Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

ABC Exclusive: Jared Loughner Radically Changed Before Alleged Shooting, Friend Says
ABC News ^ | 1/9/2011 | LEE FERRAN, JASON RYAN, EMILY FRIEDMAN and RICHARD ESPOSITO

Posted on 01/09/2011 12:49:40 PM PST by Smogger

A longtime friend of Jared Lee Loughner, the suspect in custody following the murder of six people in an apparent assassination attempt on Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, said there was a mysterious, significant change in him a year before the shooting.

-snip-

"I don't know might have caused him to change, but from the way he was talking to me on Myspace... you can see. It was just questions and questions and random, weird questions that didn't go together," she said. "He wanted to know everything... He would just trip out.

"I don't know why it didn't jump out at me, like, 'Hey, something's wrong."

-snip-

One Pima Community College student, who had a poetry class with Loughner later in his college career, said he would often act "wildly inappropriate."

"One day [Loughner] started making comments about terrorism and laughing about killing the baby," classmate Don Coorough told ABC News, referring to a discussion about abortions. "The rest of us were looking at him in shock ... I thought this young man was troubled."

Another classmate, Lydian Ali, recalled the incident as well.

"A girl had written a poem about an abortion. It was very emotional and she was teary eyed and he said something about strapping a bomb to the fetus and making a baby bomber," Ali said.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gabriellegiffords; giffords; jaredleeloughner
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100101-109 next last
To: hennie pennie

Thanks, hennie pennie.

I just posted a thread from a statement at Hillbuzz which asks folks to pray for Jared’s parents, Amy and Randy Loughner.


61 posted on 01/09/2011 1:41:28 PM PST by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: bmwcyle; Smogger

And he drank coffee out of Rush’s coffee mug and he wore a T-shirt with the flag “Don’t tread on me”???


62 posted on 01/09/2011 1:42:30 PM PST by danamco (')
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: Smogger

Neighbors and former classmates from nearby Mountain View High School described Loughner and his parents as loners who rarely spoke even to their immediate neighbors.
 
“You try to say something, they’d just ignore you and turn around and walk back into the house,” said Ron Johnson, 60, a retiree who lives directly opposite the Loughner’s tan, one-storey home. “The kid - I never talked to him. He acted just like his parents and ignored you.”


63 posted on 01/09/2011 1:42:30 PM PST by kcvl
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SatinDoll

When I did a search on the phrase, “Loughner’s parents” -— there were many results from many websites asking people to pray for them.


64 posted on 01/09/2011 1:43:40 PM PST by hennie pennie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 61 | View Replies]

To: Smogger

Isaiah Martinez, 23, who lives with his parents across from the Loughners, graduated from high school a year ahead of the suspect and remembers a quiet boy who wore mostly black clothing, favored metal music and had one or two friends. Martinez, a student at the nearby University of Arizona, most recently saw Loughner walking through the neighborhood Friday night wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and listening to his mp3 player.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2011/01/neighbors-jared-loughner-and-f.html


65 posted on 01/09/2011 1:44:49 PM PST by kcvl
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Smogger
The Pima Community College wouldn't let him back on campus until he had a mental health clearance. He had quite a history of disruptive behavior there. It would be interesting to know when this banning from the college occurred.

LINK

Your theory about early adult schizoid, could be well founded.

66 posted on 01/09/2011 1:47:08 PM PST by prairiebreeze (The Professional Left: Using Your Dollars to Promote Their Agenda Since the 1930's.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: RasterMaster; E. Pluribus Unum

And it’s an incurable disease as well. My 92 yrs M-i-L is one of them and otherwise a very very nice person, regardless our numerous political “discussions”(?) still loves me very much, which is a plus!!!


