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Feds Are Mystified Why Syrian Named Mohamad Planned Terrorist Attack

Posted on | July 26, 2023 | 1 Comment

Almost as soon as the July 14 shooting happened in Fargo, North Dakota, the media rushed to emphasize that nothing was known about the gunman’s motive. On a Friday afternoon, on a busy street just blocks away from the city’s Downtown Street Fair, there was a traffic accident. When police responded to the accident, they were targeted by gunfire that killed one officer and wounded two others. A civilian was also struck by gunfire during the shootout, in which the suspect was killed.

It was not until 24 hours later that we learned that the suspect was named Mohamad Barakat, but in the June 15 press conference announcing this information, Fargo’s police chief made it a point to declare the shooting happened “for no known reason at all.”

It is a profound mystery, you see, why a guy named Mohamad would want to kill policemen in Fargo, North Dakota. But how did Mohamad get to Fargo? We now know how that part happened:

Barakat arrived in the U.S. from Syria in 2012 as part of former President Barack Obama’s massive wave of Syrian refugees, where nearly 20,000 were admitted from October 2011 to December 2016. Eventually, Barakat gained a green card, allowing him to permanently reside in the country. In 2019, Barakat was allowed to become a naturalized American citizen.

Thank you, Barack Hussein Obama! I’m sure the family of the dead cop is grateful that you brought their son’s killer to America. Daniel Greenfield highlights the continuing “mystery motive” theme:

Authorities said they don’t know why Barakat was planning the attack downtown or why he stopped to shoot officers Friday afternoon.
“In regards to motive, if we had clear evidence of that, we would share it,” North Dakota U.S. Attorney Mac Schneider said.

I’m sure he would. Mac Schneider was a [Democrat] politician who lost a congressional race and got nominated as U.S. Attorney by Joe Biden.

Schneider declined to say if Barakat was on the FBI’s radar.

The FBI’s too busy rounding up Trump supporters to bother investigating guys from Syria named Mohamad. Finally this week, we were informed that the Syrian named Mohamad had a vast arsenal of weapons:

