Shootings that were announced online by the perpetrators

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Post screenshots of online posts by users announcing that they will be committing a mass shooting. [Make sure that nothing graphic is contained, that only their username and caption are in the frame, and that they're not fake]

Adam Lanza,Chris Harper Mercer,Randy Stair,Elliot Rodger,Robert Hawkins

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[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] We'll be needing screenshots and Adam and Robert's ones were fake

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Christopher Harper-Mercer, 26. He posted this comment on 4chan the day before he killed 10 people and himself at his community college in Oregon: [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
And here's the moment anons from 4chan realised he actually did it: [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

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Adam Lanza's 4chan post was fake although it made it into an old report on the Sandy Hook school shooting. But in the new documents, it is stated that he brought up a warning to fellow gamers: [EDIT: APPARENTLY THE THREAT WAS FROM SOMEONE ELSE] [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

scibblewop wrote:: Christopher Harper-Mercer, 26. He posted this comment on 4chan the day before he killed 10 people and himself at his community college in Oregon: [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
And here's the moment anons from 4chan realised he actually did it: [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

If I remember adam's post was confirmed by the FBI

scibblewop wrote:: Adam Lanza's 4chan post was fake although it made it into an old report on the Sandy Hook school shooting. But in the new documents, it is stated that he brought up a warning to fellow gamers:
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This seems to be a description of what was said on 4chan. I think that the 4chan thread was linked in multiple places because there was also someone from suicideforum.com who stated that a user there had said the same thing.

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However, in the same police file about the post that was supposedly on suicideforum.com, this was included.

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The final report did mention a separate incident with a Call of Duty gamer where someone was saying something different about a possible shooting but it was also investigated and determined to be unrelated.

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Krieg wrote:: Adam Lanza,Chris Harper Mercer,Randy Stair,Elliot Rodger,Robert Hawkins

was mercer and hawkins ever confirmed

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[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Interesting. It seems that there was a chain of events regarding his online announcements contrary to what I had thought.

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[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Mercer's posts are still suspected but are more than likely to be real, whereas Hawkins' was confirmed to be definitely fake.

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scibblewop wrote:: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Mercer's posts are still suspected but are more than likely to be real, whereas Hawkins' was confirmed to be definitely fake.

why are the more likely to be real sure its weird. But he didn't even specify a state he just said "northwest". People post threats like that daily and it almost never happens. Id believe it is real if there was some sort of concrete proof, but there isnt

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[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Yeah you never know with 4chan because of anonymity.

scibblewop wrote:: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Yeah you never know with 4chan because of anonymity.

That's the beauty of it - no-one knows who you really are.

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scibblewop wrote:: Christopher Harper-Mercer, 26. He posted this comment on 4chan the day before he killed 10 people and himself at his community college in Oregon: [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
And here's the moment anons from 4chan realised he actually did it: [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Here is a link to an archive of the entire thread: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
Some of the people on there were giving him advice on what weapons to use and how to kill more people. nice place, /r9k/

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scibblewop wrote:: Christopher Harper-Mercer, 26. He posted this comment on 4chan the day before he killed 10 people and himself at his community college in Oregon:
And here's the moment anons from 4chan realised he actually did it:
Here is a link to an archive of the entire thread:
Some of the people on there were giving him advice on what weapons to use and how to kill more people. nice place, /r9k/

elliot listened to them, so there advice isnt really good

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[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Great. My hopes of legitimate Lanza reminants always get crushed like this XD Why, what was the point of putting that in the OFFICIAL AND MOST RECENT NEWTOWN DOCUMENT?

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[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Oh awesome! It looks like archive.is doesn't exclude 4chan like Wayback Machine does...

scibblewop wrote:: [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Great. My hopes of legitimate Lanza reminants always get crushed like this XD Why, what was the point of putting that in the OFFICIAL AND MOST RECENT NEWTOWN DOCUMENT?

