Ford Hood shooter was on psych meds, just like nearly all other mass shooters

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Ford Hood shooter was on psych meds, just like nearly all other mass shooters

Maryland mystery: Why did mall shooter do it?

Investigators are still searching for a motive this morning behind a deadly shooting at a Maryland mall on Saturday that killed two workers. Police said the shooter, Darion Marcus Aguilar, 19, then killed himself. Investigators have not been able to find a link between Aguilar and the victims.

By Elisha Fieldstadt, Staff Writer, NBC News

As a Maryland mall prepared to reopen Monday two days after a gunman entered the shopping center and killed two store employees and then himself, many questions remain about the tragedy.

The attack has baffled investigators and acquaintances of the shooter, a quiet, skinny teenager who graduated from high school less than a year ago and had no previous run-ins with law enforcement. 

Did Aguilar know his victims?
The shooter, Darion Marcus Aguilar, 19, is seemingly connected to the victims, Brianna Benlolo, 21, and Tyler Johnson, 25, in a couple of small ways. Friends of Aguilar described the teen as an avid skateboarder, and the store where he killed the two young employees was a skate shop called Zumiez. Additionally, he lived less than a mile away from Benlolo in College Park, Md.

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Regardless of the possible overlap between Aguilar and his victims, Howard County Police Chief Bill McMahon said Sunday, “We have no known relationship between the victims and our shooter.” Although Benlolo and Aguilar lived in the same area and were of similar ages, Benlolo did not attend Blake High School from which Aguilar graduated, said Dana Tofig, a school representative.

McMahon said there has been speculation about a romantic relationship between the gunman and Benlolo, but investigators have not been able to establish that. 

He said Monday that if the shooting were “domestic-related” he thought investigators would know more about that by this point. But he also did not rule that out. 

The chief also said there was no evidence so far that Aguilar ever applied for a job at Zumiez or worked there. 

Did Aguilar show warning signs of violence?
Aguilar’s mother reported him missing about two hours after the shooting on Saturday, according to Prince George’s County Police Department. This may indicate she had some feeling that her son was capable of causing danger to others or himself, although Aguilar had no criminal record, according to Howard County Police.

When police arrived at Aguilar’s home to file the missing person’s report, they found his journal. According to Prince George’s County PD, entries in the journal made an investigator “concerned for the missing person’s safety.” McMahon later said that Aguilar “does express some general unhappiness with his life” within the journal’s pages.

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A memorial site has been set up at the Mall in Columbia, Md.

And Aguilar’s college plans were diverted. A Blake Highschool newspaper page highlighting the class of 2013 and their future plans, Aguilar indicated he intended on attending Montgomery College. Elizabeth S. Homan, Montgomery’s director of communications, told NBC News that Aguilar was accepted to his first choice school in February of 2013 but never registered for classes.

What did Aguilar do during his 60 minutes in the mall?
The shooter took a cab to the Mall in Columbia. He was dropped off near the Zumiez store on the second level and waited an hour before his attack on the store.

McMahon said surveillance video shows Aguilar made “very limited movement” during that hour. He walked down one level to the food court directly below the future crime scene and then ditched a bag in a Zumiez dressing room before he opened fire.

Did Aguilar intend to harm more people?
Aguilar fired between six and eight shots and hit four people — including one person who suffered a gunshot wound to the foot. When police found Aguilar’s body, they found “a large amount of ammunition on and about him,” McMahon said.

Officers also found “two crude devices that appeared to be an attempt at making explosives using fireworks,” a Howard County police statement read. Investigators were originally concerned they would find additional explosives on Aguilar’s body or in the mall, but did not. Police did find additional ammunition in the home he shared with his mother, McMahon said.

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A message is posted on the outside of the boarded up Zumiez store where two days earlier three people were shot and killed at the Mall in Columbia January 27, 2014 in Columbia, Maryland. Authorities say Darion Marcus Aguilar, 19, killed two employees at the skateboarding and surfing clothing store in the mall before fatally shooting himself. Investigators still have no motive for the shooting.

Where’d he get the gun and ammo?
Aguilar purchased his 12-gauge Mossberg shotgun legally in December. State law says that a person over the age of 18 can purchase and possess a rifle or shotgun without a permit, according to the National Rifle Association. Federal law stipulates that a gun buyer must pass a background check.

During news conferences Saturday and Sunday, Howard County Executive Ken Ulman skirted any comments about possibly fighting for stricter gun laws in Maryland. He encouraged the community to focus on “doing what we can to make the world a better place,” adding, “There will be plenty of time for a broad public policy debate.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Hustler Publisher Asks Authorities to Pardon His Shooter

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Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis left note blaming low-frequency attack

Richard A. Serrano
LA Times
September 26, 2013

The Washington Navy Yard shooter believed he was being subjected to an “ultra low frequency attack” and left an electronic note saying this was “what I’ve been subject to for the last 3 months, and to be perfectly honest that is what has driven me to this,” the FBI revealed Wednesday.

Aaron Alexis, 34, a computer technician for a private Navy contractor, killed 12 people and wounded four others in the Sept. 16 rampage as he fired a sawed-off Remington 870 Express shotgun in which he had etched several statements, including “End to the torment!”

The FBI also released video and still photographs from Building 197 at the Navy Yard, including scenes of Alexis in a dark blue-and-white shirt and dark trousers, wielding the shotgun as he roamed down hallways and stairwells in search of victims.

