Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

my god Florida is so weird, discrete, and vast that I didn't know this county was less than 250 miles away, and that Sebring is its county seat.

that is a next-level abysmal real name

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sh4un king is saying all the victims were women. But I haven't seen any verification of that from an actual newsource.

Why do people keep doing this

An empty thing to say but seriously. The worst fucking trend.

Do you have a link, Yerac?

I don't know how I didn't hear about this yesterday. So much noise.

if you go on facebook, sh4un king's posts are all public.

oh here is something that verifies. https://www.wfla.com/news/highlands-county/sebring-bank-victims-5-women-including-mother-of-2-killed-nbc-reports/1722594987

thanks!

As soon as I saw details in the NYT article--CO in training, lives w mother in a mobile home, called in his own crime--I thought, "We're going to find out that he hates women, aren't we."

Feel like this is the longest we've gone without one in a while. So I just looked to see when the last time this thread was bumped: early December. Fuck

sometimes i'll think about how right now there's someone out there who's been quietly stockpiling weapons and ammo and how he's going to pull off a mass shooting. later this afternoon, tomorrow, next week, next month, whenever.

Victims made to lie down and shot in the back of the head. Fuck

https://www.wfla.com/news/highlands-county/police-describe-execution-style-killings-inside-sebring-bank/1723228973

Xaver was arrested in a beige T-shirt depicting the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Thursday morning, he wore a black-and-white striped prison uniform as he was appointed a public defender and ordered held without bond.

His father said he’s “heartbroken for the victims” and that his son “wasn’t raised to be like this.”

“He’s always been a good kid. He’s had his troubles, but he has never hurt anyone ever before. This is a total shock,” Josh Xaver told CNN. The Associated Press has reached out to both parents of Zephen Xaver requesting interviews, with no immediate response.

It wasn’t a shock to Alex Gerlach, who identified herself as Xaver’s former girlfriend. She said he’s long been fascinated with the idea of killing, but no one took her warnings seriously. For some reason, he “always hated people and wanted everybody to die,” Gerlach told WSBT-TV in South Bend, Indiana.

“He got kicked out of school for having a dream that he killed everybody in his class, and he’s been threatening this for so long, and he’s been having dreams about it and everything,” she said. “Every single person I’ve told has not taken it seriously, and it’s very unfortunate that it had to come to this.”

Gerlach told The Washington Post that Xaver said he purchased a gun last week and “no one thought anything of it” because he had always liked guns.

Xaver has no apparent criminal record in the areas where he’s lived in Indiana and Florida, and his school records are spotty: Two school districts in northern Indiana said he attended for several years but did not graduate. Xaver also briefly studied online. Salt Lake City-based Stevens-Henager College spokeswoman Sherrie Martin confirmed that Xaver was enrolled from September to December before withdrawing last year.

i mean of COURSE

Josh Xaver doesn't quite sound like he's been on the ball

“He had guns because he’s always liked guns”
ok cool America, no problem good to know

Louisiana shootings: Five killed and suspect at large

ffs

And of course this murderer was dating one of the victims.

and that State College shooting didn't even hit my radar until now.

didn't know about that one til now

Not quite on topic but there was a recent report that suicide among active duty marines is at a 10 year high, even though most of them have not been depliveoyed nor have seen combat. I have a friend who is a military psychiatrist. Her view is that it's unreasonable and inappropriate to expect psychiatry to solve poverty, shitty education, violence, destruction of supportive social systems and a species wide epidemic of loneliness. I hadn't heard someone say this before but yeah, it's true.

depliveoyed = deployed

Your friend is otm.

3 young white men, in 3 different places, killed 14 people (+one killed himself) last week. fucked up.

Not quite on topic but there was a recent report that suicide among active duty marines is at a 10 year high, even though most of them have not been depliveoyed nor have seen combat. I have a friend who is a military psychiatrist. Her view is that it's unreasonable and inappropriate to expect psychiatry to solve poverty, shitty education, violence, destruction of supportive social systems and a species wide epidemic of loneliness. I hadn't heard someone say this before but yeah, it's true.

sometimes the most disturbing motive at all is when there isn't one

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A high-stakes gambler who rained down a hail of gunfire, killing 58 people from his high-rise casino suite in Las Vegas wanted infamy and mass destruction, the FBI told the Associated Press Tuesday, but took whatever motive might stretch beyond that to his grave.

