big kahuna wrote:
slowguy wrote:
ThisIsIt wrote:
big kahuna wrote:
Sanuk wrote:
Maybe his girlfriend was over in Marawi passing him instructions from ISIS.
Well, I now read that he wired $100,000 to the Philippines...
Abu Sayyaf is the ISIS-affiliated group in the P.I., though they've been carrying on a jihad in the Philippines for much longer than ISIS has been in existence. The non-state terror group's leadership swore an oath of loyalty to Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2014.
Something about this entire thing just seems off. This woman -- who was wired $100,000 by the shooter -- flew back voluntarily from the P.I.? After being associated with the deepest-dyed villain in US mass shooter history? What's going on with that?
You would think it means she had nothing to do with it (and didn't talk to a lawyer first?), but who knows.
Apparently, hotel employees had been in and out of the room and didn't notice anything, so he must have had the weapons fairly well hidden.
She's apparently saying he had been growing more and more insane over the last few weeks/months of his life. She may have just humored him with the money transfer, might not have been her idea at all. Maybe his madness is why she was in PI to begin with, rather than in Nevada with him.
As for the hotel, he could have just had the weapons in a suitcase or golf bag. No need to do a lot to hide anything.
Jesus, what a sh*t show.
I made a point about mental health issues and our hesitancy to interfere in the lives of those suffering from them, at least since the beginning of the deinstitutionalization movement in the early 1970s. I'm hoping that it doesn't turn out plenty of other people saw him becoming increasingly unstable and acting out and, for various reasons, didn't step in and alert authorities.
So far, no one's been able to turn up anything that indicates he was going in this direction. No police reports, no calls by neighbors to 911, no barking at the moon, even. One Florida neighbor did say that he was reclusive, for what it's worth.
But one day, after a descent into madness (according to his girlfriend) he just decided to become the human personification of death. It's crazy.
This is one of the real issues that needs to be addressed at some point and I certainly don't have any answers for it myself. There needs to be some sort of way to report something that doesn't seem right.
For example. Was at my wife's friends house and some of that friend's family was visiting. There was a young man there (believe he is 17 or so) that was honestly just downright scary. I had never met anyone but the wife's friend so was totally new to the kid. He was reclusive, dark, scary, non-interactive, and when interacted with he responded with very odd behavior and when one small thing didn't go his way (he was playing a magic card game with a 10 year old girl) he went full rage. Creeped me out to no end.
When we got in the car to leave I said to my wife, if we hear about a school shooting and find out he was the shooter I will not be one iota surprised to hear it. His family hunts and has guns in the house (not sure if he has access). She said yeah, he is like that. So no one in his family is concerned about it and from what I know he is not being monitored or "helped" in any way. I really felt like I should report it to someone, but who and how?
Hard to "see something, say something" without some system in place. But he is definitely one of those people that if he went off, there would be people on the news saying "yep, that figures".