Tag: columbiner

  • Never Anticipated

    Never Anticipated

    Murder Suspect Sent Video to Newspaper:

    More on Alvaro Castillo’s Columbine obsession and the failure of anyone to do anything about it…

    Investigators say Castillo was obsessed with Columbine. During a search of the Castillo home on Lipps Lane in Hillsborough, deputies found a diary entitled “Mass Murders and School Shootings of the 20th and 21st Centuries,” as well as directions to the homes of the Columbine school shooters.

    Eyewitness News has learned that the Castillo family knew of this obsession, saying Alvaro Castillo identified with the deep depression of Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, but never anticipated it could lead to violence.

    I apologize to the family for giving them grief at a time like this, but what did they think this obsession could lead to?

    This should serve as a warning to parents who have kids that look up to school shooters as heroes. It’s not just a phase. It’s an unnatural lifestyle that could get them or someone else killed.

  • Castillo’s family knew of obsession

    Castillo’s family knew of obsession

    Orange Co. Shooting Suspect Obsessed With Columbine:

    A little more background on the life of Alvaro Castillo…

    The suspect’s mother, Victoria, and sister, also named Victoria, were present in the courtroom when Castillo was charged. Castillo smiled at them as he was brought in. The women did not comment, but they were visibly shaken during the court appearance.

    A neighbor of the Castillo family, Tim Fluet, was also at the courthouse and described the family as friendly and kind. He said that Victoria Castillo had mentioned to him her son’s obsession with the Columbine shooting in Littleton, Colorado which occurred on April 20, 1999.

    When asked by reporters how long he had been obsessed with the Columbine tragedy, he said, “Since I was ten.”

    When asked why, he said he didn’t know.

    Sheriff’s deputies said Castillo had a previous run-in with law enforcement. He told a law enforcement officer during a traffic stop on April 20th of this year — the seven-year anniversary of the Columbine shooting — that he was suicidal.

    Why don’t parents do anything about unhealthy obsessions like this rather than let them go on for years?

    He will appear in court again on September 11th for a probable cause hearing.

    Coincidentally, the birthday of Dylan Klebold. I bet that’s not lost on Castillo.

  • Castillo sends tape to local paper

    Castillo sends tape to local paper

    Paper receives letter, video related to shooting:

    Alvaro Castillo’s mutant status keeps climbing higher and higher…

    The Chapel Hill News on Thursday received a package with a videotape and a letter signed with the name of the man charged Wednesday with killing his father in Hillsborough. The murder charge came after police arrested Alvaro Rafael Castillo in connection with a shooting at Orange High School on Wednesday that slightly injured two students.

    The letter writer says he knows “almost every detail” of the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. In that well-publicized incident, 13 students were killed and 23 people were injured by two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who then killed themselves.

    “I sent you the tape because I do not want them locked away just [like] the Basement Tapes that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold made,” the letter says. “The police would not release them. This will not happen again. I want the world to see myself.”

    The writer later adds: “I also like to read about massacres like the one that occurred in Red Lake, Minnesota by Jeff Weise,” referring to the deaths of 10 people, eight of them at a school, in a shooting rampage in March 2005. “I must remind the world!”

    The letter ends with, “I will die. I have wanted to die for years. I’m sorry.”

    He’s not either.

    “I know I am insane. Ever since I was young, I knew there was something wrong with me,” the letter says. The writer calls himself “a depressed and traumatized individual.”

    The letter speaks of a father who is verbally abusive to the writer, his sisters and his mother. It speaks of the father hitting members of the family on occasion. “His threats and abuse took their toll on me,” the letter says.

    It also says the writer was shown pornography by a friend at 8 years old. “From that day on, I was disgusted with the world,” the letter says.

    Ok, but what the hell does that have anything to do with shooting at his old high school?

  • Castillo obsessed with not only Columbine

    Castillo obsessed with not only Columbine

    Shooting Suspect Obsessed With Columbine:

    More information about the e-mail Alvaro Castillo sent to Columbine principal Frank DeAngelis and about Castillo himself…

    Columbine Principal Frank DeAngelis did not read the e-mail until after the attack, according to a statement Thursday by the Jefferson County, Colo., schools. DeAngelis called the district’s security director, who called the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.

    And it seems Castillo was not just a Columbine worshiping mutant either…

    “He was obsessed with Columbine, the (Kip) Kinkel shooting in Oregon, the (Jonesboro) Arkansas high school shooting,” the sheriff said. Investigators found numerous diaries at Castillo’s home in which he wrote about attacks, Orange County Sheriff Lindy Pendergrass said.

    And I wonder if this was the real trigger…

    Officials with the North Carolina National Guard said Thursday that Castillo entered the guard as a recruit in 2004 and completed basic combat training in August 2005. He was never deployed and was being processed out of the guard after being determined to be medically disqualified for military service, according to the statement.

