a military career.” Orlando Nightclub Shooter's Father Was FBI Informant, Say Lawyers For Gunman's Widow https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/26/597000451/pulse-gunmans-father-was-fbi-informant-his-widow-s-lawyers-say Seddique Mateen, the father of the man behind the 2016 Pulse nightclub massacre, worked with the FBI as a confidential informant for more than a decade leading right up to the shooting, according to attorneys for the shooter's widow. The defense team revealed the information in a motion filed just hours before calling their first witness on behalf of Noor Salman, who stands accused of aiding her husband, Omar Mateen, and obstructing state and local investigations. The attorneys argued that the case should be dismissed or declared a mistrial because prosecutors waited until Saturday — days after prosecution rested its case and nearly two weeks after the trial began — to acknowledge the shared history between Seddique Mateen and federal law enforcement. U.S. District Judge Paul Byron denied that motion later Monday. In the disclosure emailed to the defense Saturday, prosecutor Sara Sweeney said Mateen served as an informant "at various points" between January 2005 and June 2016. The note also revealed that the FBI launched an investigation of the elder Mateen after finding evidence he made money transfers to Turkey and Afghanistan in the months leading up to the shooting. These previous omissions "have placed Ms. Salman, the jury, and this Court in a dark wood where the search for truth has been thwarted," the motion states. "It is apparent from the Government's belated disclosure that Ms. Salman has been defending a case without a complete set of facts and evidence that the Government was required to disclose." Defense attorneys argued that this evidence — which they say must be disclosed if it could impact the case, citing legal precedent — would have substantially changed their arguments in court. Specifically, they questioned whether the father had foreknowledge of Omar Mateen's attack and whether he "played a significant role" in the FBI's decisions to drop its investigations of his son in 2013 and 2014. Immediately after the June 2016 massacre, which left Omar Mateen and his 49 victims dead at the club, Seddique Mateen condemned his son's actions on multiple media outlets. "I apologize for what my son did. I don't know why he did it," he told NBC News at the time. "He is dead, so I can't ask him. I wish I knew." The defense's case proceeded in the courtroom Monday as several witnesses took the stand. They argue that Salman, the sole person charged in connection with her dead husband's rampage, was a "simple woman" with a low IQ, easily influenced and badly abused by Omar Mateen — and, they assert, utterly ignorant of his violent designs on the club. Closing arguments are expected later this week. Sylvia Wynanda Seegrist Killed 3 – Wounded 7 Troubled past https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Seegrist#Troubled_past ... When she was of age, Seegrist attempted to enlist in the U.S. Army. As she was being inducted, she faced harassment from other members of her platoon, who assumed she was a lesbian; they set her up on a prank date and made her the butt of many jokes thereafter.[4] Seegrist spent a good deal of time at the Springfield Mall, harassing customers and making statements about how "good" other spree killings were, such as the 1984 San Ysidro McDonald's massacre.[5] She was discharged from the Army after two months because of her unusual behavior, which included sitting fully dressed in green fatigues at the spa and sauna of her fitness club. An instructor at the fitness club said "she hated everyone and would often talk about shooting and killing people".[6] ... Sergey Semidovskiy 6 Killed (including perpetrator) – 10 Wounded Yaroslavsky shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaroslavsky_shooting The Yaroslavsky shooting was a mass murder that occurred in Yaroslavsky, Primorsky Krai, Russia on 25 August 2002, when 40-year-old police captain Sergey Semidovskiy (Russian: Сергей Семидовский) killed five people and wounded ten others in and outside a bar with a Saiga carbine, after an argument with several customers. The drunk gunman then shot himself in the chest and was taken to a hospital in Khorol, where he tried again to commit suicide and eventually died of cardiac arrest on 27 August.[1][2][3][4] As a consequence of the shooting Colonel Lebedev, head of the Khorolsky District department of internal affairs, as well as Lieutenant-Colonel Kurgeyev, head of the personnel and training department, and Lieutenant-Colonel Kotyshev, head of public security police, were dismissed, and disciplinary measures were taken against several other members of the local police.[5] Cho Seung-hui ("Seung-Hui Cho") 33 Killed (including perpetrator) – 23 Wounded (17 by gunfire) A Daughter Who Succeeded, a Son Who Found Trouble https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3053725&page=1 April 18, 2007 — -- By any measure, they were a quiet unassuming immigrant family living the American dream. After moving to the United States from South Korea in 1992, Sung and Hyang Cho set up a dry cleaning business near Washington, D.C. The couple lived in a two-story cream-colored town house in the upper-middle-class Sully Station neighborhood of Centreville, Va. And their daughter, Sun-Kyung, who graduated from Princeton in 2004, moved back home while she worked as a State Department contractor. But that dream was shattered after their son Seung-hui Cho's murderous Monday morning rampage at Virginia Tech University, where authorities believe he killed 32 students and professors before turning his gun on himself. At the end of that tragic day, FBI agents and state police officers pulled up in six cars and searched the Cho home in Centreville for 90 minutes as officers moved in and out of the house taking pictures. By the time the media swarmed the house yesterday morning, the family was gone, escorted by the police to an undisclosed location. According to a South Korean Embassy official quoted in the Korean media, the couple was hospitalized for shock. It was every parent's nightmare, magnified a hundred times -- to see a child descend into depression, commit murder and mayhem, and take his own life. For the Chos, it must have been all the more poignant, since their son's path diverged so widely from their daughter's journey. By anyone's criteria, Sun-Kyung Cho is an accomplished young woman. At Princeton, where she majored in economics, she extended her learning by getting some real-world experience. Motivated by an interest in observing actual labor conditions in a developing country, she got an internship at the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok during the summer before her senior year. "They were the most amazing three months of my life," Cho told the Princeton Weekly Bulletin upon her return, describing how moving it was for her to see impoverished young Burmese girls making ceramics and garments in factories along the Thai-Burmese border. She also wrote for the campus newspaper, The Daily Princetonian, contributing at least two articles, one of which was about sweatshop labor. Cho currently works as a contractor at the State Department. A colleague in her office told ABCNEWS.com that Cho is taking an undefined leave of absence to cope with the tragedy. Sung Cho, 61, and Hyang Cho, 56, kept a low profile in the small town, attending services at the Korean Presbyterian Church and planting lettuce in the backyard of their home. They've come a long way from their days in poverty in a suburb of Seoul, according to their former landlord Lim Bong-ae. Back then, the couple lived in a rented basement apartment, which is usually the cheapest unit in an apartment building, he told a Korean newspaper. The couple ran a used bookstore, Seung-hui's grandfather told another Korean newspaper. When relatives invited the family to the United States, he said they jumped at the chance to "provide better education for the children." The unnamed grandfather was shocked at his family's connection to the massacre. "My grandson Seung-hui was very shy. I can't believe he did such a thing," he told the paper. When Seung-hui was in first grade, attending Shinchang Elementary, the family moved, first settling in Detroit. They soon relocated to Virginia and eventually bought the three-bedroom house in Centreville for $145,000 in 1997. The couple was very unassuming. They did not take part in many community activities, were not registered to vote, and most neighbors could hardly recall talking to them. "They're very quiet, very nice people. ... They worked very hard for him. It's very sad," their next-door neighbor, Abdul Shash, told The Associated Press. "They were hardworking," said Jeff Ahn, president of the League of Korean Americans in Virginia. "They valued education, just like any other parents in this country, and they worked sometimes 12, 13 hours a day to send a daughter to Princeton and to send their son to Virginia Tech." A year later, family of Virginia Tech gunman still lives ‘in darkness’ https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2008/apr/12/a-year-later-family-of-virginia-tech-gunman-still/ WASHINGTON – Like so many thousands of Virginia Tech parents, Sung Tae and Hyang Im Cho spent the day of April 16 calling their son’s cell phone and sending him e-mails, hoping he hadn’t fallen prey to the man who was shooting students and professors at Virginia Tech. The Chos’ fears were confirmed when the police, FBI agents and a chaplain showed up that night at their suburban townhouse. But the news was worse than they imagined. Their shy, quiet 23-year-old son was the student gunman who fatally shot 32 people before killing himself. Nearly a year later, Seung Hui Cho’s parents have virtually cut themselves off from the world. Relatives from South Korea have not heard from them. The blinds are always drawn at their home in Centreville, Va., and several windows are papered over. The Chos, through an FBI agent who communicates with them regularly, declined a request for an interview. “They continue to live in darkness,” said Wade Smith, a North Carolina lawyer who has been assisting the family. “I think there will come a time when they are able to speak, (but) for now, they have made it clear to me they just want to be quiet and not say anything.” The family went into hiding the night of the shootings, according to the FBI agent, who has been a liaison between the family and law enforcement in the past year. She related the details of that first night on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. About 9 or 10 p.m., when about five law enforcement agents arrived at the Chos’ door, “there were tears right away,” the FBI agent said. The agent said she tried to make the Chos and their daughter, Sun Kyung, comfortable by asking them to sit together on a sofa in the living room. The agent pulled up a chair to face Sun Kyung, who was translating the news into Korean for her parents. The agent sat so close that their knees were almost touching. She put her hand on the daughter’s knee and told her that her brother had been shot and killed at Virginia Tech that day. As that news was sinking in, the agent told them there was more. “It was extremely difficult,” the agent said. “I had to tell a family that their son was gone and that he was also responsible for this horrific tragedy.” The story of the Cho family is a familiar one in diverse, immigrant-rich suburban northern Virginia. Sung Tae and Hyang Im rose from a dank basement apartment in Seoul, South Korea, to an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Fairfax County. They labored six days a week as dry cleaners. Their hard work was rewarded when Sun Kyung was accepted to Princeton University. Little is known of the family’s life now except that they still live in the two-story townhouse they bought in 1997, five years after they emigrated. Neighbors say they are rarely home and work long hours. Sun Kyung, 27, works for the State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. The night of the tragedy, the Chos packed their bags after the agent warned them that they would be the subject of intense public scrutiny. After leaving their home that night near midnight, the family moved from location to location around the Washington area, packing up every time it seemed that reporters might find them, the agent said. They turned off their cell phones to stay even more isolated from the public. In the meantime, they were answering authorities’ questions about their son. On April 18, when NBC aired the hate-filled video that Cho had mailed to the station, his parents and sister were as shocked as anyone. Two days later, the Chos made their only public comments. “We are humbled by this darkness,” Sun Kyung wrote in a statement released to news organizations. Then, silence. Reporters who had spent days camped out at the home left, describing the townhouse as deserted and abandoned. Neighbors and others speculated the Chos had fled permanently. But months later, neighbors said, the family quietly returned to Centreville. Aware of the Chos’ desire for solitude, several neighbors and acquaintances said they did not try to speak to the couple or offer help. “It was very, very obvious they didn’t want to be contacted by anyone,” said Jeff Ahn, president of the League of Korean Americans in Virginia, who knew Cho’s father through his work in the dry-cleaning business. In early August, the Chos granted an interview – not to the media but to the panel appointed by Gov. Timothy Kaine to investigate the tragedy. At an undisclosed private home in Northern Virginia, they poured out their hearts to Aradhana “Bela” Sood, medical director of a children’s treatment center at Virginia Commonwealth University and a member of the Virginia Tech Review Panel. In the emotional three-hour interview, Hyang Im described her struggle to socialize Seung Hui, who rarely spoke as a child in Korea and withdrew even more after the family came to the United States when he was 8. Hyang Im, with her daughter translating, told Sood how she had tried unsuccessfully to find friends for her son. She later turned to psychiatry, despite the stigma – in Korean and American cultures – of mental illness. She and her husband worried when Seung Hui decided, against their advice, to go away to Blacksburg. The parents told Sood of their shock to learn, after his death, of his violent writings; the red flags raised by professors and students who said they were afraid of him; and his brief hospitalization after a judge determined he was a suicide risk. Had they known, “we would have taken him home and made him miss a semester to get this looked at,” the Chos told Sood. “But we just did not know … about anything being wrong.” Sood felt a “great sense of empathy and sympathy for them,” she recalled this week. “It was, by any description, a very poignant and touching interview,” she said. “It was a double whammy for them, losing a son and then not being able to grieve in a traditional sense because of his actions.” Sood said she is not surprised that the Chos have declined to speak publicly or accept offers of help from friends and family. Most parents feel responsible for the actions of their children, she said, a feeling that would be amplified in collectivist Asian families. Moreover, she said, some kinds of grief can seem too intense for any kind of solace. “In that circumstance, there would be a feeling of, what can people do to help you?” she said. “There is nothing that can be done.” Cho’s great-aunt in Korea began to weep as she imagined Hyang Im’s pain. “My heart aches for my niece as I think about what she could have been going through, to pick up the pieces and carry on with life,” Kim Yang Soon said. On Wednesday, a shaken Virginia Tech community will gather at the university to remember the students and professors who died in Cho’s rampage exactly one year before. There will be a candlelight vigil at dusk. Each of Cho’s 32 victims will be honored, their names read during a ceremony on the Drillfield. Cho’s name will not be mentioned. But the breadth of human compassion has room for such people as Cho. For a time, some family members of Cho’s victims considered reaching out to his parents. “We said amongst ourselves, ‘They’ve lost a son, too,’ ” said Andrew Goddard of Richmond, Va., whose son Colin was shot but survived. An impromptu memorial, a semicircle of stones, that was assembled on the Drillfield shortly after the shootings initially had 33 stones, including one for Cho. Over the past year, the university has received a flood of letters, Bibles, teddy bears and other condolences for the dead, including Cho. “I remember that there were a lot of letters of forgiveness,” said Tamara Kennelly, the university’s archivist. The FBI helped deliver to Cho’s family hundreds of letters and other items left at Virginia Tech, the FBI agent said. Some of the letters contained threats, blaming them for what happened. But most were filled with prayers and words of comfort and sympathy, assuring them that what their son did was not their fault. Church groups from across the country also sent prayer quilts, shawls and blankets that members had crocheted with prayers pinned into the corners. “May our prayers keep you warm,” some said. “They’ve been overwhelmed with the support they have received from complete strangers,” the agent said. “They are a very warm, loving and giving family. Now they are trying to get their lives back on track.” Before Deadly Rage, a Life Consumed by a Troubling Silence https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/us/22vatech.html ... The Korean community of Centreville is a high-aspiring one, and nothing matters more than bright futures for its children. The area is speckled with tutoring academies — “Believe & Achieve,” “Ivy Academy” — high SAT scores and road maps to elite colleges. The local Korean papers publish lists of students admitted to Ivy League institutions. Mr. Cho’s older sister, Sun-Kyung Cho, went to Princeton and made the lists, but not him. She now works as a contractor for the State Department. ... Early life and education https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seung-Hui_Cho#Early_life_and_education Cho was born on January 18, 1984, in the city of Asan, in South Korea's South Chungcheong Province.[18] Cho and his family lived in a basement apartment in the city of Seoul for a couple of years before immigrating to the United States. Cho's father was self-employed as a bookstore owner, but made minimal profits from the venture. Seeking better education and opportunities for his three children,[19][20] Cho's father immigrated to the United States with his family in September 1992, when Seung-Hui was eight years old. The family lived in Detroit, then moved to the Washington metropolitan area after learning that it had one of the largest South Korean expatriate communities in the U.S. Cho's family settled in Centreville, an unincorporated community in western Fairfax County, Virginia west of Washington, D.C.[21] Cho's father and mother opened a dry-cleaning business. After they moved to Centreville, Cho and his family became permanent residents of the United States as South Korean nationals.[22][23] His parents became members of a local Christian church, and Cho himself was raised as a member of the religion,[24] although in a note Cho "railed against his parents' strong Christian faith."[25] Fairfax County, Virginia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairfax_County,_Virginia ... Fairfax County, officially the County of Fairfax, is located in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. Part of Northern Virginia, Fairfax County borders both the City of Alexandria and Arlington County and forms part of the suburban ring of Washington, D.C. The county is thus predominantly suburban in character, with some urban and rural pockets. ... The county is home to the headquarters of intelligence agencies such as the Central Intelligence Agency, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and National Reconnaissance Office, as well as the National Counterterrorism Center and Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The county is also home to seven Fortune 500 companies, including three in the Falls Church area; although not located in the independent municipality of Falls Church.[5] ... He knew Cho 8 yrs., but killer never said a word to him https://www.inquirer.com/philly/hp/news_update/20070421_He_knew_Cho_8_yrs___but_killer_never_said_a_word_to_him.html ... Davids' father, Hondo, a retired Marine major, led a Boy Scout troop and watched his son as he advanced to become an Eagle Scout. ... Ramil Shamsutdinov 8 Killed – 2 Wounded Investigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorny_shooting#Investigation The sole suspect is Pvt. Ramil Salengalovich Shamsutdinov (born 1999), a resident of the Vagay village, Tyumen Oblast, and son of a retired military commander. The Chita military court arrested Ramil Shamsutdinov[8] who, if found guilty, could face a life imprisonment.