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No, the Navy Yard Mass Shooter Did Not Target a "Gun-Free Zone"

Each time another mass shooting takes place, gun-rights advocates are quick to blame the attack on the prohibition of firearms in public places. Their argument claims to explain both the motive behind mass shootings and how they play out: The killers deliberately choose locations where guns are forbidden, they say, and therefore no “good guy with a gun” is on hand to stop the attack. Conservatives’ response to the massacre at the Washington Navy Yard was no exception. (Never mind the heavy security at the military installation.) As Fox News’ Martha MacCallum put it, “on a military base, you’re not allowed to carry weapons” and “someone working or familiar with the area probably would know that.”

Her speculation may have sounded vaguely plausible, but it had no basis in fact. As I explained in a piece in USA Today earlier this year, in scores of mass shooting cases over the last three decades there isn’t a single one in which the killer is known to have targeted a location because it banned guns. To the contrary, evidence in the vast majority of cases shows the motive was clearly otherwise, from workplace revenge to hate crime to a killer’s obsession with his former school.

We now have the same understanding of the Navy Yard mass shooter, thanks to an FBI report released on Wednesday, which includes evidence pertaining to Aaron Alexis’ state of mind. Not only was he plagued by serious mental illness, as previous news reports suggested, but Alexis also had no expectation of entering a venue that was free of firearms. According to the FBI’s analysis of evidence it recovered from his belongings, “There are indicators that Alexis was prepared to die during the attack and that he accepted death as the inevitable consequence of his actions.”

That finding fits with a clear pattern in the data we gathered in our mass shootings investigation: The perpetrators weren’t looking for a safe, gun-free place to carry out their attacks—they were on suicide missions.

The FBI on Wednesday also released some eerie surveillance footage of Alexis entering the Navy Yard premises and moving with stealth through the corridors of Building 197 as he stalked his victims. We’ll never fully know what was going through his disturbed mind, of course, but judge for yourself whether he was acting like a person who believed he was operating in a place full of defenseless sitting ducks:

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Confirmed: Navy Yard Shooter Was On Anti-Depressant Trazodone

Drug linked to previous mass shooting despite Washington Post declaring it “safe”

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
September 19, 2013

It has been confirmed that Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis was on the anti-depressant drug Trazodone, providing yet another example of a connection between psychiatric drugs and mass shootings.

Trazodone. Image: Wikimedia Commons

In verifying that Alexis was prescribed Trazodone by the Veterans Affairs Office, the Washington Post published a brief article downplaying the danger of the drug, quoting Miami physician Gabriela Cora who stated (almost too eagerly), “Honestly, it’s a very safe drug to use.”

However, the drug has been linked to a number of murders, including one mass shooting.

Trazodone is sold under the brand names Desyrel, Oleptro, Beneficat, Deprax, Desirel, Molipaxin, Thombran, Trazorel, Trialodine, Trittico, and Mesyrel. Although not strictly a member of the SSRI class of antidepressants, it shares many of the same properties and also serves to increases the amount of serotonin in the brain.

Despite the Washington Post’s attempts to portray the drug as being safe, it is linked with a whole host of side-effects including suicidal tendencies, panic attacks, depersonalization and anger. Symptoms of Trazodone withdrawal include aggression and violent behavior.

The drug also carries an, “FDA black box warning for suicide, and is documented to cause mania and violent behavior,” writes Kelly Patricia O’Meara.

Several murder cases over the past few years have been directly connected to Trazodone.

- Eight people were killed and one wounded during a mass shooting at a beauty parlor in Seal Beach, California in 2011. The killer, Scott Evan Dekraai, was on Desyrel, a commercial variant of Trazodone.

- In 2009, Perley Goodrich Jr. beat his mother and then shot his father dead shortly after being injected with Trazodone in a psychiatric hospital. Goodrich had complained that he didn’t want to take the medication because it made him feel violent.

- In 2009, Steven Foster shot a gas station attendant in the head before shooting him a second time. Bottles of Trazodone pills were later found in Foster’s room.

- Marine Lance Cpl. Delano Holmes fatally stabbed an Iraqi soldier to death in 2007 after military doctors prescribed him Trazodone.

- Indiana soldier Pfc. David Lawrence was taking Trazodone in combination with Zoloft when he killed a Taliban commander in a prison cell in 2010. Lawrence was charged with premeditated murder. According to the FDA, taking these drugs in combination can cause “altered consciousness, confusion, hallucinations and coma.”

This is interesting given that Aaron Alexis had also suffered from PTSD, blackouts and anger issues years before he began receiving treatment from the VA. Was he on more than just one anti-depressant drug at the time of the rampage?

As we highlighted yesterday, the establishment media has been loathe to make the connection between Alexis’ rampage and anti-depressants, despite hundreds of other cases of suicides, murders and mass shootings linked to psychiatric drugs.

Presumably keen to protect around $ 2.4 billion in advertising revenue that comes from pharmaceutical companies every year, the media failed to even address the question of psychiatric drugs and instead blamed the rampage on the AR-15 assault rifle, which authorities confirm Alexis did not even use.

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Officials: At least 1 shooter dead at Navy Yard

WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials say at least one shooter has died at the Washington Navy Yard, where several people were killed and as many as 10 were wounded.

A federal law enforcement official and a Defense Department official said Monday morning that a shooter had died. Both spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation.

Two other officials have said they are looking into the possibility of a second shooter at the Navy Yard.

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Fort Hood jury to begin weighing fate of convicted shooter

FORT HOOD, Texas (Reuters) – The fate of a convicted U.S. Army psychiatrist hangs in the balance as a military jury on Monday begins to hear evidence on whether to sentence him to death for firing on unarmed soldiers, killing 13 and wounding 31 in a 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas.

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