TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Tag: murder

  • 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 details on Alvaro Rafael Castillo

    More details on Alvaro Rafael Castillo

    Teen charged with first-degree murder:

    Even more details in the murder of Rafael Huezo Castillo and the Orange High School shooting in Hillsborough, NC by Alvaro Rafael Castillo…

    The first reports of what happened early Wednesday afternoon at Orange High School summoned a modern nightmare:

    A trench-coat-clad teenager with guns and pipe bombs, shots fired, students hurt.

    Asked why he had gone to Orange High School on Wednesday, Castillo, a former student, responded, “Columbine. Remember Columbine,” AP reported.

    And we have status on one of the victims at the school…

    About 1 p.m., an armed man “flew” past the parking lot’s guard house in a gray minivan and fired about eight shots, said Anne D’Annunzio, an Orange County Schools spokeswoman.

    Two students were injured, neither seriously. Senior Tiffaney Utsman’s right shoulder was grazed by a bullet. An unidentified male student was hurt by broken glass, D’Annunzio said.

    Utsman had been released from a hospital by Wednesday evening, said her mother, Champe Revis. “My feeling about Tiffaney is absolute relief that she really was not hurt at all,” Revis said.

    Details of the shooting at the school…

    Courtney Long, a senior, said she was outside when she saw a man jump from a minivan wearing a black hat, black trench coat, black sunglasses and a white T-shirt. He set off a long line of firecrackers, she said, sending up smoke. She said he fired at car tires, then at a school window, sending a bullet through the glass.

    From a patio outside, senior Scott Cook heard an explosion and turned to see a man standing amid smoke in the parking lot.

    “He pulled out a gun. … He fired in the air, then he aimed it toward the school. At that time, I high-tailed it out of there and ran into the building,” Cook said.

    At the Orange High School parking lot, deputies found ammunition, weapons and homemade pipe bombs in the van. The Durham County Sheriff’s Office bomb squad removed the bombs.

    I saw the video of the little bastard on my local news today. He literally is batshit crazy because he was smiling like he just won the lottery as they put him in the police car.

    Castillo is due in court today.

  • 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.

  • Possible suspect in Chanel Petro-Nixon’s murder

    Possible suspect in Chanel Petro-Nixon’s murder

    PIMP EYED IN 2ND SLAY:

    New York police are looking at Jennifer Moore’s killer, Draymond Coleman, as a possible suspect in the murder of Chanel Petro-Nixon…

    Police sources said there are similarities:

    – Both girls were choked to death.

    – Both had their pants pulled down, although Moore was raped while Petro-Nixon was not.

    – Their bodies were stuffed into black garbage bags and dumped.

    After speaking to New Jersey investigators, Brooklyn cops believe the two murders could be Coleman’s handiwork, the sources said.

    After she was killed in a New Jersey motel room, Moore’s fingernails were clipped and her body washed down in bleach, an effort to erase clues.

    The body of Petro-Nixon, a top high school student, was found four days after she vanished on Father’s Day, with a chemical scar on her leg – possibly caused by bleach.

    The connection may be a long shot, but cops said they are leaving no stone unturned in an effort to solve the Brooklyn teen’s murder.

    Link via Gothamist.

  • Death sought for Underwood

    Death sought for Underwood

    Alleged cannibal plot is murder one, judge says:

    This is the first news we’ve had on Kevin Ray Underwood in a while…

    PURCELL, Oklahoma (AP) — A man accused of killing a 10-year-old girl in what investigators describe as a cannibalistic plot will be tried for first-degree murder, a judge ruled Tuesday.

    Prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty for Kevin Ray Underwood, 26, accused of strangling Jamie Rose Bolin.

    After Underwood’s arrest, police and prosecutors revealed grisly details of the crime, saying Underwood raped the girl’s corpse and planned to eat her flesh. A medical examiner’s report released later indicated there were signs of sexual assault, but could not determine if they were inflicted after her death.

    I eagerly await to hear the defense’s strategy on this one.

  • Sean Brown waives extradition

    Sean Brown waives extradition

    Glover Murder Suspect Coming Back To Face Charges In Sugar Land Case:

    The co-conspirator in Ashton Glover’s murder, Sean Huston Brown, has waived extradition back to Texas. For those just joining us, 16-year-old Ashton Glover was killed by her friends Matt McCombs and Sean Brown. McCombs was the triggerman. They killed her for “morbid curiosity”. They tried fleeing to Canada, but they were captured in Michigan before they could reach the border. McCombs admits to being the triggerman and waived extradition immediately. Brown fought extradition at first.

  • Chanel’s last words

    Chanel’s last words

    SLAIN TEEN’S CHILLING LAST WORDS TO PAL:

    This is a rather unsettling article about Chanel Petro-Nixon’s last known words on MySpace before her body was found…

    August 14, 2006 — A tragic Brooklyn teen whose body was found in a Dumpster six weeks ago left an eerily chilling note to a pal only days before her gruesome murder.

    “I LOVE YOU,” studious 16-year-old Chanel Petro Nixon wrote to her friend on her page on the popular Web site Myspace.com. “If you were killed tomorrow, I’m sorry I wouldn’t be able to come to your funeral cuz I’d be in jail for killing the person who did it.”

    Her murder was just profiled on AMW and I wish I would have seen it, but it was pre-empted locally for pre-season football.

    I hope her killer is brought to justice soon.

  • Woman kills stepdad with scissors over MySpace

    Woman kills stepdad with scissors over MySpace

    Woman held after stepdad killed with scissors:

    A young Brooklyn mother killed her stepfather by flinging a pair of scissors into his chest as she reached the boiling point in an long-simmering argument over her living in his house, authorities and witnesses said.

    Police said Lynda Delaney, 26, was expected to be charged Monday night in the death of Daniel Ilardi, 55, who died early Monday, 10 hours after the Sunday afternoon confrontation.

    Police said they were never called to Ilardi’s two-story home in Bensonhurst, where Delaney’s 2-year-old daughter, Alexa, and Delaney’s mother also live. But family members and friends said that Delaney’s living in the house has long been a source of tension.

    “She said, ‘I’m going to kill your father. You’re father’s dead,” said Mathew Ilardi, the victim’s son, recalling Delaney’s words in recent days.

    But several of Delaney’s friends spoke in her defense, saying that she was physically and verbally abused by her stepfather and mother, and was being attacked when she struck Ilardi with the scissors.

    All said that Delaney had been arguing with her stepfather all day on Sunday.

    At one point, the arguing became so heated that Delaney swung a box cutter at her stepfather, who managed to wrestle it away from her, according to Ilardi’s son.

    Jennifer Para, 26, the suspect’s best friend, said the argument began because Delaney wanted to go on the Internet to check her Myspace account.

    At about 5:30 p.m., Delaney allegedly flung the scissors at her stepfather, who was standing about five feet away, according to police and Mathew Ilardi, who witnessed the attack. The scissors struck the stepfather’s chest, piercing his right ventricle before falling to the ground, police said.

    The elder Ilardi, a divorcee and father of six who manages a car storage business, struggled for life at Lutheran Medical Center, until he died at about 3:30 a.m. Monday, police and relatives said.

    I was unable to locate Delaney’s MySpace account.