Officer who took Coon photo suspended:
The Cleveland police officer who took the cellphone picture of Asa Coon after he committed suicide has been suspended for 8 days as of Monday.
Patrolman Walter Emerick, a 12-year veteran, admitted shooting the photo of Asa Coon, 14, in a hearing with Police Chief Michael McGrath, said Safety Director Martin Flask. Coon committed suicide after shooting four others in SuccessTech Academy Oct. 10.
No word if that was without pay or not.
Wal-Mart says holiday crowds, not threats, reason for police:
I received an e-mail the other day from a nice reader from Fayetteville, Arkansas who said she received an e-mail stating that Wal-Mart was increasing its security because Jonesboro gunman Mitchell Johnson was planning an attack on the store. It was alleged in the e-mail that Johnson was recently fired from there and that his girlfriend left him.
I said to the reader that I doubt Johnson was planning anything because after his New Years Day arrest on weapons charges I would think that local law enforcement and the feds are probably keeping a close eye on him.
Now, this article confirms it that Wally World just requested additional security for the Christmas season.
Police Sgt. Matt Partain confirmed that Johnson was formerly employed by the store but was terminated months ago. He further confirmed that Johnson’s girlfriend is a current Wal-Mart employee.
“Yes his girlfriend works there, but we haven’t even seen him there since we’ve been there,” he said.
Partain said Johnson is not believed to have had any involvement in a recent bomb threat at the Wal-Mart in north Fayetteville.
So the people of Fayetteville have nothing to fear at Wal-Mart except the usual, other Wal-Mart shoppers.
SuccessTech shooter was sober during attack:
According to Cuyahoga County Coroner’s Office, Asa Coon had no drugs or alcohol when he went on his shooting spree at SuccessTech Academy in Cleveland, Ohio.
I didn’t know this was an issue since I’ve never heard of a drunk or stoned school shooter.
Ex defends school killer online:
The former ‘girlfriend’ of Pekka-Eric Auvinen has spoken out online about the tragedy in Finland. I use the quotes because she lives in Australia which the last time I checked wasn’t next door to Finland.
She posted a video on YouTube in defense of Auvinen and actually belays a certain myth.
The statement consists of a video entitled “Pekka”, with a metal soundtrack and scrolling text.
“The reason I have not talked to the press and the rest of you is not because I want to wash my hands of it,” she says.
“It is because there is no point”
Ms Scheel then launches into her defence of Auvinen.
“First, he was not a Nazi. He hated Nazism.”
“Second, he was not a psychopath or a sociopath. He felt love, he felt guilt, he felt fear.”
“Third, he was not bullied or picked on, not by you or people in his life.”
In the video, Ms Scheel refutes the notion that online messages would cause him to go on a shooting spree, and admits that Auvinen was often the initiator of online arguments.
Ms Scheel also states that Auvinen was not bullied by his classmates, but “had he been, he would have reacted to it instantly”.
So she claims Auvinen was not bullied. Even if he was her second statement that Auvinen wasn’t a psychopath is incorrect. I would even go as far as to say that he was a megalomaniacal psychopath considering he thought he was better than the rest of the world.
Teen who killed 8 may have contacted Pa. youth:
There’s been more confirmation that Dillon Cossey was in fact in contact with Pekka-Eric Auvinen prior to the shooting that killed 8 at Jokela High School in Finland.
Police said material seized from the computer of Pekka-Eric Auvinen suggests the 18-year-old communicated online with Dillon Cossey, 14, who was arrested in October for allegedly preparing a possible attack at Plymouth Whitemarsh High School in suburban Philadelphia.
I doubt this will result in any additional charges for Cossey as he claims that Auvinen gave no indication that he planned the shooting.
Teen charged with Plymouth plot communicated with Finnish shooter:
No this isn’t a repeat. The link between Finnish gunman Pekka-Eric Auvinen and would be school shooter Dillon Cossey has been confirmed.
“He recognized the screen name and recalled having contact by email,” said J. David Farrell, who represents Cossey, 14, of Plymouth Valley.
Farrell said Cossey was “very distressed” to learn that Pekka-Eric Auvinen, 18, of Tuusula, Finland, had gunned down six students, a nurse and the principal at his high school, located about 30 miles north of Helsinki. Auvinen then killed himself.
Cossey told Farrell that Auvinen “gave no indication he was going to do anything violent,” and that Cossey “offered nothing in the way of encouragement” to pursue violence.
The teens shared an interest in a video game called “Hitman,” Farrell said, adding that they may have also had a mutual obsession with Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the students responsible for the Columbine massacre.
Farrell said he believed more information about the time and extent of the communication would be available tomorrow.
When these mutants congregate they share ideas and encourage each other to commit these acts of violence. For years I’ve been trying to get website hosts to shut these kinds of groups down. They haven’t listened yet. I wonder if they will now. Maybe it’s time to re-start my crusade. Who’s with me?
School massacre: Ninth graders saw killing of school principal:
Just another disturbing detail of the shooting at Jokela High School in Finland…
A group of ninth graders at the Jokela School in Tuusula were eyewitnesses to the execution-style killing of their school’s head teacher Helena Kalmi by gunman Pekka-Eric Auvinen on Wednesday.
Watching from their classroom window, they saw Kalmi first fleeing the attacker, but later she went back. Auvinen forced Kalmi onto her knees and then shot her.
And how fitting is this?
Finally, Auvinen shot himself in the head. Police found him injured in a toilet at 2:53 PM.
Exactly where he belonged.