[9] Patrick Henry Sherrill ("Pat Sherrill") 15 Killed (including perpetrator) – 6 Wounded Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_post_office_shooting#Perpetrator Patrick Henry Sherrill (November 13, 1941 – August 20, 1986) was born in Watonga, Oklahoma, and had served in the United States Marine Corps.[12] He was considered an expert marksman and was a member of a National Guard pistol team.[1] Newton Carlton Slawson 4 Killed (including 1 unborn child) Newton Carlton Slawson https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/223506709/newton-c.-slawson Newton Carlton Slawson, 48, was executed May 16, 2003 at the Florida State Prison near Starke, Florida for the April 11, 1989 multi-murders of Gerald Wood, 23; Peggy Wood, 21; Jennifer Wood, 4; Glendon Wood, 3; and an unborn son of the Woods'. Inscription SP4 US Army SN US Navy Vietnam Benjamin Adam "BJ" Sifrit 2 Killed – 0 Wounded Early lives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erika_and_Benjamin_Sifrit#Early_lives Erika Elaine Grace was born in Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania, to Charlotte Gail (Klotz) and Gerald Mitchell Grace. Benjamin Adam Sifrit was born in Estherville, Iowa, to Elizabeth Ann (Graves) and Craig Arthur Sifrit. Erika and Benjamin married in 1998, when they were both 20 years old. She was an honors student and basketball star at Mary Washington College. Benjamin completed Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training class 212 in 1997 but never received the Navy Enlisted Classification (NEC) 5326 Combatant Swimmer (SEAL) designation or qualified as a Navy SEAL before he received a bad conduct discharge for repeatedly being absent without leave, insubordination, poor performance and wearing unauthorized insignia. Shortly after marrying, the Sifrits moved near Erika's hometown of Altoona, Pennsylvania. There, they opened and operated a scrapbook store.[4] Jimmie Ray Slaughter 3 Killed – 0 Wounded Jimmie Ray Slaughter http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/slaughter955.htm ... Slaughter also presented an alibi at his trial. He was stationed in Fort Riley, Kansas in the U.S. Army Reserve approximately a four hour drive from Edmond Oklahoma. Slaughter’s ex-wife, Nicki Bonner and her two daughters testified he was with them all day. A salesperson at a nearby shopping mall recalled seeing Slaughter buy a T-shirt. A receipt verified the purchase. ... Michael Peter Slobodian 3 Killed (including perpetrator) – 13 Wounded Life https://amok.fandom.com/wiki/Michael_Slobodian#Life ... Skipped English and physics classes, teachers arsked parents for an explanation, According to his sister he had an affinity for guns, had lots of friends, was a good student. Lived about four blocks from school. played guitar and drums in a school band, neighbours described him as friendly, quiet, with few friends who mostly talked to his sister. Liked to go hunting with father. Joined the local militia group the in April.[3] On his 16th birthday he got a .22-caliber semi-automatic rifle. In the months leading up to the shooting his behaviour changed, he shaved his head, showed an increasing interest in the military, wore a beret, joined the Lorne Scots. Had a complicated relationship with his English teacher, Mrs Wright, who according to Dean Nadon ridiculed his work in front of the class. A couple of weeks prior to the shooting he broke down in tears to Mrs. Wright, after his grandfather had died that May and his father was ill with a serious heart condition. Worked on a science project in which he used electrodes to keep frogs alive, which was rejected on grounds of new animal cruelty guidelines.[4] ... Patterns Among School Shooters: Body-Related Issues and the Military https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/patterns_body_related_issues_and_military_1.28.pdf 3 MILITARY ASPIRATION / OBSESSION AND OUTCOME Secondary School Shooters Michael Slobodian Aspired to military and joined local militia before his attack Heather Smith 3 Killed (including perpetrator) – 0 Wounded Patterns Among School Shooters: Body-Related Issues and the Military https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/patterns_body_related_issues_and_military_1.28.pdf 2 RELATIVES IN THE MILITARY OR LAW ENFORCEMENT Secondary School Shooters Heather Smith – Father: Army officer; she was born on Army base A 15-year-old girl apparently upset by a romantic breakup... https://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/11/27/A-15-year-old-girl-apparently-upset-by-a-romantic-breakup/8607501915600/ TACOMA, Wash. -- A 15-year-old girl apparently upset by a romantic breakup fatally shot two boys at a junior high school, then shot herself in the head when confronted by officers, police said Wednesday. Gordon Pickett was killed in the shootings Tuesday near the gymnasium of Spanaway Junior High School. The other victim, Chris Rico, died early Wednesday at Madigan Army Hospital. Students told police that Heather Smith, 15, and one of the boys had broken up earlier in the day. The girl told a friend that she intended to shoot one of the boys, they said. Smith shot herself when police showed up at the school. Oficers tried to get her to drop the gun but she pointed the weapon at her head and pulled the trigger, sheriff's deputy Fred Dillon said. Smith was in critical condition at Madigan Army Hospital. Witnesses gave officers several addresses where the girl might have been staying. 'She wasn't apparently staying at home,' said Sgt. Tom Miner. Perry Edward Smith 4 Killed – 0 Wounded Military service and life in Washington https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Edward_Smith#Military_service_and_life_in_Washington At age 16, Smith joined the United States Merchant Marine. He joined the United States Army in 1948, where he served in the Korean War.[9] During his stint in the Army, Smith spent weeks at a time in the stockade for public carousing and fighting with Korean civilians and other soldiers. In spite of his record, Smith received an honorable discharge in 1952 and was last stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington.[9] Smith stayed with an Army friend for a time in the Tacoma area, where he was employed as a car painter. With one of his first paychecks, Smith bought a motorcycle. While riding, he lost control of the bike due to adverse weather conditions. Smith nearly died in the accident and spent six months in a Bellingham hospital. Because of the severe injuries, his legs were permanently disabled[9] and he suffered chronic leg pains for the rest of his life. To help control the pain, Smith consumed an excessive amount of aspirin.[2][9] Robert Benjamin Smith 5 Killed – 2 Wounded THE ROSE-MAR KILLINGS http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art22876.asp November 13, 1966 started as any other Saturday did in Mesa, Arizona. Three beauty school students were getting ready for their busy day and one young mother with her two daughters sat, waiting for her appointment. The 18-year old Robert Benjamin Smith entered the salon with one thought on his brain: murder. He was not a remarkable person in and of himself. He was of average intelligence and below average athletic prowess; his personality was rather one-dimensional and bland and he lacked any sort of sense of humor. Yet, why would such a person desire to kill innocent people? Fame. Robert’s father was a Major in the air Force Reserves. As a result, the family moved around a lot as he was growing up. He was teased in school for his lack of coordination—something he would never grow out of, fully. He grew up reading books about his heroes—Caesar, Napoleon, and John F. Kennedy. Of the three, Kennedy was his favorite. That’s why on November 22, 1963, Smith’s world nearly ended. Living in Baltimore at the time, Smith begged his father to let him attend President Kennedy’s funeral. His father declined and Smith seemed to accept the answer, understanding. ... Robert Benjamin Smith: An Analysis https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/smith_analysis_1.0.pdf BACKGROUND Robert Smith’s father served in the Air Force. As a result, the family moved several times. Smith reportedly hated school and had difficulty making friends. He was intelligent, but for some reason had to repeat grades. Whether this was a result of the frequent relocations or something else is unknown. Smith had significant deficits in physical coordination; he not only was “weak, slow, and clumsy,” but he could not ride a bicycle or tie his shoes. His peers reportedly “avoided him or teased him.”1 ... ANALYSIS ... There are other factors worth noting. As stated elsewhere (in my book School Shooters: Understanding High School, College, and Adult Perpetrators,19 and in the document “Patterns Among School Shooters: Body-Related Issues and the Military”20), many school shooters were not good physical specimens. They had various biological or health-related issues that made it difficult for them to feel good about themselves as males. In addition, many of them had family members who served in the military. Finally, many perpetrators had an obsession with the military and often aspired to be soldiers. Smith fits all of these categories. He was unathletic, clumsy, and couldn’t even tie his shoes. His father was a retired major in the air force. Whether or not he ever had military aspirations is unknown, but he had a fascination for military icons such as Caesar, Napoleon, and Hitler. It is possible that his father’s masculinity as demonstrated by his being a soldier contrasted sharply with Smith’s own sense of self as failing at manhood. Murder may have provided a sense of power for someone who otherwise felt powerless; this would explain his laughter and exhilaration. In addition, his apparent inability to engage with girls may have resulted in profound frustration and resentment, which may have fueled his fantasy — and the eventual reality — of killing women. This, too, may have served to elevate his sense of manliness. One final pattern will be noted. In my book School Shooters,21 I point out the parallels among Robert Poulin, Wayne Lo, and Eric Harris. All three had biological challenges to masculinity. All three were psychopathic school shooters. All three committed their attacks at age 18. All three had fathers who served in the air force. Like Poulin, Lo, and Harris, Robert Smith was an 18-year-old psychopathic shooter with biological challenges and a father who served in the air force. The extent to which history repeats itself is sometimes startling. ... Richard Benjamin Speck 8 Killed – 0 Wounded Chicago, April–June 1966 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Speck#Chicago,_April–June_1966 On April 19, 1966, Speck returned to stay at his sister Martha's second-floor apartment at 3966 N. Avondale Ave., in the Old Irving Park neighborhood on the Northwest side of Chicago, where she lived with her husband, Gene Thornton, and their two teenage daughters. Martha had worked as a registered nurse in pediatrics before she was married, and her husband Gene worked nights as a railroad switchman. Speck told them an unbelievable story about having to leave Monmouth after refusing to sell narcotics for a "crime syndicate" there. Gene Thornton, who had served in the U.S. Navy, thought that the U.S. Merchant Marine might provide a suitable occupation for his unemployed brother-in-law, so on April 25 he took Speck to the U.S. Coast Guard office to apply for a letter of authority to work as an apprentice seaman. The application required being fingerprinted and photographed, and having a physical examination by a doctor.[5] ... Chicago, July 1966 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Speck#Chicago,_July_1966 On Friday, July 8, 1966, Speck's brother-in-law Gene drove him to the NMU hiring hall to pick up his seaman's card and register for a berth on a ship. Speck lost out that day to a seaman with more seniority for a berth on the SS Flying Spray, a C1-A cargo ship bound for South Vietnam, and returned to his sister Martha's apartment for the weekend.[5] By Monday, July 11, Speck had outstayed his welcome with his sister Martha and her family. After packing his bags and again being driven by his brother-in-law to the NMU hiring hall to await a berth on a ship, Speck stayed the night at Pauline's rooming house, about 1 mile (1,600 m) away at 3028 E. 96th St., in the Vets Park neighborhood of South Deering, Chicago.[5] On Tuesday, July 12, Speck returned to the NMU hiring hall. In mid-afternoon, he received an assignment on Sinclair Oil's tanker SS Sinclair Great Lakes, which was a 30-minute drive away in East Chicago, Indiana. When he arrived there, he found that his spot had already been taken, and he was driven back to the NMU hiring hall, which was then closed. Speck did not have enough money for a rooming house, so he dropped his bags off six blocks east at the Manor Shell filling station at 9954 S. Torrence Ave. and slept in an unfinished house just off E. 103rd St.[5][7] Brenda Ann Spencer 2 Killed – 9 Wounded Patterns Among School Shooters: Body-Related Issues and the Military https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/patterns_body_related_issues_and_military_1.28.pdf 2 RELATIVES IN THE MILITARY OR LAW ENFORCEMENT Secondary School Shooters Brenda Spencer Father: Navy [Brent Fleming] [Father: police officer] 3 MILITARY ASPIRATION / OBSESSION AND OUTCOME Secondary School Shooters Brenda Spencer Wanted to become a sniper School Shooters: Understanding High School, College, and Adult Perpetrators https://books.google.bg/books?id=MfQ1BgAAQBAJ&pg=PA131&lpg=PA131&dq=brenda+spencer+military+father&source=bl&ots=Npq1LQ5XY8&sig=ACfU3U1oBcjEI8pC2qkjWE0WG38JKMb66w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjF7rTvivP0AhUJsaQKHUzNDFAQ6AF6BAgpEAM#v=onepage&q=brenda%20spencer%20military%20father&f=false Jillian Robbins and Brenda Spencer had several things in common. They both had fathers who served in the military and gave them rifles as gifts. Both were expert sharpshooters - Spencer trained by her father, Robbins by the army. Both had parents who worked in universities. Both were described as tomboys with no interest in traditional femininity. Also, both sets of parents were divorced. They differed significantly, however, in personality. Spencer was fully grounded in reality, upbeat and fun-loving, and found sadistic pleasure in killing; Robbins was depressed, suicidal, and psychotic. Steven Michael “Mike” Stagner 4 Killed – 0 Wounded Aaron Stanley 2 Killed – 0 Wounded Soldier gets life for killing two comrades https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna8184214 An Army sergeant convicted of shooting two fellow soldiers to death last year at his farmhouse will serve life in prison with no chance of parole, a military jury decided Saturday. Sgt. Aaron Stanley, a 23-year-old veteran of the Iraq war, was sentenced a day after his conviction by the same eight jurors on two counts of premeditated murder. They deliberated about six hours over his sentence — and only three hours over his guilt. “These were extraordinarily violent and senseless murders,” Maj. John Hamner, the lead prosecutor, told the panel. Stanley was convicted of killing Staff Sgt. Matthew Werner, 30, of Oxnard, Calif., and Spc. Christopher D. Hymer, 23, of Nevada, Mo., in September in Clay Center, about 30 miles west of Fort Riley. Self-defense claim dismissed Stanley, of Bismarck, N.D., argued he acted in self-defense and to protect another soldier who was there, but prosecutors said he shot the two men to conceal an illegal drug trafficking operation, believing the victims to be informants for Fort Riley police. Stanley and the other soldier, Sgt. Eric Colvin, had acknowledged manufacturing methamphetamine and growing marijuana at the farmhouse. Stanley wiped a few tears from his eyes but otherwise was composed when the jury announced its decision. “It’s OK,” he told a half-dozen family members seated behind him. He patted them on their backs, adding, “It’s not the end of the world. Relax.” But his family members gasped when the sentence was announced. All were either shaking or crying afterward. Hymer’s father, David, said “All right!” when he heard the sentence. “I feel justice is here,” he said later. “It makes me put a close to this.” ‘Antithesis of everything good’ Supporters praised Stanley’s performance as a soldier and his character as a young boy growing up. But on Saturday, Hamner told the panel it shouldn’t be swayed by those pleas. “On 13 September, he was the antithesis of everything good that was said about him yesterday,” he said. Stanley read an apology in court Friday. “I’m so sorry,” he said to the victims’ families. “I hope that you will find it in your hearts to forgive me and I hope that this brings peace.” All four soldiers were part of the 1st Battalion of the 41st Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division based at Fort Riley. Both Stanley and Colvin were with Bravo Company and had served in Iraq. Ian Lee Stawicki Killed 6 (including perpetrator) – 1 Wounded Gunman: a life full of rage, a shocking final act https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/gunman-a-life-full-of-rage-a-shocking-final-act/ ... Early signs Ian Lee Stawicki was born in Santa Barbara, Calif., the first of Walter and Carol Stawicki’s three children. The Stawicki family settled on Seattle’s Beacon Hill to be close to Carol Stawicki’s family, Walter Stawicki said. Ian Stawicki showed signs of autism and had learning disorders. He struggled to read, write and focus his attention, his father said. Stawicki went to alternative schools before obtaining a GED diploma. He joined the Army at 17, Walter Stawicki said. Walter Stawicki, a self-admitted draft dodger in the 1960s, said his son was stationed at Fort Drum, N.Y., and did training in Panama. But Ian Stawicki suffered a head injury from a grenade concussion during a training exercise and was discharged two years later, his father said. The Army has no record of his ever serving in the Army, spokeswoman Lt. Col Laurel Devine said Thursday. ... ‘Hero’ in Seattle coffee shop shooting rampage saved others by throwing barstools at gunman https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2012/06/01/hero_in_seattle_coffee_shop_shooting_rampage_saved_others_by_throwing_barstools_at_gunman.html ... Walter Stawicki recalled a son who liked dogs, kids and plants. He joined the U.S. Army after graduating high school, but the Army honourably discharged him after about a year, he said. Since then, Ian Stawicki had bounced around serving as a roadie for bands and helping his mother with gardening. ... Robert Kenneth Wayne Stewart 8 Killed – 3 Killed Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthage_nursing_home_shooting#Perpetrator ... Stewart worked as a house painter and had his own painting business, but had filed twice for bankruptcy.[citation needed] He had been out of work for over a year before the shooting, after injuring his back and leg.[citation needed] He served six years in the National Guard and never rose above the rank of private before receiving an honorable discharge.[citation needed] In 1995 he joined the Clay Road Farm Hunt Club in Moore County, where he soon alienated the other members because of his drinking problem and his temper. He was eventually thrown out of the hunting club, after threatening Larry Allred, one of its founders. ... Bradley William Stone 7 Killed (including perpetrator) – 1 Wounded Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Montgomery_County_shootings#Perpetrator Bradley William Stone, a 35-year-old resident of Pennsburg, Pennsylvania, was identified as the attacker. He was reported to be a military veteran who had been diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder,[25] although there was no evidence to indicate a diagnosis.[3] Stone was enlisted in 2002 as a reservist in the United States Marine Corps, mainly as a meteorologist.[1] He was assigned to the 3rd Battalion 14th Marines, a reserve artillery battalion in Philadelphia.[26] Stone had one deployment to Iraq that started on April 17, 2008, and ended on July 2 of the same year. He left service sometime later that year, although he remained on individual ready reserve until 2011. Stone left with the rank of sergeant, according to a Marine spokesperson.[13][27] Stone was reportedly being treated for unspecified combat-related physical injuries. On December 8, he met a psychiatrist at a Veterans Affairs medical center, and was found to have no suicidal or homicidal ideation.[3][28] He had pleaded guilty in November 2013 to an April 28 vehicular crash caused by drunken driving. As part of his sentence, he was participating in a county rehabilitation program for veterans.[26][29] Stone had previously had two other drunken-driving incidents, one that occurred in 2001 and the other in 2004.[5 ... Reactions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Montgomery_County_shootings#Reactions The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs expressed "heartfelt condolences" to the victims of the killings. It also announced its intention to conduct a comprehensive review of the care Stone received from the Veterans Affairs medical centers.