Usa Thread

[Flashermac]

"Authorities said Alexis obtained the assault rifle used in the shooting from a gun safe on the naval base. There’s where he may have also obtained a handgun, according to authorities."

 

Obviously the laws need to be changed to restrict the Navy from owning firearms, since they can't seem to safeguard them.

 

"In Fort Worth, Oui Stuhamtewakul, who identified himself as Alexis’ best friend and former roommate, described Alexis as a Thai speaker."

 

That proves he had to be a whacko ...

 

"A Navy spokeswoman said Alexis served from May 2007 through January 2011, and was an aviation electrician’s mate — a third-class petty officer — before he was discharged."

 

Which means he probably never had his hands on an assault rifle before in his life.

 

It gets even better ...

 

A CNN reporter said he "can't remember the last time someone shot up a military installation in the US."

 

 

[Flashermac]

[Flashermac]

The gunman used to help the owner here, waited on tables ...

 

Happy Bowl Thai Restaurant

 

http://www.yelp.com/biz/happy-bowl-thai-restaurant-fort-worth

[Flashermac]

US killer had Thai links

 

 

The man accused of killing 12 people at the historic Washington Navy Yard in the United States had taught himself Thai and recently visited Thailand to begin plans to move to the country, friends and law enforcement said Tuesday.

 

Aaron Alexis, 34, lived and worked for three years with Nutpisit Suthamtewakul, owner of the Happy Bowl Thai restaurant in Fort Worth, up to Monday, when he went on the rampage that cost 12 innocent people and himself their lives.

 

Customers and Mr Nutpisit described him to US media as "friendly and polite". Mr Nutpisit said Alexis had a strong interest in Buddhism, and often meditated.

 

"He didn't seem aggressive" at all, the Thai businessman said.

 

He and Alexis lived in an apartment owned by another Thai-Texan, Somsak Srisan. "I never saw him get angry about anything," said the apartment owner of his 34-year-old tenant.

 

Friends said Alexis spoke Thai well, and was self-taught. A Thai customer at the Texas restaurant told a CNN reporter that the accused killer's Thai was "fluent". Alexis had recently visited Thailand and had held - and apparently lost - an IT job in Japan.

 

From 2008 until his discharge in 2011, Alexis was a member of an aviation support squadron based in Fort Worth, Texas, where he worked on C-40s, a military version of the Boeing 737 that the US Navy uses as a cargo plane. Law enforcement officials said that he was more recently working as a military contractor.

 

However, there was another side to Alexis that the Thais and others apparently failed to see.

 

He was kicked out of the US Navy in 2011 after an arrest for firing a gun into a neighbour's apartment.

 

Alexis told customers while working at Happy Bowl that he had moved to Fort Worth while working with the military and decided to stay on.

 

He was seen frequently at a Buddhist temple, meditating and helping out.

 

But Alexis "had a pattern of misconduct," the official said.

 

By Tuesday morning Thailand time, law enforcement officials had identified Alexis as the shooter who went on a two-hour rampage at the sprawling naval base in Washington, but have not yet said what they believe was his motive.

 

Alexis, a native of New York, who served in the US Navy from 2007 to 2011 as an aviation electrician's mate 3rd class, entered the base early Monday morning, authorities said, perhaps using another man's identification card to pass through the gates.

 

Once inside, officials said, he headed for the massive Building 197, the headquarters of the Navy Sea Systems Command. Armed with three weapons, including an AR-15 rifle, he went to the building's fourth floor, according to officials. About 8.15am, (7.15pm Monday night in Thailand) according to witness accounts and police dispatch recordings, the gunman began shooting down into a crowded atrium that houses an employee cafeteria.

 

Washington police and Navy security officials engaged in "multiple" exchanges of fire with Alexis over the next two hours, Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier told reporters, eventually shooting and killing him.

 

In addition to the 12 people killed, three others were treated at hospital, with two requiring surgery. All three are expected to recover, hospital officials said. Officials said other people may have suffered injuries that did not require hospitalisation.

 

On Sept 5, 2010, Alexis was arrested in Fort Worth on suspicion of discharging a weapon. Alexis reportedly told officials that the gun had discharged accidentally when he was cleaning it. The Tarrant County district attorney did not prosecute.

 

The FBI poster on Alexis asks the public for any information it has on the alleged shooter, but provides no hint of his links to Thailand.

 

 

http://www.bangkokpo...ive-in-thailand

[Steve]

http://www.upworthy.com/his-first-4-sentences-are-interesting-the-5th-blew-my-mind-and-made-me-a-little-sick-2?g=2

[Flashermac]

Briton jailed for 27 years in US cannibal case

 

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24135360

[unit731]

Not home at the time. Party was a break in.

 

"Ex-NFL player Brian Holloway’s upstate NY home trashed by hundreds of partying teens.

 

Holloway, who played offensive tackle for the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Raiders in the 1980s, had his rural vacation home trashed during a Labor Day weekend party that was attended by an estimated 200 to 400 teenagers. The retired football player said the teens caused at least $20,000 in damage. Police are investigating the party."

 

 

LINK

[cavanami]

So far, about every shooting like this has the same thread back to some new age drug(s)...

 

Confirmed: Navy Yard Shooter Was On Anti-Depressant Trazodone

 

http://www.infowars.com/confirmed-navy-yard-shooter-was-on-anti-depressant-trazodone/

 

It has been confirmed that Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis was on the anti-depressant drug Trazodone, providing yet another example of a connection between psychiatric drugs and mass shootings.

 

In verifying that Alexis was prescribed Trazodone by the Veterans Affairs Office, the

Washington Post published a brief article downplaying the danger of the drug, quoting Miami physician Gabriela Cora who stated (almost too eagerly), “Honestly, it’s a very safe drug to use.â€

However, the drug has been linked to a number of murders, including one mass shooting.

Trazodone is sold under the brand names Desyrel, Oleptro, Beneficat, Deprax, Desirel, Molipaxin, Thombran, Trazorel, Trialodine, Trittico, and Mesyrel. Although not strictly a member of the SSRI class of antidepressants, it shares many of the same properties and also serves to increase the amount of serotonin in the brain.

Despite the Washington Post’s attempts to portray the drug as being safe, it is

linked with a whole host of side-effects including suicidal tendencies, panic attacks, depersonalization and anger. Symptoms of Trazodone withdrawal include aggression and violent behavior.

The drug also carries an, “FDA black box warning for suicide, and is documented to cause mania and violent behavior,â€

writes Kelly Patricia O’Meara.

[Flashermac]

Saw that. Also, despite all the hysteria about Alexis "using an AR-15", it turns out he had only a perfectly legal 12 gauge Remington hunting shotgun and took the pistol off a guard he shot. It was the cops who had assault rifles. I haven't seen any corrections of the early reports either. Can you say integrity in journalism?

 

VA fucks up once again. This guy was hearing voices and acting barmy, and they didn't take notice.

[unit731]

This guy was beyond psychotropic medication. I'm no medical professional though.

He should have been locked up in some phycho ward.

But none want laws that allow lock ups.

Let them go and hope for the best.

Unfortunately, the best was awful for this veteran. And more importantly - the victims.

 

Cases as this just make it more difficult for all veterans.