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Tag: Stephen Kazmierczak

  • Much ado over a gun dealer

    Gun dealer used by Va. Tech shooter sold supplies, holster to NIU killer:

    A lot of people are making a big deal over the fact that the gun shop that sold a gun to Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui also sold supplies to NIU gunman Stephen Kazmierczak.

    While it’s a bizarre coincidence I think it’s a non-story.

    While Cho did buy one of his firearms from this online dealer based in Green Bay, Wisconsin Kazmierczak only bought empty magazines and a holster from the dealer. Both Cho and Kazmierczak passed mental health background checks at the time of their purchases. That seems to be the bigger story to me especially for Cho who was court ordered to undergo treatment.

  • NIU gunman was off his meds

    NIU gunman stopped taking medication:

    According to this article some corrections to be made. The NIU gunman’s correct name is Stephen Kazmierczak. Not Steven as previously reported. That and five victims of his were killed not six. But onto the main topic of the article.

    It seems that Kazmierczak was off his meds. The article doesn’t state what meds he was on or why he was on them.

    The article also states that he carried the shotgun he used in a guitar case. I guess this delusional assclown thought he was El Mariachi.

    But I’m sure we’ll hear from the anti-medication Luddites.

  • NIU gunman’s identity confirmed

    Elk Grove man identified as gunman in NIU killings:

    The identity of the NIU gunman has been confirmed that he was, in fact, Steven P. Kazmierczak.

    Some people are saying that it’s ironic that Kazmierczak would commit such a horrific travesty considering he was active in the fields of criminal justice and sociology.

    He co- author a published study on prison policy, entitled “Self-injury in Correctional Settings: ‘Pathology’ of Prisoners or of Prisons?”

    According to that paper, Kazmierczak had study interests in “corrections, political violence, and peace and social justice.” At the time he was also said to be writing a paper about the role of religion in the early formation of U.S. prisons.

    He also served as vice president of NIU’s Academic Criminal Justice Association and was on the board of a college chapter of the American Corrections Association, which studied jailing policy and the justice system, according to related Web sites.

    Personally, I don’t think it’s ironic at all. It sounds like he had a soft spot in his heart for criminals rather than victims. It’s obvious that he didn’t care about victims at all since he made so many of his own.

  • 6th NIU victim dies

    Former Student Guns Down 6 in Attack at Northern Illinois University; Kills Self:

    A 6th student has died from the cowardly attack at NIU. The gunman has yet to be named but some of the victims have been identified.

    DeKalb County Coroner Dennis J. Miller released the identities of four of the victims: Daniel Parmenter, 20, of Westchester; Catalina Garcia, 20, of Cicero; Ryanne Mace, 19, of Carpentersville; and Julianna Gehant, 32, of Meridan.

    My thought, prayers, and condolences go out to the friends and families of the victims.

    UPDATE: Thanks to Steve Huff the gunman has been unofficially named as Steve Kazmierczak with the motive of a failed relationship is possible.