[28] Mamoru Takuma 8 Killed – 15 Wounded Early life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamoru_Takuma#Early_life Mamoru Takuma was born on 23 November 1963 in Itami, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. As a child, he displayed unusual and anti-social behavior. At the age of three, he rode his tricycle towards the center of a highway, causing traffic jams; as well as wrapping cats and other animals in newspaper, and would ignite them, eventually killing them. From elementary school to junior high, he bullied other children, all the while he was being bullied himself. Takuma's father was violent against the whole family, and Takuma grew up being abused by his father (it seems that he was also left alone to grow up). Takuma recalls that he hated his violent father and even thought of stabbing him with a knife while he was sleeping. Takuma worked at a gas station for several months until enlisting in the Japan Air Self Defense Force, but was discharged a year later for having sexual intercourse with a minor.[citation needed] In 1984, Takuma and his mother left his family house and purchased an apartment, leaving his oldest brother and father by themselves. They lived together for a year and a half, until his father came back for his wife.[3] In February 1999 his brother died by suicide in his early 40s by slashing his neck with a knife. He was distressed by the existence of his bankrupt brother. His mother also suffered from mental illness for a long time, stayed in a mental hospital for more than several decades, and died at the end of 2016. His father was hospitalized due to drunkenness after the incident, but according to Takuma in prison, he said, "I wanted him to commit suicide like Tsutomu Miyazaki's father."[4] His father died in April 2020 at the age of 88, and his parent's house in Itami, where he lived alone, was demolished in September of the same year. As of June 2021, the site is vacant[5] Criminal history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamoru_Takuma#Criminal_history ... Out of dozens of companies, he had only remained with two for more than a year, the Air Self-Defense Force and part-time local government employer. In all others he had resigned or been dismissed within about half a year. In addition, except for the rape case of the first offense, he has been arrested 15 times, but all cases have been dismissed due to mental illness. He has also experienced four divorces and suicide attempts. In October 1998, Takuma was arrested on suspicion of assaulting his ex-wife. Takuma was also arrested for driving his car in reverse gear on the Hanshin Expressway but released after he was found mentally unfit. ... Brenton Harrison Tarrant 51 Killed – 40 Wounded New Zealand terrorist attack: Special Air Service snipers were training a few miles away https://sofrep.com/news/new-zealand-terrorist-attack-special-air-service-snipers-training-a-few-miles-away/ In an ironic turn of events, New Zealand Special Air Service (NZSAS) snipers were training only a few miles away from the sites of the two mosque massacres that took place March 15th in Christchurch, New Zealand. According to reports in New Zealand media outlets, the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) was organizing a long-range shooting training event near Christchurch. The event was at a shooting range in West Melton, located approximately 15 miles west of the attacks. It included snipers from the NZSAS, the New Zealand Army, and the Australian Army, as well as some from undisclosed Asian countries. Upon learning of the attack, the NZSAS operators deployed to the city during the search operation for Brenton Tarrant, the terrorist who killed 50 people and injured dozens more. One of the NZSAS operators was photographed, sniper rifle in hand and with his features masked behind a balaclava, standing next to a Special Tactics Group police officer; his picture is circulating throughout social media. According to the New Zealand Herald, some special operators were deployed to a nearby high school after reports that it was also under attack. Further intelligence indicated these reports were inaccurate. The terrorist was eventually caught by two regular police officers who happened to be in Christchurch for a training event at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Cashmere, a nearby community. Upon receiving notification of an active-shooter event in Christchurch, they scoured the streets for the gunman. Eventually, they saw a car fitting the description and decided to ram it. They dragged the gunman out of his destroyed car and arrested him. In the end, the NZSAS operators could have done little to stop the gunman from massacring so many innocent people. The attack on the first mosque, Masjid al Noor, lasted approximately six minutes, resulting in numerous casualties. Within the hour, the shooter traveled to the second mosque, Linwood Masjid, and opened fire. The first law enforcement officers to arrive on the scene at al Noor were members of the local Armed Offenders Squad, which is a part-time unit comprised of officers from across the New Zealand Police designed to respond to low-threat scenarios. These details demonstrate that a committed and well-prepared terrorist can spread mayhem before any official unit can respond. Further, it suggests that more emphasis should be placed on preventive measures—such as having armed officers near soft targets like schools, mosques, and synagogues. ... James Edward Testerman 1 Killed – 0 Wounded James Edward Testerman - FBI https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/james-edward-testerman ... James E. Testerman enlisted in the Army on October 17, 1949, at Richmond, Virginia. He, too, was assigned to a Machine Gun Troop, Third Cavalry, Fort Myer, Virginia. Like Lovett, Testerman had also been in trouble with his superiors. ... FBI agent slain in 1942 honored with Abingdon memorial https://richmond.com/news/virginia/fbi-agent-slain-in-1942-honored-with-abingdon-memorial/article_9e7c40b6-3f0f-5746-a068-8d1ecb67643c.html ... Two days before Treacy’s death, then-Army Privates Charles Joseph Lovett and James Edward Testerman assaulted a sergeant at Fort Oglethorpe in Georgia, stole a car and made their way to Abingdon, according to the compiled information. ... Dakota Michael Theriot 5 Killed – 0 Wounded Dakota Theriot's troubled past: Accused mass shooter's life dotted with failures https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_65be7950-234f-11e9-a10f-074e59124a31.html ... A month later, military records show, Theriot signed up for basic training in the U.S. armed forces. He was out four months later. An Army spokesman said only that Theriot "was separated in May 2016 before completing training." ... 21-year-old accused of killing 5 in Louisiana had brief marriage, some Army basic training https://www.sunherald.com/news/local/crime/article225232290.html ... A month later, military records show, Theriot signed up for basic training in the U.S. armed forces. He was out four months later. An Army spokesman said only that Theriot “was separated in May 2016 before completing training. ... Louisiana quintuple slaying suspect, 21, grimaces as he is booked for murders of his parents after confessing to killing them and three others and being swiftly extradited https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6660069/Dakota-Theriot-grimaces-booked-murders-parents-Louisiana.html ... Barnette said Theriot told him he had recently tried to join the U.S. Army, but had some sort of falling out during the recruitment process. ... Seth Trickey 0 Killed – 5 Wounded Seth Trickey's release final, judge declares https://tulsaworld.com/archive/seth-trickeys-release-final-judge-declares/article_55d68afa-e3c4-54f4-be09-9ec128f7b662.html At 13, he shot five fellow students at Fort Gibson Middle School. ... Trickey has never publicly given a primary reason for his attacks, although he attributed his violence to family pressures, a military obsession and fascination with the Columbine school massacre, according to court records. ... Timeline for Seth Trickey ... March 29, 2000: Following a certification study, Associate District Judge Tom Alford rules that Trickey will remain in juvenile custody. Psychologists testify that Trickey suffered from depression, a military obsession and a fascination with the Columbine school massacre in Colorado. Trickey did not take the stand. ... Patterns Among School Shooters: Body-Related Issues and the Military https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/patterns_body_related_issues_and_military_1.28.pdf 2 RELATIVES IN THE MILITARY OR LAW ENFORCEMENT Secondary School Shooters Seth Trickey Father: U.S. Navy (Mother: Veterans Affairs) Great-uncle #1: U.S. Navy Great-uncle #2: U.S. Navy Great-uncle #3: law enforcement Other more distant relatives: military ... 3 MILITARY ASPIRATION / OBSESSION AND OUTCOME Secondary School Shooters Seth Trickey – Military aspirations, but committed attack before he was old enough to enlist ... Eulalio Sevilla Tordil 3 Killed – 3 Wounded Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eulalio_Tordil_shootings#Perpetrator Eulalio Sevilla Tordil (born June 30, 1953)[13] was 62 years old at the time of the incidents. His estranged wife Gladys Tordil had filled a protective order against him in March 2016, alleging 10 years of violence by Tordil against her and her children. Per the order, Tordil verbally, sexually, and physically abused his family and showed the two children pornographic images and subjected them to "intense-military-like discipline", and would put them in "detention" by locking them in dark closets. The order also detailed the weapons that Tordil owned, which included a .40-caliber handgun, a .45-caliber handgun, an M4, a revolver, and a "hunting gun."[7] After the protective order was issued, Tordil was placed on administrative duties and later placed on administrative leave from his job as a law enforcement officer with the Federal Protective Service through the Department of Homeland Security. After he was placed on administrative leave, Tordil was required to surrender his government-issued weapons, badge and credentials.[6] Legal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eulalio_Tordil_shootings#Legal His public defender detailed to the court that Tordil was a Catholic school choir boy, a former member of the military, and still devoted to his children as he had carried a photo of them in the bag he carried while running from police.[8] Due to the multiple locations of the shootings, Tordil was charged in different court systems. During his initial Rockville Court Appearance in April 2017, Tordil waived his right to trial by pleading guilty to two charges of first degree murder and two counts of attempted first degree murder. At the time, he faced a life sentence plus three additional life sentences.[14] In July 2018 he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, for four consecutive life sentences in relation to the attacks.[15] The charges relating to the murder of his estranged wife and the wounding of John Lancaster were based through the Prince George's County court system.[14] In September 2017, he was sentenced to two life sentences for the charges that he had pleaded guilty to. The presiding judge stated: "You should not see or breathe a free bit of air for the rest of your life. It's overwhelming the reasons to show no mercy."[4] Tordil is currently[when?] incarcerated in the North Branch Correctional Institution.[13] US police officer arrested over shootings that killed three in Washington DC https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/79730452/us-police-officer-arrested-over-shootings-that-killed-three-in-washington-dc A US police officer is suspected of killing three people in the space of two days. Eulalio Sevilla Tordil, 62, a police officer with the US Department of Homeland Security, was arrested near the shopping centre where the second of Friday's two shootings took place in the Washington DC suburbs, police said. He had been suspected of killing his wife and shooting a bystander on Thursday in Prince George's County, Maryland. When a pair of shootings broke out in neighbouring Montgomery County on Friday, investigators turned their attention to Tordil, who had threatened to commit "suicide by cop", police said. ... Arturo Reyes Torres 4 Killed – 0 Wounded Aftermath of Killer’s Fury https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-dec-20-mn-431-story.html ... Caltrans shooting--A story Dec. 20 about a gunman who shot and killed four Caltrans workers in Orange and then was fatally wounded by police mistakenly described the assailant’s military record because of incorrect information provided by a U.S. Marine Corps spokesman. The gunman, Arturo Reyes Torres, was a soldier in the U.S. Army. Records show he was on active duty from 1974 to 1976 and discharged in 1980. ... California shooting was the worst Orange has seen since 1997 https://nypost.com/2021/04/01/california-shooting-was-the-worst-orange-has-seen-since-1997/ ... Arturo Reyes Torres, 41, who was fired as an equipment operator for the state Department of Transportation, carried an assault rifle, a shotgun and a handgun when he returned to his workplace on Dec. 18 that year, the Orange County Register reported at the time. ... Michael Vernon Townley 2 Killed – 1 Wounded Early life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Townley#Early_life Townley was born in 1942 Waterloo, Iowa. In 1957, he moved to Chile with his father, Vernon Townley, who became head of Ford Motor Co. operations in Chile. He worked as a salesman of mutual fund stocks. In 1967, he moved to Miami with his family and worked as a mechanic in Miami's Little Havana, where he became friends with anti-Castro exiles.[6] In 1970, Townley moved his family back to Chile. Townley later testified that, before leaving the US, he contacted the CIA to offer his services in Chile, however Townley said he never worked for the CIA.[6] Back in Chile, Townley ran anti-Allende clandestine radio station and worked for violent opposition groups. He fled Chile in the months before the 1973 Chile coup which overthrew Allende. Townley then returned to Chile and was recruited into DINA.[6] Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Anzorovich Tsarnaev 3 Killed – 264 Wounded Boston terror suspects uncle was married to CIA officer's daughter and even shared a home with the agent https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2315929/Boston-terror-suspects-uncle-married-CIA-officers-daughter-shared-home-agent.html An uncle of the Boston bombers was previously married to a CIA officer's daughter for three years, it emerged today. Ruslan Tsarni, who publicly denounced his two terrorist nephews' actions and called them 'Losers', even lived with his father-in-law agent Graham Fuller in his Maryland home for a year. Mr Fuller was forced to explain the relationship today as news of the family link emerged online. He told Al-Monitor that his daughter, Samantha, was married to Ruslan, whose surname was then Tsarnaev, for three to four years in the 1990s. The couple divorced in 1999 more than ten years after he left the agency in 1987. 'Samantha was married to Ruslan Tsarnaev (Tsarni) for 3-4 years, and they lived in Bishkek for one year where Samantha was working for Price Waterhouse on privatization projects,' Mr Fuller said. 'They also lived in our house in [Maryland] for a year or so and they were divorced in 1999, I believe. 'I, of course, retired from CIA in 1987 and had moved on to working as a senior political scientist for RAND.' He said his son-in-law showed no interest in the agency or politics but spoke generally about his family in Chechnya. He said any attempts to portray the relationship as a link between the security agency and the two terrorists was 'absurd'. 'Like all Chechens, Ruslan was very concerned about his native land, but I saw no particular involvement in politics,' Fuller told Al-Monitor. 'I doubt he even had much to say of intelligence value other than talking about his own family’s sad tale of deportation from Chechnya by Stalin to Central Asia. Every Chechen family has such stories.' Fuller visited his daughter and her husband in Bishek, as a former Russian history graduate himself interested in 'Soviet minorities'. He said he may have met the terror suspects' father, Aznor, there once and his daughter knew the Tsarnaev family when Tamerlan was a toddler and before his younger brother was born. 'I for one was astonished at the events, and to find myself at two degrees of separation from them,' he added. Ruslan Tsarni, who lives in Montgomery Village, Maryland, was thrust into the spotlight as the names of his two nephews emerged in connection to the Boston terror attack. He stood on his driveway and attacked the two men calling them 'Losers'. He has since reported a rift between his family and that of his brother Aznor's and said his older nephew Tamerlan had become increasingly extreme in his religious views. He said he last spoke to him in 2009 when he declared he was dropping out of school to do 'God's business' and Tsarni was concerned at his religious fervor. '[The bombing] has nothing to do with Chechen … He put a shame on our family, he put a shame on the entire Chechen ethnicity,' he told broadcasters in the aftermath of the bombings He also told reporters that Tamerlan had a friend called Misha who 'brainwashed' him. 'This person just took his brain. He just brainwashed him completely,' he said. FBI agents today said they had tracked down Misha and believed he had no link to the terror attacks. Graham Fuller, Uncle Ruslan, the CIA and the Boston Bombings https://www.voltairenet.org/article178524.html Are there too many coincidences in the Boston Bombings official narrative to call them coincidences? Behind each one lurks the shadow of Graham Fuller—a top CIA strategist who famously advocated co-opting Islamic extremists to further advance the US agenda in Central Asia—and his cozy ties with the accused brothers’ uncle. William Engdahl delves into the ramifications of the Fuller-Tsarni connection, the most compelling of the Boston smoking guns, and the threatening can of worms it has opened up. One of the many unexplained (at least not officially) anomalies of the persons claimed to have carried out the Boston Marathon bombings is the presence of key CIA figure in the direct family of the accused brothers. Ruslan Tsarnaev, the outspoken uncle of the brothers was married to Samantha A. Fuller until 2004. Samantha’s father is Graham Fuller, the senior CIA person who architected the Afghan Islamic fundamentalist Mujahideen war against the Soviets. He is also implicated in creating a global jihad network, presumably acting on behalf of CIA interests. Ruslan Tsarnaev, who changed his name to Ruslan Tsarni, lives in a posh Washington DC suburb of Bethesda Maryland. He has worked in the past for companies tied to Dick Cheney’s Halliburton as well as a “consultant” in Kazakhstan with the State Department’s USAID which has been identified as a CIA front. [1] Take it all in: The two brothers, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, accused though never proven in a court of law to have been responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings, had an uncle, the same uncle who agreed to bury the remains of the one dead brother. This uncle was married to the daughter of Graham Fuller, one of the most important CIA architects of using Islamic Jihadists/terrorists against the USSR during the Cold War and after, throughout Central Asia, including Chechnya and Kazakhstan. Coincidence? THE FULLER CIA LINK The discovery of the connection between a very, very senior CIA man, Graham Fuller, to the uncle of the accused Boston bombers was more than a bit embarrassing for Fuller. He took what for a professional CIA agent was an extraordinary step of issuing a public denial. In an exclusive interview on what reportedly is a CIA-linked website, “Back Channel—Al-Monitor,” Fuller hurriedly denounced media links of his CIA connection to the bombers’ uncle: “…possible connections between Ruslan and the Agency through me are absurd.” [2] Fuller then went on to admit, “Samantha was married to Ruslan Tsarnaev (Tsarni) for 3-4 years…They also lived in our house in [Maryland] for a year or so…” [3] Fuller went on to claim Ruslan was “homesick” for Chechnya, and that his English was “shaky,” yet after the Boston bombings, a very English-fluent Ruslan gave a press conference from his posh Maryland home denouncing his nephews. The central question is who is Graham Fuller? The answer turns out to be that he was perhaps if not THE most instrumental, one of the most instrumental people inside the CIA during the 1980’s who convinced CIA Director Bill Casey and the Reagan Administration to recruit fundamentalist Muslim Salafists or Jihadists from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and elsewhere, train them in techniques of guerilla insurgency and send them against the Soviet-occupied Afghanistan. They were called Mujahideen. [4] One of the more famous of those Mujahideen was a young Saudi from a very wealthy family named Osama bin Laden. In a sense then we might call Graham Fuller the “Godfather of Al Qaeda.” Fuller was also the key CIA figure in convincing the Reagan Administration to tip the balance in the eight-year-long Iran-Iraq war by using Israel to channel weapons to Iran in what became the Iran-Contra Affair. As well, in 1999, around the time his daughter Samantha and “Uncle” Ruslan Tsarni (aka Tsarnaev) lived at his home near Washington, Fuller, former Deputy Director of the CIA’s National Council on Intelligence, then a senior figure at the Pentagon and CIA-linked neo-conservative RAND corporation, advocated using Muslim forces to further US interests in Central Asia. He stated, “The policy of guiding the evolution of Islam and of helping them against our adversaries worked marvelously well in Afghanistan against [the Russians]. The same doctrines can still be used to destabilize what remains of Russian power, and especially to counter the Chinese influence in Central Asia.” [5] This is precisely what happened in Chechnya with hundreds of CIA-trained Jihadists and Al Qaeda fighters sent into Chechnya, Dagestan and other parts of the former Soviet Union, precisely where Uncle Ruslan and his two Tsarnaev nephews came to the USA from. Coincidence? Is it mere “coincidence” that the uncle of the two young men accused of the Boston bombings was related in marriage to the CIA figure who advocated using the networks which were later named “Al Qaeda” across Central Asia including Chechnya where the Tsarnaev brothers had roots? The more independent researchers examine evidence around the Boston terror bombings, the more the official US Government version of events stinks. Closeup pictures of obviously fake red paint designed to look like blood from a man whose legs were supposedly blown off of flesh to the bone, pictures of private security contractors carrying large backpacks at the direct bombing site after the bombing and chatting with police, reports of eyewitnesses of police over loudspeakers telling marathon runners there was a “terrorism exercise” taking place as a test that day. All these anomalies, combined with the CIA ties of Uncle Ruslan, present an incredible set of coincidences. It is time for an open and serious citizen commission of inquiry be formed to investigate. In a future article we will look closely at the role of the same Graham Fuller in creation of what is rapidly becoming an Islamic fundamentalist dictatorship in Turkey and across the Islamic world. The Graham Fuller-Ruslan Tsarni connection opens up what looks to be a very ugly can of worms. The two accused of the Boston bombings were never proven guilty. Their mother in Russia vehemently insists they were set up as patsies by the US Government to be blamed. [6] It may be that carelessness somewhere exposed Graham Fuller and the tip of a very secret and very explosive network of international terror whose ties with Langley and the US Government are inadvertently coming into daylight in what might well be the most important revelation of destructive secret intelligence operations in modern history. Graham Fuller, ’methinks thou doth protest too much,’ when you proclaim absurd ties between the CIA and accused Boston bombers and that is drawing the spotlight of the civilized world to you and your accomplices and activities. Fuller’s earlier role in Turkey with another network of Salafist fundamentalist Islam will be our next view into the murky underworld of intelligence agencies and attempts to manipulate entire parts of the human population. Graham E. Fuller https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_E._Fuller CIA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_E._Fuller#CIA He served 20 years as an operations officer in the CIA. Assignments include postings in: Germany, Turkey, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, North Yemen, Afghanistan, and Hong Kong.[8][11] Fuller was Kabul CIA Station Chief until 1978, when he was brought to CIA headquarters in Washington, where he was appointed National Intelligence Officer for Near East and South Asia in 1982.[12] In 1986, the CIA appointed him vice-chairman of the National Intelligence Council.[13][14] After government https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_E._Fuller#After_government Fuller left the CIA in 1988 for the RAND Corporation, remaining as a senior political scientist until 2000.[8][10] At the RAND Corporation he wrote, among many publications, on political Islam in various countries, and on the geopolitics of the Muslim world. Fuller is an adjunct history professor at Simon Fraser University.[11] He speaks several Middle Eastern languages as well as Russian and Chinese. After the Boston Marathon bombing, it was revealed that Fuller's daughter Samantha Ankara Fuller (married name Tsarnaev) was married in the 1990s to Ruslan Tsarni (born Tsarnaev), the uncle of the perpetrators Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev.[16] They divorced on April 26, 1999, in Orange County, North Carolina.[17] Ruslan Tsarni worked for companies connected to Halliburton. He was also a consultant for a company contracted by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in the former Soviet Republic of Kyrgyzstan.[18] ... Tamerlan Tsarnaev: Terrorist. Murderer. Federal Informant? https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2017/04/09/tamerlan-tsarnaev-fbi-informant/ Not long after Tamerlan Tsarnaev bombed the Boston Marathon, investigative reporter Michele McPhee went looking for answers. What she discovered, detailed in this exclusive excerpt from her new book, Maximum Harm, might just change how you think about our government and law enforcement forever. As darkness descended over the village of Utamysh, Russia, one mid-July night in 2012, international soldiers, intelligence agents, and local police made their way inside a convoy of covered troop carriers to a carefully hidden encampment. They even brought a light-armored tank, knowing the men inside were heavily armed. The hideout, a small farmhouse, was home to seven mujahideen, guerrilla fighters who had all vowed to bring sharia law back to Russia’s Northern Caucasus. They flew their own nationalist flag and consistently referred to Russian authorities as “invaders.” Two of the men, however, Islam and Arsen Magomedov, were more than mere guerrilla insurgents: They were notorious terrorists and commanders of the region’s most brutal criminal gangs. In all, they were suspected of orchestrating dozens of murders and deadly bombings of police checkpoints, civilian-filled trains, and Russian Federation television stations. Next to the Magomedovs stood five other men who ranged in age from 25 to 35, budding jihadists who had very few prospects when they left their families other than to go, as they said, “into the forests” to train. After a long day, the men went to bed—completely unaware that just outside the tiny village, under the cover of night, forces were preparing a raid that would level their camp. Russian Interior Ministry counterterrorism troops wanted to move in without being seen by the prying eyes of Utamysh villagers, so they evacuated some women and children living near the camp. Not everyone in the Muslim village supported the continuing carnage in their region, but most distrusted Russian Federation law enforcement officials. As in most military operations, the soldiers moved silently as they carefully checked their guns and grenades, switched the safeties off their automatic weapons, and even loaded a small rocket-propelled grenade. They wore combat gear, and not for aesthetic reasons. Inside the hideout were some of the most violent men in the Northern Caucasus, an area that has long been among the most volatile and lawless places in the world. At that time, it was not unusual for a Russian police officer to be assassinated weekly. The insurgents inside the Utamysh compound had been trained to believe that the Russians were invaders who—like pigs—deserved nothing less than slaughter, and had been taught that there was no greater honor than to die taking a Russian out. When the radicals heard the sound of dried dirt and rocks being crushed under the weight of the tank and the troop movers carrying the enemy to their front door, according to a video that was later released by the Russian Interior Ministry, the mujahideen grabbed their own guns, prayed that Allah would give them strength in battle, and fired. Tracer rounds and bombs lit up the village for hours. When the sun rose over the mountains on July 14, 2012, all seven of the Islamic militants were dead. The Russians photographed their slain bodies lying in the scrubby grass as proof of their deaths. The camp was a smoldering shell. Cars belonging to the insurgents were still burning. The walls of the farmhouse were pitted with gunfire, and its windows had all been blown out. Russian Federation counterterrorism coalition forces also lost a man: an officer with the Russian Interior Ministry. Three other Russian agents had been wounded. As the farmhouse continued to fume, while militants mourned and the Russian Interior Ministry prepared to bury its dead agent, one man left the region, somehow paying 2,050 euros for a one-way Aeroflot ticket from Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow to John F. Kennedy International Airport, and then to Logan airport on July 17, 2012. His name was Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a Russian expat whose entire family fled the region a decade earlier for Cambridge, Massachusetts, telling United States immigration officials that they would be killed because of their political affiliations if they ever returned home. It remains unclear how the unemployed 25-year-old on welfare paid for the flight or exactly what he spent his time in Russia doing, or for whom. Less than a year later, he and his younger brother, Dzhokhar, carried out the Boston Marathon bombings, an act of terror so immense it would paralyze the entire city. Tamerlan would die on April 19, 2013, not long after a wild firefight with police and a high-speed chase in a stolen SUV driven by Dzhokhar, who fled the shootout and prompted a nearly daylong manhunt before being captured. When Dzhokhar’s trial started nearly two years later, his famed death-penalty defense attorney, Judy Clarke, startled court spectators when she flat-out admitted her client was guilty of the bombings. At one point, she pointed to a photo of older brother Tamerlan and explained, “There’s little that occurred the week of April the 15th…that we dispute.” But what about in the months and years before that? Much is murky about Tamerlan’s life leading up to the deadly attack on Boylston Street. Four years after the blasts, his case, at first blush, seems to be an extreme cautionary tale about the shortcomings of the overbloated war on terror, its divided attentions rendering actual terrorists invisible. But upon closer inspection, a strange picture starts to emerge—one that counterterrorism experts and law enforcement officials have suggested points to Tamerlan having been a federal informant who went rogue. During Dzhokhar’s trial, his defense attorneys raised provocative questions about the FBI’s mysterious involvement with Tamerlan. Had agents pressured him to be an informant? And if so, did that pressure play a role in the bombings? “We base this on information from our client’s family and other sources that the FBI made more than one visit to talk with [Tamerlan’s parents] Anzor, Zubeidat and Tamerlan, questioned Tamerlan about his internet searches, and asked him to be an informant, reporting on the Chechen and Muslim community,” Dzhokhar’s lawyers stated in court records. “We further have reason to believe that Tamerlan misinterpreted the visits and discussions with the FBI as pressure and that they amounted to a stressor that increased his paranoia and distress. We do not suggest that these contacts are to be blamed and have no evidence to suggest that they were improper, but rather view them as an important part of the story of Tamerlan’s decline. Since Tamerlan is dead, the government is the source of corroboration that these visits did in fact occur and of what was said during them.” The FBI denies that Tamerlan was their informant, but to this day those questions have not been answered. What is the bureau trying to hide? THE TSARNAEV CONNECTION 2009 Tamerlan Tsarnaev participates in a photo essay titled “Will Box for Passport.” March 2011 Russian counterterrorism agents warn the FBI about Tsarnaev. June 2011 The FBI closes its investigation on Tsarnaev. September 11, 2011 The bodies of three men with connections to Tsarnaev are found nearly decapitated in a Waltham apartment. October 2011 Russian officials warn U.S. intelligence about Tsarnaev’s jihadist rhetoric; his name is added to two terror watch lists. January 21, 2012 Despite being watch-listed, Tsarnaev is allowed to fly from New York to Russia. July 2012 Radical extremist William Plotnikov and six other rebel fighters are killed by Russian forces in Dagestan; Tsarnaev leaves Russia, paying 2,050 euros in cash for the flight. August 28, 2012 Tsarnaev’s naturalized citizen application is reopened. January 23, 2013 Tsarnaev’s citizenship is delayed once again. April 15, 2013 Tsarnaev and his brother bomb the Boston Marathon. In 2011, the year before Tamerlan flew from Boston to Moscow, the Russians were already worried about him and his mother, Zubeidat. So in an unusual move, the agency shared its concerns with counterterrorism counterparts in the United States. To say the least, the relationship between the two countries—both of which were trying to eradicate Islamic terrorism—was based more on need than trust. Still, on March 4, 2011, the FSB sent its first message about Tamerlan and Zubeidat to the FBI’s legal attaché in Moscow. Later, it sent the same memo to the CIA. While the FBI refuses to release a copy of the letter, FSB officials read it to a congressional delegation that included Representative William Keating, a Democrat from Massachusetts and a former prosecutor. “It was amazing in its detail dealing with Tamerlan Tsarnaev,” Keating later said. The letter, according to Keating and others, described intercepted text messages between Tamerlan, his mother, and Magomed Kartashov, her second cousin—a former Dagestan police officer who had become a prominent Islamist and leader of a group called Union of the Just (a Muslim advocacy group that has been banned in Russia because of its alleged affiliations with Muslim militants). The organization sympathized with radical Islamic insurgents who had declared war against Vladimir Putin’s Russian forces. Zubeidat and Tamerlan, the letter stated, were becoming adherents of radical Islam. The FSB also provided full names, addresses, and phone numbers for many of the members of the Tsarnaev family, including Tamerlan and his mother. According to the FBI, it warned that Tamerlan “had changed drastically since 2010” and was preparing to travel to a part of Russia “to join unspecified underground groups,” namely, violent radical Islamists in the Caucasus who formed their own bandit groups, which were essentially ragtag insurgency gangs. The FBI’s legal attaché in Moscow sent a translated copy of the FSB’s warning concerning Tamerlan to the Counterterrorism Division of the FBI’s Boston field office, telling them “to take any investigative steps deemed appropriate and provide [the legal attaché in] Moscow with any information derived,” with the promise that the information would be forwarded to the Russians. After receiving the FSB’s letter, a special agent in that Boston Counterterrorism Division, referred to in an Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report as “the CT Agent,” was assigned to conduct what the FBI called a threat assessment based on the information that the FSB had shared regarding Tamerlan’s and his mother’s increasing extremism. In the months before Tamerlan left Boston for Russia, the CT Agent interviewed Tamerlan and his parents and reported his findings, the OIG said. The report concluded that there is no public evidence that the CT Agent contacted Tamerlan’s then-wife (Katherine Russell, also known as Karima Tsarnaeva)—at the least, notes about any contact with her never became part of any official file. Nor did the CT Agent visit the controversial Islamic Society of Boston mosque in Cambridge where Tamerlan prayed, despite its rumored connections to radical Islamists. The FBI would later issue a statement that in response to the FSB’s letter, agents “checked U.S. government databases and other information to look for such things as derogatory telephone communications, possible use of online sites associated with the promotion of radical activity, associations with other persons of interest, travel history and plans, and education history. The FBI also interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev and family members. The FBI did not find any terrorism activity, domestic or foreign.” And so the bureau closed its case on Tamerlan in June 2011. Conspiracy theories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Marathon_bombing#Conspiracy_theories A number of conspiracy theories arose in the immediate wake of the attacks and after more information about the Tsarnaev brothers came to light.[354] This can be common in the aftermath of acts of domestic terrorism, especially the September 11th attacks.[355] In the days following the attacks, some conspiracy theories arose on the internet claiming they were false flag attacks committed by the United States government.[356] As more information about the backgrounds of the Tsarnaev Brothers came to light, further conspiracy theories were disseminated. One claim, made by Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's defense attorney as well as some journalists, was that the FBI had tried to recruit Tamerlan Tsarnaev as an FBI informant in 2011.[180][181][182][183] The FBI denied this claim in a press release, stating that "the Tsarnaev brothers were never sources for the FBI nor did the FBI attempt to recruit them as sources".[357] The FBI is not required to release information on informants, and classified information on sources of intelligence constitutes an exception to the 25-year declassification window established by Executive Order 13526.[358] In 2011, a friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev was murdered in Waltham, Massachusetts, along with two others.[359][360][361] After the 2013 attacks, the investigation was reopened with Tamerlan Tsarnaev as a new suspect.[362] The failure of the 2011 investigation to identify Tamerlan Tsarnaev as a major suspect led to claims among conspiracy theorists that the investigation of the 2011 Waltham triple murder had been suppressed by the FBI in order to maintain Tsarnaev's informant status. Theorists also cite the fact that the FBI has been criticized for an alleged practice under former director James Comey of encouraging confidential informants to attempt terrorist attacks.[363][364] This alleged practice, combined with disputed claims of connections between the Tsarnaev brothers and intelligence services,[180][365] have given rise to a conspiracy theory that the United States government had foreknowledge of the Tsarnaev brothers' plans to commit a terrorist attack, or that the attack was made at the direction of intelligence services.[354] The Tsarnaev brother's uncle, Said-Hussein Tsarnaev and other members of the Tsarnaev family have repeated this theory, as well as claiming neither brother actually committed the attacks.[366] This claim also formed an element of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's legal defense.[367] No evidence or further claims supporting this theory have been confirmed by any US government agencies.