Please forgive me for approaching all these shootings as staged and scripted hoaxes at first. After all we have seen these last few years, that is the safe assumption. We know what agenda is meant to be moved here.
The other noticeable observation is the every day police murders of citizens receives a lot less print or coverage.
"Gunman kills one on Seattle campus; Students disarm suspect; 3 hurt" Associated Press June 06, 2014
SEATTLE — A man armed with a shotgun opened fire Thursday in a building at a small Seattle university, fatally wounding one person before a student subdued him with pepper spray as he tried to reload, Seattle police said.
A student building monitor at Seattle Pacific University disarmed the gunman after he entered the foyer at Otto Miller Hall, and several other students jumped on top of him and pinned him down until police officers arrived, police said.
Seattle police said the suspect in custody, a white male ‘‘approximately 26 years of age,’’ was not a student.
A 19-year-old man died at Harborview Medical Center. Three other people were injured. A critically injured 20-year-old woman was taken to surgery, hospital spokeswoman Susan Gregg said. A 24-year-old man and a 22-year-old man were in satisfactory condition.
None of the victims was immediately identified.
The afternoon shooting came a week before the end of the school year, and the situation was particularly tense when police initially reported that they were searching for a second suspect. They later said no one else was involved.
The university locked down its campus and alerted students and staff to stay inside. Students were taking finals in the building the shooter entered.
About 4,270 undergraduate and graduate students attend the private Christian university. Its 40-acre campus is in a leafy residential neighborhood about 10 minutes from downtown.
On Thursday evening, people packed the First Free Methodist Church on campus for a service of prayers and song. So many people crowded into the building that dozens of people gathered on a lawn near the church and formed their own groups as the sun set.
Related:
Jillian Smith was taking a math test on the second floor of Otto Miller Hall when a lockdown was ordered.
She heard police yelling and banging on doors in the hallway. The professor locked the classroom door, and the 20 or so students sat on the ground, lining up at the front of the classroom.
‘‘We were pretty much freaking out,’’ said Smith, 20, a sophomore. ‘‘People were texting family and friends, making sure everyone was OK.’’
About 45 minutes later, police came and escorted them out of the building two by two, she said. On the way, they passed the lobby where she saw bullet casings and what appeared to be blood in the lobby carpet and splatter on the wall.
‘‘Seeing blood made it real,’’ Smith said."
Saw it in my print version, and that last comment is suspicious.
So does the further description as a lone gunman also armed with a knife as the epidemic of gun violence is cited again.
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Oh, the Globe has a bunch of tweets and photos from it, too. Who could ever doubt those?
Connected?
"Canadian police arrest suspect after three officers are killed" Associated Press June 06, 2014
MONCTON, New Brunswick — A man suspected in the shooting deaths of three Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the wounding of two others in a rare case of gun violence in eastern Canada was arrested early Friday, police said.
Paul Greene, a spokesman with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said Justin Bourque was arrested at about 12:30 a.m.
The 24-year-old Bourque had been wanted after the shooting Wednesday evening in the northwest area of the city.
Several hundred officers from New Brunswick and elsewhere from across Canada were involved.
Frightened residents had huddled in their homes for a second night as police scoured the eerily quiet streets in search of Bourque.
Bourque’s neighbors described a withdrawn man who collected guns and was an avid hunter of birds, deer, and moose.
Bourque, who was armed with high-powered long firearms, was spotted three times Thursday but still managed to elude the massive manhunt that all but shut down this city of 69,000 people about 180 miles east of the Maine border.
Dozens of police officers with their weapons drawn could be seen in a part of the search area, some glancing around buildings.
Others, including members of a tactical unit, were patrolling streets within the cordoned off area. Armored security trucks were also visible.
Is it possible this was all a drill presented as real?
Bourque was wearing military camouflage and carrying two rifles in a picture released by police on Twitter.
At one point, he was seen going in and out of a wooded area, Commander Marlene Snowman said.
Investigators have not determined a motive for the shooting Wednesday evening, in which the officers were killed while responding to a call about an armed man at the north end of Moncton.
Police declined to identify the dead or injured officers.
It was the deadliest attack on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police since four officers were killed by a gunman on a farm in the western Canadian province of Alberta in 2005. That attack remains the deadliest on Canadian police officers in 120 years.
Snowman said Bourque was not known to police.
Schools and government offices were closed, and the city pulled its buses off the roads.
Mail delivery was suspended.
The homicides were the first this year in Moncton.
Constable Damien Theriault of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the city had no homicides last year.
Daniel St. Louis, a commercial photographer, said he came upon the scene around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday night and saw two blood-stained police vehicles on separate streets.
One of the vehicles, a police cruiser, was surrounded by shattered glass.
The other, an unmarked SUV with its lights on and the driver’s side door ajar, had several bullet holes through its front windshield.
‘‘I walked over and I saw two feet, facing the street, toes up,’’ said St. Louis, 51. ‘‘I realized, ‘Oh my God. There’s somebody down.’ As I got close, I realized it was an officer and this is not a good situation.’’
‘‘Our quiet little city, what is going on here?’’ he said. ‘‘How is this happening to us? It always happens to somebody else.’’