The FBI documents are not an investigate summary like the one that I posted information from which confirmed that the 4chan post was unrelated to Lanza. The new documents include a bunch of unsubstantiated leads because they include documentation for many of the investigative leads that the FBI was obligated to look into after receiving tips. There are actually a number of similar tips in the original CSP documents so reading the concluding report is important since the original investigative documents don't always include a follow-up on the information given in interviews or specify whether a lead was credible.

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[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] This makes sense because of the very specific exert from the new documents which stated that the FBI wasted tremendous amounts of hours exploring something along the lines of a fake Adam Lanza Myspace profile.

Here's a screenshot of what I think you are talking about. They actually wanted to see if they could file charges against him for wasting their time on the day of the shooting.

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I remember another document that details an interview with a Facebook troll who said that Adam Lanza didn't kill enough people. The guy had to explain that he was just an idiot trying to piss people off to the FBI agents that came to interview him.

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sscc wrote:: I remember another document that details an interview with a Facebook troll who said that Adam Lanza didn't kill enough people. The guy had to explain that he was just an idiot trying to piss people off to the FBI agents that came to interview him.

i dont know why the fbi would even interview for that? Sure its very rude but saying "Lanza didnt kill enough" is hardly grounds for an interview?

Its like how people would say "i wish obama would be lynched", even Ted Nugent said something about taking a machine gun and shooting clinton and obama

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sscc wrote:: Here's a screenshot of what I think you are talking about. They actually wanted to see if they could file charges against him for wasting their time on the day of the shooting.

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I remember another document that details an interview with a Facebook troll who said that Adam Lanza didn't kill enough people. The guy had to explain that he was just an idiot trying to piss people off to the FBI agents that came to interview him.

Yeah that's it. Plus if that troll actually admitted and literally said that he was just an idiot, it would make my day.

Back in 2006 there was a school shooting (actually not very far away from me ) here in germany in that 18 year old sebastian bosse injured 37 People before commiting suicide.
He announced the shooting the night before as well as sending his diary via E-mail to friends at 2am of the day of the shooting

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All the shooters I know of that apparently posted about their attacks online before they did it, and if they were fake or not. Please correct me if I made any mistakes. The post is really long, so if you don't care I'll censor it so you don't have to scroll past the full thing.

Spoiler:

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InsaneIntruder wrote:

All the shooters I know of that apparently posted about their attacks online before they did it, and if they were fake or not. Please correct me if I made any mistakes. The post is really long, so if you don't care I'll censor it so you don't have to scroll past the full thing.

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Kretschmer's krautchan post was fake..the mercer post was never confirmed..i dont know about the others...also you did not mention George Sodini who had a website which gave the date of the rampage but you had to guess a password or something like that to enter it

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InsaneIntruder wrote:

All the shooters I know of that apparently posted about their attacks online before they did it, and if they were fake or not. Please correct me if I made any mistakes. The post is really long, so if you don't care I'll censor it so you don't have to scroll past the full thing.

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Kretschmer's krautchan post was fake..the mercer post was never confirmed..i dont know about the others...also you did not mention George Sodini who had a website which gave the date of the rampage but you had to guess a password or something like that to enter it

I pointed out that Tim's was fake and Mercer's was unconfirmed. Also I didn't know that Sodini posted about it, I never bothered to research him that much. Should I add Sodini?

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InsaneIntruder wrote:: Also I didn't know that Sodini posted about it, I never bothered to research him that much. Should I add Sodini?

if you want, his shooting was very minor, he just had a hatred towards women and posted about his problems. got like 2 kills or some shit

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InsaneIntruder wrote:: Also I didn't know that Sodini posted about it, I never bothered to research him that much. Should I add Sodini?

if you want, his shooting was very minor, he just had a hatred towards women and posted about his problems. got like 2 kills or some shit

I added him.
I honestly just brushed him off as Elliot before Elliot commit his attack.

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InsaneIntruder wrote:: Seung Hui Cho: There was yet another fake screenshot of a mass shooter saying they were going to commit a shooting. This time, it was apparently Seung Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech shooter who killed 32 people, who posted it. It was obviously fake though, as the person editing it made a mistake on the date or time.

Wow, never heard about a fake Cho profile until now.

