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  • More on SuccessTech

    Police Chief: Teen shoots four; kills self at Cleveland high school:

    The gunman has been identified as 14-year-old Asa Coon. He was armed with two revolvers, a .22 and a .38. No word yet on where he obtained the guns. He was also carrying a box of ammo and several knives.

    Coon had a record too…

    Coon had a previous arrest last year for a domestic violence incident and police had been to his home before for incidents that involved weapons, according to McGrath.

    That would be my leading guess as to where he got the weapons.

  • Pete Solis gets trial date

    Trial date set in MySpace sex assault case:

    You all remember Pete Solis, don’t you? He was the catalyst behind the infamous $30M lawsuit against MySpace. Solis was the one who allegedly sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl who he met over MySpace. Which led the victim’s mother to file one of the most frivolous lawsuits of all time. Anyway, Solis’ trial date for the sexual assault is set to start on January 28th.

  • NJ teen arrested on sex charges

    MySpace Message Tips Parents Off To Child’s Secret Meeting:

    18-year-old Frank Kelley of Millville, New Jersey was arrested after using MySpace to set up a meeting with a 12-year-old girl.

    The unnamed victim’s parents told police they found their child with Frank Kelley at Mulligan Field — a local recreation park located in the north end of the Villas section of Lower Township, Cape May County — after finding messages between the two on a computer.

    The article doesn’t state what happened at the meeting but Kelley was charged with aggravated sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child.

  • More on the SuccessTech shooter

    Teenage gunman wounds four in Ohio high school:

    I’m not quite ready to bestow the M-title on him just yet but it’s coming awfully damn close…

    Local media reported the student, who was described as a loner, was frustrated after being suspended from school for getting into a fight on Tuesday.

    “I know that dude was crazy. We just knew it. You know when people are crazy, come on, man,” one student who fled at the sound of gunshots told CNN.

    “He was in my class … He always wore a trench coat.”

    The boy was described by other students as a loner and devil worshipper who had made jokes about shooting other students in front of teachers.

    “I didn’t think he meant it,” another unidentified student told news station WKYC. “I thought he just said it because he wanted to be popular.”

    This punk was a walking stereotype. There’s only one element missing from the M-equation and I’m sure we’ll hear it any day.

  • SuccessTech shooting in Cleveland

    Cleveland: Classes Cancelled after Violent School Shooting:

    By now I’m sure you’ve heard about the shooting at SuccessTech Academy in Cleveland, Ohio. What is known so far is that a 14-year-old gunman armed with two handguns shot 5 people at the school. Two were faculty and three were students.

    According to Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson the victims are as follows:

    1. A 14-year-old female sustained an injury to the knee.

    2. A 14-year-old male sustained a gun shot wound to the side and was transported to Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital

    3. A 17-year-old male sustained a gun shot wound to the elbow and was transported to Metro Health Hospital.

    4. A 42-year-old male sustained a gun shot wound to the chest and was transported to Metro Health Hospital.

    5. A 57-year-old male sustained a gun shot wound to the back and was also transported to Metro Health Hospital.

    Luckily all the victims are expected to recover. The gunman, not so much. Multiple news outlets are reporting that the gunman took the cowards way out by taking his own life. I’ve seen reports that the gunman was suspended earlier in the week for fighting.

    The description of the shooter is taken right out of the school shooters handbook…

    We are also getting new information on the shooter – he is a white male described as goth and was wearing a Marilyn Manson t-shirt with black fingernails.

    The school itself is described as a non-traditional school with a very stringent admissions process.

    Even though it’s been a few hours since the shooting any of this information may change as more details become available.

    Thanks to Jim, Jade, Soobs, and Bonnie’s Blog of Crime.

  • SJU Gunman unfit for trial

    ST. JOHN’S RIFLEMAN UNFIT FOR TRIAL: SHRINK:

    A court-ordered psychiatric report is stating that Omesh Hiraman is not mentally competent to stand trial. The report was made by a psychiatrist from Kings County Hospital in New York and he had this to say…

    “He hears voices, and he was responding to those voices. He’s suicidal and cannot assist in his own defense,” the source quoted the report as saying.

