Posted on 12/16/2017 8:30:58 PM PST by CedarDave
For years before William Edward Atchison killed two students and himself, he lived a shadow life online—one full of crude alt-right memes and praise for school shooters.
In real life, William Edward Atchison—people called him Bill—lived in a little yellow house with his parents, about a mile away from the Giant gas station where he worked and from Aztec High School, where he shot and killed two students and then himself last Thursday.
At the murder scene, police found a thumb drive with a note that read, “If things go according to plan, today would be when I die. I go somewhere and gear up, then hold a class hostage and go apeshit, then blow my brains out.”
He wrote “work sucks, school sucks, life sucks. I just want out of this shit.”
“It’s a shame he wasn’t on our radar,” San Juan County Sheriff Ken Christesen told Fox News last week. “I don’t think he had anything so much as a traffic ticket.”
And yet online, the 21-year-old New Mexico resident lived a prolific life as a white supremacist, pro-Trump meme peddler who was most known for his obsession with school shooters. For a half-decade, Atchison spent most of his days online, repeatedly posting threats of violence and cries for help.
When users saw posts from Atchison, who went by dozens of names like “Adam Lanza” and “Future Mass Shooter” on both larger platforms like YouTube and racist communities like The Daily Stormer, they would often ask how his manifesto was going.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
The FBI investigated him but their concerns were dismissed after he convinced them his rants were satire.
“Alt-Right” can be found next to “Ctrl-Left”. (Just not as often).
KRQE 13 News highlighting this story on their evening news.
NM list PING!
(Short ping info as traveling.)
Jeez...go to the link and the guy looks like the actor who played Alfafa in the “Our Gang” shorts.
It’s not emphasized at all, but is this a 21 year old High School student? The article states he is 21, then says he shot students at Aztec High School, and was known by the Super Intendant.
Thanks, CedarDave. Merry Christmas!
>>>For a half-decade, Atchison spent most of his days online, repeatedly posting threats of violence and cries for help<<<
I still like to get on YouTube and watch President Trump’s January 2013 Inauguration. Don’t we all?
[For a half-decade, Atchison spent most of his days online, repeatedly posting threats of violence and cries for help.]
Yes and Trump has been president for 5 years.
A new rabbit hole for Mueller to crawl in.
Funny the difference between that story and Devin Patrick Kelley mass murder. The media certainly doesn’t view it as a big deal when an atheist mass murder Christians.
Probably repeat4ed 1st grade three times due to lack of potty training.
Noooo, Trump will doom minorities forever!
Whatever
Now, ever since President Trump was elected, because bad people like him, HE'S tarred with the same brush. And the very same people who said it didn't matter are now saying that it's ALL that matters.
Mark
***He wrote “work sucks, school sucks, life sucks. I just want out of this shit.” ***
Reminds me of what Doc Holiday said in TOMBSTONE. “A man like him has a big hole right through his middle, and he cannot kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain, as revenge for being born.”
I’ve known people like that.
But then again, maybe he was started on his path of destruction by the school lunches at Aztec, the worst I ever ate back in 1956, if they were still that bad today!
Right you are. I told an obviously liberal Judge during Jury Selection I disagreed with his premise the accused female in a drug associated murder trial wasn’t affected by association with her druggie friends. I said to the Judge “You are whom you run with”. I was raised to believe that, and my experience at my age is that it’s the absolute truth.
The Judge immediately dismissed me from any further participation in the trial, and I’ve never received any more summons for Jury duty since.
It seems like SSRIs are correlated with sudden non-jihadist violence like white mice are correlated to cancer...
I have too, and I've seen this as a result of a childhood of vicious abuse.
That was counterproductive. Had you kept quiet, the Leftist Judge would have lost control over the outcome of the trial.
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