Posted on 12/25/2012 1:00:11 PM PST by JustaCowgirl
WEBSTER, N.Y. (AP) — Police have found human remains in the burned-out home of the Webster, N.Y., ex-con who killed two firefighters and believe the victim is the gunman's sister. Police Chief Gerald Pickering said Tuesday the remains were found in the charred house that 62-year-old William Spengler shared with his 67-year-old sister, Cheryl. A medical examiner will need to determine the identity. Police say Willliam Spengler armed himself with a revolver, shotgun and military-style rifle before he set his house afire to lure first responders into a pre-dawn death trap on Christmas Eve. Pickering says Spengler "was equipped to go to war."
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There, that's fixed.
Regards,
GtG
Never try to get inside a mad man’s head and attempt to understand what you find there, for if you do understand what you find there, you’re just as crazy as he is.
Read in other articles that he'd left a 3-page typewritten note saying that he wanted to burn down the neighborhood, and "do what he likes doing best...killing people."
Uh-oh, the evil “military-style rifle” was involved. Was it identified? Probably a single-shot .22.
Call Cuomo - NYS should immediately outlaw felons and the mentally ill from possessing firearms.
This must never be allowed to happen again.
According to Fox News, the killer was armed with a .38-caliber revolver, a 12-gauge shotgun, and a .223-caliber Bushmaster rifle. The Bushmaster is the same make and caliber semiautomatic rifle as the one used in the Newtown school massacre.
If you listen to the radio transmissions from the scene, it is clear that the guy used the rifle to shoot at the first responders as soon as they arrived, from behind a berm across the street from the fire, so he set them up in a trap.
I don’t watch Fox News, or any alphabet news station. I based my comment on the article posted, and that article did not identify the rifle. If it was a Bushmaster .223, then it is a very common rifle, and is not in reality an assault rifle (in newspeak, though, it is.).
I don’t watch Fox News, or any alphabet news station. I based my comment on the article posted, and that article did not identify the rifle. If it was a Bushmaster .223, then it is a very common rifle, and is not in reality an assault rifle (in newspeak, though, it is.).
“Murdered his 92 yr old grandmother with a hammer, and some idiot judge lets him out after only 17 years.”
That is nothing my cousin murder was released after his bail was reduced from 1 Million to $250,000.00. EVEN!!! when he bludgeoned an elderly couple who happens to be Berkeley Professors almost to death. Leaving the woman unable to speak and her husband. There place had blood everywhere yet this stupid woman judge I guess didnt think that was enough so she stupidly reduce his bail only to get out by using his house & boat as collatral and murder my cousin by cutting him up.
Ping
Not a coverup. This was THE crime. Police have a 3 page letter the POS left stating his intent to burn down the neighborhood and kill as many people as he could.
This perp was a total scumbag who should have been hanged back when he killed his grandmother with a hammer.
It was a Bushmaster. I'll give the police and press credit here. In this article they avoided reporting this as a "deadly, highpowered, extra-triple high capacity automatic assault rifle," which is the verbiage typically used. I'm ok with referring to a Bushmaster as a "military style rifle"; That's essentially what it is. A Springield, a 98 Mauser, a Garand, or M-1 Carbine could also be characterized as "military style rifles."
From what I've heard, the chief of police's first impulse was to blame the killer, stating he should never have been released, and (to my knowledge) didn't blame the rifle. either the chief and press involved here have their heads screwed on right, or we're making some progress.
A Bushmaster is indeed a “military-style” rifle in appearance, as it is a clone of the M16. In functionality, it is not.
I, also, commend the police chief if he blamed the shooter and not the weapon, and applaud him for not calling the Bushmaster an assault rifle. We’ll see if he changes his narrative after the mayor and city council have a talk with him.
“. We’ll see if he changes his narrative after the mayor and city council have a talk with him.”
Won’t happen. Webster is a suburban town and doesn’t have a mayor or city council. Plus it is quite conservative or at least conservative leaning.
Add to that the fact that the head of the next agency involved is the Monroe County Sheriff Pat O’Flynn who would be welcome at any freeper’s table. He answers to the County manager Maggie Brooks who is also pro 2nd amendment.
We are dealing with good people on this one and you are NOT going to hear them blaming guns.
This man was found guilty of killing his Grandmother with a hammer. If he had been executed that wouls have been the end of it.
There is no record of any executed killer ever killing again.
Stop farting around with these people.
There is no such thing as being too stupid or too insane to be executed, That’s horse hockey.
If they are too sick to be executed-—carry them to the table and git er done.
600 people in California sitting on death row waiting to get turned loose so they can kill again. Why? Because some governor hasn’t the balls to set up the schedule./
yea, but too bad for him, he won't be able to read them. The papers don't make deliveries to Hell.
The news said a three page type written note. I doubt seriously this guy could type and he doesn’t look like the type of guy that would write a three page suicide note. I personally don’t believe he did.
How come the letter did not burn up but almost the whole block was burned?
Executed murders generally, without known exceptions that I know of, are not repeat offenders. Had they done the right thing in the first place the whole conversation would be moot.
Why was he let out of prison after serving only 17 years?!! Why?!
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