[354] Unanswered Questions About Tamerlan Tsarnaev https://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2017/06/15/tsarnaev-mcphee-fbi Questions mount about Boston bombers’ links to US intelligence agencies https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/04/26/bost-a26.html Information coming to light about the background of the Boston Marathon bombings raises many questions about the relationship of US intelligence agencies to the alleged bombers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. It is now clear that the older brother, Tamerlan, who was killed in a police shootout in the early morning hours of April 19, was well known to both the FBI and the CIA. The following account can be pieced together from what has emerged so far: After first denying any knowledge of Tsarnaev, the FBI has now admitted that it received a request in March 2011 from Russia to investigate him, due to Russia’s concerns that he might be connected with terrorist organizations active in Chechnya and the Caucasus region. He was added to the Treasury Enforcement and Communication System database to monitor past and future flight travel. The FBI claims that it found no relevant information on Tamerlan and reported this to Russia. This was not the end of the matter, however. Six months later, in late September 2011, the Russian government contacted the CIA with a similar request, evidently unsatisfied with the FBI’s response. The CIA requested that Tamerlan’s name be put on the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE) database, maintained by the National Counterterrorism Center. TIDE is the US government’s central database on alleged “international terrorists,” from which other US intelligence databases are compiled, including the FBI’s “no-fly” list. According to a US government official cited by ABC News, the CIA also “shared the information with the appropriate federal departments and agencies specifying that Tsarnaev may be of interest to them.” In January 2012, less than four months later, Tsarnaev was able to get on a plane to southern Russia. According to US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, this meant that the TIDE database was “pinged,” alerting the US Joint Terrorism Task Force, which includes the FBI, the Secret Service and other agencies, of his movement. Yet Tsarnaev was able to return to the United States in July 2012 without incident. Little has been said so far about what Tsarnaev did on his trip. However, according to a report on NBC News, “A police official source in Makhachkala, Dagestan… [said] that the Russian internal security service reached out to the FBI last November [2012] with some questions about Tamerlan, and handed over a copy of case file on him. “During routine surveillance of an individual known to be involved in the militant Islamic underground movement, the police witnessed Tamerlan meet the latter at a Salafi mosque in Makhachkala, the police official said. It was one of six times in total that surveillance officials witnessed Tsarnaev meeting this militant at the same mosque, according to the police official. “The militant contact later disappeared, the police official said, but so did Tsarnaev before investigators had a chance to speak with him. The FBI never responded, according to the Dagestani police official.” In other words, the FBI was warned about Tsarnaev both before and after his trip to Russia in the first half of 2012. The most recent warning was received only six months before the Boston bombings. This account is supported by statements of Senator Richard Burr, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. After secret hearings held Tuesday, Burr told reporters that there were “multiple contacts” between the US and Russia over Tsarnaev, including “at least once since October 2011”—i.e., after the request submitted to the CIA in September 2011. The government and media are scrambling to contain exposure of the significance of these revelations. The hearings conducted by Congress are being held behind closed doors, outside of the sight of the American people. The new narrative that is being developed to explain the extraordinary facts that have emerged is simply not credible. According to government officials, “balls were dropped” and there was a failure to “connect the dots.” If dots were not connected, who failed to connect them? As in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, there is an effort to ensure that absolutely no one is held accountable. There is a reason for this. If any individuals were held responsible, they would seek to defend themselves, and that would lead to further questions that officials are eager to avoid. The government seems particularly anxious to conclude that the two Tsarnaev brothers acted entirely on they own, a claim that is belied by the facts that have come out about Tamerlan so far. The convenience of this claim is that it directs attention away from examining the connections of these two individuals, including their relations with US intelligence agencies. There are a number of possible explanations for the actions of the Tsarnaev brothers. One is that they were driven by hostility to US foreign policy. Indeed there are some reports that the younger brother, Dzhokhar, has told interrogators that he is opposed to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Another, and not mutually exclusive, possibility is that the brothers, and particularly Tamerlan, were being developed as assets or potential assets of US imperialism’s machinations in Chechnya and neighboring Dagestan. The region is critical to Russian geo-strategic interests because it is central to Russia’s access to the energy-rich Caspian Sea. US intelligence agencies have a long and sordid relationship with Islamic fundamentalist groups operating in Chechnya. The US also has close ties to neighboring Georgia and in 2008 supported Georgia in a war with Russia over the breakaway province of South Ossetia. According to the Russian newspaper Izvestia, during his time in the Caucasus, Tsarnaev attended seminars organized by the Fund of the Caucasus, which is tied to the US-backed Jamestown Foundation. The Jamestown Foundation, which supports Chechen separatism, was established with the assistance of former CIA Director William Casey and includes on its board of directors a bipartisan group of top figures in the intelligence, military and political establishment. Directors include General Michael Hayden, former CIA director and former head of the National Security Agency; Bruce Riedel, senior fellow at the Brookings Institute; Michelle Van Cleave, former national counterintelligence executive under George W. Bush; and Matthew Bryza, former US ambassador to Azerbaijan under Obama and advisor on Eurasian energy matters, including the Caspian Sea, under Bush. The Jamestown Foundation has close ties to the American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus, chaired by President Jimmy Carter’s former national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski. Brzezinski played a critical role in initiating the US alliance with Islamic fundamentalists in Afghanistan beginning in the late 1970s, as part of the US proxy war against the Soviet-backed regime in Afghanistan. It was from this war that Al Qaeda emerged. If Tsarnaev was seen as a potential asset in its geopolitical conflict with Russia, it would also explain the accounts given by the brothers’ parents, who have said that the FBI had regular contact with Tamerlan, visiting the family multiple times. According to his mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaev, Tamerlan was “controlled by the FBI for three to five years.” The portrait that is beginning to emerge of Tsarnaev and his relationship with the US bears some resemblance to that of Zacarias Moussoui, who was arrested prior to the September 11, 2001 attacks and was subsequently charged by the US government with conspiring in the plot. In the late 1990s, Moussaoui fought in Chechnya with Islamic fundamentalist groups and helped recruit others to go to Chechnya. Before his arrest in August 2001, Moussaoui had attended flight training courses at the same school as Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi, who flew the planes that hit the World Trade Center. After his arrest and prior to the September 11 attacks, both British and French agencies passed on intelligence to the US about Moussaoui’s connections to Chechen militants linked to Osama bin Laden. However, the FBI repeatedly rejected requests from local officials to search Moussaoui’s computer and personal rooms. Behind the so-called “war on terror,” the US government continues to maintain ties to Islamic fundamentalist groups throughout the Middle East and Central Asia, insofar as these organizations are seen as useful tools to advance American geopolitical interests. The United States has recently utilized the services of such organizations in Libya, as part of the campaign to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi, and currently in the US-backed civil war in Syria. Once again, the actions of American imperialism abroad appear to have had tragic consequences for the American people at home. Graham E. Fuller https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Graham_E._Fuller Gilbert Twigg 6 Killed – 25 Wounded The Sad Story of America’s First Indiscriminate Mass Shooting http://www.historyisnowmagazine.com/blog/2018/9/17/the-sad-story-of-americas-first-indiscriminate-mass-shooting Mass shootings are sadly all too common in modern-day America, but they did not happen much at all a century ago. Here, Chuck Lyons recounts the sad story of the first indiscriminate mass shooting in US history. It took place in Winfield, Kansas in 1903 and the perpetrator was Gilbert Twigg. Early in the evening of August 13, 1903, thirty-six-year-old Gilbert Twigg parked his wagon in an alley near the corner of Main Street and Ninth Avenue in Winfield, Kansas. A large crowd had gathered there for an outdoor music concert. Wearing a buckskin hunting jacket, he walked to Ninth and Main. The band was taking a break and the crowd milled around talking. About a block from the bandstand, Twinge dropped to one knee, shouted “I’m going to shoot you all,” and opened fire with a shotgun. When he was done, nine people including Twigg himself, were dead. Gilbert Twigg had become the first indiscriminate mass killer in US history. He had acted without apparent motive and had killed whomever was handy. It was something the country had never seen before and would not see again for almost fifty years. Like many of today’s serial shooters he had served in the Armed Forces and had bought his guns legally. He also left a manifesto of 650 words of rationalization that explained little. “You should let this be a lesson to you in the future,” he wrote near its end. Army veteran Twigg had been born in Flintstone, Maryland in 1867 or 1868 and around 1888 had followed his uncle Argel to Kansas. There Twigg got a job as a miller and was said by people who knew him to be ambitious, intelligent, agreeable, and passably handsome, with “searing ice-blue eyes.” In those early days in Winfield, he worked, ran with a crowd of other young people, and courted a local woman, Jessie Hamilton, eventually proposing marriage and being accepted. But a short while after she accepted his proposal, for reasons that have never been clear, Hamilton changed her mind and broke off the engagement. Her decision twisted something inside Twigg. “Those were the happiest days in my life,” he would write to a friend, Chance Wells, in 1902, “and it would have been much better for me if I had gotten married and settled down as you have done. I have no doubt but that you are very happy, while I am not.” In 1896, two years after the thwarted love affair, Twigg enlisted in the army. He served two hitches and at one point was promoted because of his marksmanship. He saw action fighting in the Philippines where he also became involved in some sort of dispute with an officer and a doctor, Lt. Myron C. Bowdish and Contract Surgeon O. W. Woods, the details of which were never made public. But whatever had happened continued to haunt Twigg. He was mustered out of the army in California as a sergeant with an “excellent” service record and lived briefly in Montana working as a miller before returning to Winfield in 1903. But things had changed, and Twigg was winding tighter. In Winfield, he was unable to get his old job back or find any other employment probably because of his deteriorating mental condition. He was also reported to have lost his job in Montana “under murky circumstances.” He spent his days lolling around Winfield parks or sequestered in his boardinghouse room muttering about the people in Montana and Kansas who he thought had mistreated him and were plotting against him. Howard Barton Unruh 13 Killed – 3 Wounded Background and possible motives for killings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Unruh#Background_and_possible_motives_for_killings Unruh enlisted in the United States Army on October 27, 1942, and saw active service as a tank soldier across Europe between October 1944 and July 1945.[9][10] He was remembered by his Section Chief, Norman E. Koehn, as a first-class soldier who never drank, swore, or chased girls, yet spent much time reading his Bible and writing long letters to his mother.[11] It was also cited that Unruh kept meticulous notes on the enemies killed in battles, down to the details of the corpses. He was awarded the European Theater of Operations Medal, the Victory Medal, and the Good Conduct Medal. Unruh was honorably discharged at the end of the war and returned to New Jersey to live with his mother. Both his brother and his father later indicated that Unruh's wartime experiences had changed him, making him moody, nervous and detached. ... Byran Uyesugi 7 Killed – 0 Wounded Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Honolulu_shootings#Perpetrator Born in Honolulu in 1959, Byran Koji Uyesugi grew up in the Nuuanu neighborhood. While attending Roosevelt High School, Uyesugi was a member of the school's Army JROTC chapter and the school's rifle team. Classmates remembered him as a quiet student who never got into trouble. According to his brother Dennis, Uyesugi crashed their father's car and hit his head on the windshield shortly after graduating high school in 1977; he was never the same afterwards.[3] ... Chai Soua Vang 6 Killed – 2 Wounded Biography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chai_Vang#Biography Vang's father had served in a Laotian Civil War that was funded and organized by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). During the war, the CIA recruited the Hmong who lived in Laos and they assisted the CIA by disrupting supply routes which stretched from Laos to Vietnam during the Vietnam War. General Vang Pao was the leader of this army and as a result, he was regarded as a father figure by the Hmong. After the United States made the decision to withdraw troops from Laos in 1972, Vang and his family escaped the Hmong genocide that was ordered by the Pathet Lao in order to "exterminate the Hmong down to the last root" in retaliation for their assistance to the United States. Many Hmong were able to relocate to the U.S., however, thousands of them were left behind and killed. Vang and his siblings eventually relocated to the United States in 1980 and settled in California. Vang lived in Sacramento and eventually enlisted in the California National Guard.[2] ... Military experience https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chai_Vang#Military_experience Six years in the California National Guard, 1989–1995 Sharpshooter qualification badge (mid-level, above "Marksman") Good Conduct medal Russell Wayne Wagner 2 Killed – 0 Wounded Convicted as Killer, Buried in Honor https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2005/08/05/convicted-as-killer-buried-in-honor/5ae69a10-1e85-4263-9b17-3655d1422a00/ When the cremated remains of Russell Wayne Wagner, a 52-year-old U.S. Army veteran who served for three years during the Vietnam War, were laid to rest last week in Arlington National Cemetery, he was honored with military pallbearers, a bugler playing taps and a three-shot volley from a firing party. After that, things got complicated. Wagner was honorably discharged from the Army in 1972, but he spent the last 21/2 years of his life serving two consecutive life sentences for the 1994 murders of an elderly couple in Hagerstown, Md. The couple's son, Vernon G. Davis, said he did not believe it when first his niece, and then a reporter from the Herald-Mail of Hagerstown, told him this week about the July 27 Arlington burial. "I said: 'Nah, that ain't true. That ain't right,' " he said. "I just didn't want to believe it." ... Carl Otto Wanderer 2 Killed – 0 Wounded Early years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Wanderer#Early_years Wanderer, born in Chicago, was the son of German immigrants. He dropped out of school before he reached high school, but he was a diligent worker who saved money. By his twenties, Wanderer and his father were running a successful butcher shop. His mother suffered from mental illness and committed suicide while Wanderer was a teenager.[1] Wanderer enlisted in the Illinois Cavalry and served under John Pershing in the latter's expedition against Pancho Villa in 1916. He served with distinction and became a lieutenant in the U.S. Army, seeing heavy action on the Western Front in World War I. Wanderer claimed to have been heavily decorated, but military colleagues later cast doubt on this claim.[2] In late 1919, he married twenty-year-old Ruth Johnson, and the two moved in with Ruth's parents. Ruth became pregnant; reportedly, Wanderer became despondent upon hearing the news and became distant towards his family. Wanderer often told friends and family that he missed the Army and wished to reenlist, implying that Ruth opposed the idea. Floyd Warmsley II 1 Killed – 2 Wounded Patterns Among School Shooters: Body-Related Issues and the Military https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/patterns_body_related_issues_and_military_1.28.pdf 2 RELATIVES IN THE MILITARY OR LAW ENFORCEMENT Secondary School Shooters Floyd Warmsley III Grandfather: Army Great-uncle: Army Great-uncle: Navy Cousin: Navy Father: security guard Duke Webb 3 Killed – 3 Wounded Don Carter Lanes shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Carter_Lanes_shooting On December 26, 2020, three people were killed and three others injured in a mass shooting at Don Carter Lanes, a bowling alley in Rockford, Illinois, U.S. A sole suspect was arrested after the shooting and later identified as Duke Webb, who at the time was an active-duty Special Forces soldier.[1] Suspect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Carter_Lanes_shooting#Suspect Webb was arrested shortly after the shooting and was held without bond in the Winnebago County Jail. He was charged with three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of attempted first-degree murder.[2] At the time of the shooting he was a Special Forces Assistant Operations and Intelligence Sergent first class as an engineer and parachute rigger,[11] assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group[6] based in Eglin Air Force Base near Pensacola, Florida and had joined the US Army in 2008.[12] He had served four tours of duty in Afghanistan; from August to December 2009, October 2013 to April 2014, October 2014 to April 2015 and from January 2020 to July 2020. In his service Webb had been awarded the Bronze Star, the Army Commendation Medal, and the Army Achievement Medal, along with multiple other awards.[11] In his first court appearance via video on December 28, Webb's attorneys acknowledged that he would be undergoing mental health evaluations and raised claims that Webb potentially suffers from PTSD. Webb reportedly also has issues with memory loss.[7] Aftermath https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Carter_Lanes_shooting#Aftermath The Commander of the 7th Special Forces Group, Colonel John W. Sannes, issued a statement of condolences about the shooting and its victims, and stated that the Army and his department were coordinating with the Rockford Police Department.[6] Sannes' comments were echoed by Major Gen. John Brennan, the commander of 1st Special Forces Command, in which he called the actions of Webb "abhorrent".[11] A GoFundMe was created shortly after the shooting to help the families of the victims, and the Illinois Bank & Trust and a local business, established a victims relief fund to help provide direct financial relief to victims and their families.[7] Jeffrey James Weise 10 Killed (including perpetrator) – 5 Wounded Background https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Lake_shootings#Background At the time of the shooting, by some accounts, Jeff Weise was living with his paternal grandfather, Daryl Lussier, Sr., a sergeant with the Red Lake Police Department, run by the Ojibwe (aka Chippewa) tribal government at the Red Lake Indian Reservation. The household included his grandfather's 32-year-old girlfriend, Michelle Leigh Sigana. Weise's paternal aunts, Shauna and Tammy Lussier, said he had lived mostly with them for the past several years, and they helped him get treatment for behavioral issues and depression.[1] In 1999, Weise's mother suffered severe brain damage in an alcohol-related car accident and had since lived and received care in a nursing home. Still a child, Weise was forced to move from Minneapolis to live with his father's family on the reservation. His father had died by suicide in 1997,[2] so Weise was officially placed with his grandmother, Shelda (Gurneau) Lussier.[2] Weise's aunts helped care for him, especially after his grandmother's death in 2003. Patterns Among School Shooters: Body-Related Issues and the Military https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/patterns_body_related_issues_and_military_1.28.pdf 2 RELATIVES IN THE MILITARY OR LAW ENFORCEMENT Secondary School Shooters Jeffrey Weise – Paternal grandfather: police officer Grandfather’s brother: Navy Grandfather’s brother: Army 3 MILITARY ASPIRATION / OBSESSION AND OUTCOME Secondary School Shooters Jeffrey Weise – Military aspirations, but committed attack before he was old enough to enlist Marcus Delon Wesson 9 Killed – 0 Wounded https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Wesson ... After dropping out of high school, Wesson joined the Army, serving from 1966 to 1968 as an ambulance driver.[8][9] Shortly after leaving the military, Wesson moved in with an older woman, Rosemary Solorio and her eight children in San Jose, California.[8] In 1971, Solorio gave birth to Wesson's son. In 1974, Wesson began sexually abusing Solorio's eight-year-old daughter, Elizabeth.[10] Wesson married Elizabeth Solorio when she turned 14 and he was 27.[9] Four months later, she gave birth to her first child. Eventually the couple had 10 children together, including one infant who died.[9][11] ... Daniel James White ("Dan White") 2 Killed – 0 Wounded Career https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_White#Career White enlisted in the United States Army in June 1965. He was a sergeant in the 101st Airborne Division during the Vietnam War from 1969 to 1970 and was honorably discharged in 1971. White worked as a security guard at A. J. Dimond High School in Anchorage, Alaska, in 1972. He returned to San Francisco to work as a police officer. According to a SF Weekly newspaper account, he allegedly quit the force after reporting another officer for beating a handcuffed suspect.[2] White then joined the San Francisco Fire Department. While on duty, according to the SF Weekly story, White's rescue of a woman and her baby from a seventh-floor apartment in the Geneva Towers was covered by the San Francisco Chronicle.[2] The city's newspapers referred to him as "an all-American boy".[4] Charles Joseph Whitman ("Texas Tower Sniper") 18 Killed (including 1 unborn and perpetrator) – 31 University of Texas tower shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_tower_shooting On August 1, 1966, after stabbing his mother and his wife to death the night before, Charles Whitman, a former Marine, took rifles and other weapons to the observation deck atop the Main Building tower at the University of Texas at Austin, and then opened fire indiscriminately on people on the surrounding campus and streets. Over the next 96 minutes he shot and killed 15 people, including an unborn child and one final victim who died from his injuries in 2001. Whitman also injured 31 others. The incident ended when a policeman and a civilian reached Whitman and shot him dead. At the time, the attack was the deadliest mass shooting by a lone gunman in U.S. history, being surpassed 18 years later by the San Ysidro McDonald's massacre. It has been suggested that Whitman's violent impulses, with which he had been struggling for several years, were caused by a tumor found in the white matter above his amygdala upon autopsy.[1] Charles Whitman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_tower_shooting#Charles_Whitman Charles Whitman, 25,[2] was studying architectural engineering.[3] In 1961 Whitman was admitted to the University of Texas at Austin on a scholarship from the Naval Enlisted Science Education Program.[4]:?19? While at UT, Whitman met and married his wife, Kathleen. Whitman struggled with gambling and bad grades, and he lost his scholarship in 1963.[5] In the months prior to the attack, Whitman had sought professional help for "overwhelming, violent impulses",[3] including fantasies about shooting people from the tower.[6] An autopsy conducted after his death revealed a hypothalamic tumor.[7] High school https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman#High_school On September 1, 1955, Whitman entered St. Ann's High School in West Palm Beach, where he was regarded as a moderately popular student.[16] By the next month, he had saved enough money from his newspaper route to purchase a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, which he used on his route.[17] Without telling his father beforehand, Whitman enlisted in the United States Marine Corps one month after his June 1959 graduation from high school, where he had graduated seventh in a class of 72 students.[7] Whitman told a family friend that the catalyst for his enlistment was an incident a month earlier, in which his father had beaten him and thrown him into the family swimming pool because Whitman had come home drunk.[8] Whitman left home on July 6, having been assigned an eighteen-month tour of duty with the Marines at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. As Whitman traveled toward Parris Island, his father, who still had not known of Whitman's enlistment,[7] learned of his action and telephoned a branch of the federal government trying to have his son's enlistment canceled.[12] U.S. Marine and college student https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman#U.S._Marine_and_college_student During Whitman's initial eighteen-month service in 1959 and 1960, he earned a sharpshooter's badge and the Marine Corps Expeditionary Medal. He achieved 215 of 250 possible points on marksmanship tests, doing well when shooting rapidly over long distances as well as at moving targets. After completing his assignment, Whitman applied to a United States Navy and Marine Corps scholarship program, intending to complete college and become a commissioned officer.[18] Whitman earned high scores on the required examination, and the selection committee approved his enrollment at a preparatory school in Maryland, where he completed courses in mathematics and physics before being approved to transfer to the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) to study mechanical engineering.[18] Marriage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman#Marriage ... Although Whitman's grades improved somewhat during his second and third semesters, the Marines considered them insufficient for continuation of his scholarship. He was ordered to active duty in February 1963[27] and went to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, for the remainder of his five-year enlistment.[28] ... Camp Lejeune https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman#Camp_Lejeune Whitman apparently resented his college studies being ended, although he was automatically promoted to the rank of lance corporal. At Camp Lejeune, he was hospitalized for four days[29] after single-handedly freeing another marine by lifting a Jeep which had rolled over an embankment.[30] Despite his reputation as an exemplary Marine, Whitman continued to gamble. In November 1963, he was court-martialed for gambling, usury, possession of a personal firearm on base, and threatening another Marine over a $30 loan ($300 in 2020) for which he had demanded $15 in interest. Sentenced to thirty days of confinement and ninety days of hard labor, he was demoted from lance corporal (E-3) to private (E-1).[31] Documented stressors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman#Documented_stressors While awaiting his court-martial in 1963, Whitman began to write a diary titled Daily Record of C. J. Whitman.[32] In it, he wrote about his daily life in the Marine Corps and his interactions with his wife and other family members. He also wrote about his upcoming court-martial and contempt for the Marine Corps, criticizing them for inefficiencies. In his writings about Leissner, Whitman often praised her and expressed his longing to be with her. He also wrote about his efforts and plans to free himself from financial dependence on his father.[33] In December 1964, Whitman was honorably discharged from the Marines. He returned to UT Austin, enrolling in the architectural engineering program. To support his wife and himself, he worked as a bill collector for the Standard Finance Company. Later, he worked as a bank teller at the Austin National Bank. In January 1965, Whitman took a temporary job with Central Freight Lines as a traffic surveyor for the Texas Highway Department, while his wife worked as a biology teacher at Lanier High School. [34][35] [36]He was also a volunteer scout leader with Austin Scout Troop 5. Friends later said that Whitman had told them that he struck his wife on two occasions.[37] They said that Whitman despised himself for this and confessed to being "mortally afraid of being like his father."[38] In his journal, Whitman lamented his actions and resolved to be a good husband and not abusive as his father had been.[38] Andrew Paul Witt 2 Killed – 0 Wounded This former airman was spared the death penalty a 2nd time in 2004 double homicide case https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2018/08/01/this-former-airman-was-spared-the-death-penalty-a-2nd-time-in-2004-double-homicide-case/ LA CROSSE, Wis. — A former senior airman from southwest Wisconsin has been spared the death penalty for a second time on a double homicide conviction and will instead spend the rest of his life behind bars. A military panel last month resentenced Andrew Witt to life in prison without parole in connection to the deaths of a fellow airman Andrew Schliepsiek and his wife, Jamie Schliepsiek, the La Crosse Tribune reported. The 36-year-old was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 2004. But a military appeals court vacated the ruling in 2016, and returned the case to a lower court. Witt's attorney said the life sentence was delivered last month, but prosecutors again sought the death penalty. Maj. Christopher Goewert said the defense presented evidence of a traumatic brain injury that Witt suffered months before the attack. He said the defense also showed that Witt has had good behavior during the 14 years he's spent in prison. Witt's family testified that he's remained a central part of their lives and has provided emotional support despite being incarcerated. Witt also provided a statement expressing remorse and apologizing to the victims and their families, Goewert said. "The crime was aberrant behavior and was a perfect storm of events/problems/stressors," Goewert wrote. "As his life had value to others, mercy was appropriate." Witt also received a dishonorable discharge from the Air Force as part of his sentence. Witt was one of just five people awaiting execution in the U.S. military court system, according to the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center. Charles Andrew "Andy" Williams 2 Killed – 13 Wounded The Santana High School Shooting https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/the-santana-high-school-shooting-a2bcc2454316 Charles Andrew Williams, who preferred to be called Andy, was born in Maryland in 1986. When he was three years old, his parents divorced, and he was left with his father after his mother and half-brother moved away. By all reports, he had a good father who provided him with a loving and supportive home. He only rarely saw his mother, usually once a year around Christmas. He remained in Maryland until December of 1999, when he and his father moved to Twentynine Palms, California. It was where his grandparents lived, and Andy seemed to thrive in the structured environment provided by his extended family. He did well in school, had many friends, and started going to a Christian church. After only a few months, however, his father took a job with the San Diego Naval Medical Center and informed Andy that they would be moving to Santee, California. Moving to a new town and switching schools can be a traumatic experience for any child, and the move meant Andy would be switched to his third school in a matter of months. Perhaps as a way of softening the blow, Andy’s father allowed him to spend the summer of 2000 with his friends back in Maryland. His father was unaware of the fact that, prior to moving to Twentynine Palms, Andy had been involved with drugs. He would later admit that he had started using cocaine and other narcotics when he was only 12 years old. Once he and his father moved from Maryland, Andy had no way of getting drugs and had given them up altogether. Twentynine Palms was a very conservative town with a large military base, and it wasn’t the kind of place where kids were able to get into much trouble. The disciplined environment was what Andy had needed to get himself off drugs and back on track. Spending the summer in Maryland, without any parental supervision, Andy almost immediately began using drugs again. ... As usual, there was a party going on at Josh’s house that evening, and there was a lot of alcohol involved. Somehow, the topic of shooting a teacher came back up, and this time it was Josh who suggested it. He even got some paper and drew a diagram of the school, then he began assigning people to different areas as if he was planning a military attack. Josh would be stationed in one hallway, A.J. in another. Andy was assigned the boy’s bathroom. Josh told Andy he could use a revolver belonging to his father, and he and A.J. would each take one of his shotguns. There were about 50 people at the party, teenagers and adults, and all of them were privy to the shooting discussion. No one took it seriously; it was simply three very drunk teenage boys blowing off steam. They discussed it for a while longer and then changed the subject. Josh even crumpled up the diagram of the school and threw it away, which Andy would later say was a sign Josh was backing out of the plan. ... Randy Gordon, a 17-year-old senior, was in the common area with his best friend, Raymond Serrato. Both were shot; Randy died from his injuries. An avid runner, he was on the school’s track team and had enlisted in the Navy. He was scheduled to begin his military training immediately after graduation; he was hoping his military experience would lead to a career as an FBI agent. Classmates said he was one of the smartest students at the school, someone who loved to read and always knew the right answers in class. Ironically, Randy was a member of the campus peace council, a group that looked for ways to prevent things like school shootings from happening. ... Early life https://murderpedia.org/male.W/w/williams-charles.htm Williams was born to Charles Jeffery and Linda Williams. He was born about 2 weeks premature and was delivered by C-section. He has one older brother named Michael. Linda worked for the US Army and was assigned to the Middle East in June 1989. Williams lived the first 8 months of his life with his mother, but seldom saw her after that. ... The Biography of Andy Williams In 1986 the best selling novel was Stephen Kings "IT," the top box office hit was "ALIEN" and the #1 song for 1986 was "AND THAT'S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR" and Charles Andy Williams was born on February 8, 1986, at Frederick Memorial Hospital, in Frederick, Maryland. Andy weighed in at 7-1/2 pounds and was 22" long. Andy was born about 2 weeks-prematurely by C-section and remained in the hospital for a week before going home with his family. The first 8 months of his life, Andy lived with his Mom, Dad and his brother Michael in an apartment in Frederick right off the "Golden Mile." In the latter part of 1986 Andy moved with his family to Fort Detrick, home to the US Army Medical Research & Material Command. Linda, Andy's Mom, was serving in the US Army. In June of 1989, when Andy was about 3 years old, his Mom was assigned to the Middle East. On leave at Christmas Andy's parents decided to divorce. Linda returned to Middle East to complete her assignment and Jeff took care of the boys. In 1990 Jeff and Linda separated and was subsequently divorced. Andy remained with his Dad and his brother Michael went to live with his Mom. ... Charles Andrew Williams: Sorting Out the Contradictions https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/williams_contradictions_1.2.pdf PATTERNS AMONG SHOOTERS My book School Shooters: Understanding High School, College, and Adult Perpetrators identifies patterns that appear frequently among school shooters. Several of these are relevant to Andy Williams. Many shooters faced biological challenges in the form of birth defects, minor physical anomalies, short statures, or other concerns. Williams reportedly was short (one report said “barely 5 feet tall”130 and another said 5’4”131), scrawny, and unusually thin and pale (he was reportedly called “anorexic” and “albino”). These biological challenges may have resulted in his attempting to overcompensate and act tough. Other patterns relate to the place of firearms and the military within the families of shooters. Like most psychopathic shooters, Williams came from a family where firearms had a prominent place but were used legally. Also, as is common among shooters’ families, there were relatives who served in the military. This included Williams’s mother,132 his grandfa- WWW.SCHOOLSHOOTERS.INFO Copyright © 2014–2015 by Peter Langman, Ph.D. Version 1.2 (28 December 2015) 8 ther,133 and possibly his great-grandfather.134 Williams’s father served in the Army from 1980 to 1982 (he reported this in his email to me); he later worked for the Naval Medical Center in San Diego.135 Besides having relatives in the military, many shooters had military aspirations of their own. Prior to the attack, Williams reportedly wanted to join the Naval Academy136 and the day of his attack he wore a sweatshirt with the U.S. Navy insignia.137 Even after the attack, he had hopes of becoming an army helicopter pilot, probation officer,138 or cop.139 ... Apart from possible trauma, other events may have been factors in his attack. These include relocations, deaths of friends, biological issues and the teasing that resulted from them, a romantic breakup, and academic stress and the conflict it caused with his father. Having attempted to identify his personality traits and environmental stresses, the question of his motive still remains unanswered. He reportedly bragged to his friends that he would “pull a Columbine,” and the impression that he was bragging about such a thing suggests that he viewed this as a way to boost his status. The need to do so may have been driven by the combination of his desire to be tough and masculine (he aspired to join the military) and his physical smallness and weakness. In this regard, Williams is reminiscent of Wayne Lo. Lo’s father served in the military, and Lo was obsessed with the marines. Unfortunately, Lo was short and thin. After Lo’s attack, a friend commented, “We’d be like, ‘How tough are you Wayne?” And he’d say, ‘I’m tough’ ... It was just ridiculous.”143 One of Lo’s friends said, “This is a terrible thing to say, but it was almost as if Wayne did those shootings to impress his friends.”144 Perhaps Andy Williams wanted to show off and was willing to kill for the sake of boosting his image. ... Patterns Among School Shooters: Body-Related Issues and the Military https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/patterns_body_related_issues_and_military_1.28.pdf 2 RELATIVES IN THE MILITARY OR LAW ENFORCEMENT Secondary School Shooters Charles “Andy” Williams – Mother: U.S. Army Father: U.S. Army (and later lab technician in Naval Medical Center)b Grandfather: military Great-grandfather: Marines John Allen Williams ("John Allen Muhammad", "The Beltway Sniper", "The D.C. Sniper") 17 Killed – 10 Wounded Military service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Allen_Muhammad#Military_service In August 1978, Muhammad enlisted in the Louisiana Army National Guard at Baton Rouge as a combat engineer. He transferred to the Regular Army on November 6, 1985 and was trained as a mechanic, truck driver and specialist metalworker. He qualified with the Army's standard rifle, the M16, earning the Expert Rifleman's Badge. This is the Army's highest of three levels of basic rifle marksmanship for a soldier.[14] Muhammad's first tour was with the 15th Engineer Battalion at Fort Lewis in 1985. In 1991, he served in the Gulf War with a company that dismantled Iraqi chemical warfare rockets, service for which he received the Southwest Asia Service Medal, the Kuwait Liberation Medal (Saudi Arabia) and the Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait).[15][16] In 1992, he was at Fort Ord, California, with the 13th Engineers and in 1993 was back at Fort Lewis with the 14th Engineer Battalion.[17] Muhammad was honorably discharged from the Army with the rank of sergeant on April 24, 1994 after 17 years of service. He received the following awards: Army Service Ribbon, National Defense Service Medal, Overseas Ribbon, Noncommissioned Officers Professional Development Ribbon and Army Achievement Medal.[18] Benjamin Matthew and James Tyler Williams 2 Killed – 0 Wounded The Williams brothers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Gary_Matson_and_Winfield_Mowder#The_Williams_brothers The Williams brothers operated a landscaping and lawn service out of their parents' home in Palo Cedro, California. Neighbors said that the family was known for their fundamentalist Christianity, and that recordings of sermons and religious music were often heard from their house.[3] Prior to moving to Redding, the Williams lived in Gridley, California, a farming community in Butte County, California. According to neighbors, the family kept to themselves. [4] The boys were not allowed to participate in extracurricular activities.[4] When the family moved to Redding, on what the father (Benjamin Williams) told neighbors were "God's orders", mail from militia groups, addressed to the family, continued to arrive at their home.