“It wasn’t about MGM, Mandalay Bay or a specific casino or venue,” said Aaron Rouse, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Las Vegas office. “It was all about doing the maximum amount of damage and him obtaining some form of infamy.”

Rouse says Stephen Paddock acted alone when he planned and carried out the attack. The 64-year-old fatally shot himself after opening fire from his hotel suite.

Rouse says the reason for Paddock’s rampage remains a mystery after months of study by agents and behavioral specialists. Almost 900 people were injured during the Oct. 1, 2017, attack on an outdoor country music concert.

the vegas shooting should be one of the most infamous crimes in recent american history and it's as if it never happened

i feel like we're at a point in american history where violence being rained down upon this country's citizens is just expected and tacitly accepted. it's like tornados and hurricanes at this point, sometimes a small one will pop up and sometimes a major, destructive one, but they're going to happen and you just can't fight nature.

he vegas shooting should be one of the most infamous crimes in recent american history and it's as if it never happened

part of the relative indifference afterward had to do with the disturbing frequency of mass shootings in general, but i do think a large part of it was the lack of a clear motive in this case.

900 people injured, just for infamy, apparently. it's hard to process.

Totally worth it, though. You wouldn't want be as unfree as your neighbours up North.

lol

Chicago’s ABC affiliate reports:

An active shooting situation has been reported at the Henry Pratt Company in southwest suburban Aurora in Kane County. The Henry Pratt company is located in the 400 block of South Highland Avenue. The shooting was confirmed by Kane County Sheriff.

At approximately 2:20 p.m., several SWAT officers were visible outside the Henry Pratt building and the scene appeared to still be active. Holy Angels School is on lockdown, as is Capital Printing and Die Cutting in the 300 block of South Highland.

West Aurora Schools are on soft lockdown and all students are being held in the building. An employee at Capital Printing told ABC7 they are currently sheltering in a closet.

Used to leave near there and have a friend who still lives in Aurora. She says they got the shooter but he shot a couple cops and civillians.

(Chicago burbs in case anyone else was wondering)

oh also, this happened two days ago, but I guess spree shootings don't get reported on if the nine people in the restaurant aren't hurt by the 19 assault rifle shots:

SAN DIEGO (CNS) – A 29-year-old man who allegedly opened fire on a Hillcrest restaurant with a high-powered rifle was being held today without bail.

Stefano Markell Parker was arrested nearly an hour and a half after the non-injury shooting that happened around 7:40 p.m. Tuesday at a restaurant near the intersection of University and Fourth avenues, according to San Diego police.

Dispatchers received several calls from people reporting that a man wearing a trench coat was carrying a rifle near the Hillcrest intersection, which is lined with restaurants and bars, San Diego police Officer John Buttle said. He said the gunman walked up to The Asian Bistro, 414 University Ave., and started firing into the restaurant.

“Several people and employees were inside. However, nobody was hit by gunfire,” Buttle said.

The gunman then lowered the rifle and walked away, the officer said.

see guns are perfectly safe

Sister-in-law and stepdad both work in Aurora, thankfully both far enough away from this and are fine.

“Several people and employees were inside. However, nobody was hit by gunfire,” Buttle said.

just like an episode of the a-team

five dead in that Aurora shooting

not counting the shooter

christ

My school has an outpost in Aurora and many of our students are factory workers. I haven't heard anything from the school -- i hate to ask this but have the dead been named?

Victims named.

thank you. this is horrible.

Not a spree but...at my Alma mater today.

The "isolated incident" was a handgun suicide in the gym.

Don't even have the words :(

https://www.wftv.com/news/local/code-red-lockdown-lifted-at-lake-mary-high-school-after-isolated-incident-on-campus-deputies-say/930063163?+1234

oh no
https://www.yahoo.com/news/10-dead-including-6-kids-183708141.html