U.S. school shooter pleads not guilty to new weapons charge:
Jonesboro gunman Mitchell Johnson pleaded not guilty in court yesterday to federal weapons charges. If you recall the 23-year-old Johnson was found with a 9mm handgun and marijuana on New Year’s Day.
For once I’m glad he pleaded not guilty. I hope the feds can put him away for a lot longer time than he got from the state of Arkansas.
Photo of Asa Coon’s body taken by Cleveland policeman:
The infamous photo of Asa Coon that was taken after he committed suicide was taken by Cleveland police officer Walter Emerick. He admitted to taking the photo with his cell phone and sending it to other people but claims that he did not post it on the internet. If those other people were outside of the investigation then what did he expect to happen?
Steve Loomis, the Cleveland police union president, said the union does not condone a crime-scene photo being posted on the Internet.
But officers have legitimate reasons to take pictures of crime scenes in order to recall what they saw, he said. Emerick took other images that were not posted.
Which is a legitimate reason but if he was sending it out to people for no legitimate reason Officer Emereick should be disciplined.
Student was angry because he was failing:
Michael Grassie was Asa Coon’s history teacher at SuccessTech. He was also one of Coon’s intended targets. Coon tried starting a fight with the teacher just days before he went on his shooting spree. It’s no surprise that he was failing the class. So rather than study or ask for help or work hard, Coon tried to solve his problems with guns.
“It was something I haven’t seen on a 14-year-old’s face before,” Grassie said. It was a face of “total anger, real hatred.” He said he knew that Coon was angry with him earlier because Grassie noted on his school progress report that he was failing the course.
Coon asked during the confrontation: “Now what do you have to say to me?”
Grassie said he was mentoring another student at the time when Coon turned to the student and said “you’re cool,” then turned his gun on the teacher.
The bullet entered Grassie’s torso, hit his spleen and pancreas but missed his aorta before exiting the back. Grassie suffered the worst injuries of Coon’s shooting victims.
Grassie even plays the bullying card for Coon…
He said Coon “seemed really troubled” and acknowledged what other teachers and students said about the youth: He was the target of student harassment for his counter-culture dress and lifestyle.
Coon was disruptive in class, Grassie said, and he tried to bring the unruliness to Coon’s mother’s attention, but without success.
I’m all for individual expression but if you go around looking and acting like an asshat you’re going to invite trouble on yourself.
So basically Coon shot Grassie over Coon’s own inadequacies. Pretty pathetic.
Disturbing Asa Coon photo on Internet:
It seems that all the ghouls are out just in time for Halloween.
Someone at the scene of Asa Coon’s suicide apparently had taken a picture of his corpse. Of course, the internet being what it is the picture of Asa Coon’s bloody body is already making its rounds. I haven’t even posted this yet and I’m already getting hits from the ghouls look for the picture. Guess what Sunshine. It isn’t here. It never will be here. As much as I think that the kid was an idiot for doing what he did I would never in good conscience post the picture of his corpse. All the cretins that are looking for this picture are probably are the same ones who got off on watching the victims of 9/11 fall from the towers and would probably run home crying to mommy if they ever came in a contact with a real dead body. So cream your jeans over your gore porn you sick fucks. One day it might be your bloody corpse that some jackass is getting his lulz from.
Police still searching for mother of SuccessTech gunman:
Lori Looney, no joke, is the mother of Asa Coon. By now you know Asa Coon was the 14-year-old gunman at the SuccessTech shootings in Cleveland. An arrest warrant was issued for Ms. Looney for obstruction of justice. Allegedly Asa’s brother Stephen violated his parole and was picked up last week after the shooting. Ms. Looney allegedly lied to police about her son’s whereabouts. All these charges for Stephen Coon and Lori Looney are unrelated to the shooting but Ms. Looney has gone missing.
Uncle Says Gunman Upset With Teachers:
Here we go. Cue up some more apologists for Asa Coon. First, let’s start with his uncle.
The 14-year-old who opened fire at his high school had been upset with teachers, saying they wouldn’t listen to his side of the story regarding a recent after-school scuffle that got him suspended, the teenager’s uncle said Friday.
Larry Looney, who lived upstairs from Asa Coon in a west side duplex, said the two were lifting weights Tuesday when he told him about Monday’s fight with another student and his three-day suspension.
“He really didn’t want to talk about it,” Looney said. “He said he really didn’t do anything to start it. He said the teachers wouldn’t listen to his side of the story.
“I just can’t believe he would do anything like that.”
How do these kids make this leap in logic? This is what happens when we try to shelter our kids from failure. If we shield them from the real world they think that life is supposed to be fair. Then when they experience rejection they make stupid leaps in logic like shooting up the school.
Now a school volunteer…
Coon was ridiculed by classmates at SuccessTech. He had a tendency not to fight back when teased, but recently got into an after-school scuffle, was suspended and made threats that he would blow up the school or stab everybody.
“This kid finally broke,” said Christina Burns, who volunteered at a school Coon previously attended. “He finally lost his mind.”
