TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Tag: school shooting

  • Cho e-mails released

    Va. Tech Campus Paper Posts E-mails To and About Gunman Online:

    The Virginia Tech student newspaper, The Collegiate Times, has made public e-mails concerning Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung Hui. The e-mails were originally released only to the families of the victims and Collegiate Times editor-in-chief David Grant won’t say how the paper came to be in possession of them. Some are criticizing the Times for making these public stating it’s disrespectful to the families but the Times has not made any family information publicly available.

    The e-mails between Cho and Virginia Tech faculty can be seen here. E-mails between faculty members about Cho can be read here.

    In my opinion there really isn’t anything new in these e-mails that we didn’t already know. They further show just how selfish Cho was and how he blamed his failures and shortcomings on others.

    He had trouble speaking in public yet he chose to become an English major. He was failing some of his courses but he blamed that on the professors. The professors offered him every opportunity to help him bring his grades up but he kept wanting to do things his way. They offered him advice on how to get over his problems with public speaking. They were legitimately concerned about his mental health. No one can say that Cho was a victim.

    He lived his life the same way he took so many others. An egotistical and selfish punk who thought it was all about him with no regard for anyone else but himself.

  • Dillard shooter pleads not guilty

    Fla. teen pleads not guilty in school shooting:

    Teah Wimberly pleaded not guilty in court today into the school shooting death of her former friend Amanda Collette.

    She is being tried as an adult and is looking at life in prison.

  • Golden/Grant could be charged

    Police look into charging Golden:

    The other day I posted about how Andrew Golden/Drew Douglas Grant was denied a conceal and carry permit. Now investigators are looking into if any criminal charges could be filed. However, the only charges that could be filed would be misdemeanors.

    It’s also interesting to note that juvenile convictions that are expunged in any other case can apply to a denial of a conceal and carry permit.

    As previously mentioned Golden/Grant lied on his application about various addresses he lived at and his fingerprints also identified him as one of the Jonesboro shooters.

  • Attorney for Dillard shooter claims mental illness

    Attorney: Mental health issues may have played role in case of teen charged in school shooting:

    The defense attorney for Teah Wimberly notified the court today that he may be pursuing a mental health defense in his client’s trial for the shooting death of classmate Amanda Collette.

    Attorney Larry S. Davis said that a psych eval indicated mental illness.

    She is scheduled to be arraigned on Thursday and could face life in prison if convicted for 2nd-degree murder.

  • Teah Wimberly charged as adult

    Report Shows Text Messages Before Dillard Murder:

    Teah Wimberly has been charged as an adult in the shooting death of classmate Amanda Collete at Dillard High School.

    Court documents have revealed the text messages that Wimberly sent to Amanda prior to the shooting.

    “Tomorrow I will shoot myself in the heart.”

    “I just might get arrested tomorrow.”

    “U gon come visit me in jail”

    “Ima shoot somebody”

    “Ima bust a cap in somebody”

    According to the documents Wimberly admitted to the shooting saying that it was because Amanda ended their friendship without reason. However, some students say it may be because Wimberly had romantic feelings for Amanda but the feeling was not mutual.

    Again I have to reiterate kids that there is no boy or girl that’s worth killing over while you’re in high school. Now there are two lives ruined.

  • Finnish cop could be charged over Kauhajoki shooting

    Finnish policeman faces charges over Kauhajoki shooting:

    The Finnish police officer who gave Matti Saari back his guns is likely to be facing charges. The officer returned Sarri’s guns to him the day before the massacre at the Kauhajoki school even after the officer saw Saari’s YouTube videos.

    The officer denies any wrongdoing. Of course, he does. I do not see this going well. He’d probably do better just to apologize and admit what he did was wrong.

  • Jonesboro shooter denied permit

    Westside killer seeks handgun permit:

    Drew Douglas Grant of Evening Shade, Arkansas had applied for a conceal and carry permit but was denied by Arkansas State Police. So why is this newsworthy? It turns out that Drew Douglas Grant is the new legal name of the former Andrew Golden. The same Andrew Golden who participated in the Jonesboro massacre.

    What made him think that request would be approved? I have a gut feeling that he wanted to conceal and carry for his own protection but he had to know that request would never be approved. At least he seems to be taking the legal route rather than just going out and carrying a gun like his cohort Mitchell Johnson.

    The problem now becomes that Golden/Grant’s new identity has been made public which could lead to harassment or even worse vigilantism. Which I would imagine would be his reason for wanting the permit.

    While I believe that Golden/Grant should at least be in prison for life for what he and Johnson did this may just be a case of someone who has actually been rehabilitated. But again in my opinion rehabilitation is the exception and not the rule.

  • Hainstock denied new trial

    No new trial for Hainstock:

    John Klang’s killer will not be receiving a new trial. Sauk County (WI) Circuit Court Judge Patrick Taggart said in a written ruling that Eric Hainstock received a fair trial for the shooting death of Principal Klang in the halls of Weston High School. Judge Taggart said that the jury had plenty of other evidence that showed Hainstock was intent on killing Klang.

    “There is the physical evidence of the multiple shots delivered in close contact to the victim,” he writes. “Hainstock’s statements to others that Klang would not live to see homecoming (that evening), defendant’s statements to the janitor that he was there with two weapons to “(expletive) kill someone.”

    Hainstock, who was 15 at the time of the 2006 murder, is serving a life sentence.

  • I want to be your victim

    Not too many days ago it was the 2nd anniversary of Sebastian Bosse’s rampage at the Geschwister Scholl School in Germany where he injured 8 before taking his own life. In one of my trips through the land of the mutants, I saw some that posted a sort of tribute to Bosse saying that he’ll be godlike. If that wasn’t bad enough someone posted a follow-up that said they wished they could have been one of his victims.

    If your life revolves around the idolization of school shooters you need help. It’s that black and white. It’s wrong.

  • Carneal’s request for hearing denied

    Court rejects claims from Paducah school shooter:

    The Kentucky Supreme Court rejected a request from Paducah gunman Michael Carneal to have anew competency hearing. The now 25-year-old Carneal recently claimed, 11 years after the Paducah shootings, that at the time he shot up Heath High School he was mentally ill and that his lawyer was ineffective counsel at the time of his guilty plea

    Carneal argued that he was unable to reveal that he was hearing voices at the time of the shooting and guilty plea because of his mental illness. Justice Bill Cunningham, writing for the court, was unpersuaded, saying the claims rest solely on what Carneal says, not any outside evidence creating “a conceptual ‘Catch-22’.”

    It’s always nice to see that some judges still have common sense. Especially considering that the kids he killed, Nicole Hadley, Jessica James, and Kayce Steger, don’t have the luxury of appealing their death sentence.

    Carneal will be up for parole in 2023.