    For once I don’t think this is a BS defense. If the court agrees with the report Hiraman could spend the rest of his life in a mental institution which at this point would probably be the best thing for him.

  • William Joe Mitchell arrested

    Virginia State Police Arrest Fugitive:

    William Joe Mitchell, who I posted about here, has been arrested by Virginia State Police. 46-year-old Mitchell is accused of luring a 15-year-old Florida girl over MySpace to run away with him.

    Mitchell was arrested Saturday morning at a Flying J Truck Stop in Winchester, Virginia.

  • craigslist denies child prostitution facilitation

    Responding to concerns:

    It wasn’t that long ago that the Mayor of Atlanta, Shirley Franklin, chided craigslist for facilitating child prostitution. Of course, craigslist brushed it off. One of Ms. Frankin’s advisors even mentioned that Facebook and MySpace have been very forthcoming with the mayor’s office even when not legally obligated to do so.

    However, our favorite craigslist mouthpiece, Susan MacTavish Best, had this to say…

    “Craigslist has an erotic services section on the site because our users asked us to create it in order to keep the personals section clear of erotic service ads. (Some folks when looking for a date do not want to have to look at ads for erotic services). Certainly, we … don’t want the site to be used for illegal activity. But we do believe that there should be a place for people to advertise legal escort services. We have over 30 million users a month. As we responded to the Mayor of Atlanta, we are always interested in hearing how we can make Craigslist better. Craigslist makes no money from erotic services because like most of the site, it is free to post there … “

    Legal escort services? No such thing my dear. They may pose as legal but we all know what they’re fronts for. And again you say that you don’t want craigslist used for illegal activities but you’re not doing anything to discourage it. So basically by moving the erotic services section out of the personals you just swept it under the rug hoping nobody would notice.

    What’s it going to take craigslist before you do something about this? Are you waiting for a toddler to get pimped out or worse?

  • Prosecutor Scumbag Peepants does off himself

    Prosecutor jailed on child sex charges commits suicide:

    You remember John David Roy Atchison, don’t you? In case you don’t, he was the federal prosecutor from Florida who went to Michigan to have sex with what he thought was a 5-year-old. It also turned out that Atchison had a diaper and urination fetish. Also while he was in custody he tried to kill himself.

    If you didn’t notice I’m talking about him in the past tense. It seems that he was successful this time in ending his own life.

    He hanged himself this morning at the federal prison in Milan, where he was taken after trying to commit suicide last month at Sanilac County Jail, authorities said.

    Coward.

    Thanks to Soobs and my lovely and talented wife Jade for the link.

  • Busting the safety myth

    As hookers move from streets to Net, cops follow:

    For those of you who think that prostitutes are safer on craigslist than they are on the streets, I present you this quote…

    Some prostitutes believe they’re safer advertising on Web sites, but they’re not, said Julie, a former prostitute who asked that her last name not be used. When Julie began using the Internet for prostitution about two years ago, she tried to screen her customers, but responding to one led to her being raped and robbed, she said.

    “People can tell you anything on the Internet and they do,” said Julie, who is 23 and became a prostitute at 17. “What better place to get a woman if you want to do something to her? I would meet these guys and no one else would see them. At least if I was on the street, other people would be around and see me get into a car or something.”

    Not that craigslist cares. I think their mouthpiece has a macro button that just spits out the following…

    “Craigslist is a user-moderated site, and our users flag off ads that they feel are inappropriate for the craigslist community,” Susan MacTavish Best said in a statement. “Users are really speedy about flagging off problematic ads, and we’ve found that to be the most efficient and fastest way to get such ads off the site.”

    And again I say that your normal craigslist users who use it as a city-wide garage sale aren’t going into the erotic services section. And the people who are sure as hell aren’t going to flag any ads.