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| Suspect in Arizona Killings: A Disturbed Young Man Rejected by Army |
| 2011-01-10 |
| [An Nahar] The suspect accused of killing six people and wounding Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was described as a disturbed young man who was rejected by the military and frequently disrupted his college class. The 22-year-old local resident, Jared Lee Loughner, was jugged at the scene on Saturday after allegedly shooting 20 people, six fatally, including a nine-year-old girl and a federal judge. FBI director Robert Mueller said Loughner will be charged in a federal court later Sunday. The Tucson neighbors of Loughner said he often kept to himself -- not hostile to anyone but certainly not warming up to anyone, either. "He was a guy in high school who definitely had his opinions on stuff and didn't seem to care what people thought of him," said Grant Wiens, 22, who told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named he went to high school and had a class at Pima Community College with Loughner. Loughner was in jug after authorities said he opened fire outside a grocery store as Giffords, a Democrat, met with voters. The rampage killed six people including Arizona's chief federal judge. Giffords was among 13 people maimed. Authorities said the accused gunman targeted the three-term congresswoman, but an exact motivation was not immediately known. Many questioned whether the nation's polarized political climate had played a role, even as Loughner's political views remained unclear late Saturday. Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik described the gunman as mentally unstable and said he possibly acted with an accomplice. Lynda Sorenson said she took a math class with Loughner last summer at Pima Community College's Northwest campus and told the Arizona Daily Star he was "obviously very disturbed." "He disrupted class frequently with nonsensical outbursts," she said. In a Dec. 15 YouTube video, Loughner describes himself as a U.S. military recruit. Federal law enforcement officials poured over versions of a MySpace page that belonged to Loughner and over a YouTube video published weeks ago under an account "Classitup10" and linked to him. The MySpace page, which was removed within minutes of the gunman being identified by officials, included a mysterious "Goodbye friends" message published hours before the shooting and exhorted his friends to "Please don't be mad at me." On his MySpace page, Loughner spoke of how he liked to read and he also wrote repeatedly about literacy, complaining that the rate was especially low in the congressional district where he lived. "The majority of people, who reside in District-8 are illiterate hilarious. I don't control your English grammar structure, but you control your English grammar structure," he said. In an interview with The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, Wiens also said Loughner used to speak critically about religion. He also talked about how he liked to smoke pot. "He wasn't really too keen on religion it seemed like," Wiens told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. "I don't know if floating through life is the right term or whatever, but he was really just into doing his own thing." Loughner's MySpace profile indicated he attended and graduated from school in northwest Tucson and had taken college classes. He did not say if he was employed. Tamara Crawley, director of the Marana Unified School District in Tucson, said Loughner attended Mountain View High School in Tucson for three years but withdrew after completing his junior year in 2006. Crawley did not know why Loughner had withdrawn from Mountain View High and it was not clear if he had transferred to another school in the area. The Army released a statement indicating Loughner was not accepted as a recruit. In October 2007, Loughner was cited in Pima County for possession of drug paraphernalia, which was dismissed after he completed a diversion program, according to online records. A year later he was charged with an unknown "local charge" in Marana near Tucson. That charge was also dismissed following the completion of a diversion program in March 2009, the Daily Star reported. Ryan Miller, 19, was a sophomore at Mountain View when Loughner was a senior. He said Loughner seemed like a normal kid. "I was in shock," he said, describing his reaction to the shooting. "I didn't know what possessed someone our age to do something like this." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 wow. Hard to believe of a conscience-reader |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-01-10 20:47 |
| #9 The Army released a statement indicating Loughner was not accepted as a recruit. I read today the he failed his piss test. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2011-01-10 19:51 |
| #8 From #6's cited article The Pima County SheriffÂ’s Department was aware of his violent nature and they failed to act appropriately. This tragedy leads right back to Sherriff Dupnik and all the spin in the world is not going to change that fact. This has been said in many internet posts every since Sheriff Dummkopf mouthed off on Saturday. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-01-10 18:38 |
| #7 If there is anything to that Skunky - this is getting better and better (or rather worse and worse). I don't recognize the website so can't really evaluate its reliability.... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-01-10 18:33 |
| #6 This report is rather disconcerting |
| Posted by: Skunky Glin**** 2011-01-10 18:24 |
| #5 I think its a 'Diversion' from serving any jail (or Youth Center) time to performing community service and/or some sort of 'rehab' program. Translation: he receive a mild |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-01-10 12:22 |
| #4 possession of drug paraphernalia, which was dismissed after he completed a diversion program, WTF is a "diversion" program? This was mentioned in regards to two separate incidents. Was he diverted from using drugs to being a killer? |
| Posted by: Alan Cramer 2011-01-10 10:04 |
| #3 yet AZ State Senator Linda Lopez (D) said she'd heard he was an Afghan war Vet... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-01-10 08:20 |
| #2 During the last 4 to 6 weeks a major Leftist, Francis Fox Piven has been calling the un-employed young people to violent action... workers must realize that others have put them in their current, uneasy situation: “[T]he out-of-work have to stop blaming themselves for their hard times and turn their anger on the bosses, the bureaucrats or the politicians who are in fact responsible.” Only then, once their rage has been properly stoked, can the angry take action. And when they do, she says, the “protesters need targets.” What she is calling for is nothing less than the chaos and violence engulfing Europe,” writes Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Ron Radosh on his blog. “Disgruntled leftist unionists, students who expect an education without cost, and citizens of social-democratic states cannot accept that the old terms of the social contract they thought would last forever have worn out their welcome. The European welfare-state governments can no longer function with the kind of social programs that now far exceed their nation’s budgets and hence are moving their countries to the precipice of total collapse.” But violence has always been Piven’s preferred method of collapse. In 2004, she admitted as much, saying that violence is condoned as long as it is part of a grand plan... http://www.theblaze.com/stories/frances-fox-piven-rings-in-the-new-year-by-calling-for-violent-revolution/ |
| Posted by: Omomosing and Tenille7822 2011-01-10 01:32 |
| #1 Loughner seemed like a normal kid. Things are not what they seem. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-01-10 00:57 |