[4] After the move, Matthew Williams briefly served in the Navy, while stationed in Bremerton, Washington. While living in Moscow, Idaho, Matthew joined the Charismatic Christian church, Living Faith Fellowship, and then became fascinated with white supremacist and antisemitic literature he read on the Internet. Otto Stephen Wilson 2 Killed – 0 Wounded CRIME: The Secret http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,796861,00.html The shipyard barracks were quiet— too quiet—and on Sunday night rain drummed on the roof. Otto Stephen Wilson, 33, a fry cook in the yard commissary, looked at his face in the mirror. He could see why women smiled at him. With his black hair and neat mustache he resembled Robert Taylor, the actor. And women had no way of knowing what he was thinking, so secretly, when he smiled back at them. Women had never given him comfort or peace. In the orphanage, in the Navy, in these last months of drifting, they had always subtly domineered over him. Before his wife left him, he had cut her with a razor. He was restless tonight, and lonely. Suddenly he made up his mind to get drunk and stay drunk. Before he went out he put his safety razor in his pocket. Even on a binge, he liked to stay neatly shaved. In the cheap bars of Los Angeles' tenderloin he gulped his whiskey neat. After two days his hand was unsteady. But even after he bought the butcher knife, nobody could tell what he was thinking. When a woman smiled at him over a drink, he smiled back. She was a big, young woman, with lipstick smeared too heavily on her lips. Her name was Virgie. She was married, but her husband was away, and she liked a good time. He held her arm, gallantly, as they crossed the street in the rain and dark to the old Barclay Hotel. She looked up unsteadily as they went in. "I got my horoscope told," she said. "Wednesday is my lucky day." Nobody Knows. Otto Wilson watched the woman take off her chartreuse suit and fold it neatly across a chair. When he hit her she fell across the bed. He choked her until she stopped breathing; then pulled her to the floor. After he took the butcher knife from his coat pocket he lighted a cigaret and drank from a bottle of whiskey. Then he knelt, knife in hand. It was morning when he was through. On the floor lay a body, slashed and dismembered beyond recognition. He bathed and dressed and walked into the hall. A chambermaid smiled as he said, politely, "Please don't disturb my wife." He walked into the street. Otto Wilson bought a ticket at the Million Dollar Theater, went in. As he watched The Walking Dead, a Boris Karloff horror picture, the thought kept buzzing through his head: "I have killed a woman, and no one here knows about it." When the picture was over he walked into another bar and ordered wine. He watched a woman at the bar. After a while she smiled. Her name was Lillian Johnson. She could not tell what he was thinking. The woman pressed against him as they walked toward the ancient Joyce Hotel. Do Not Disturb. Otto Wilson smashed his fist against her as soon as she had taken off her clothes. Her neck was thin. After she had stopped breathing he remembered his knife—left behind at the Barclay. He walked to the washbowl, rubbed his face with soap & water, and shaved. Then he lifted out the razor blade, knelt beside the body on the floor, and pressed down with the thin bit of steel. He cut his hand. But he lingered awhile. On the way out he stopped before the desk clerk and said: "My wife is sleeping. Please don't disturb her." Douglas Williams 7 Killed (including perpetrator) – 8 Wounded Six die in Miss. factory shooting https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2003-07-09-0307090225-story.html ... Investigators identified the gunman as Doug Williams, 48, a production assemblyman for 19 years at a Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. plant three miles outside this eastern Mississippi industrial city of 45,000. ... Jordan Witmer 4 Killed (including perpetrator) – 1 Wounded Man who killed 3, himself in State College wanted to be a cop, relatives say https://www.pennlive.com/news/2019/01/man-who-killed-3-in-state-college-wanted-to-be-a-cop-relatives-say.html Jordan Witmer had been back home in Bellefonte for a few weeks after ending a three-year active duty stint with the U.S. Army when he opened fire inside a State College bar, killing two men he didn’t know. He also wounded a former girlfriend during his deadly outburst Thursday night, police said, then broke into a stranger’s home and killed an 83-year-old man before killing himself. The killings shocked the normally quiet community at State College, but also stunned Witmer’s family, who said they saw no signs of previous violence or instability, according to two of Witmer’s uncles. They said Witmer left the Army’s active-duty status on good terms at the end of December and planned to continue for seven years in the reserves. He had expressed a desire to go to school to become a police officer since he couldn’t become a pilot as he originally wanted. (His color blindness prevented him from that, his uncle said.) “He had a promising future in front of him,” said Robert Witmer, an uncle from Leola, Pa. “We’re all blown away. We can’t even believe it’s him. This seemed to come out of nowhere.” Police said Jordan Witmer didn’t have a previous criminal record. ... His uncle Ronald Witmer, of Orlando, Florida, said Jordan did well in school and didn’t get in trouble. He wasn’t previously involved in a single questionable incident as far as Ronald Witmer knew. He said he did not believe that Jordan was sent overseas or to a war zone as part of his Army career. “I believe his interest in becoming a police officer is why he decided to leave the Army,” Ronald Witmer said. Ronald Witmer said he believed Jordan had conversations with a man his mother was taking about police work that stirred his interest in law enforcement. How a man interested in law enforcement ended up committing a murderous rampage is something that relatives can’t wrap their minds around. “I can’t believe it,” Ronald Witmer said. “I never thought it would happen in my family. It’s tragic for everyone. My heart goes out to the victims. I can’t even follow the news coverage today, it’s so upsetting.” Witmer showed up at P.J. Harrigan’s Bar and Grill with his former girlfriend Nicole Abrino about 8:30 p.m., according to police. It’s unclear when they broke up, but Ronald Witmer said he thought his nephew was still dating his high school girlfriend as recently as one month ago. ... His father posted updates on his Twitter account when his son got promoted in the Army in February 2016, and when Jordan graduated from Air Assault School in October 2016. Jordan was promoted again in October 2017, according to his father’s social media updates. “His family was very, very supportive,” said Ronald Witmer. “They were both very good parents.” ... PICTURED: Soldier, 21, who killed two men, and critically wounded his ex-girlfriend and another person before turning gun on himself near Penn State campus https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6631097/Penn-State-Shooter-wounds-ex-girlfriend-kills-two-suicide.html His social media profiles indicate Witmer was infantry team leader in the US Army ... US Army soldier Jordan Witmer, 21 (left and right), went on a deadly shooting spree in Pennsylvania, which left two dead and two wounded, and ended with his own suicide ... Witmer, who was an active-duty infantry team leader in the US Army, according to his LinkedIn and Facebook pages, then drove away from the bar and broke into a home, where he fatally shot the homeowner, 83-year-old George McCormick. ... Witmer was an active-duty infantry team leader in the US Army, according to his LinkedIn page ... According to his LinkedIn page, Witmer graduated from high school in 2015 and joined the US Army. Luke Woodham 3 Killed – 7 Wounded 'Would he have shot me?' A reflection on Luke Woodham and the Pearl High School shooting https://www.clarionledger.com/story/opinion/columnists/2019/08/08/would-he-have-shot-me-reflection-luke-woodham-and-pearl-high-school-shooting-mass-shootings-el-paso/1953633001/ ... Before the shooting, I already had a keen interest in public safety and national security. Many of my family members had been in the military, including my father and his father before him. ... Patterns Among School Shooters: Body-Related Issues and the Military https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/patterns_body_related_issues_and_military_1.28.pdf 2 RELATIVES IN THE MILITARY OR LAW ENFORCEMENT Secondary School Shooters Luke Woodham – Grandfather: Army Air Corp. Great-uncle: Air Force Great-uncle: Military Great-aunt: Pentagon/War Department Luke Woodham and the Pearl High School Massacre https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/luke-woodham-and-the-pearl-high-school-massacre-ccfc254482ad ... As Luke attempted to leave, assistant principal Joel Myrick followed him. Joel was an officer in the Army Reserves, and he knew he had his gun in the glove compartment of his car. Realizing it was the only way he could level the playing field, he grabbed his gun and chased after Luke, yelling for him to stop. ... Albert Wong 5 Killed (including 1 unborn and perpetrator) – 0 Wounded Yountville shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yountville_shooting On March 9, 2018, a murder–suicide shooting took place at a Veterans Home in Yountville, California.[2] The Pathway Home is a residential treatment program meant to help post-9/11 veterans struggling with PTSD and TBIs reintegrate into society.[3] The shooter, Albert Wong, had attended the program until the home's executive director, Christine Loeber, dismissed him earlier in the week.[4] Location https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yountville_shooting#Location The Pathway Home, was a treatment program run by a non-profit that leased part of a campus of the state-run Veterans Home of California-Yountville. The facility was secured by roaming unarmed 24-hour security personnel for the entire campus, with security cameras installed at The Pathway Homes front door, and hallways as well as a sign in desk.[5] The program worked with veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars with PTSD.[6] During the incident residents of the nearby veterans home were locked down after reports of an active shooter, and teenagers who were visiting the grounds were evacuated shortly after 2:30 pm.[6] Incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yountville_shooting#Incident A stand-off started at around 10:30 am when a gunman, later identified as Albert Wong, a 36-year-old U.S. Army veteran of the War in Afghanistan, entered the facility during a going away party.[7] The first 911 call of the incident was received around 10:20 am, and by 10:22 am the dispatcher had named Wong as the perpetrator and that he was armed with a semi-automatic weapon and large quantities of ammunition.[8] Wong initially released veterans and other staff members, holding only Jennifer Gonzales Shushereba, a psychologist, Jennifer Golick and Christine Lobber, the clinical and executive directors of Pathway Home respectively.[7][9] ... Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yountville_shooting#Perpetrator 36-year old Albert Wong had been struggling to readjust to civilian life in California after returning from a tour of duty in Afghanistan in 2013. During his service Wong was awarded an Army Commendation Medal, an Army Good Conduct Medal, and campaign stars for fighting global terrorism and for marksmanship. He had held a professional licenses as a security guard and security trainer, and a firearms permit through the Bureau of Security and Investigative Services from 2008.[14] He was a resident of The Pathway House, for nearly a year of residential treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) until he was expelled for unspecified concerns about threatening behavior.[15] A family member told reporters that Wong had reportedly told them that he was angry at staff members and wanted to get back at them after he had been found with knives at the facility and told to leave. Wong reported "wanted to get back at them, talk to them, yell at them, not to kill them".[8] A family member of one of the victims, claimed "People were notified he was violent. Nothing was done. All the proper people were notified...the sheriffs department, the vets' health. Everybody knew."[5] ... Aftermath https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yountville_shooting#Aftermath The Pathway Home is the subject of the 2014 documentary film, Of Men and War.[16] After the shootings, The Pathway Home suspended operations indefinitely and its clients were placed with other programs.[17][18] On August 31 its board members told reporters that the nonprofit plan to terminate the lease, as there was little belief they could effectively aid veterans in the location.[19] The Three Brave Women fund was established and been used to distribute monetary aid to the families of the victims.[20] Jiverly Antares Wong (born "Linh Phat Vuong") 14 Killed (including perpetrator) – 4 Wounded Binghamton Killer Kept His Fury Private https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/nyregion/12binghamton.html ... Mr. Wong was the second oldest of four children, and he came to the United States in July 1990 at the age of 22, immigrating from Vietnam with his parents and siblings under refugee status. His father, Henry Voong, 66, had fought in the Vietnam War, alongside United States forces, as an officer in the South Vietnamese Army, according to Nga and a friend of Mr. Voong’s. ... Perpetrator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binghamton_shooting#Perpetrator ... Wong failed to show up to work one day in July 2007, having moved to Binghamton, New York, that month, near his parents.[34] Later, he called the company to get a copy of his W-2 earnings statement in 2008, asking that it be forwarded to a New York state address.[35] Although early reports suggested Wong had recently lost his job at a local IBM plant in nearby Endicott, New York,[26] IBM said they had no records showing Wong had ever worked for the company.[26] Wong worked at a local Shop-Vac vacuum cleaner plant until it closed in November 2008.[36] ... Gabriel Wortman 23 Killed (including perpetrator) – 3 Wounded The Nova Scotia shooter case has hallmarks of an undercover operation https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/the-nova-scotia-shooter-case-has-hallmarks-of-an-undercover-operation/ Police sources say the killer's withdrawal of $475,000 was highly irregular, and how an RCMP ‘agent’ would get money The withdrawal of $475,000 in cash by the man who killed 22 Nova Scotians in April matches the method the RCMP uses to send money to confidential informants and agents, sources say. Gabriel Wortman, who is responsible for the largest mass killing in Canadian history, withdrew the money from a Brink’s depot in Dartmouth, N.S., on March 30, stashing a carryall filled with hundred-dollar bills in the trunk of his car. According to a source close to the police investigation the money came from CIBC Intria, a subsidiary of the chartered bank that handles currency transactions. Sources in both banking and the RCMP say the transaction is consistent with how the RCMP funnels money to its confidential informants and agents, and is not an option available to private banking customers. The RCMP has repeatedly said that it had no “special relationship” with Wortman. RCMP Supt. Darren Campbell reiterated that statement during an interview with the Toronto Star published online, and in its print newspaper on Sunday, saying: “The gunman had no special relationship with the RCMP whatsoever.” Campbell told the Star: “The investigation has not uncovered any relationship between the gunman and the RCMP outside of an estranged familial relationship and two retired RCMP members.” According to the Star story: “Campbell said the reason for Wortman’s large cash withdrawal, which he confirmed was hundreds of thousands of dollars, was not fully known, ‘however, there are indications that near the time of the withdrawal the gunman believed that due to the worldwide pandemic, that his financial assets were safer under his control.'” Campbell declined to be interviewed by Maclean’s on Friday, prior to this story’s publication online, and again on Tuesday. Court documents show Wortman owned a New Brunswick-registered company called Berkshire-Broman, the legal owner of two of his vehicles (including one of his police replica cars). Whatever the purpose of that company, there is no public evidence that it would have been able to move large quantities of cash. Wortman also ran his own denturist business and there is no reason to believe it also would require him to handle large amounts of cash. If Wortman was an RCMP informant or agent, it could explain why the force appeared not to take action on complaints about his illegal guns and his assault on his common-law wife. READ MORE: The Nova Scotia killer had ties to criminals and withdrew a huge sum of cash before the shooting A Mountie familiar with the techniques used by the force in undercover operations, but not with the details of the investigation into the shooting, says Wortman could not have collected his own money from Brink’s as a private citizen. “There’s no way a civilian can just make an arrangement like that,” he said in an interview. He added that Wortman’s transaction is consistent with the Mountie’s experience in how the RCMP pays its assets. “I’ve worked a number of CI cases over the years and that’s how things go. All the payments are made in cash. To me that transaction alone proves he has a secret relationship with the force.” A second Mountie, who does not know the first one but who has also been involved in CI operations, also believes that Wortman’s ability to withdraw a large sum of money from Brink’s is an indication that Wortman had a link with the police. “That’s tradecraft,” the Mountie said, explaining that by going through CIBC Intria, the RCMP could avoid typical banking scrutiny, as there are no holds placed on the money. “That’s what we do when we need flash money for a buy. We don’t keep stashes of money around the office. When we suddenly need a large sum of money to make a buy or something, that’s the route we take. I think [with the Brink’s transaction] you’ve proved with that single fact that he had a relationship with the police. He was either a CI or an agent.” A Canadian retail banking expert speaking on condition that they not be identified says it is unlikely that Wortman was cashing out his own savings when he collected the money from Brinks after the money was transferred from CIBC Intria. “When you come into my branch and you want a ton of cash, then I say, you gotta give us a couple of days. We put in our Brink’s order, I order the money through Brink’s, then when the money arrives, you come back into the branch, I bring you into a back room and I count the money out for you,” the banking expert said. “Sending someone to Brink’s to get the money? I’ve never heard of that before. The reason is, if I’m the banker, and you’ve deposited your savings in my bank branch, I’m responsible for making sure the money goes to the right person. If you want this money, I’m going to verify your identity and document that. I can’t do that if I’m transferring the money to Brink’s.” In response to detailed questions from Maclean’s about the transaction, a CIBC spokesperson replied via email: “Our hearts and thoughts are with the families and the entire community as they deal with this senseless tragedy and loss. Unfortunately we are not able to comment on specific client matters.” Brinks did not reply to questions about the transaction. The banking expert speculates that the RCMP could keep transactions relatively quiet by going through Brink’s instead of a bank to transfer money to a confidential informant or an agent. “You can imagine that if someone comes in with large sums of cash, that stuff is not kept quiet. You don’t want that. Maybe what the RCMP was doing is they thought they could keep things quieter simply by transferring funds via Brink’s.” At a press briefing on June 4, the RCMP’s Campbell seemed to rule out the possibility that Wortman was a confidential informant for the force. “The gunman was never associated to the RCMP as a volunteer or auxiliary police officer, nor did the RCMP ever have any special relationship with the gunman of any kind.” The RCMP Operations Manual, a copy of which was obtained by Maclean’s, authorizes the force to mislead all but the courts in order to conceal the identity of confidential informants and agent sources. “The identity of a source must be protected at all times except when the administration of justice requires otherwise, i.e. a member cannot mislead a court in any proceeding in order to protect a source.” A spokeswoman for the Nova Scotia RCMP declined further comment after Maclean’s reported on the financial transaction. “This is still an active, ongoing investigation,” said Cpl. Jennifer Clarke in an email on Friday. “All investigative avenues and possibilities continue to be explored, analyzed, and processed with due diligence. This is to ensure that the integrity of the investigation is not compromised. We cannot release anything more related to your questions.” Maclean’s reported earlier this week that sources say Wortman had social relationships with Hells Angels, and with a neighbour, Peter Alan Griffon, who recently finished serving part of a seven-year sentence for drug and firearm offences linked to La Familia, a Mexican cartel. Sources say Griffon printed the decals that Wortman used on the replica RCMP cruiser he used