Tim Holt said he and his daughter had been locked down in their home for hours. Holt’s wife worked late Wednesday and was not allowed to join her family.
A few blocks away, Conrad Gagnon, 53, said he was playing a video game in his living room when he spotted a man through a window.
‘‘It was like he was meditating on something and talking . . . like somebody on drugs and living in his own world,’’ he said.
So WHAT PRESCRIPTION PHARMACEUTICALS was HE TAKING?
‘‘He was talking to himself. I saw his lips moving.’’
Shortly afterward, Gagnon said he heard gunfire.
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No offense, but I still have questions.
Looks like I'm out of bullets, readers.
Judging by the look of them I doubt I will be reading any of the linked sections, especially the special insert. Probably won't see the movie because of the review. I've had enough D-Day reminders for the rest of the weekend, thanks.
NEXT DAY UPDATES:
"Suspect charged in killings of police" Associated Press June 07, 2014
MONCTON, New Brunswick — A man suspected of gunning down three Royal Canadian Mounted Police was caught and charged Friday, ending a 30-hour manhunt that closed schools and forced residents to hide inside their homes of this eastern Canadian city. ‘‘I’m done,’’ a witness heard him tell police.
Police said at a press conference that they received a tip that led them to a wooded residential part of Moncton, New Brunswick, where they found 24-year-old Justin Bourque, suspected in the deadliest attack on Canada’s national police force in nearly a decade.
Armed with high-powered long firearms, Bourque was spotted three times Thursday as he evaded the manhunt that all but shut down the normally tranquil city about of about 60,000 people east of the Maine border. Nearly 300 police officers searched for Bourque, who was seen going in and out of a wooded area.
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Also see:
Man with North Andover ties ordered extradited to Quebec to face charges in ’09 attack on doorman
You can open it if you want to.
Back down here:
"Man killed in shootout after launching assault at Ga. courthouse" by Kate Brumback | Associated Press June 07, 2014
CUMMING, Ga. — A man wielding an assault rifle, explosives, and supplies to take hostages opened fire outside a Georgia courthouse Friday, wounding a deputy before he was killed in a shootout with officers, authorities said.
Dennis Marx had been due in court Friday morning to plead guilty in a drug case. He arrived at the courthouse wearing body armor in a rented SUV with homemade and commercially made explosives, zip ties, water, and other gear. He dropped homemade spike strips and used smoke devices to try to keep officers from reaching him, said Forsyth County Sheriff Duane Piper.
Am I really expected to believe this, and if so, what prescription pharmaceuticals was he on?
Authorities were familiar with Marx, who had booby-trapped his home about 40 miles northeast of Atlanta when officers came to arrest him in the past. Bomb squads were carefully checking his home in a wooded area, fearing he may have set explosive traps around the property....
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Related(?): No Guffaws in Georgia
Related(?): Lexington Laugher
It's not funny anymore, sorry.
"Shooter paused, student acted fast" by Gene Johnson and Phuong Le | Associated Press June 07, 2014
SEATTLE — The man blasting away with a shotgun paused to reload, and Jon Meis saw his chance.
The 22-year-old building monitor pepper-sprayed and tackled the gunman Thursday in Seattle Pacific University’s Otto Miller Hall, likely preventing further carnage, according to police and university officials.
Meis and other students subdued him until officers arrived and handcuffed him.
Police said the shooter, who killed a 19-year-old man and wounded two other young people, had additional rounds and a knife.
‘‘I’m proud of the selfless actions that my roommate, Jon Meis, showed today taking down the shooter,’’ student Matt Garcia wrote on Twitter. ‘‘He is a hero.’’
Meanwhile, the suspect’s attorney said Friday that her 26-year-old client has long had mental health problems. Public defender Ramona Brandes said Aaron R. Ybarra is sorry for what he did and is on suicide watch at the jail.
I feel like I've seen this script before.
‘‘He is cognizant of the suffering of the victims and their families and the entire Seattle Pacific community,’’ she said. ‘‘He is sorry.’’
Meis, a dean’s list electrical engineering student, was emotionally anguished but not injured in the shooting, Harborview Medical Center spokeswoman Susan Gregg said Friday. He was treated at a hospital and released.
Roman Kukhotskiy, 22, who was in the building when the violence broke out, said: ‘‘I was amazed that he was willing to risk all that for us. If Jon didn’t stop him, what’s to say? I could have been the next victim.’’
An argument for concealed carry if I've ever seen one.
That's the problem with all the propaganda based on lies now. It's backfiring and failing all over the place.
Kukhotskiy said he saw Meis immediately after the shooting, and he appeared shocked and visibly shaken.
Ybarra was hospitalized for mental health evaluations twice in recent years, said Pete Caw, assistant police chief in Ybarra’s hometown, the Seattle suburb of Mountlake Terrace.
‘‘We are so very shocked and sad over yesterday’s shootings at SPU,’’ Ybarra’s family said in a statement. ‘‘We are crushed at the amount of pain caused to so many people. To the victims and their families, our prayers are with you.’’
Ybarra is not a student at the school, police said.
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The unhealthy debate is to secure all schools.
