Posted on 04/23/2022 4:02:53 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
An hour after a man fired shots indiscriminately in the Van Ness neighborhood on a busy Friday afternoon, Raymond Spencer updated the Wikipedia page for the nearby Edmund Burke School.
“A gunman shot at the school on April 22, 2022,” Spencer wrote. “The suspect is still at large.”
Police later identified Spencer from Fairfax, Va., as a person of interest in the shooting before announcing that a suspect was found dead that night in a nearby Van Ness apartment surrounded by firearms and ammunition.
On Saturday, D.C. Police Chief Robert J. Contee III said the gunman fired more than 100 rounds from a long gun, and he confirmed reports that bullet holes were being found in buildings in the area.
“There are probably going to be a lot of bullet holes we’re going to find,” he said. “That investigation will be going on for a while.”
Contee on Friday all but said Spencer was the gunman they were seeking, declaring that law enforcement officers were no longer searching for Spencer after they discovered the suspected gunman had killed himself as tactical officers breached his door.
Police said four were injured in the shooting in the Van Ness area, including a man in his 50s, a woman in her 30s, another woman who was grazed by a bullet and a 12-year-old girl.
By Saturday morning, little was known about the suspect. Authorities did not say whether the gunman was targeting Burke, whether he attended or had any affiliation to the school, or what ties he had to the Van Ness neighborhood. But authorities indicated that Spencer’s online footprint provided insight into the shooting that sent one of the busiest avenues in D.C. into panic and launched armored vehicles and helicopters into the area during a frantic search for the gunman.
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“A gunman shot at the school on April 22, 2022. The suspect is still at large.”
Then he wrote on 4chan:
"Dear God please forgive me."
"They're in the wrong part of the building right now searching XD"
"Waiting for police to catch up with me."
It sounds like he wanted to be famous for all the wrong reasons.
Raymond Spencer looks Filipino or Hispanic. Perhaps adopted?
Hope the wounded will be okay. But, gotta take exception to the report:
“... a man in his 50s, a woman in her 30s, another woman who was grazed by a bullet and a 12-year-old girl....” How can they be sure. Should they say 4 entities were injured? You don’t want to get the dizzknee folks upset by misreporting someone’s gender and stuff. Maybe a supreme court judge can make a determination.......
Grrrrrrr! Carry on.
Good point. It seems someone at WaPo may need sensitivity training.
The temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, was burned in 356 B.C. (supposedly on the very day that Alexander the Great was born). A man named Herostratus reportedly set the fire simply to be famous, although some scholars doubt the story.
Maybe so... or maybe the father just had an English surname.
Well, the good news is, this guy’s attempt to be (in)famous seems to have failed.
This story doesn’t seem to be receiving a whole lot of attention, unless I missed something.
Hope all the injured survive and do well.
Tell me again WHY we have closed the mental hospitals.
CONVINCE ME
Maybe the fbi was doing the posting on both sites.
It took FOUR ADULTS to write this??? It’s NOT a complicated story! n geesh.
If anyone can remember willow brook a mental facility in staten island in NY back in the 70’s and Geraldo rivira’s report that brought the story of abuse and neglect to the nation. They deemed housing the mentally ill were cruel and unusual punishment and they should be released and the facilities shut down. I believe this was a turning point that none of the politicians wanted to deal with so they quickly sided with the psycs and devised a way of releasing them in the streets allowing them to medicate themselves with the medications they receive from the local med center and were free to roam
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