The heavily armed man who ambushed Fargo police officers investigating a fender bender last week likely had a bigger and bloodier attack in mind, with at least two fairs taking place at the time in and around North Dakota’s largest city, authorities said Friday.
Mohamad Barakat killed one officer and wounded two others and a bystander before a fourth officer shot and killed him, ending the July 14 attack.
Over the past five years, Barakat, 37, searched the internet for terms including “kill fast,” “explosive ammo,” “incendiary rounds,” and “mass shooting events,” state Attorney General Drew Wrigley said Friday during a news conference in Fargo, a city of about 125,000 people. But perhaps the most chilling search was for “area events where there are crowds,” which on July 13 brought up a news article with the headline, “Thousands enjoy first day of Downtown Fargo Street Fair.”
Had Officer Zach Robinson not killed Barakat, authorities said they shudder to think how much worse the attack might have been. All evidence suggests that Barakat came upon the traffic crash by “happenstance” and that his ensuing ambush was a diversion from his much bigger intended target, Wrigley said. . . .
On the day of the attack, the downtown fair was in its second day and was less than 3 miles from the crash scene. It’s unclear if it was the intended target, though, as Barakat also searched for information on the Red River Valley Fair, which was just a 6-mile drive from the scene, the attorney general said.
After driving by the fender bender, Barakat pulled into an adjacent parking lot to watch from his parked car, Wrigley said. He said Barakat’s car was loaded with guns, a homemade grenade, more than 1,800 rounds of ammunition, three “largish” containers full of gasoline, plus two propane tanks, one completely filled and the other half-filled not with propane, but with “explosive materials concocted at home, purchased lawfully.”
With police and firefighters busy helping, Barakat watched for several minutes until the officers walked by him, when he lifted a .223-caliber rifle out of his car window and began firing, Wrigley said.
The rifle had a binary trigger that allowed it to fire so rapidly that it sounded like an automatic weapon, he said. A binary trigger is a modification that allows a weapon to fire one round when the trigger is pulled and another when it is released — in essence doubling a gun’s firing capacity. The three officers who were shot had no time to react and fell in rapid succession. He also shot and wounded a fleeing woman, Karlee Koswick, who had been involved in the fender bender, he said.
Robinson, who was badly outgunned but was the only officer at the scene who hadn’t been shot, engaged Barakat in a two-minute shootout. It ended with Robinson shooting and killing Barakat as bystanders crouched nearby.
Wrigley described Robinson as “the last man standing in that blue line at that moment.”
“What he was standing between was not just the horrible events that were unfolding there, but between the horrible events that Mohamad Barakat had envisioned, planned and intended and armed himself for — beyond fully — that day,” he said.
Barakat killed Officer Jake Wallin, 23, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan with the Minnesota Army National Guard, and wounded Officers Andrew Dotas and Tyler Hawes. Wallin and Hawes were so new that they were still undergoing field training.
Barakat was a Syrian national who came to the U.S. on an asylum request in 2012 and became a U.S. citizen in 2019, Wrigley said, adding that he didn’t appear to have any ties to the Muslim community in Fargo. He said Barakat had some family in the U.S., but not in the Fargo area, and that investigators are still looking into his history before he arrived in the country.
In recent years, Barakat amassed his arsenal. And his internet searches about causing mayhem date back to 2018, with periods in which they abated before picking back up, the attorney general said. . . .
Wrigley said Barakat was wearing a vest that was “absolutely stuffed” with magazines and that he “was putting the finishing touches on his shooting skills in the last hours before this assault.”
As for the propane tanks, Wrigley said it was “quite dramatic” when the bomb squad detonated them. He suggested the tanks contained something similar to Tannerite, a commercial explosive that can be easily detonated with a shot from a high-powered rifle.
“Obvious motive to kill,” Wrigley said. “I mean, driven by hate. Driven by wanting to kill. Not particularized to some group that we can discern at this moment, not particularized to one individual that we can see.”
Barakat had worked odd jobs, and briefly trained as an emergency responder at a nearby community college. He had no criminal record or social media presence and had so little contact with other people that the only photo law enforcement could provide was a blurry image of him lifted from a video.

Mohamad from Syria arrives here about 10 years ago, and only “worked odd jobs,” so how could he afford all this weaponry? Really, 1,800 rounds of ammunition? A gun with a modified trigger? Notice that the information about Barakat is coming from the state Attorney General, rather than from federal officials. The feds want to make this case disappear, so they can go back to their usual business of investigating Trump voters and giving sweetheart plea deals to Democrats.



 

Category: North Dakota, Terrorism

In The Mailbox: 07.25.23 (Afternoon Edition)

Posted on | July 25, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The amount of ignorance and revisionist history surrounding the atomic bombing of Imperial Japan and its consequent surrender boggles the mind.
Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Don’t Bring A Knife To A Gunfight
EBL: The Covid Cover-up, Special Ops: Lioness, Everything But The Behavioral Sink , and Critical Drinker: Barbie: The Greatest Lie Ever Told
Twitchy: DeSantis Team In A Minor Car Wreck, But The Comments Are A Major Wreck, also, Bulwark BS Merchant Cathy Young Defends Her Dishonest Reporting On Charles Cooke
Louder With Crowder: CMT starts to get Bud Light’d as Nashville restaurant bans network, Defiant Jason Aldean tells haters where to stick it, praises fans who “saw through a lot of the bulls****”, Country star gives powerful defense of Jason Aldean with vulgar (and awesome) rant, and Pay attention, America: Now Biden is coming for your water heater
Vox Popoli: Why Your Grocery Bill is Rising, The Appetizer Ate Them, Putin Warns Poland and NATO, It’s Not About the Economics, and The End of a Naval Era
Gab News: Overcoming The Walking Dead Society
Stoic Observations: The Dirtiest Laundry