67 posted on 01/09/2011 1:47:50 PM PST by danamco (')
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: Smogger

Stephen Woods 46, and his son Anthony, 19, live next door to the Loughners and said they saw the parents or the son walking their dog, but rarely spoke to them. Stephen Woods said he clashed with the suspect’s father after leaving some trash at the curb that did not get picked up. He said he doesn’t know what the parents do for a living, and the most he sees of the family is early each morning when the father waters his garden.


68 posted on 01/09/2011 1:48:36 PM PST by kcvl
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!; Mamzelle; SatinDoll; Smogger; muawiyah; chooseascreennamepat; ...
Jared Loughner's Behavior Recorded by College Classmate in E-Mails (Feared Mass Murder, 6/2010)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2653951/posts

69 posted on 01/09/2011 1:51:03 PM PST by hennie pennie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 59 | View Replies]

To: danamco

See how easy it is to make up fairly tales like a liberal or progressive.


70 posted on 01/09/2011 1:51:32 PM PST by bmwcyle (It is Satan's fault)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 62 | View Replies]

To: Texas Eagle

Change, you say? Like what occurred with Cho at Virginia Tech, who was fairly obviously islamically prepped before the shooting (had accomplice, islamic connections, shaved head immediately before action, was shown in car not his own and photographed by an unknown and so on).

And in fact, if you look at the supposed suspect #2, and particularly if you blow the pic up a bit, lo and behold, he looks like a very traditional Turk. Oh, and Fetullah Gulen has his compounds/network focussed in Tucson.

Just dots. May mean nothing or everything.


71 posted on 01/09/2011 1:51:41 PM PST by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: sockmonkey; Smogger

Typically “Com-Post” damage control aka cover up!!!


72 posted on 01/09/2011 1:55:57 PM PST by danamco (')
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: prairiebreeze
The Pima Community College wouldn't let him back on campus until he had a mental health clearance. He had quite a history of disruptive behavior there. It would be interesting to know when this banning from the college occurred.

And how does the timeline of his obtaining a firearm mesh with his dismissal from college?

73 posted on 01/09/2011 1:59:16 PM PST by randita
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 66 | View Replies]

To: danamco

Sorry to say, “Never let your guard down.” You never know when they will stop taking their medications and / or some voice will tell them you are the enemy and that you must be cut into little pieces because the gold fish are hungry.

Or something like that. I know of what I speak and it is spooky. Sad but spooky and I don’t want to become a victim of it.


74 posted on 01/09/2011 1:59:19 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (Half of the population is below average)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 67 | View Replies]

To: hennie pennie

but what did “Jim Thompson” find? (lame joke)


75 posted on 01/09/2011 2:03:40 PM PST by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 56 | View Replies]

To: randita

Yep.


76 posted on 01/09/2011 2:06:21 PM PST by prairiebreeze (The Professional Left: Using Your Dollars to Promote Their Agenda Since the 1930's.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 73 | View Replies]

To: Smogger

You’re probably right. I was just responding to the question of whether someone has to do actual harm in order to get committed.


77 posted on 01/09/2011 2:07:03 PM PST by Hunton Peck ("Evidence? We don't need no stinkin' evidence! We're liberals!")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 54 | View Replies]

To: RC one; Smogger
Plenty of papers on it available all over the net. What seems to be the deal is that SOME folks with a schizophrenic genetic structure develop full blown schizophrenia almost instantaneously with the use of marijuana.

Which is one of the reasons you can "miss" the onset.

The pro-MJ crowd want to make more MJ available so that all these schizophrenia susceptible individuals can wig out now rather than later.

78 posted on 01/09/2011 2:21:23 PM PST by muawiyah
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: sockmonkey
We are being watched ~ BY IDIOTS.

Oh, the huge manatee!!

79 posted on 01/09/2011 2:29:41 PM PST by muawiyah
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 44 | View Replies]

To: RC one

There also are suggestions that people may be self-medicating — smoking pot because of mental illness, rather than becoming mentally ill because of drug use.


80 posted on 01/09/2011 2:31:04 PM PST by TexNewMex
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 41-6061-8081-100101-109 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson