TheTrenchcoat Chronicles

Tag: school shooting

  • E.O. Green shooter pleads not guilty

    Teenager accused of murdering gay classmate pleads not guilty:

    14-year-old Brandon McInerney pleaded not guilty this past week to the shooting death of 15-year-old Lawrence King. It’s alleged that McInerney shot and killed King at E.O. Green Junior High School because when McInerney bullied King for being gay King would mockingly flirt with McInerney.

    McInerney has been charged with murder and of course, his defense attorney has a problem with that.

    Yesterday his defence lawyer said the decision to try him for murder and not manslaughter was effectively a “death sentence.”

    Oh you mean like the death sentence McInerney gave King for being gay?

  • E.O. Green shooter to be tried as adult

    Teen accused of shooting gay classmate to be tried as an adult:

    14-year-old Brandon McInerney will be tried as an adult in the shooting death of 15-year-old Lawrence King at E.O. Green Junior High School.

    King was an openly gay student who got back at the bullying from McInerney by mockingly flirting with him.

    27 LGBT activist groups had requested that McInerney not be tied as an adult.

    McInerney faces life in prison if convicted.

  • Eric Hainstock still blaming everyone else

    Eric Hainstock: Free at last:

    This is an article from the alternative weekly in Wisconsin called Isthmus. In it are a series of letters that Eric Hainstock wrote to the publication. For those of you who may not remember Hainstock was 15 when he shot and killed Principal John Klang of the Weston Schools. Hainstock was tried as an adult and sentenced to life in prison with a possibility of parole in 2037.

    In his letters Hainstock sort of takes responsibility for his actions…

    Hainstock says some people in prison have told him he’s “cool” for having killed his principal. He corrects them: “No, I’m not. I took a life. He can’t go to his daughter’s wedding. He can’t walk her down the aisle.”

    But for most of the article, as usual, he blames his situation on everyone but himself…

    “When I was 15 years old I shot my high school principal. I never meant for this to happen. He grabbed me from behind and I got scared. I was already pretty stressed, so that freaked me out even more. Please don’t get me wrong, I am not blaming Mr. Klang for grabbing me. But I am blaming him, the teachers, social services and the school as a whole for never listening to me…. No one ever listened.”

    The article goes on about how much he learned in prison but I guess he still hasn’t learned that everyone is responsible for their own actions. The article also says that he likes prison more compared to his old life. I’m glad that was arranged for him.

  • Johnson fit to stand trial

    Jonesboro shooter fit to stand trial:

    Mitchell Johnson, he of the Jonesboro infamy, has been ruled competent to assist in his own defense for his upcoming theft trial. I don’t see why this was an issue since he was competent for his federal weapons trial.

    His trial date has been set for October.

  • Kazmierczak was a sick mutant

    Magazine reveals new details about NIU shooter:

    Talk about dropping the other shoe. For months we heard nothing about NIU gunman Stephen Kazmierczak or what his motive was. Now Esquire magazine is saying something that should not surprise me in the least but yet it does.

    I originally thought that Kazmierczak was just a victim of an undiagnosed mental problem but as it turns out he was something much more familiar.

    According to Esquire Magazine while Kazmierczak did suffer from mental illness it also turns out that he was nothing more than a copycat of Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui.

    The story includes Kazmierczak’s fascination, chilling in retrospect, with Seung-Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech student who shot and killed 32 people before killing himself in April 2007.

    “He was interested in what was going on in the mind of Cho, and why it was so successful, and how someone could do it, how they could pull it off,”‘ reporter David Vann writes, quoting a friend he identifies only as Kevin.

    And his mental health history wasn’t exactly unknown either. Kazmierczak was drummed out of the Army after they discovered that he lied on his application about mental history. He held back about his history of suicide attempts, psychotic episodes, and hallucinations.

    Just further proof that as a society we’re more concerned with the rights of the dangerously crazy than we are with the welfare of others.

  • More lies from a shooter

    School Shooter: ‘I Didn’t Realize’ They Would Die:

    So last night I watched the abomination of a news program that they call Nightline. Ted Koppel must be rolling in his grave. Hold on a sec….Wikipedia says he’s still alive..anyway he must not have been happy with this episode.

