[Vigilanteman]

From the story:

But while authorities here admit they don't yet know the motive for the murder, they're adamant terror wasn't behind it.

If authorities don't know the motive, how can they be so damn sure it wasn't terrorism??????

I recall the same dumb-assed statement being issued at the start of the DC sniper killings and it turned out that it was terrorism although the official line still is that Malvo and his pet goat just went beserk for reasons unknown, but probably due to his Gulf War service more than a decade before and not to his conversion to the Religion of Peace much more recently.

[TomGuy]

I recall the same dumb-assed statement being issued at the start of the DC sniper killings

And with shoebomber Reid.

And with the kid who crashed the small plane into the bank building in Atlanta.

etc.

It is the standard blub they first say.