in his rampage. Sources say that RCMP in New Brunswick, not Nova Scotia, recently took over operational control of investigations into outlaw bikers in the Maritimes, which means that Nova Scotia Mounties may not have been aware of any connection to Wortman. The RCMP Operations Manual identifies two types of sources: informant sources and agent sources. A law enforcement source said the force uses Brink’s to make large payments to agent sources, not informant sources. “Informants are never paid more than a couple hundred at a time,” said a person briefed on RCMP operations. “Anything over $10,000 is agent money.” Agents typically have greater responsibilities than informants. Only officers who have received specialized training are allowed to handle agents. “An agent source is a person tasked by investigators to assist in the development of target operations,” says the manual. “Direct involvement and association with a target may result in his/her becoming a material and compellable witness, ie. a source used to introduce undercover operations, act as a courier for controlled delivers or act in place of an RCMP undercover operator by obtaining evidence.” If the money was a transfer from the RCMP to an agent, there would be a paper trail through FINTRAC, the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada, which tracks large cash transactions and suspicious transactions. “Brink’s does the FINTRAC paperwork saying it’s coming from us, it’s from a chartered bank, and the RCMP liaison at FINTRAC signs off, handles the paperwork,” said a source briefed on the system. “The RCMP guys clear it or they refer it for further investigation. They manually clear those FINTRAC reports coming from Brink’s related to paid agents.” The RCMP Operations Manual requires officers handling confidential informants and agents to send reports to the director of the Covert Operations Branch at National Headquarters. Headquarters’ media relations office said in an email Friday that Campbell’s statement that the force never had a “special relationship” with Wortman “still stands.” The attorney general of Nova Scotia, former RCMP staff sergeant Mark Furey, has said the province is in talks with Ottawa about a joint federal-provincial inquiry or review of Wortman’s murderous rampage. Furey’s office did not reply before deadline to a question about whether the terms of the inquiry would allow inquiry counsel to pierce the powerful legal privilege that attaches to confidential informants. Family members of the victims have complained that the process is dragging out. As calls for an inquiry mount, so does speculation about what happened, among both the general public and the RCMP. One former Mountie says he doesn’t understand why Wortman would turn against the Mounties if they were paying him. “What seems inconsistent to me is why are you going to bite the hand that feeds you? If he’s getting money, and that’s a lot of money for an agent, or a CI, that part doesn’t make sense to me.” The former investigator pointed out that if Wortman was acting for the RCMP, and receiving that amount of money, he would eventually be expected to testify. “If he was an agent, he should show up on a witness docket.” But another Mountie says, “This guy always wanted to be a Mountie. He was acting like a Mountie. He was doing Mountie things. It’s clear to me that something went wrong.” Nova Scotia shooter 'may have been a RCMP undercover agent' after he withdrew $475,000 in cash at a Brink's office - something normal bank customers cannot do - days before he killed 22 in 13-hour rampage https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8444549/Nova-Scotia-shooter-RCMP-agent-withdrew-475-000-cash-Brinks-office.html The gunman who killed 22 people in the worst mass shooting in Canadian history may have been an informant or agent for the national police force, sources say. New video obtained by news magazine Maclean's allegedly shows Gabriel Wortman, 51, withdrawing $475,000 in cash from a Brink's office a few weeks before his deadly 13-hour rampage across several small towns in Nova Scotia in April. Law enforcement sources say that the massive withdrawal matched the method the Royal Canadian Mounted Police uses to send money to confidential informants and agents - and would not have been possible for a regular citizen. The RCMP has repeatedly insisted that it had no 'special relationship' with Wortman, who was killed by police following the attack. But some have expressed distrust of the agency, arguing that it could be hiding ties to the gunman to avoid accusations that it mishandled the case. The speculation comes as authorities are reportedly investigating Wortman's relationships with people linked to organized crime. On the night of April 18, Wortman used accelerants to light fires in five Nova Scotia communities and shot people with four semi-automatic weapons that he wasn't licensed to own as he drove around in a replica police car. Thirteen of the victims were killed by gunfire and nine died in fires, police said. The rampage allegedly began after Wortman assaulted his girlfriend, who fled into the woods and hid for several hours. Investigators said the assault could have been the catalyst for the killing spree, but that they are not ruling out that the massacre could have been pre-planned as Wortman had disputes with several of his victims. The RCMP has faced fierce criticism over their handling of the case after admitting that they failed to issue a timely public alert about the gunman, who evaded capture for hours after the first 911 call came in. A court document released last month outlined warning signs apparently ignored by police, including Wortman's history of paranoid behavior and his stockpile of guns and gasoline. One witness described the now dead gunman as an abusive 'sociopath' who kept a rifle by the fireplace that was described as 'like a machine gun'. A former colleague told officers that Wortman was 'paranoid' about the COVID-19 pandemic and has recently suffered a 'mental breakdown'. Wortman had also been the subject of several complaints about illegal guns and an assault on his girlfriend. It's now been suggested that the RCMP may have failed to take action on those complaints because he was working as an informant or agent for the force. That theory is centered around the claim that Wortman withdrew $475,000 in cash from a Brink's office in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, on March 30 - 19 days before the massacre. The withdrawal was captured on two videos provided to Maclean's by an anonymous police source close to the investigation. In the first video Wortman is seen pulling into the fenced yard of the security facility in what appears to be a decommissioned police cruiser. The second video, shot inside the office, shows Wortman dressed in a baseball cap and leather jacket as he makes the withdrawal. He then brings a suitcase, purportedly filled with hundred-dollar bills, outside and stashes it in the trunk of his car. The police source said the money was transferred to Brink's from CIBC Intria, a subsidiary of the chartered bank that handles currency transactions. It remains unclear how and why Wortman, a dentist, acquired such a large quantity of cash. While he ran his own dentistry practice, there is no reason to believe that it would have required him to handle large sums of cash, according to Maclean's. Court records show Wortman also owned a New Brunswick-registered company called Berkshire-Broman. The purpose of that company is unclear, but there is no evidence that it would have been able to move large sums of cash. A Mountie familiar with RCMP undercover operations said that even if the money did come from one of Wortman's accounts, he would not have been able to collect it from Brink's as a private citizen. 'There's no way a civilian can just make an arrangement like that,' he told Maclean's, noting that the transaction is consistent with how the RCMP pays its agents and informants. 'I've worked a number of CI cases over the years and that's how things go. All the payments are made in cash. 'To me that transaction alone proves he has a secret relationship with the force.' Another Mountie who has also been involved with CI operations shared the same suspicion, calling the withdrawal 'tradecraft'. The second Mountie said that the RCMP goes through CIBC Intria to avoid 'typical banking scrutiny' because there are no holds placed on the money. 'That's what we do when we need flash money for a buy,' they said. 'We don't keep stashes of money around the office. When we suddenly need a large sum of money to make a buy or something, that's the route we take. 'I think [with the Brink's transaction] you've proved with that single fact that he had a relationship with the police. He was either a CI or an agent.' A third police source said that RCMP only uses Brink's to pay agent sources, not CIs. A Canadian retail banking expert, who spoke to Maclean's on condition of anonymity, said it's unlikely that the money Wortman collected came from his own savings account, due to how that kind of transaction is typically handled. 'When you come into my branch and you want a ton of cash, then I say, you gotta give us a couple of days,' the expert explained. 'We put in our Brink's order, I order the money through Brink's, then when the money arrives, you come back into the branch, I bring you into a back room and I count the money out for you. 'Sending someone to Brink's to get the money? I've never heard of that before.' They continued: 'The reason is, if I'm the banker, and you've deposited your savings in my bank branch, I'm responsible for making sure the money goes to the right person. 'If you want this money, I'm going to verify your identity and document that. I can't do that if I'm transferring the money to Brink's.' The banking expert said that the RCMP could avoid unwanted attention by transferring money to agents or informants through Brink's instead of a bank. 'You can imagine that if someone comes in with large sums of cash, that stuff is not kept quiet. You don't want that,' they said. 'Maybe what the RCMP was doing is they thought they could keep things quieter simply by transferring funds via Brink's.' CIBC declined to comment on the transaction when approached by Maclean's. 'Our hearts and thoughts are with the families and the entire community as they deal with this senseless tragedy and loss. Unfortunately we are not able to comment on specific client matters,' a CIBC spokesperson said. Brink's did not respond to the outlet's inquiry about the transaction. Nova Scotia RCMP Superintendent Darren Campbell attempted to stamp out speculation about links between Wortman and the agency during a news conference on June 4. 'The gunman was never associated to the RCMP as a volunteer or auxiliary police officer, nor did the RCMP ever have any special relationship with the gunman of any kind,' Campbell said. However, the RCMP Operations Manual authorizes agency officials to conceal the identity of informants and agents unless they are dealing with the courts. 'The identity of a source must be protected at all times except when the administration of justice requires otherwise, i.e. a member cannot mislead a court in any proceeding in order to protect a source,' the manual states. The RCMP declined to comment on the report about Wortman's financial transaction. 'This is still an active, ongoing investigation,' Cpl Jennifer Clarke, spokeswoman for the Nova Scotia RCMP, told Maclean's last week. 'All investigative avenues and possibilities continue to be explored, analyzed, and processed with due diligence. This is to ensure that the integrity of the investigation is not compromised. We cannot release anything more related to your questions.' RCMP's media relations office did say Campbell's statement that the force never had a 'special relationship' with Wortman 'still stands'. Current and former RCMP officials have shared different opinions over the possibility that Wortman worked for the agency. One former investigator questioned why Wortman would have turned against an agency that was paying him so much. 'What seems inconsistent to me is why are you going to bite the hand that feeds you? If he's getting money, and that's a lot of money for an agent, or a CI, that part doesn't make sense to me,' they said. That source also noted that if Wortman was working for the RCMP, he would eventually be expected to testify in court. 'If he was an agent, he should show up on a witness docket,' they said. Another officer said of Wortman: 'This guy always wanted to be a Mountie. He was acting like a Mountie. He was doing Mountie things. It's clear to me that something went wrong.' Last week Maclean's reported that authorities were looking into Wortman's potential involvement in organized crime - including his relationships with Hells Angels motorcycle gang members and with a convicted felon involved with the La Familia cartel in Mexico. Wortman's neighbor, Peter Alan Griffon, recently finished serving part of a seven-year sentence for drug and firearm offenses linked to La Familia. Sources said Griffon printed the decals on the replica RCMP cruiser Wortman used in his rampage. The RCMP is facing mounting criticism over the length of the investigation into the shooting as many, including relatives of the victims, have called for a federal inquiry. Nova Scotia Attorney General Mark Furey, a former RCMP staff sergeant, has said that the province is in talks with Ottawa about a joint federal-provincial review of the rampage. Malcolm Wright Jr. 2 Killed – 0 Wounded EX-PARATROOPER GETS LIFE SENTENCE IN RACIAL SLAYINGS https://buffalonews.com/news/ex-paratrooper-gets-life-sentence-in-racial-slayings/article_c271625a-ebb7-53ea-9f65-181653b38468.html Awhite former Army paratrooper was sentenced Monday to life in prison without parole for the slayings of a black couple, the second former member of the Army's elite 82nd Airborne Division convicted in the race killings. Superior Court Judge Coy Brewer imposed two consecutive life sentences on Malcolm Wright after a jury recommended life instead of the death penalty for the murders of Jackie Burden and Michael James on Dec. 7, 1995. The shootings of James, 36, and Ms. Burden, 27, at point-blank range led to a national investigation of racist activity in the military. The probe found little evidence of overt racism, but led to the discharge of 22 people including Wright, James Burmeister and Randy Meadows, a third soldier charged in the crime who testified against the other two. All three were members of the 82nd Airborne at Fort Bragg. Burmeister, the triggerman, was convicted of the crimes earlier this year and sentenced to life in prison after a jury deadlocked 11-1 in favor of executing him. Wright, 22, of Lexington, Ky., was found guilty May 2 of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the shooting deaths of Ms. Burden and James. The slayings were part of an initiation ritual into a white supremacist group at Fort Bragg. In a brief statement before Brewer imposed the sentence, Wright, hands clasped in front of him, thanked his family and apologized, but denied killing anyone. "I'm guilty of being a bad person. But I've never killed anyone in my whole life," Wright said. "I'd like to say I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. And I thank you for sparing my life." Prosecutor Edward Grannis said he was disappointed the jury had decided against the death penalty but called the prosecutions of both Wright and Burmeister a success. "They have been branded racists and will be treated accordingly," he said. Testimony at Burmeister's trial indicated he wanted to earn a "spider web" tattoo, a skinhead symbol police say represents the killing of a gay or black person. Sentencing for Meadows was set for today. Zephen Allen Xaver 5 Killed – 0 Wounded Suspect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Sebring_shooting#Suspect Zephen Allen Xaver, age 21[5] was identified as the perpetrator after surrendering to officers. He was identified as a former Florida Department of Corrections correctional officer trainee, with the Avon Park Correctional Institution near the Avon Park Air Force Range but resigned on January 9, 2019.[7] Xaver was charged with five counts of capital murder is being held by police without bond. He was appointed a public defender as he had no income or assets.[8] On February 22, he entered a plea of not guilty in the case against him. Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty.[2] Julius Ricardo Young 2 Killed – 0 Wounded Julius Ricardo Young https://murderpedia.org/male.Y/y1/young-julius-ricardo.htm ... ISSUES FROM THE SECOND STAGE OF TRIAL A. Waiver of Mitigation Evidence ¶ 35 Young listed seven mitigation witnesses, but at trial decided not to call any of them to testify. In lieu of calling witnesses, defense counsel negotiated the following stipulation: Defendant is 42 years of age and he has been a life-long resident of Tulsa; Defendant has family, relatives that love him; Defendant has been a minister in a church for 11 years; The defendant is a veteran, having served in the U.S. Army and was honorably discharged. ... Aaron Ybarra 1 Killed – 2 Wounded Aaron Ybarra: An Analysis https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/ybarra_analysis_1.1_0.pdf FAMILY BACKGROUND Though Ybarra was reported in the media to be “white,” and though two police documents categorized him as “white,”1 based on my research, this is wrong. Researching the family online revealed that Aaron’s paternal grandfather, Ambrosio Ybarra, was “the first Hispanic Mayor in the state of Washington.”2 It seems likely that the family was from Mexico — Ambrosio was born in Edinburg, Texas, just north of the Mexican border, and his second marriage took place in Mexico. Prior to becoming mayor, he served in the United States Army during the Korean War. ... Though Ybarra’s paternal grandfather achieved some level of prominence, serving briefly as mayor, Ybarra’s father engaged in illegal financial transactions and struggled with alcoholism and depression. Ambrose Ybarra had five convictions for drunk driving, plus convictions for failure to obey an officer, driving with a suspended license, and violating the ignition interlock on his vehicle.7 After his third DUI, he was incarcerated. When Ambrose was appointed to be in charge of a trust fund for his wife’s cousin, he spent over $400,000 on himself before being removed from his position ... COMMENTS ... Ybarra resembled many school shooters in other ways, too. He had at least one family member who served in the military (his paternal grandfather), grew up in a household where firearms had a prominent place, had a history of substance abuse, had multiple run-ins with the police, and was depressed and suicidal. ... Patterns Among School Shooters: Body-Related Issues and the Military https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/patterns_body_related_issues_and_military_1.28.pdf 2 RELATIVES IN THE MILITARY OR LAW ENFORCEMENT Aaron Ybarra Grandfather: U.S. Army Edward J. Zakrzewski II 3 Killed – 0 Wounded Edward Zakrzewski https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Edward_Zakrzewski Details: Edward "Zak" Zakrzewski was a Technical Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He and his wife Sylvia met in 1982, while he was stationed in South Korea. The couple had two children: seven-year-old Edward Jr and five-year-old Anne. In 1992, he was transferred to Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. In April of 1994, the couple bought their first house on Shrewsbury Street in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. However, within a few months, Sylvia asked for a divorce. On June 13, 1994, Zakrzewski failed to report for duty. Later that day, the bodies of Sylvia and their children were found in the house. All three had been stabbed and slashed to death. A neighbor told authorities that Zakrzewski had twice said that he would rather kill his family than go through a divorce. Authorities also discovered that he had purchased a machete on the day of the murders. Zakrzewski has been charged with their murders; he remains at large. Ep49: FAMILY ANNIHILATOR: TSgt Edward Zakrzewski https://militarymurderpodcast.com/episode-49-family-annihilator-edward-zakrzewski/ In 1994, Air Force Technical Sergeant Edward Zakrzewski seemed to be living the dream – he was going to night college, had one more year before getting his degree – he was working at Eglin AFB, he had a beautiful wife, Sylvia, and two kids – a boy and a girl. But like every picture-perfect family – there was turmoil, and talks about divorce made Edward uneasy. So much so, that when his son called him at work on June 9th, 1994, Edward came up with a plan. Execute the entire family. Then flee the continental United States. But a true crime staple from the 90s – UNSOLVED MYSTERIES – would lead to his demise – as it didn’t matter where he went, he couldn’t hide from the ever-popular show. (Btw – I tried to find the segment of UNSOLVED MYSTERIES – but it was nowhere to be found. I believe, it aired as a short segment and not as one of the three main stories in each episode). Dig in with Margot as she tells you all about family annihilator – Edward Zakzewski.