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Left’s Elections ‘Fortification’ in 2024
American Greatness: How To Create Conspiracy Theories, Sanctuary Cities Express Regret Amid Flood of Illegal Aliens, The Undumpable Biden, and Fox News’ Conservative Stance Belies Hidden Liberal Agenda
American Thinker: The Achilles Heel of Mail-In Ballot Fraud, ‘Thorny Questions’: How the Democrats and Media Enablers Censor News, A Leading Climate Scientist Expresses Doubt About the Veracity of the Global Warming Movement, and Meet the Threat that No One Saw Coming
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Here’s what a monthly pension check will buy you in Cuba, Night guard duty for Cuba’s Committee for the Defense of the Revolution, and Why is Mexico’s president Lopez-Obrador sticking his nose in US elections?
BattleSwarm: Scalps Taken, also, Remembering the Rosemary Lehmberg DWI Arrest 10 Years Later
Behind The Black: Red China launches two smallsats, Indian company Skyroot conducts rocket engine test, SpaceX launches another 22 Starlink satellites, Spirals within spirals, and Weekend repost: The Democratic Party of thugs and goons
Cafe Hayek: A Law & Economics Center Webinar With Bruce Yandle
CDR Salamander: Grain, Oil, & The Unfreeing Of The Seas – On Midrats, also, The CNO In Waiting
Da Tech Guy: I’m Old Enough to Remember When Barnicle & Co Said Gay Marriage Wouldn’t Affect Your Marriage, On clouds, fires and data, It’s [Bracket away Jesus Talking About Hell] week at your Local Catholic Parish, Bud Light, CMT boycotts betray a New York problem, and Five Thoughts Under the Fedora
Don Surber: Lawyers May End The Trans Madness, 
First Street Journal: The Philadelphia Inquirer tells us all about Barbie and gluten-free meals at the shore. Criminals on the streets? Not so much.
Gates Of Vienna: Thailand: Let the Games Begin!, How Not to Build a Country — Inheritance Tax, Free Money — But It’s Never Enough, Whatever You Do, Don’t Mention the Muslim Brotherhood, and The Last Warning
The Geller Report: MOTHERLESS EGGS: Erasing Women From Procreation One Manufactured Egg At A Time, Military Times: “White Nationalists Shouldn’t Serve in The Military”, ‘Serious Doubt’ About COVID-19 Vaccine Safety After Forced Release of 15,000 Pages of Clinical Trial Data, Biden Regime Defense Department Gives Special Perks to Soldiers Who Are Mentally Ill, and WATCH: ESPN Commentator Collapses in Terrifying Scene During Live Broadcast
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Twelve and Forty-Four, You Are Here, and Some Loose Boulders
Hollywood In Toto: Tom Jones: Don’t Stop Singing ‘Delilah’ (I Won’t), 5 Fascinating Lessons from ‘Barbenheimer’s’ Box Office Romp, Jordan Peterson Schools Bill Maher on Canadian Fascism, and Barbie Critics Trigger Woke Nation, Media
The Lid: Cackling Kamala Is Lying about Florida’s School Program Covering Slavery, also, Ellen Barkin Compares Trump To Hitler, Says He’ll Kill Six Million Jews
Legal Insurrection: Texas Responds to DOJ Legal Threat Over Anti-Illegal Immigration Measures, Kamala Harris Lies About Slavery in Florida School Curriculum, Colorado Supreme Court Asked To Find for Christian Baker Who Refused Gender Transition Cake After SCOTUS Web Designer Ruling, School Board in California Approves Measure to Notify Parents if Their Child Identifies as Trans, Despite Outcry From Activists, Dedicated Longtime Toronto Educator Takes His Own Life After Bullying From DEI Activists, and Crazed Feminist Goes Nuclear on Oppenheimer
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, Seventh Sunday after Trinity, and Competency and the Republic
Outkick: Paige Spiranac Moved Her ‘Sexier Content’ To OnlyPaige Because Pro Golfers Judged Her, Nike Shows Warped Definition Of ‘All-American Hero’ With Megan Rapinoe Cartoon, Brian Harman Unfazed By The Moment, Puts On A Sunday Masterclass To Win The Open, MLB Pitcher Chad Kuhl Steps Away From Baseball While Wife Battles Cancer, Ebanie Bridges Wants To Make Content With Paige VanZant, and Most USWNT Players Silent During Anthem At World Cup Debut, But At Least They Were Standing
Power Line: Can Doug Burgum Be President?, How Nixon Advised Clinton, The Daily Chart: The Most Dishonest Climate Chart Ever, and Would voters really reelect the ‘senescent, sticky-fingered … spavined’ Biden?
Shark Tank: Rep. Cory Mills Responds To Administration’s Crackdown On Household Appliances
Shot In The Dark: Deja Vu, also, Best Of Hands
STUMP: Podcast: Detroit Bankruptcy a Decade Later
This Ain’t Hell: Senators Kelly and Duckworth on the need to continue to support Ukraine, Stating the blindingly obvious, Real Fake Military Service, Trans Health Department Admiral, “Wrong Puberty”, and Army vet Tony Bennett dies at 96
Transterrestrial Musings: The Psychology Of Disneyland, Defanging The Russian Nuclear Threat, The Original Sin Of US Health Policy, and The Climate Witch Trials
Victory Girls: FBI Broke Rules, Spied On U.S. Senator, State Senator, And Judge, also, Bye, Bye Birdie – Twitter Goes X
Volokh Conspiracy: UN Human Rights Council Calls for Punishing Blasphemy (In This Instance, Quran Burning)
Watts Up With That: Big Blow to UK’s Green Dreams as Costs Skyrocket, WaPo’s ‘Journalism’ Has Tipped Toward a B.S. Point, Aussie Climate Policy Fracture: States Push Back on Paying Carbon Offsets, Record Breaking Heatwave in Europe?, and BBC & The Black Winged Stilt
The Federalist: Ignore President Biden, Here’s What Is Really Happening In Israel, The Global Fertility Industry Seeks To Erase Women From Procreation One Manufactured Egg At A Time, Depressed Barbie Is What Happens When Feminists Are Trusted With An Icon, A Department Of Friendship Can’t Fix The Sexual Revolution’s Lonely Fallout, Texas Announces Exit From Leftist-Controlled Voter-Roll ‘Management’ Group ERIC, and The Establishment’s Paxton Impeachment Sham Undermines The Will Of Texas Voters
Mark Steyn: Maddening and Confounding: John Cassavetes and The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, This Is All I Ask, and Notes from Nowhere

