Fox News reported this morning that the shooter’s mother was/is a member of the Pima County Board of Supervisors. That her son had been brought up on charges earlier, and the charges had been reduced (I think to a misdemeanor, but I’m not sure...).
If so, what role did sheriff Dupnik play in that arrangement?
NY Times
WASHINGTON — His MySpace page included a photograph of a United States history textbook, on top of which he had placed a handgun. He prepared a series of Internet videos in which he posted odd statements about the gold standard, the community college he attended and SWAT teams.
Jared Lee Loughner, in these few public hints, offered a sense of his alienation from society, confusion, anger as well as foreboding that his life could soon come to an end. Friends talked of how he had become reclusive in recent years, and his public postings raised questions, in retrospect at least, about his mental state.
There was evidence of recent trouble, though. Mr. Loughner, 22, was suspended in late September from Pima Community College, where he had been attending classes, because the school became aware of a disturbing YouTube video. Mr. Loughner voluntarily withdrew from the College on Oct. 4.
Another former high school classmate said that Mr. Loughner’s politics were left of center, and that he may have met Representative Giffords, who was shot in the head outside the Safeway supermarket, sometime before the attack.
“As I knew him he was left wing, quite liberal. & oddly obsessed with the 2012 prophecy,” the former classmate, Caitie Parker, wrote in a series of Twitter feeds Saturday. “I haven’t seen him since ’07 though. He became very reclusive.”
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/us/politics/09shooter...
Good point;)
The same Sheriff who is attempting to include a second suspect!!!!!
Perhaps an older, more influential ‘master-mind’ even!!!
I found a report last in pdf form that showed she worked at one time for the Parks Dept.
The boy was clearly mentally disturbed. It will be interesting to see if she pulled strings for him.
The world of Baseball is about to get involved with all of this since the 9 year old had two connections to it.
People naturally gravitate to a child when there are killings because such a long life full of all kinds of potential was snuffed out by a lunatic ...because of a chance decision to go to a political meeting.
All the deaths and wounded victims are a tragedy but to see a young child taken away - sometimes it is just hard to comprehend God’s plan.