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Mass Murder & Spree Killing

At the time when it happened, some of us did comment about it, but I can't remember which thread.
 
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They do tend to blur into each other
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Yes. Dim memories are stirring of a case in which room-mates were killed as the preface of a campus attack.

Mythopoeika said:
At the time when it happened, some of us did comment about it, but I can't remember which thread.
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I could not find Isla Vista or Elliot Rodger named anywhere. It may have been formed part of the background to discussions on gun-control, which was always a thread for mud-wrestling.
 
This looks as if it may qualify as a spree killing.

A man has been arrested in connection with the discovery of three girls under age of 10 found dead in a home in Maryland, police said. One of the girls was the sister of the man now in custody, authorities said.

Antonio Williams, 25, was arrested and is a suspect in the killings of the three girls, two 6-year-olds and one 9-year-old, Prince George's County police said in a press release. He faces charges of first- and second-degree murder and related charges.

The girls were found with stab wounds Friday morning by authorities after the mother of the suspect came home from work and found the three young victims. All three were pronounced dead at the scene, police said. ...

http://www.cpgb.org.uk/
 
Nasty indeed: Authorities believe the two victims were first shot from a car before the attacker walked over and continued firing at them as they lay on the ground

A suspect has been arrested in the US state of Louisiana for the murders of two black men, which authorities said were "racially motivated".

Baton Rouge police have also charged Kenneth Gleason with attempted murder after shots were fired at an African-American family's home.

Investigators say they discovered the 23-year-old's DNA on pistol shell-casings found at the crime scenes.

A lawyer for Mr Gleason, who is white, said his client denies the charges.

During a search of the suspect's home over the weekend, authorities discovered a speech by Adolf Hitler, as well as cannabis and human growth hormone, US media report.

Bruce Cofield, 59, and Donald Smart, 49, were both shot in separate incidents while walking on the streets of the Louisiana state capital last week. ...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41324716
 
A newlywed woman in Pakistan has been arrested on suspicion of killing her husband and at least 12 of his relatives with poisoned milk.

Police claim Asiya Bibi had intended the deadly substance for her husband, and mixed it with his milk last week - but he failed to drink it.

Instead it was turned into a batch of lassi, a yogurt drink, and served to his extended family.

Police said the woman had been forced into an arranged marriage in September.

Such weddings are not uncommon in poorer and more rural areas of Pakistan, and are often pushed through by family members.

In this case, which took place in central Muzaffargarh, local media say the bride had tried unsuccessfully to flee her marital home and return to her parents.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41816049?ocid=socialflow_twitter
 
Aww, now that is an unfortunate situation. I guess she has little chance to avoid execution now.
 
Looks like spree killing but given the Italian murders might yet turn out to be a serial killer case with spree characteristics,

A man suspected of killing three people in Spain on Thursday has been arrested.

Norbert Feher, a Serbian national also known as Igor Vaclavic, is the prime suspect in the killing of two Spanish police officers and a farmer in the north-eastern region of Aragon on Thursday.

Mr Feher is suspected of at least three other murders in Italy.

He was previously imprisoned in Italy for eight years and is wanted by Interpol.

Commonly known as Igor the Russian, Mr Feher is suspected of murdering two Civil Guards, Víctor Romero Pérez and Víctor Jesús Caballero Espinosa, along with a local farmer, José Luis Iranzo.

Police sources told Spanish newspaper El País he had already attacked several houses, injuring two people and killing a dog, on 5 December..

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42368244
 
Coal said:
Grim.
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Yes, but oddly fascinating. There's something about long, forensic accounts that piques my interest--the desirability of establishing a tight chronology and logically connecting threads is part of the appeal of sprawling cases like 9/11 and the JFK assassination.
 
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I'm wondering exactly what was going through the mind of the Today editor when he agreed to that 'death warrant' headline & photo on the front page. I suspect he may be even more sociopathic than Ryan was.
 
Looks like mass murder/suicide.

Residents of a remote village in south-western Japan are coming to terms with a gruesome mass murder after six people, including five members of the same family, were found dead inside a farmhouse.

