Prayers to the victims and their families.
Patterns? HOw about this? The only shooting that was at the same time Muslim prayers are is this one:
8:15 p.m. Wednesday: Dean Harold Meyers, 53, of Gaithersburg, Md., killed at gas station in Manassas, Va. (Prince William County)
Prayer time for that day is 8:15 PM. The same time as Isah (Night) prayer time. But, since Muslims can combine the last 2 prayer times the actual time point may have been 6:53 PM. So, it's possible no shooting has been within 15 minutes of any Muslim prayer time for the time zone of the shootings.
Not as interesting data as ballistics info. but something else to consider.
As far as any significance regarding the name Michael. this kind of info. is interesting.
In Christian scriptures Michael's name means "who is God". Which could be taken as a question. The Muslims see Michael as something different: Muslim traditions have a beautiful, yet terrible description of the great archangel, "Wings the color of green emerald...covered with saffron hairs, each of them containing a million faces and mouths and as many tongues which, in a million dialects, implore the pardon of Allah"--and from his tears, the cherubim are formed.
Please excuse the long post.