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InsaneIntruder wrote:: Seung Hui Cho: There was yet another fake screenshot of a mass shooter saying they were going to commit a shooting. This time, it was apparently Seung Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech shooter who killed 32 people, who posted it. It was obviously fake though, as the person editing it made a mistake on the date or time.

Wow, never heard about a fake Cho profile until now.

It's not surprising though, considering Cho's high kill count.

I forgot to mention Pekka Eric Auvinen but added him.

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also Tomohiro Kato, although not a mass shooter. He admitted to posting messages online before the attack

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also Tomohiro Kato, although not a mass shooter. He admitted to posting messages online before the attack

Still adding him.

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InsaneIntruder wrote:: Also I didn't know that Sodini posted about it, I never bothered to research him that much. Should I add Sodini?

if you want, his shooting was very minor, he just had a hatred towards women and posted about his problems. got like 2 kills or some shit

3 killed and 9 wounded actually. Although he had a poor "kill-count", he appears to have served as an inspiration to Lanza; This combined with Lanza's interest in Farley, the "Selfish" document, and the Luby's shooting edit makes me wonder how much hostility Lanza had towards women.

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InsaneIntruder wrote:: Also I didn't know that Sodini posted about it, I never bothered to research him that much. Should I add Sodini?

if you want, his shooting was very minor, he just had a hatred towards women and posted about his problems. got like 2 kills or some shit

3 killed and 9 wounded actually. Although he had a poor "kill-count", he appears to have served as an inspiration to Lanza; This combined with Lanza's interest in Farley, the "Selfish" document, and the Luby's shooting edit makes me wonder how much hostility Lanza had towards women.

It's hard to say which shooter had the most influence on Lanza. I think he identified with almost all of them.

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This shooting actually belongs in this thread as well as the thread about "Shootings That Never Were" but I'm just going to post it here.

Here is a description of what happened:
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This is what he posted online that morning.
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QuestionMark wrote:: It's hard to say which shooter had the most influence on Lanza. I think he identified with almost all of them.

Adam hated society and culture and wished to act out violently against it, he targeted kids due to nostalgic reason, easy kills and maximum shock value. he identified with most of th emass killers as he wanted to be a mass killer and he supported the atcs of violence they commited against the society he hated. he believed kids were being brainwashed and controlled by older authorities and that the children were not free like wild animals and when they are disturbed and put in a enviroment that causes them suffering all their life they will be cornered with hopelessness and suffering in there life which will cause them to act out violently, just how he compared Travis the chimps rampage with a teenage mall shooter.

In his mind he probably thought he was freeing the children from cultural indoctrination which he hated by murdering them and killing their teachers and inflicting as much shock value to the adults that he says controlled them as he could, alongside this he had a fantasy of being the mass killers he looked up to so much and he wanted to top the high score as he mostly saw mass murder as a game which is evident from the spreadsheet and the extensive playing of combat arms aswell as his tactics during the shooting. he had lost touch with reality and lived in a fantasy world of childhood nostalgia, detoriarating mind,anxiety, mass murder and games, he lived in this fantasy until it was getting closer to him being forced out of it and having to move on into the big world, he simply could not function in this big world so he exited it the way he had always been obsessed with. Mass murder

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Also it is said that the Sutherland springs church shooter may of put a warning on 4chan, here it is:

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it is not confirmed as the shooter but the haircut, blue eyes, head shape and eyebrows look similar

it is also said that the shooter was wearing all black with tactical gear and a "ninja looking mask" or mask at least. this could turn out to be possibly him?

