From another thread here on FR
So, he worked on a YWAM trip, one of the girls killed at the church recently returned from a mission trip. My thoughts are being confirmed. The motive is going to get pedestrian in a hurry. Which will do nothing to diminish the horror of the event. It will slow down the media.
The minister, in his Q & A at 0900, specifically stated that she was not on a YWAM mission but was on a church-sponsored mission.
Very interesting. Thanks for relaying that info. to this thread.
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It’s starting to look to me like this was a grudge of some sort. That the shooter most likely knew whom he was attacking and planned this well in advance. I wonder if he specifically targeted these girls and their family, or whether they happened to be the first group of people he came upon in the parking lot... It will be interesting to learn more about the shooter and any motive he may have had — whether there was a problem between himself and these young people, or whether he “snapped” and the object of his frustration was with the church and missionary group simply because of his prior involvement with them (i.e. had anti-Christian or anti-Missionary grudges in his head, which then got turned against the group he had contact with).
I wonder whether his involvement with the church was part of his planning, or whether he wanted to be involved and then became disenchanted in some way (i.e. maybe he didn’t get along with these people, or felt shunned — not that THEY shunned him, but maybe that’s how he saw it. Many times people with emotional problems will imagine all sorts of things when in a group of people — like people talking about them, or taking innocent comments personally, etc... After all, it’s clear this person was disturbed — people who are not don’t plan and execute plots of mass murder).