Monday, July 25, 2016
Mehr Amokläufe: More Rampages
Germany again! What is the central problem? One event appears to be triggering others - it is the copycat effect on steroids.
http://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2016/ ... pages.html
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by elfismiles » Mon Jul 25, 2016 12:24 pm
Monday, July 25, 2016
Mehr Amokläufe: More Rampages
Germany again! What is the central problem? One event appears to be triggering others - it is the copycat effect on steroids.
http://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2016/ ... pages.html
by divideandconquer » Mon Jul 25, 2016 1:12 pm
by elfismiles » Mon Jul 25, 2016 4:12 pm
divideandconquer » 25 Jul 2016 17:12 wrote:Supposedly, some people in high places--I forget who-- predicted 2016 "summer of chaos" and/or "year of terror". Well, it seems as if they may have had some inside information because if these are truly random events, how could they possibly know...
In 2014, Mother Jones reported Rate of Mass Shootings Has Tripled Since 2011, Harvard Research Shows. Wonder what the increase will show for 2016.
by SonicG » Mon Jul 25, 2016 8:57 pm
by elfismiles » Tue Jul 26, 2016 9:17 am
SonicG » 26 Jul 2016 00:57 wrote:Tragic. Biggest post-war mass-murder in Japan
Man arrested after killing 15 and wounding 45 in knife attack at Kanagawa care facility
...
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/0 ... 5a0_fm7hBc
by elfismiles » Thu Aug 04, 2016 11:03 am
by elfismiles » Thu Aug 18, 2016 12:26 pm
Author John Grisham
Country United States
Language English
Genre Legal thriller novel
Publisher Doubleday
Publication date 2003
Plot
Clay Carter is a poorly paid public defender who dreams of joining a large law firm. One day he reluctantly takes on the case of Tequila Watson, a man accused of a random street killing. Watson insists that he somehow wasn't in control of his body when he pulled the trigger, a story which Clay tries to dismiss, but can't get out of his mind. A short while later, unexpectedly, a mysterious man named Max Pace contacts him, asking him to arrange a series of large pay-offs to victims of a drug named Tarvan. As it turns out, Watson and other recovering drug addicts were experimented on illegally by an unnamed pharmaceutical company, and in 10% of the cases, Tarvan led the test subjects to commit random and senseless killings, which the pharmaceutical company wishes to pay to cover up.
Having earned a large amount of money from this task, Clay establishes his own law firm special-izing in torts, hiring several of his colleagues. He continues to work with Max Pace, who provides him with insider information concerning other defective drugs, Dyloft and Maxatil, allowing him to mount class-action law-suits and profit further. Before long, Clay has become one of the top 10 highest paid lawyers in the country, with a net-worth in the low hundreds of millions. As time goes on, however, Clay becomes reckless and is subject to investigations for various crimes, including insider trading. In the end, Clay is beaten up by some men from Reedsburgh, which sends him to the hospital. Then, he loses a huge case against Goffman and slides downhill as previous clients sue him. In the end, with most of his wealth lost, Clay and his girlfriend fly to London on their private jet, hoping to start a new life, knowing that the jet must be sold later as they need the funds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_Torts
by elfismiles » Thu Aug 25, 2016 6:24 pm
by elfismiles » Mon Aug 29, 2016 12:17 pm
by elfismiles » Mon Sep 26, 2016 1:20 pm
Houston shooting: Nine injured, suspect pronounced dead (VIDEO)
By Samira Said and Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN
Updated 12:44 PM ET, Mon September 26, 2016
(CNN)A gunman who died in a shootout with officers in Houston Monday was a lawyer who lived in the neighborhood and left a car full of weapons near the scene, the city's police chief said.
"We are bringing in the bomb squad to secure it safe," Acting Police Chief Martha Montalvo told reporters.
Attorney Nathan DeSai has been identified as the alleged shooter, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner told CNN.
DeSai was a lone gunman who was disgruntled over matters at the law firm where he worked, according to the mayor, who said he'd been briefed on the shooting by police. DeSai practiced business, criminal and family law, according to his profile on the State Bar of Texas website.
Police said nine people were injured in the shooting, one critically and one seriously.
The FBI is at the scene and assisting the investigation, Montalvo said.
Witness: Gunshots flew by my face
It was still dark when Antoine Wilson drove through the neighborhood Monday morning and suddenly found himself in the middle of a gunfight.
"I didn't realize I was right there by the shooter," he told CNN affiliate KTRK. "Gunshots, I literally hear the gunshots pass my face, 'cause I'm leaning out the window looking, trying to see."
Then he saw police running down the street.
"You (could) hear people screaming," he said. "I'm talking about steady gunshots, just steady shooting, back and forth ... police and the shooter. Helicopters were everywhere."
Firefighters and police swarmed the scene as gunfire rang out, KTRK reported.
"I'm still shaken up," Wilson told KTRK. "I've never been in no standoff like this before."
Later Monday, Kevin Quinn caught a glimpse of cars that apparently were caught in the crossfire. The KTRK reporter tweeted photos of vehicles parked near the scene with bullet-riddled windshields and shattered glass.
Parking lot became triage scene
Early reports indicated the shooting took place in a strip mall parking lot near the corner of Weslayan Street and Bissonnet Street in southwest Houston.
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Montalvo later said it's possible the shooting had occurred on a nearby street.
"As the victims left, the ones that could, possibly, came to this location," she told reporters at a press briefing near the strip mall.
After the shooting, CNN affiliates reported that the parking lot became a triage scene where first responders treated the wounded.
An emergency alert from the city told people to avoid the area and warned residents to take shelter in place. Hours after the shooting, officials told residents the shelter-in-place warning had been lifted and asked the public for help tracking down information about what happened.