    Eric Harris was denied entrance to the Marines shortly before Columbine. Coincidence, or a mutant imitating his hero? Probably coincidence, but it’s an eerie one.

  • Castillo e-mailed Columbine principal

    Castillo e-mailed Columbine principal

    Authorities: NC school shooting suspect e-mailed Columbine principal:

    Ok, this Alvaro Castillo guy just made himself king mutant…

    (Hillsborough, NC-AP) August 31, 2006 – Authorities say the 19-year-old man accused of killing his father and then injuring two students during a shooting at Orange High School in North Carolina sent an e-mail to the Columbine High School principal warning of his attack.

    The message was sent Wednesday morning by Alvaro Castillo to Columbine principal Frank DeAngelis. It read: “Dear Principal, In a few hours you will probably hear about a school shooting in North Carolina. I am responsible for it. I remember Columbine. It is time the world remembered it. I am sorry. Goodbye.”

    He almost seems like the John Mark Karr of the mutant set, except that Castillo actually killed someone.

  • Color me shocked (More on Alvaro Rafael Castillo)

    Color me shocked (More on Alvaro Rafael Castillo)

    Teen in Shooting Obsessed With Columbine:

    You could have knocked me over with a feather when I read the headline. Well, more like a sledgehammer. I knew my guess about Alvaro Rafael Castillo being a mutant would be correct…

    A teenager accused of killing his father and then shooting two students at his former high school said Thursday that he had been obsessed for years with the mass killing at Columbine High School.

    Alvaro Rafael Castillo mentioned that massacre as he arrived for an initial appearance in Orange County District Court. When asked why he fixated on the 1999 attack, Castillo said he didn’t know.

    The 19-year-old was assigned a lawyer at his first court appearance and ordered held without bond. He didn’t speak during the brief hearing and only nodded when asked by Judge Charles Anderson if he understood the proceedings.

    That last paragraph kind of surprised me. I thought Castillo would be crazy enough to go off on some rant while in court.

    I found this mildly interesting…

    The owner of the property on which the Castillo home is located refused to allow reporters access to the private road on Wednesday evening. The home is located amid a mix of horse farms, trailer parks and modest homes.

    I wonder which one he lived in.

  • More on Orange High School shooting

    More on Orange High School shooting

    Former student charged with killing father:

    The suspect in the Orange High School shooting in Hillsborough, North Carolina also killed his father…

    Alvaro Rafael Castillo, 19, of Hillsborough has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of his father Rafael Huezo Castillo following Wednesday’s shocking school shooting at Orange High School.

    “Sacrifice, it’s all sacrifice.” Castillo said when asked why he murdered his father and shot at Orange High students. “We all have to die for the world is cruel.”

    Orange County Sheriff Lindy Pendergrass said the younger Castillo confessed to killing his father after deputies arrested him for firing on his former high school.

    After the confession, deputies moved on the information. They forced their way inside of the Castillos’ home on Lipps Lane near the Durham County line. Inside, they found the boy’s father shot to death.

    When asked about his father, Castillo said, “He made us suffer all his life. Someone had to put him out of his misery. He abused me and my family. He was abused, too.”

    Castillo’s mutant ranking is way off the scale, too…

    As he was being forced into a police car, Castillo shouted out, “Columbine! Remember Columbine! Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold! Nathan Leopold, it’s his birthday! Sacrifice!” As the car was driving away, Castillo made his hand into the shape of a gun, put two fingers that were simulating a barrel into his mouth and then acted like he was shooting.

    It should be noted that August 30, 1971, is actually the day Nathan Leopold died – not his birthday. Leopold and Richard Loeb gained notoriety in 1924 after they murdered a 14-year-old boy. The two University of Chicago students believed they were so smart they could pull off the perfect crime.

    Since he’s obviously a deranged mutant, I wonder what the alleged abuse actually was.

  • Robert Bonelli sentenced

    Robert Bonelli sentenced

    BONELLI GETS 32 YEARS IN PRISON FOR MALL SHOOTING:

    Robert Bonelli, the 26-year-old Columbine obsessed Upstate New York mall gunman, was sentenced yesterday…

    KINGSTON – Hudson Valley Mall gunman Robert Bonelli Jr. was sentenced on Friday to 32 years in state prison, the maximum allowed under the guilty plea he entered in March.

    State Sup-reme Court Justice Mich-ael Kavanagh handed down the sentence after Bonelli’s father tearfully pleaded for mercy and after a security camera video showing the shooting spree’s first moments was shown in court.

    The judge said Bonelli was “truly a disturbed, troubled man” but that the defendant clearly knew what he was doing when he opened fire in the mall on Feb. 13, 2005.

    “You had to know that you … placed lives in grave danger,” Kavanagh told the 26-year-old defendant, who was clad in orange jail garb. “You simply did not care what the consequences were when you fired that weapon.

    “What happened here was horrendous,” the judge said.