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TheyAllFloatDownHere wrote:: Also it is said that the Sutherland springs church shooter may of put a warning on 4chan, here it is:

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it is not confirmed as the shooter but the haircut, blue eyes, head shape and eyebrows look similar

it is also said that the shooter was wearing all black with tactical gear and a "ninja looking mask" or mask at least. this could turn out to be possibly him?

the news is saying he had a skull mask on during the rampage

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TheyAllFloatDownHere wrote:: Also it is said that the Sutherland springs church shooter may of put a warning on 4chan, here it is:

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it is not confirmed as the shooter but the haircut, blue eyes, head shape and eyebrows look similar

it is also said that the shooter was wearing all black with tactical gear and a "ninja looking mask" or mask at least. this could turn out to be possibly him?

the news is saying he had a skull mask on during the rampage

i literally just saw multiple news articles saying that, i guess it can be confirmed that he made this threat on 4chan then

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] I think you made a lot of good points but are you certain that Adam "supported" all of these acts of violence committed against society? I waver on that aspect of it. I think he certainly identified with the shooters and he obviously committed a violent act of his own but I'm not sure whether he felt that he or any other mass shooter really had any choice in the matter. Since he thought that society made people "unwell," both mentally and physically, I think he may have blamed society for the outburts and seen it more as an inevitable consequence of culture and society. I don't know if I would say that he supported Travis' violent outburst as much as he empathized with Travis' plight and felt that he understood why it happened. I think that this may be the same way he viewed other mass shooters.

Basically, I think he was probably intrigued by mass shooters because in his mind, mass shootings were an extreme public display of the illness caused by society and not because he was happy that they were so unwell that they resorted to mass murder. Based on some of the new things that we've seen and even what he wrote about Travis on the forum, I think that these outrageous attacks provoked sympathy because he felt that they were unavoidable without a massive change to our lifestyle but I assume that he also knew that mass shootings would not be the cause of that change because nothing substantial ever changed after a mass shooting and most people refused to see the connection at all.

Maybe I'm wrong though. Maybe he did support it and maybe he was consciously choosing to add to the carnage with full awareness of the phenomenon because he hoped that with enough examples, people would start to put the pieces together. Maybe that's even why he targeted children- in order to show the world, in their own terms, just how sick society could make someone.

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TheyAllFloatDownHere wrote:: Also it is said that the Sutherland springs church shooter may of put a warning on 4chan, here it is:

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it is not confirmed as the shooter but the haircut, blue eyes, head shape and eyebrows look similar

it is also said that the shooter was wearing all black with tactical gear and a "ninja looking mask" or mask at least. this could turn out to be possibly him?

the news is saying he had a skull mask on during the rampage

i literally just saw multiple news articles saying that, i guess it can be confirmed that he made this threat on 4chan then

i woundnt go that far yet, but it seems really likely

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not a shooting as it was stopped before it happened but David Kenneth Smith had a youtube where he talked about killing sprees and his problems

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Also, one post occured that could've been witnessed by me, but I was a day too early. It was Devin Kelley's 4chan post.

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scibblewop wrote:: Christopher Harper-Mercer, 26. He posted this comment on 4chan the day before he killed 10 people and himself at his community college in Oregon: [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]
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i just found about the mercer manifesto and it did not have any reference to 4chan in it. Chris listed all the things he liked, and what website he frequented (i think it was kat.cr or something) but he never included any 4chan mentions

most likely not real

This thread is dead, but might as well add to it.
The Utoya shooter emailed his manifesto to a large amount of people before his attacks. The Christchurch shooter and the Poway synagogue shooter both posted about their plans on 8chan before their attacks, with the Christchurch shooter livestreaming his attack, which the Poway shooter also attempted but failed to do.

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Last post of André Garcia in Dogolachan before shooting a random woman and committing suicide.
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Post supposedly made by one of the Suzano school shooters in Dogolachan.

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Mikhail Zhlobitsky stated that he was going to bomb the Arkhangelsk FSB office in Telegram minutes before the explosion.
Translation: ''Comrades, now in the FSB building in Arkhangelsk there will be a terrorist attack, the responsibility for which I take upon myself. The reasons are clear to you. Since the FSB fabricates cases and tortures people, I decided to go for it. Most likely, I will die because of the explosion, because I have initiated the charge directly by pressing the button attached to the bomb cover. Therefore, you are requested to spread information about the terrorist attack: who committed it and what the reasons were.

Well, sort of like everything. I wish you to go unswervingly and uncompromisingly towards our goal. Light to you, the future of anarchist communism!''

Although he is not a mass shooter, Khalid Masood actually sent his manifesto to multiple people on WhatsApp.

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