CNN's AnneClaire Stapleton contributed to this report.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/26/us/houston-shooting/
by semper occultus » Tue Sep 27, 2016 6:43 am
by stefano » Mon Nov 28, 2016 5:09 pm
OHIO STATE ATTACKER IDENTIFIED: Everything We Know About Abdul Razak Ali Artan
Christian Datoc
Reporter
3:30 PM 11/28/2016
The man behind Monday’s horrific attack at Ohio State University has been identified as Abdul Razak Ali Artan.
Ohio law enforcement officials confirmed to NBC News Monday afternoon that Artan — an 18-year-old freshman at OSU — was the man who plowed a car into a crowd of people on campus and subsequently attacked passers-by with a butcher’s knife.
Authorities had previously confirmed that the suspect was a Somali refugee, legally residing in Ohio.
Artan fled Somalia with his family in 2007 before landing in Pakistan.
He moved to the United States in 2014, where he was granted legal, permanent status.
It should be noted that Ohio State’s online directory only lists one student with the name, Abdul Artan.
Furthermore, “The Lantern” — OSU’s campus newspaper — ran an interview with Artan just a few months ago, in which he criticized the school for not having Muslim prayer rooms on campus.
“I wanted to pray in the open, but I was kind of scared with everything going on in the media,” he stated. “I’m a Muslim, it’s not what the media portrays me to be.”
“I don’t blame them,” he cotinued. “It’s the media that put that picture in their heads so they’re just going to have it, and it’s going to make them feel uncomfortable.”
Artan’s motive is not yet known, yet authorities maintain that the attack was “done on purpose” and are treating the incident as a possible terrorist act.
by stefano » Mon Nov 28, 2016 5:12 pm
by stefano » Mon Nov 28, 2016 5:15 pm
As SiteIntel's Rita Katz tweeted earlier in the day, "though no confirmed motive, use of vehicle & knife in OhioState attack is consistent with recent attack instructions issued by ISIS"
by stefano » Mon Nov 28, 2016 5:28 pm
Suspect Identified in Ohio State Attack as Abdul Razaq Ali Artan
by Pete Williams, Tom Winter, Tracy Connor, Andrew Blankstein and Ken Dilanian
An Ohio State University student plowed a car into a campus crowd, then jumped out and started stabbing people with a butcher knife before being shot dead by police Monday morning, officials said.
Ten people were taken to hospitals after the ambush, but none of the injuries were considered life-threatening. The incident was initially reported as an "active shooter" situation, but the suspect did not shoot anyone.
A police officer was on the scene within a minute and killed the assailant, likely saving lives, university officials said. "He engaged the suspect and eliminated the threat," OSU Police Chief Craig Stone said.
Law enforcement officials told NBC News the suspect's name is Abdul Razaq Ali Artan, an 18-year-old student at the university. He was a Somali refugee who left his homeland with his family in 2007, lived in Pakistan and then came to the United States in 2014 as a legal permanent resident of the United States, officials said.
The motive was unknown, although law enforcement sources said Artan posted a rant on social media prior to the incident. Officials said the attack was clearly deliberate and may have been planned in advance.
"This was done on purpose," Stone said.
Officials said Artan was in the car by himself, but investigators are trying to determine if anyone else was involved in the planning.
A campus lockdown was lifted about 11:30 a.m., some 90 minutes after the violence unfolded on the Columbus, Ohio, campus, where 60,000 students are enrolled.
"This car just swerved and ran into a whole group of people," said Nicole Kreinbrink, who was walking down the street when she saw the car hit people who had evacuated an academic building during a fire alarm.
"All these people were running and screaming and yelling," she added.
Jacob Bowers, an OSU sophomore, was sitting on a bench about 100 feet away when he noticed people running.
"Then I heard someone yell, 'He's got a knife.' And I saw a guy with a big-ass knife just chasing people around. When I saw that, I grabbed all my stuff and started running," Bowers said.
Bowers said he looked back to see a police officer on the scene. The officer yelled to the suspect, "Drop it and get down or I'll shoot," and then fired on the suspect, Bowers said.
"The man was going insane," he said.
Another student told NBC News he heard gunfire from his dorm room.
"I heard gunshots from my dorm, probably six or seven," said Stephen Yunker, 18, a freshman who lives two blocks from Watts Hall, where the incident occurred.
He said he and his roommate looked at each other, heard sirens about five seconds later, and then looked out the window.
"We saw fire trucks, couple of cars, and a body laying on the ground," he said.
OSU Police identified the officer who took down Artan as Alan Harujko, who has been on the force for two years.
The campus was put on lockdown for 90 minutes after the university first reported an "active shooter" in the chaos of the moment.
"Run Hide Fight," the university's emergency management office tweeted. "Continue to shelter in place."
Students hunkered down in classrooms with shades drawn across the 2,000-acre campus.
Lisa Goldstein, 26, was in her Geographical Information Systems class in Stillman Hall when a text alert hit everyone's phones. The students blocked the door with their book bags and monitored social media and live streams for updates.
"It's a little overwhelming and scary. It's not something you think would happen on our campus," she told NBC News.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich praised law enforcement for stopping Artan before he could do more harm.
"Think about what this tragedy could have meant, a man with a butcher knife and who knows what else?" he said.
President Barack Obama was briefed on the attack, a White House spokesman said. The FBI was assisting in the investigation.
Hassan Omar, president of the Somali Community Association of Ohio, told NBC News that reports the attacker was Somali was upsetting.
"Every Somali person has been calling me, and everybody is crying," he said.
"This is a shock," he added. "As a Somali community here, we are in a state of shock. In Columbus, we live in a very peaceful community. This is gonna affect the life of everybody. We are American and we don't want somebody to create this problem."
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