Cops recover suicide note after deranged man drove car packed with explosives into crowd at Rochester concert, killing 2

NY Post ^ | 2/1/24 | Joe Marino & Katherine Donlevy

[Eleutheria5]

A couple was killed and numerous other people injured just hours into the New Year when a deranged man driving a car filled with explosives barreled into a crowd leaving a rock concert in upstate New York, police said.

Law enforcement sources initially reported that the crash was being investigated as possible domestic terrorism but said Tuesday there was no terror link.

The fiery crash occurred at 12:50 a.m. outside the Kodak Center in Rochester, where roughly 1,000 people were filing out after a New Year’s Eve show by the rock band Moe.

Rochester officers were helping pedestrians cross the street when Michael Avery, a suspected bipolar man from Syracuse, sped his rented Ford Expedition toward the crowd and smashed into an Uber pulling out of a nearby parking lot, law enforcement sources said.

“The force of the collision caused the two vehicles to go through a group of pedestrians that were in the crosswalk and then into two other vehicles,” Police Chief David Smith said at a press conference.



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[Eleutheria5]

Common sense car control laws. That's what's needed.

[pfflier]

Good thing you blamed the car and didn’t stigmatize the nutcase. That would be insensitive of you.

[Reno89519]

Ban gasoline and gas cans!

[House Atreides]

“ Law enforcement sources initially reported that the crash was being investigated as possible domestic terrorism but said Tuesday there was no terror link.”
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Enquiring minds want to know if FBI AGENTS/ASSETS WERE “WORKING” THIS GUY.

[jjotto]

From 11:35 AM EST:

https://www.wrvo.org/regional-news/2024-01-02/no-terrorism-link-in-fiery-rochester-crash-that-killed-3-authorities-say

...There is nothing, however, to indicate any social or political bias, and no suicide note nor journal has been recovered, said Police Chief David Smith, contradicting national reports. Federal authorities added they have found “no nexus to terrorism.”...

[Round Earther]

Not the best Kodak moment.

[hanamizu]

Ban gasoline and gas cans!

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Really. Gasoline-powered automobiles and gasoline itself are far too dangerous for ordinary people to either own or possess. Think of all the lives that would be saved if both were taken ‘off the streets’! If people can’t get what they need within a ten-minute walk, then they should move or be moved to where they can.
/s

[ronniesgal]

at least make crazy people use the “new” gas cans that suck.

[Red Badger]

They are.....................

[lee martell]

If he wanted to do away with himself, then it was his his to destroy. He should have left all those innocent strangers out of it. It took a lot of thinking, planning, spending and preparation to make this tragic event happen. He had a lot of time to come out of that manic state.For his own warped motivations, he also wished to murder people he never met.
No one saw anything leading up to this?

[lee martell]

His life

[Eleutheria5]

Or they can drive a safe, inexpensive Tesla./lol

[Eleutheria5]

And those hot rod corvettes and Lamborghinis, with no legitimate transportational purposes.

[Scrambler Bob]

If gasoline wasn’t in common use today, and just invented now, it would be banned as too dangerous.

[caddie]

Moe! Look!

[Eleutheria5]

Shemp Band’s revenge on Moe Band.

[lee martell]

Well, Moe used to tell Larry and Curly:
“Remind me to kill you later!”
and sometimes, Curly (stupidly) would remind Moe.

[NWFree]

Sounds like he was on a jihad

[hanamizu]

I’ve heard the same thing regarding aspirin.

[frank ballenger]

To article author: Stop editorializing and creating a foundation for an explanation of mental illness.

Note updated East Bay Times story:
“Avery’s family has been interviewed by investigators. Authorities say the suspect’s family believes he was bipolar, though he had not been diagnosed.”

“Officials said no suicide note was found in their search of Avery’s hotel room. A source familiar with the investigation previously told CNN that the suspect had left a suicide note and journal in his room.”