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Category: Linkagery

The Hottest Team in Baseball

Posted on | July 24, 2023 | Comments Off on The Hottest Team in Baseball

Baltimore Orioles ace reliever Felix Bautista

The city of Baltimore has a lot to be ashamed of, including a failed school system, out-of-control crime and sending Rep. Kweisi Mfume to Congress. Despite its many woes, however, Baltimore has at least one source of municipal pride — the Orioles are the hottest team in baseball.

As I told you last week, the O’s were facing a huge test in their four-game weekend series in Tampa against the Rays, who had led the American League East division all year, until Baltimore got on a wining streak right before the All-Star break. The Orioles won three out of four games at Tampa, and now have a two-game lead in the AL East:

The Baltimore Orioles are making a very real push in the AL East.
The Orioles, fresh off the franchise’s second-ever four-game series win over the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field, now hold a two-game lead over the Rays in the division entering the final 10 weeks of the season.
Baltimore won three of four in the series, which makes 12 wins in 15 games for a team that hasn’t been to the playoffs since 2016 and trailed the Rays in the division by 6.5 games at the start of the month. . . .
First baseman Ryan O’Hearn hit a solo home run in the sixth inning Sunday night to break a 3-3 tie and give Baltimore the lead. O’Hearn drilled the left-field foul pole with his 331-foot shot, which marked the shortest home run on the team this season and just his fourth career homer against a lefty.
Anthony Santander then hit an RBI single in the seventh inning to push Baltimore to a 5-3 lead, which it rode the rest of the way for the two-run win. . . .
Baltimore has seen the playoffs just three times in the past 26 seasons. The Orioles haven’t won the AL East since 2014, the same year they got swept by the Kansas City Royals in the ALCS.

Two words missing from that story: World Series.