Police said they later discovered the body of a seventh person who had jumped or fallen from a nearby bridge into a river in Takachiho, Miyazaki prefecture, a mountain village of 12,000 people and a popular tourist destination. Investigators discovered the body of a woman outside the house and the bodies of five other people, including a young girl, inside, on Monday. Media reports said some of the victims appeared to have been stabbed.

Police named three of them as Mihoko Iihoshi, the 66-year-old wife of the house’s owner, 72-year-old farmer Yasuo Iihoshi, their seven-year-old granddaughter Yui and a male acquaintance, 44-year-old Fumiaki Matsuoka. The bodies of the remaining three victims - two men and a woman - were yet to be publicly identified.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/wor...er-mass-killing-in-japanese-village-1.3711952
 
I used to work with a really lovely man who escaped from a 1986 nightclub shooting because he took a mens' room break while the killer was murdering people in the bar and bandstand. It's horrible that I now feel I might need to qualify the crime with the word "only;" the criminal "only" shot seven people and "only" six died, but modern mass shootings make the six deaths figure seem almost minor.
 
ramonmercado said:
A lawsuit filed against Uber claiming that the ride-sharing company was to blame for the jailing of an Uber driver who is charged with murder is a hoax, the Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office said on Thursday.

The Sheriff's Office said officials became suspicious of the suit, filed in the name of murder suspect Jason Dalton, who is currently jailed in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, after seeing the online filing. The online filing included a facsimile of the envelope used to send the suit, which had a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, postmark.

"Our mail does not go Philadelphia. That raised a lot of suspicion right there," Pali Matyas, an undersheriff, said in an interview.

The envelope in court documents was not a jail envelope, the postage did not match what the county jail uses and the hand-written court filing did not match handwriting the office had on file of Dalton, Matyas said

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...rder-suspect-is-found-to-be-a-hoax/ar-BBqAl9B
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He's pleading guilty, I guess the Uber app didn't make him do it after all.

A man charged with killing six strangers between picking up rides for Uber pleaded guilty to murder on Monday in Michigan.

Jason Dalton’s surprise move occurred as lawyers and a judge planned to pick a jury in Kalamazoo County court. There was no deal for Dalton: He pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder, and he faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison with no chance for parole. “I’ve wanted to do this for quite a while,” Dalton told a judge.He answered “yes” to a series of questions, admitting that he shot eight people at three locations in the Kalamazoo area in 2016. Four women, a man and a 17-year-old boy were killed.

After Dalton’s arrest, police quoted him as saying a “devil figure” on Uber’s app was controlling him on the day of the shootings.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...cid=newsltushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__010819
 
He's out!

A man who murdered his wife, children and parents before his 15-year charade living as a doctor unravelled, has been freed after more than 20 years in prison.

The family of the late wife of Jean-Claude Romand, 65, failed to persuade courts to block his release. The horrific nature of his crimes in 1993 gripped France and became the subject of a bestselling book and two films.

Romand, who fooled friends and family for 15 years by leading a double life in eastern France and Switzerland, received a life sentence in 1996. He had been eligible for parole since 2015. ...

In January 1993, when he was 38, his debtors were close to uncovering his deceit. In the family home he killed his wife with a rolling pin and shot dead his daughter, 7, and son, 5, with a hunting rifle. He then drove to his parents’ home in Clairvaux-les-Lacs in the Jura mountains and killed his mother and father with bullets to the back. The following day he was found unconscious in the remains of his burning house, after he had set fire to it, having swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills. ...

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/...life-posing-as-a-doctor-is-released-kwmdmk7cr
 
A rather nasty incident.

A 25-year-old man turned himself in to police in the ski resort of Kitzbühel yesterday and admitted killing his former girlfriend, her new boyfriend as well as her mother, father and brother.

The man, named only as Andi E, appeared at a police station at 6am to confess to the murders. “He put a gun and a knife on the counter and claimed that he had just killed five people,” said Walter Pupp, a prosecutor.

