I don’t know whether to get paranoid about this or not. I think the odds are against it being a terrorist case. But the longer they wait, the more suspicious people are going to get.
I agree. There are several mysteries. Was there one shooter or two? Were the shooters connected? If it was one guy who left the campus and then returned, why didn’t they do more to warn people and send in police? The New York Times article says that the shootings took place over a period of three hours.
If the shooter was suicidal over his girlfriend, and if his first visit was to the dorm where she lived, why were the police unable to identify him by asking other students in the dorm who the Asian boyfriend was?
I gather the FBI has been brought in, and they have done nothing for the past ten years and more but cover up and bury evidence. We wouldn’t know that the Norman stadium suicide bombing was a terrorist incident if the local papers hadn’t gotten on top of it before the FBI had a chance to sweep it all under the rug.
Suicidal boyfriends I can understand. But what’s the psychological explanation for someone who comes in, shoots a couple of people, leaves, picks up more weapons, comes back, and then starts mowing people down at random? It just doesn’t make any sense. But it DOES fit the pattern of Sudden Jihad Syndrome, which involves killing as many people as possible.
Asian? There are plenty of Asian Muslims. I think the odds are against, but I wish the newspapers would do a little investigating on this case, like the folks at the Norman radio station did.
Cable reporting that Justice Dept. investigating whether the murderer may be a 24 year old Chinese national here on a student visa since last August.
IF it is true the mass murderer was not carrying ID, then the deliberateness of that is chilling.
There are too many Freepers who seem desperate to pin this on the villains du jour, i.e., Islamos or illegals. I’ll be the first to go nuts if the authorities try to cover up jihadi influence, but the limited info available now just doesn’t support that. My sources on campus report that the word is the shooter is an Asian, probably Chinese male who was a student at nearby Radford. He went looking to kill his gf at the dorm and instead murdered her roommate and an RA. Then he went to the building where the gf’s first class was supposed to be and, not knowing which room she was in, began methodically making his way through the building. Just a theory, but just as valid as any “the Muslims did it” conclusion at this point.