Baltimore last won the series in 1983, and haven’t been back for 40 years. As all the sports writers acknowledge, the O’s were supposed to still be in “rebuilding” mode this season, and when Tampa got off to such a hot start — they won their first 13 games and on April 24, were 20-3 (.870) — the consensus seemed to be that the Orioles might be lucky to make it to the playoffs as a wild card. But the past three weeks have shattered that consensus, and pundits who’d been ignoring Baltimore are beginning to take notice. A big part of the reason the O’s are now seen as a contender is because of reliever Felix Bautista. The last time a relief pitcher won the Cy Young Award was 2003, when Eric Gagne of the Dodgers saved 55 games. Bautista has already gotten 28 saves. He’s struck out 96 batters in 49 total innings, with an 0.92 ERA.

Anyway, tonight, the Orioles begin a three-game series in Philadelphia — talk about a city with a lot to be ashamed of! — and if Baltimore can win just one of those games against the Phillies, they’ll be guaranteed to still be leading the AL East when they come back home Thursday to begin a four-game series against the New York Yankees. Let ’em beat the Yankees good and hard, and then everybody will be paying attention.



 

Category: Sports

Rule 5 Sunday: Communication Failure

Posted on | July 24, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

A low effort meme for a low energy Sunday.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Infinite Number Of Days Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Jackie Doll, The Clash, Snow White Looks Hilariously Bad, Elvis Presley, Oppenheimer, Mark Steyn At Sea, Manhattan, Barbie Is A Hot Pink Woke Man Hating Mess, Oppenheimer Review, Tony Bennett RIP, MAGA Democrat Persecution Trial Schedule, Critical Drinker – Barbie‘s Greatest Lie, Saturday Night WW2 Girls With Guns

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Lucy Aragon, Fish Pic Friday – Lauren Lila, Gone Fishin’, Tattoo Thursday, The Wednesday Wetness, A Day Late and a Dollar Short, Stay Drunk With Me, Gone Fishin’, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Palm Sunday and Comey Spied on Nunez, Patel, 5th Circus Allows Continued Govt Censorship

FLAPPR: T.I.T.S. For July 21st

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: National Radio Waves – On The Wire

Posted on | July 23, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: National Radio Waves – On The Wire

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Another .500 week for the Senators; we took two out of three in Montreal, including a rare win for Jim Kaat, but were not so fortunate at the Mistake by the Lake, where we lost two out of three to the Tribe. The sole win in Cleveland was the seventh for Juan Marichal, who held the Indians to four runs until the hitters got rolling for three runs in the ninth, at which point Vicente Romo came in to slam the door for his second save. We’re hosting the Royals on Tuesday at RFK, and hoping to do better than the last time we faced them.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

.500 is better than .333

Don’t Believe CNBC’s Fake News
The DaleyGator
The Pirate’s Cove
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL
Flappr

A Tale of Two Conventions
Head Noises
The Pirate’s Cove
The Political Hat
357 Magnum
EBL

New York Architect Art Vandelay Denies Role in Long Island Serial Killer Case
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EBL

FMJRA 2.0: We Saw It, It Was Coming
A View From The Beach
EBL

Math = White Supremacy
First Street Journal
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Congratulations, Massachusetts Liberals: Your ‘Millionaire Tax’ Just Cost the Patriots an All-Pro Wide Receiver
357 Magnum
EBL

Rule 5 Sunday: Margot Robbie
Animal Magnetism
A View From The Beach
EBL

A Strange Thing to Say
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

When They’re Dead, They’re Just Hookers
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.17.23
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Just a Random Grandbaby Video
357 Magnum
EBL
Flappr

In The Mailbox: 07.19.23 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Orioles Face ‘Huge’ Series in Tampa
EBL

‘Smoking Gun’ on Biden Bribery Scandal
The Daley Gator
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.21.23 (Live At Five Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.21.23 (Afternoon Edition)
357 Magnum
EBL
A View From The Beach

Death in ‘Killadelphia’
First Street Journal
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 07.21.23 (Evening Edition)
EBL
A View From The Beach

Top linkers for the week ending July 21:

  1.  EBL (18)
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  3.  A View From The Beach (11)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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Category: FMJRA Award

‘Joys of Progress’ Update

Posted on | July 23, 2023 | Comments Off on ‘Joys of Progress’ Update

Last month, I told you about former New Hampshire state legislator Barry Charles “Stacie-Marie” Laughton (“The Wonderful Joys of ‘Progress’”), a Democrat who had been charged with child pornography in a case involving his/“her” ex-girlfriend, Lindsay Groves.