Police went straight to the scene and found the bodies. The suspect had split up with his 19-year-old girlfriend two months ago, but bumped into her and her new boyfriend in a restaurant on Saturday evening, an encounter that turned into a jealous row. At about 4am yesterday the man went to the woman’s home and they spoke to each other.

The suspect then went home, armed himself with a knife and his brother’s pistol, which was legally owned and kept in a safe, and went back to the property at 5.30am.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/...ve-murders-in-kitzbuehel-ski-resort-ft0mqb593
 
ramonmercado said:
A man was arrested after killing 19 people and injuring 45 others in a stabbing rampage at a facility for the disabled in Japan’s Kanagawa Prefecture near Tokyo, local media reported, citing authorities.

Twenty of the injured are in critical condition, the national fire department, which also performs emergency medical care, has said.

A 26-year-old man was arrested by police after the attack, national broadcaster NHK reported. He was said to be holding a knife.

https://www.rt.com/news/353242-tokyo-stabbing-killed-rampage/
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He's been sentenced to death but the following information is worrying:

It later emerged that a few months before the attack Mr Uematsu had taken a letter to Japan's parliament saying he would kill 470 severely disabled people if authorised.

"I want Japan to be a country where the disabled can be euthanised," he said.

He was subsequently taken to hospital but released after two weeks.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-51903289
 
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He's been sentenced to death but the following information is worrying:

It later emerged that a few months before the attack Mr Uematsu had taken a letter to Japan's parliament saying he would kill 470 severely disabled people if authorised.

"I want Japan to be a country where the disabled can be euthanised," he said.

He was subsequently taken to hospital but released after two weeks.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-51903289
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I hope the execution is done ASAP, what a loser.
 
Last Sunday, while walking down Denmark Street in central London, I realised that Denmark Place is no more – and probably hasn’t been for some time.

I hadn’t thought about the incident for years, and when I checked it out later was actually quite surprised to confirm that the Denmark Place fire remains the worst non-terrorism related mass murders in recent British history.

Now, be honest - I'm genuinely interested. Despite that place at the top of the league table, how many people have even heard of it, I wonder?

Edit: I'd emphasise that I'm talking about mass murder, as distinct from serial killing (Shipman would have beat Thompson hands down).
 
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Looks as if it might be "honour killing" related.

Lebanese security forces are searching for a man who allegedly killed his wife and eight other people in the country's worst mass shooting in years.

The man is thought to be hiding in a forest near Baakline, a town in the Chouf mountains where the killings took place on Tuesday, state media said. The victims reportedly include at least five Syrians, two of them children. The motive remains unclear, but a local MP said it was a "crime of honour" by a man with "psychological disorders". Baakline's mayor suggested the suspected had had a "nervous breakdown".

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-52380503
 
Another Angel of Death?

German police said a 51-year-old woman detained on suspicion of killing four people at a hospital in the eastern city of Potsdam is an employee at the clinic.

Officers called to the Oberlin Clinic shortly before 9pm on Wednesday found the victims and a fifth person who was seriously injured in patient rooms, Brandenburg state police said.

“The victims showed signs of significant external violence,” police spokesman Thorsten Herbst said.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-40277324.html
 
Because he wasn't invited to the party ...

Colorado officials say the gunman who killed six people at a birthday party at the weekend was upset that he had not been invited.

Police say Teodoro Macias, 28, fatally shot his girlfriend, Sandra Ibarra-Perez, 28, and five relatives before turning the gun on himself. The attack unfolded at the Canterbury Mobile Home Park in Colorado Springs early on Sunday. The party was for three relatives, two of whom died.

The attack came less than two months after a mass shooting that left 11 dead at a grocery store in the north-central Colorado city of Boulder.

Police say the Colorado Springs gunman had a "conflict" with the targeted family at a separate event about a week earlier, and was a jealous boyfriend.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57074980
 
Maybe they should teach anger management and how to deal with embarrassment and disappointment in schools. Might prepare a lot of people for the inevitable times things don't go their way. Mind you, most people don't think to pick up a gun when they're not invited to a party.
 
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