1) His father is an Electrical Engineer with patents, and they have a nice house in a wealthy San Diego neighborhood.
2) He was employed by the University of Colorado while he was in school.
3) His apartment rent was about $500 a month.
4) I strongly suspect he wasn’t spending money on a girlfriend, etc.
5) Stuff like his much ballyhoed “tactical vest” cost $106.00, ordered off the internet.
6) I’m assuming it’s still very easy for undergraduates and grad students to get credit cards with surprisingly high limits.
I agree, there is nothing to be gained from believing unsubtantiated rumours. IOW tu quoque does not make a right.
I am curious though. If they do blow up his apartment then the mysteries that might be found on his computer iphone, ipad etc might be destroyed. He is oddly missing from the internet. A very strange thing indeed.
I am also curious as to why the only people who seem to be coming and going at this family home are friends or so it has been reported. One would think that a visit(if not a large and windbreakered presence) from the FBI would be in order but to my knowledge they have not been there. Or have they? I don’t know. The family home could have clues dontcha think?
This is an unusual guy in a group of very strange guys. Most of them have a beef, he does too. What I wonder is it? He worked at McDonald-which one, why no interview with boss or co-workers? No indication of how he performed and how he got on with co-workers. They might not be sophisticated enough to simply say, he was quiet but a bit strange.
The fill in the blanks part of his story we are told is full of blanks. Where did he learn to make his sophisticated booby trap, how to shoot, what body protection to wear, how to properly get and use tear gas. If not on line, then the credit card will tell us which “bookstore” he bought the books from (yeah right)
That the guns were purchased legally, got out pretty quickly along with the obligatory, no terrorist ties. OK. The fast and furious guns were purchased legally too, just say’n, and the speed of the “no terrorism here folks, move on” usually indicates a proportional relationship to actual terrorism. It might even be a physical law, the speed of the denial is indicative of the truth of the proposition.
In contrast to these other mass murder cases, he seems uniquely “lone” among lone wolves, not that that cannot be true, but it does defy the old Occam’s Razor law.
This entire story has a surface patina of unfolding along previously established lines, (a few words from the neighbours, the University prez,) with a few things left out. But it feels very odd. I am not speculating as to why just noting, it feels odder than usual.