There was a flurry of interest in the case this past week because the Department of Justice has released documents in the federal cases against Laughton and Groves and, as WMUR-TV warns, “Details in this story may be disturbing.” You can go read that, but the most “disturbing” aspect of the case is that Groves worked at a child daycare center, and sent naked photos of the children to Laughton, and the federal affidavit quotes text messages between these two creeps, e.g.:

Not even going to transcribe that. Feel slimy just posting the screencap. Everything about this case is weird, including how they got caught:

On June 20, 2023, the Nashua Police Department (NPD) responded to a report that LAUGHTON had shown child sexual abuse images to other adults. One adult (hereinafter,
PERSON 2) reported that on June 20, 2023, LAUGHTON disclosed that her former intimate partner, Lindsay GROVES, sent LAUGHTON inappropriate images of children.
According to PERSON 2, LAUGHTON then showed PERSON 2 three images, which were on LAUGHTON’s phone in a text conversation with a contact titled “Lindsay.” Upon
viewing the three images, PERSON 2 recognized them as children and that each image depicted a separate child. PERSON 2 described each image as depicting children with
their genitals exposed.
The responding NPD officer interviewed another adult (hereinafter, PERSON 3), who reported that on June 16, 2023, LAUGHTON disclosed that GROVES sent her inappropriate images of children. LAUGHTON then sent PERSON 3 four images of nude children by text message, which PERSON 3 deleted. During the interview on June 20, 2023, PERSON 3 was able to recover the images to provide them to the responding NPD officer. The officer observed that the images were of naked children and also observed a text, purportedly from LAUGHTON, that read, “I don’t like that I have these but I wanted to show you the proof. I am not a kid pervert.”
NPD detectives conducted a voluntary interview with PERSON 3 on that same date, June 20, 2023, at the Nashua Police Department. During the interview, PERSON 3 showed the four images to the detectives.

So, Laughton showed these images to two different people, and actually sent them via text message to one of them, like, “Hey, want to see evidence of the federal felonies that I’m involved in?”

BTW, Libs of TikTok is probably incorrect in saying that O’Rourke and Swalwell “campaigned” for Laughton. Almost certainly, the photos were taken at some post-event “grip-and-grin” session following local Democratic Party events in New Hampshire, which as the traditional first primary state gets a steady parade of national political figures showing up for fundraisers, etc. Still, the fact is that Democrats in New Hampshire twice elected Laughton to office, despite his/“her” obvious craziness.



 

Category: Crime, Democrats, New Hampshire, The Transgender Cult

Crazy People Are Dangerous

Posted on | July 22, 2023 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous

Andre Longmore

Andre Longmore served in the Army from 2000 to 2006, as a member of the 82nd Airborne Division, according to his mother, Lorna Dennis:

“In 2014, he had a mental breakdown and was in the VA hospital for 10 days. And after he came out, he wasn’t the same again. He just kept deteriorating until now. I tried to get some help for him, but they kept saying that he has to commit a crime or, you know, like, break up the house or anything, try to hurt himself,” said Dennis. “But if he wasn’t doing that, he has to come in voluntarily to get medical attention, but he said he doesn’t need it and doesn’t want it.”

Her son lived with her in Hampton, Georgia, a suburb 30 miles south of Atlanta, on a quiet street called Dogwood Lakes Drive, until the day last week he got a gun and murdered four neighbors:

After a nearly 24-hour manhunt, the man accused of shooting and killing four people Saturday in a Henry County subdivision was shot and killed by law enforcement officers after a shootout on Sunday.
“The monster is dead,” Henry County Sheriff Reginald B. Scandrett said during a press conference on Sunday.
“The citizens of Hampton, the county of Henry, the metro Atlanta area, and the entire state of Georgia can breathe a little easier tonight. The suspect is off our streets.”
The suspect, identified as 40-year-old Andre Longmore, is accused of opening fire in the Dogwood Lakes area at about 10:45 a.m. on Saturday.
On Sunday, a Henry County Deputy made contact with the vehicle the suspect was driving and requested backup at around 1:30 p.m. When Clayton County officers responded, they learned the suspect ran to a nearby wood line.
Officers were then led to an apartment building on Wagon Wheel Court in Jonesboro. When officers got there, the suspect tried to run again and gunfire was exchanged, Scandrett said.
“Gunfire was subsequently exchanged, leaving Longmore fatally wounded,” the Clayton County Police Department said in a statement.
They said two Clayton County Police officers and one Henry County Sheriff’s deputy suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the shooting. . . .
The victims were identified as Scott Leavitt, 67, Shirley Leavitt, 66, Steve Blizzard, 65, and Ronald Jeffers, 66.

The gunman’s motive is unknown, but of course, schizophrenia is sufficient in that regard. No one has suggested race as a motive, but do you think the national media would just ignore that angle if the gunman had been white and his victims were all black? I don’t think so.

Anyway, as I keep saying,  Crazy People Are Dangerous.



 

Category: Crime, Georgia

In The Mailbox: 07.21.23 (Evening Edition)

Posted on | July 22, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 07.21.23 (Evening Edition)

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0
EBL: Barbie is Hot Pink Woke Man Hating Mess, Oppenheimer: A Review, and Tony Bennett, RIP
Twitchy: Pic Of Hunter’s Lawyer Getting Blazed “During Visit By President’s Son” Sparks Controversy, Sen. John Kennedy Torches Democrats For Racism, Leaves Durbin The Turban Speechless, and Rolling Stone Rages At “Trolls” Pointing Out Their Hypocrisy On Jason Aldean
Louder With Crowder: Shop owner melts down after getting punched in the face by a guy peeing in the street, also, Shrill, gun-control harpy brags about getting Jason Aldean’s “Try That in A Small Town” canceled from CMT
Vox Popoli: Fear of a BIC Planet, 7 Signs of Controlled Opposition, and Success in Clown World
According To Hoyt: Bearings make the world go round by The Phantom, High Flung Dreams, and Blog Funding, Day 15 of 15
Monster Hunter Nation: What’s In A Name?, also, Bestseller Life, from Michaelbrent Collings
Gab News: The Meaninglessness Of Modern Life

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Why Tennessee Is ‘Undemocratic’
American Greatness: Following Affirmative Action’s Demise, Slay the DEI Leviathan, also, LSU Graduate Student Relieved of Teaching Duties After Leaving Threatening, Profanity-Laced Voicemail For Republican State Senator
American Power: Witness Describes Moment When U.S. Army Private Travis King Crossed the Demilitarized Line Into North Korea, The Political Rise of Ultra-Orthodox Jews Shakes Israel’s Sense of Identity, The Autism Surge, and So Much for Local Control of Education: Gavin Newsom Takes on the Temecula Valley Unified School District
American Thinker: The Time for a New Church Committee Is Way Overdue, also, Can Concerned Parents Stop Schools from Grooming Children?
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Infinite Number of Days Friday
Babalu Blog: Half a million Cubans living without potable water in their homes, No cafecito for anyone! Cuban dictatorship warns there’ll be no coffee in stores for two months, and Spanish ‘influencer’ who visited Cuba to promote tourism expresses profound contempt for natives
BattleSwarm: Number of Police Austin Adds In New Budget: Zero, also, LinkSwarm for July 21
Behind The Black: Viking cemetery found at new Saxavord spaceport in Scotland, South Korean researchers turn simulated lunar soil into building blocks, Chandrayaan-3 completes fourth engine burn in Earth orbit, Strings of Martian cones, and The corporate fad to impose racial quotas appears to be fading fast
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Chicago Boyz: Worth Pondering, History Friday: The Indefatigable Mother Bickerdyke, and Apollo Missions and an Alternative History
Da Tech Guy: I Guess if the Money is Right the US is Safe Again
Don Surber: Trumpism expands to Europe
First Street Journal: How wealthy New Englanders fight #ClimateChange
Gates Of Vienna: Another Swedish Embassy Goes up in Smoke, Bad Germans Must Stay Home, Muslim Migrants Carry Their Contempt for Women to New Lands, “I Would Expel All the Trash”, and The InterNazi Takeover
The Geller Report: First Trans State Lawmaker (Democrat) Arrested on Child Pornography Charges, Distributing ‘Child Sexual Abuse’ Images, also, EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE: Guardians of Divinity Expose Human Trafficking at Port Authority NYC
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, A Meathook and a Flying Fish, A Darwin Award Candidate, and STEM v. LGBTQ
Hollywood In Toto: Media Pound Sound of Freedom, Ignore Biden Crime Family, also, Roseanne Barr: ‘Liberals in My Day Protected Art’
The Lid: Question About Jack Smith Could COLLAPSE The Whole Trump Prosecution
Legal Insurrection: Buh-Bye: Stanford Law Diversity Dean Involved in Shoutdown of Conservative Federal Judge Departs, Alabama Republicans’ New Redistricting Map May Parlay SCOTUS Voting Rights Act Loss Into Seat Pick Up, Derek Chauvin Did Not Receive A Fair Trial, But Minnesota Supreme Court Will Not Hear His Appeal, Air Force Academy Superintendent Stumped on Transgender Labels – “I’m not really sure”, Intimidation of Conservatives at Arizona State U. Documented at Legislative Hearing, and NYT Says Nebraska is Punishing Teen for Abortion but She Pled Guilty to Abandoning a Dead Body
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Miss Italy Bans Transgender Competitors, New Washington Commanders Owner Will Reportedly Change Team’s Name, NBA’s Fearless Jonathan Isaac Speaks With OutKick On Strength Through Faith, Starting Anti-Woke Clothing Brand, And More, Patrick Mahomes Denying Kid’s Autograph Request Leads To Incredibly Awkward Moment, Jacksonville Jaguars Coach Kevin Maxen Comes Out As Gay, A First For NFL And Major U.S. Men’s Pro Sports, and Saquon Barkley Drops Giants From Social Media Bios
Power Line: Try That In a Small Town, The buried FD-1023: Key quotes, The Decline of DEI, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Waltz Presses Academy Superintendents Over CRT
Shot In The Dark: Trench Warfare, also, Since They’re Rebooting Everything Anyway
STUMP: Taxing Tuesday: Don’t Count Those Geese Before They’ve Laid Those Golden Eggs
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: Was Gandhi for Real?
This Ain’t Hell: .Mil mails going to .Ml – Mali, Greg Ouimette – Another Purple Heart and Bronze Star Fake, Valor Friday, and Wife charged with Navy husband’s murder accused of adultery
Transterrestrial Musings: Tony Bennett RIP, also, The Feds Weren’t Protecting Hunter
Victory Girls: A UPS Strike Could See Economy Take A Seven Billion Dollar Hit
Volokh Conspiracy: A Former Law Examiner Comments On the NextGen Bar Exam
Watts Up With That: New Greenland Ice Sheet study Shows Why It’s Called “Climate Idiocy”, The Atlantic: “Vermont Was Supposed to Be a Climate Haven”, Claim: Windfarms will Destroy the Australian First Nations Connection to Country, and More Barents Sea Polar Bear Habitat at Mid-July 2023 Than In 2012 Despite More Atmospheric CO2
The Federalist: Parents Sue Pennsylvania School District For Barring Parochial Students From Extracurriculars, Barbieheimer Is For The Fellas, No Girls Allowed, The Disinformation Police Are Even More Incompetent And Dishonest Than You Imagine, The Democrat Party Of The Proudly Unwell And Perverts, and Legislators In Four More States Prepare To Ditch American Library Association
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet

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