    BONELLI apologized during Friday’s court proceeding, which the two victims, Thomas Haire of Pine Plains and Stephen Silk of Kingston, attended.

    “I’m sorry that all this happened. This is not the kind of person that I am,” Bonelli said.

    Bonelli asked to address Haire directly, but Kavanagh said no.

    HAIRE, a 20-year-old National Guardsman who was manning a recruiting table at the mall on the day of the shooting spree, read from a prepared statement in court.

    “I wish there were mall security to protect us from Mr. Bonelli and to inform us of his whereabouts and what to do,” said Haire, who suffered a serious leg injury in the shooting. “I just don’t think he should have gotten as far as he did. But he did.”

    BONELLI’S attorney, Ulster County Public Defender Andrew Kossover, described his client as a man wracked with low self-esteem and deep depression and twisted by years of alcohol and drug abuse.

    All of those things taken together created a “perfect storm,” Kossover said.

    Bonelli, who lived in Glasco at the time of the shooting, said in court that he felt everyone was against him and that his life was doomed in the time leading up to the shooting spree. He also said he “should have got help” long ago for his substance abuse problem.

    “I just hope that this court forgives me for what I have done,” Bonelli said.

    “This man’s judgment was not impaired,” Williams said.

    To make his point, Williams read aloud a journal entry that Bonelli made in 2004: “The wolf within is crawling out of my skin. … The only one who can stop me is me. … I will kill as many as fate allows. … Hate is a terrible thing to waste.”

    Williams also quoted from a note found in Bonelli’s vehicle after the shooting: “The lonely man strikes with absolute rage.”

    Bonelli’s defenders, including psychiatrist Dr. Steven Price, noted that some of Bonelli’s writings merely were taken from song lyrics.

    BONELLI has said he tried to commit suicide in the hours before the mall shooting but couldn’t bring himself to do it. So he decided to open fire at the mall, he said, figuring he’d be killed by police – a practice commonly referred to a “suicide by cop.”

    Williams said that didn’t make sense because there typically are no armed police officers in a shopping mall.

    The prosecutor also noted that materials found in Bonelli’s home after the shooting indicated he had a “perverse” interest in the 1999 shooting rampage at Columbine High School in Colorado.

    Paul Fowler, a family friend, said the sentence was unjust.

    “This was a case where the court system failed,” Fowler said. “What it failed to do is to look at other aspects of this case.”

    Silk, who suffered superficial wounds in the shooting spree, said the sentence was correct.

    “He got the maximum, and that is just what he deserved,” Silk said.

    THE 32-YEAR sentence comprises concurrent 25-year terms for two counts of first-degree assault and two counts of criminal use of a firearm, and a seven-year term for one-count of second-degree assault.

    Bonelli also was sentenced for several less-serious counts. Those sentences will be included in the 32-year term. Bonelli will be eligible for parole in 26 years.

    Unjust? No. An unjust sentence would have been if no consequences came to a man who shot two people in a mall shooting spree.

  • Bonelli pleads guilty

    Bonelli pleads guilty

    Bonelli pleads guilty to all counts in mall rampage:
    Bonelli pleads guilty in mall shooting spree:

    I haven’t talked about Robert Bonelli in a really long time. He was the 24-year-old gunman in the Hudson Valley Mall shooting in Ulster, New York that wounded two people. When his home was searched, police found what they called “Columbine Memorabilia”. Bonelli pleaded guilty today to all charges against him…

    In entering his plea, Bonelli said that he had gone to the mall with the intention of committing “suicide by cop,” hoping to get killed by police officers.

    Ulster County District Attorney Donald Williams said Bonelli’s handwritten notes showed that he’d planned for months to conduct an armed rampage no later than April 20 of last year.

    Williams also maintained Bonelli had a lurid fascination with the shootings in Columbine.

    Personally, I don’t buy the “suicide by cop” theory. I think he luckily lost his nerve by the time he got to the mall, but I think his original intention was to kill.

    Between his fascination with Columbine and the fact that he planned for months to conduct some kind of assault with an April 20th deadline lead me to believe that his original intention was to kill as many people as possible.

    Anyway, he’s looking at a minimum of 20 years and a maximum of 40.

    Sentencing is set for May 19th.

  • MutantSpace

    MutantSpace

    While doing some research on MySpace, I came across the MySpace of a 16-year-old girl who claims to be from “Fuck, New Jersey”.

    So right off the bat, I know I’m dealing with someone who has a ton of class. What also caught my eye is that her MySpace opened up with “Bang, Bang, Your Fucked. “RIP REB and VODKA 4.20.99”.

    So now it’s obvious she’s just another mutant. And then there was some more ranting on her MySpace…

    For those who read how I like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold I don’t care if you hate them because I like what I like deal with it. I do not also have to tell you why I am interested.

    Again I ask do the parents not know or do they just not care?