    Like I posted yesterday most of the program focused on Bethel High School shooter Evan Ramsey. As expected he blamed everyone but himself for the shootings. He blamed bullies, he blamed the kids that gave him the gun, he blamed the kid that taught him how to shoot the gun, he blamed a video game, more than likely Doom, for his alleged idea that death wasn’t permanent, he blamed people who he told that he was going to shoot up the school. He blamed everyone except the guy who did the actual killing, himself.

    “I honestly believed that if you shoot somebody, that they would get back up,” Ramsey told ABC News in a recent interview at the Arizona prison where he is serving a 210-year sentence. It’s hard to accept, he admits, but Ramsey said his naiveté left him unable to grasp that firing a gun in the real world is different from firing one in a video game: “I didn’t realize that you shoot somebody, they die.”

    “If somebody had said something,” he insisted, “my crime wouldn’t have happened.”

    I honestly believe that you’re full of crap.

    They also had some twatwaffle on there who did a study about school shootings and did basically the same thing that Ramsey did, blamed everyone but the shooter themselves. He made this quote about bullying in schools…

    But the work of prevention should start well before plans for violence take hold, said Pollock. Ramsey, like most shooters, was bullied, and until teachers and counselors deal seriously with bullying and other problems by creating “an emotional connection” with students, Pollock said, schools will suffer from the violence of “a meaner, more vicious society.”

    I notice he didn’t mention the parents that are responsible for enabling their bully children. In my opinion, the schools don’t deal with the bullies because their parents get all bent out of shape that someone would have the nerve to accuse their precious crotchfruit of being a bully.

  • School shooter thought death wasn’t permanent

    School shooter: I could have been stopped:

    To be honest I never heard of Evan Ramsey or the Bethel High School shooting until today. It happened back in 1997 before I was the crime blogger that you see today. To sum up in February of 1997 Ramsey shot and killed a student and his principal at his school in Bethel, Alaska when he was 16.

    According to the Wikipedia entry, the Bethel High shooting may have been even more preventable than Columbine.

    Reports say over 20 people knew of Ramsey’s plan to shoot up the school, and two actually helped him. One, named James Randall, taught him how to use a shotgun, and the other told Ramsey of the infamy that would come. Reports say one student even brought a camera to school on the day.

    Now fast forward to today, or tonight to be specific. Ramsey is set to appear on Nightline tonight on ABC. Currently, he is serving two 99 year sentences. On Nightline tonight he’s going to claim that he thought death wasn’t permanent.

    “I honestly believed that if you shoot somebody, that they would get back up,” he said.

    What a load of crap that is. If you don’t know that death is permanent by the age of 16 then you’re a complete moron who probably couldn’t tie his own shoes. Two things betray his idiotic school of thought. The first is that most reports say that Ramsey was above average intelligence. The other is that after he killed his principal he stuck his shotgun to his chin but said: “I don’t want to die”. So right there to that shows that he knew death was permanent.

    Now he’s probably going to try to garner some sympathy on TV tonight or maybe he’s trying to get the notoriety he’s never had outside of Alaska.

    I’ll watch but I’m sure I’ll be disgusted.

  • Jonesboro gunman approved for psych eval

    Judge OKs mental exam for Jonesboro school shooter:

    A judge has approved defense’s request for a mental evaluation on Jonesboro gunman Mitchell Johnson.

    For what? I didn’t know you could claim insanity in a theft trial.

  • Andrew Golden deposition rescheduled

    Andrew Golden Deposition Temporarily Blocked:

    The attorney for the Jonesboro shooter that hasn’t been rearrested, yet, Andrew Golden, is filing a petition to keep a deposition private. The deposition is for a wrongful death suit stemming from the Jonesboro shooting.

    Apparently Golden is trying to keep a low profile. He seems to be learning from Mitchell Johnson’s mistakes.

  • No evidence of prison abuse for Jonesboro shooter

    Prosecutor: Ark. school shooter not mistreated in jail:

    An investigation by the local sheriff’s department turned up no evidence of prison abuse claimed by Jonesboro gunman Mitchell Johnson. Johnson had claimed he was being abused by guards an inmates.

    Chief Deputy Prosecutor Shane Wilkinson told The Associated Press the investigation by the Benton County Sheriff’s Office found “there was absolutely nothing to his claims, period.”

    Johnson is in jail awaiting a trial on felony theft charges.