Cry me a river. I guess he only slapped around his mom which makes him one of the worst kind of bullies.
Ohio school shooter gave many warnings:
When someone says I have a gun and I’m going to shoot up the school why in the blue hell do people continue to ignore it?
“When he got suspended he said, ‘I got something for y’all,’ ” she said. “I thought he was just playing, because he, like, said that all the time. But I see that he was for real.”
YA THINK?
And it wasn’t just students the faculty of SuccessTech ignored it too.
On CBS’ “Early Show” Thursday morning, student Rasheem Smith said the school’s principal, Johneita Durant, had not found time to discuss students’ concerns about Coon, The Associated Press reported.
“I told my friends in the class that he had a gun and stuff,” Smith said. “He was talking about doing it last week. I don’t know why they didn’t say nothing.
“We talked to the principal. She would try to get us all in the office, but it would always be too busy for it to happen.”
A message left at Durant’s office was not immediately returned, the AP reported, and a phone call to her home was not answered.
SuccessTech doesn’t sound very successful now, does it?
Let’s cue up the apologists while we’re at it.
“You get pushed and pushed and pushed, and sometimes you go over the edge,” a neighbor told CNN affiliate WOIO.
“I ain’t justifying nothing,” said another neighbor. “I ain’t saying he did the right thing, but I am saying he got pushed for a long time and asked them people to help, help, help, help, but nobody helped.”
Now, who exactly did Asa Coon ask for help? Was it the mother he slapped around or the judge whose courtroom he stormed out of? And who exactly pushed him? To do what exactly?
Just another example of everyone trying to place the blame everywhere except where it should be. On Asa Coon.
Witness saw school shooter loading gun in bathroom:
In a stroke of pure idiocy, a witness at SuccessTech watched Asa Coon load one of his guns BUT DIDN’T TELL ANYONE. I’ve omitted the witness’ name.
When the witness saw Coon load a gun, he left but didn’t tell a teacher.
“I don’t know what I was thinking, he said. “I didn’t want him to shoot me.”
Fifteen minutes later, the witness was eating lunch in the cafeteria, also on the fourth floor, he heard a loud sound. Yet, the witness, believing it was nothing more than a book slamming on a desk, didn’t react.
Then the witness heard someone shout that a student had a gun. Just then the witness saw Asa shoot a teacher.
I think Belch is right that SuccessTech isn’t the Utopian school they make it out to be because obviously, this kid wasn’t very bright. How do you not report someone with a gun? The witness should get on his knees and thank God that no one was killed.
We’re so close to bestowing the M-title on SuccessTech gunman Asa Coon but we’re not there yet. The Cleveland Plain Dealer has some more info on him and in the process, they try to get you to be sympathetic about him. We all know where you can find sympathy too. However, I have no sympathy for a kid who slapped around his own mother and talked about suicide.
What started the whole mess is that Coon got into an argument with another kid about the existence of God. Coon said he didn’t believe in or respect God and that he worshiped Marilyn Manson and flipped off the other kid. A fight ensued after school and Coon got his ass beat. Both kids were suspended but Coon couldn’t let it go…
“I’m going to get you,” he warned his tormentor. “I will get you.”
Of course, some kids are saying that Coon was “picked on”. Those two words will be used by the criminal apologists of the world to try to excuse the shooting of four people.
Not surprisingly Coon also told other kids that he planned to shoot up the school but as usual, no one took him seriously. Here’s another repetitive lesson from Uncle Trench kids. If someone is talking about shooting up the school don’t take the chance they’re “just joking”. Tell someone.
Coon has a history of violence and mental issues.
When he was 12, Asa was charged in Juvenile Court with domestic violence. His mother, Lori, had called the police and told them that Asa slapped her and called her a vulgar name. She had been trying to intervene in a fight between Asa and his twin sister Nicole.
Once in court, a magistrate ordered Asa to undergo psychological testing and follow the orders of doctors. The magistrate also ordered the family to undergo therapy together.
Asa immediately refused to obey probation rules. He threw the paperwork on the floor and charged out of the office, nearly knocking his mother to the ground.
During one of his stays in a government facility, he was prescribed Trazodone and Clonodine so we should be hearing from the anti-psychiatry Luddites who think these medications must have caused the shooting.
In 7th grade, he was suspended for trying to hurt another student.
He fooled a home detention officer into thinking he was getting better.
Last November, Asa had completed his counseling, anger management classes and community service. After five months without incident, he was released from probation.
Sounds like he was just biding his time.
Then the article goes on to detail how smart he was, and how special he was, and how he grew up in a rough neighborhood and a broken home. I’ve got three words for that. I DON’T CARE. None of that matters. The only thing that matters is that he shot four people because he was a selfish egotistical little twit.
The most messed up part is that he killed himself before being apprehended. If he would have been caught he probably would have gotten a slap on the wrist since he was a juvenile and nobody died.
But the question is going to come as it always does about how this could have been prevented. It’s simple really. Be better parents to your kids and take these kinds of threats seriously. That’s all there really is to it.
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.