Another fucking spree shooting. Great.

Over in Seattle, it's been a grim thing to watch my FB feeds this past week. Everyone I know in Seattle seems to have known the people who were killed at Cafe Racer.

Just the Star, the Sun, TSN and CBC
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Actually, I guess it's not so strange if Lawrie's a bigger celebrity than I realized. I never heard of him until the helmet/umpire thing last month (don't follow baseball)

I went to the Racer Sessions memorial last night, there were hundreds of people there. Basically everyone who wandered into Cafe Racer at some point remembered one of the victims. Even my dad, who had been there twice, remembered that he had asked Drew what card game he was playing, and he had offered to teach him then and there.

http://gothamist.com/2012/08/24/five_shot_outside_empire_state_buil.php

I was @ herald square at 9 am. heard nothing.

u might be dead :(

BTW, blows my mind that the most severe punishment Norway can give for that psycho who killed 77 people is just 21 years in prison.

He'll be out when he's 54!

I heard law in Norway specifies it is possible for a judge to extend the sentence if it is ruled he is still a danger to society after the sentence is up, and he had said he would do it again.

See, that's the justification for life in prison: when is a guy who killed 77 men, women and children in cold, racist blood not a danger to society? You can't rehabilitate that.

Yeah I agree that it's kind of nuts to not initially get the highest of sentences in any court system.

Yes, NPR news just now said Norway's preventive detention law means "he'll never be released", hope that's right.

um:

http://gawker.com/5937573/breaking-reports-of-mass-shooting-near-empire-state-building?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_twitter&utm_source=gawker_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

Shooter Identified as Jeffrey Johnson, 53, at Mayor’s News Conference

The two law enforcement officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the matter. They said the gunman previously worked at a store inside the landmark skyscraper.

Restaurants & Bars Location
Chipotle West 34th Street
The Empire Room West 33rd Street
Heartland Brewery West 33rd Street
Rosa's Pizza West 33rd Street Lobby
Starbucks West 34th Street
Retailers Location
AT&T West 34th Street
Choice Forex, Inc., Currency Exchange West 33rd Street
Federal Express West 33rd Street
Finesse Jewelers West 33rd Street
Kinko's West 33rd Street
Louis' Shoe Repair West 33rd Street
Men's Wearhouse West 34th Street
Perfumania West 34th Street
Strawberry West 34th Street
Walgreens West 34th Street

My money's on Men's Wearhouse.

The suspect, Johnson, had worked for about six years as a women's clothing designer at Hazan Imports. Johnson lost his job at the business, near the Empire State Building, about a year ago.

shit.

"He'll be out when he's 54!"

He's never getting out.

"Bloomberg says he's not sure if the construction worker who tipped off the cops is a hetero. "I don't know. We all use the word 'hetero.'"

BTW, blows my mind that the most severe punishment Norway can give for that psycho who killed 77 people is just 21 years in prison.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, August 24, 2012 2:14 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He'll be out when he's 54!

― how's life, Friday, August 24, 2012 2:15 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what the fuck is wrong with u ppl

for a year now it has been made abundantly clear that the cunt is almost certainly never going to be released, whatever the court ruled

people in not reading the whole thread SHOCKER

what the fuck is wrong with you, nilmar?

http://www.theonion.com/articles/nation-celebrates-full-week-without-deadly-mass-sh,29293/

Meanwhile, not literally a "mass shooting" but
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/24/chicago-shootings-19-woun_n_1827530.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#slide=1425105

ugh
http://gma.yahoo.com/jersey-shopping-plaza-shootout-leaves-several-dead-110051705--abc-news-topstories.html

Brookfield, Wisconsin

http://www.wisn.com/news/At-least-7-people-transported-to-hospital-after-shooting-near-mall/-/9373668/17074464/-/sh5y52/-/index.html#ixzz29xCIxitr

This shit is getting too commonplace

"Not secured" means gunman on the loose, right?

Once was too commonplace for this shit.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/multiple-victims-shot-near-brookfield-square-le7a3b4-175147441.html

A short time later, Gosh said, a large black man with a handgun ran out and appeared to be chasing the girl. However, police began arriving, and when the gunman saw police he ran back into the building - or perhaps into the woods behind the building, where Westmoor Country Club is located.
...
They were looking for a black male, 6 feet 1 inch and about 270 pounds, who may be driving a black Mazda. Scanner traffic indicated he may have left the area after the Goshes saw him, although that was not clear.

But at least

Four people are in the Froedtert Hospital emergency room being evaluated, and none are in critical condition, hospital officials said.

was he disgruntled

could have been avoided if he had a two-parent home

The most pointed bit in last night's SNL debate opening was the woman who asked what they planned to do about assault weapons. Romney: "Nothing." Obama: "Nothing."

http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/544/article/p2p-73696177/

In The Myth of Martyrdom, author Lankford, a criminal justice professor at the University of Alabama, rejects the prevailing view of suicide terrorists as radicalized individuals who will do anything for a cause. Rather, he asserts, they are merely unhappy, damaged individuals who want to die. Terrorist organizations recruit people who are in desperate straits for suicide missions and call them martyrs, and we have bought into their propaganda.

Citing recent research, including evaluations of preemptively arrested suicide terrorists, Lankford argues that the psychological profiles of self-destructive killers, whether underwear bombers or school shooters, are not so different from those of the 34,000 Americans who commit suicide every year, burdened by mental illness, social isolation, and personal and professional failures. Underneath the political rhetoric in suicide letters, martyrdom videos and testimonies of grieving family and friends, Lankford finds evidence of deep psychological pain. The young mother who blows herself up in a crowd, for instance, turns out to be escaping the shame of an adulterous affair.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=mind-reviews-the-myth-of-martyrdom-what-really-drives-suicide-bombers-rampage-shooters

so this isn't about the Texas college shooting? (thankfully it appears that nobody is dead)

Not sure if a one man spree but this sounds crazy:
http://news.yahoo.com/police-5-dead-shooting-south-seattle-081054003.html

Damn, that's a ton of comments

a ton of racist comments!

You can't say "racist", it's racist.

ugh, it wasn't a drug thing, it was a domestic violence incident which escalated when neighbors came out to see wtf was going on.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/26/18517847-two-dead-five-injured-including-sheriff-in-two-county-texas-shooting-spree?lite

^^^I just got to work after the 3 day weekend and just found out my coworker, one of the people on my 4 person team, was one of the people shot in this. I am in shock. I cannot fucking believe it. She is going to live, in fact she will get out of the hospital today, so she is very lucky, but she was shot sideways through the mouth so I quail at the thought of what recovery will entail for her. She is the nicest, smartest, toughest person. She had just climbed out of the Grand Canyon on a hiking trip when it happened. What the fuck.

Damn, sorry to hear. That's crazy

The shooter was a marine who'd deployed twice to afghanistan. My teammate was the first person he shot in this spree, apparently. Well, other than the woman he murdered before he left his base in NC...

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/28/us/texas-marine-fatal-shooting-spree/index.html

omg whoa
i heard about this on the radio this morning but came in mid-story so i didn't get a lot of the original details
i don't even know what to say

yeah it's like how are we supposed to work today exactly?

she knows martial arts. I wished she had had an opportunity to knock this asshole's fucking head off before he shot at her car.

Living with those injuries, I just don't even know what she must be going through right now. I didn't read anything more about the shooter -- is he alive or dead?