What's something about a mass shooter only you (or very few people) know?

The other two terrorists at the Bataclan laughed when Samy Amimour died.

Salah Abdeslam actually got interviewed by a Belgian TV crew. The interview took place at a roadblock at the Belgian border. Salah Abdeslam was trying to flee to Brussels during the time. When the interviewer asked Abdeslam about his opinion on the roadblock, Abdeslam replied: "Yes, it’s normal, in the circumstances. We have to reinforce our borders, right?"

Thomas Hamilton once attempted to kill one of his assistant's from one of his old boys clubs at his flat months before the shooting:

Source: The Sheltered Storm Chapter 10

"4th February, 1996

Private Residence — Kent Rd, Stirling

A longtime friend of the scoutmaster’s, a young man who had assisted with some of his boys’ clubs in the early years, stopped by his flat one day to check on him.

The man who greeted him seemed depressed, but invited him in. The scoutmaster was cleaning his guns as they talked, and had his new 9mm in his hand when he suddenly asked his old friend a surprising question: “If you had any sons, would you let them go to my clubs?”

His friend didn’t even have to think it over. “No.”

The scoutmaster suddenly pointed the gun at him, and pulled the trigger.

It wasn’t loaded, and produced only a click, but it gave the scoutmaster’s guest — who was in the middle of sipping his coffee — an awful fright. The friend cursed the scoutmaster, threw the coffee in his face, called him a “stupid bastard,” and stormed out. He resolved never to contact the awful man ever again — but he didn’t report the incident to police, certain that, “He would just have denied it.”

Although not a mass shooter, Mark Anthony Conditt said that if he thought the police were closing in on him, he would pull off a suicide bombing in a McDonald’s.

TheOne99 wrote:

Thomas Hamilton once attempted to kill one of his assistant's from one of his old boys clubs at his flat months before the shooting:

Source: The Sheltered Storm Chapter 10

"4th February, 1996

Private Residence — Kent Rd, Stirling

A longtime friend of the scoutmaster’s, a young man who had assisted with some of his boys’ clubs in the early years, stopped by his flat one day to check on him.

The man who greeted him seemed depressed, but invited him in. The scoutmaster was cleaning his guns as they talked, and had his new 9mm in his hand when he suddenly asked his old friend a surprising question: “If you had any sons, would you let them go to my clubs?”

His friend didn’t even have to think it over. “No.”

The scoutmaster suddenly pointed the gun at him, and pulled the trigger.

It wasn’t loaded, and produced only a click, but it gave the scoutmaster’s guest — who was in the middle of sipping his coffee — an awful fright. The friend cursed the scoutmaster, threw the coffee in his face, called him a “stupid bastard,” and stormed out. He resolved never to contact the awful man ever again — but he didn’t report the incident to police, certain that, “He would just have denied it.”

There is an official report on Dunblane...

Primate Murder wrote:

Although not a mass shooter, Mark Anthony Conditt said that if he thought the police were closing in on him, he would pull off a suicide bombing in a McDonald’s.

That’s really interesting. I remember hearing about the Austin bombings, I always thought he was pretty mysterious. Can you show me where you heard this from?

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Carnifex879 wrote:

Primate Murder wrote:

Although not a mass shooter, Mark Anthony Conditt said that if he thought the police were closing in on him, he would pull off a suicide bombing in a McDonald’s.

That’s really interesting. I remember hearing about the Austin bombings, I always thought he was pretty mysterious. Can you show me where you heard this from?

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That’s pretty scary. He could have killed a lot more people if he was successful. I wish they’d release his confession, but he described how he built the bombs so I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re never made public.

Chris Harper Mercer wore a satanic pentagram necklace during his shooting.

A few more about Randy Stair:
-On February 28, 2010; Randy made a fundraiser for autism (“Bowling for Autism”), as part of a project for high school. On February 15, a local newspaper published an article about the fundraiser, and included a photo of Randy. He talks a little bit about it on this video (starts at around 4 minutes): [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
He also had a cousin that has autism.

-Randy’s family appeared on the show “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon”, on August 13, 2009.
Quote from a twit message: “If you watch the end of @LateNightWithJimmyFallon my dad, mom, uncle, and aunt are in the credits on camera. My uncle is wearing orange.”

-Oh, and Randy’s dad was adopted (I don’t think that’s a very known fact). And he, his father, never knew his biological parents. I wonder if there was any history of mental illness on that side of Randy’s family.

  

  

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Eric And Dylan didn't used their knives during the shooting because they didn't have enough courage to stab someone

(Stabbing and shooting are really two different feeling)

Weren't there some rumors that Dylan stabbed someone's dead body and Eric was like "Yuck!"?

Not a mass shooting but similar type of perpetrators, so may be of interest...Kam McLeod/Bryer Schmegelsky case:

*Kam and Bryer had been in a car accident together with another friend about 15 months before the spree. Reportedly it had been a pretty severe accident but this is still not 100% confirmed.

*Kam got the truck they left in three months before the spree.

*Several of Kam's relatives died prematurely in the years leading up to the spree.

*Bryer played a lot of video games that were about strategy, war, empires, etc.

*Kam was into synthwave music, "chill" types of electronic music, etc. He also had a Pinterest page where he liked pictures of space and landscape photography.

*Several of Bryer's Steam screenshots show him using a gun in-game that looked exactly like the brown SKS rifle they were found with. Kam used an SKS rifle in a PUBG video he posted that looked similar to the black SKS rifle they were found with.

*The place where their bodies were found wasn't that remote. It was only 0.3 miles from the highway, and had hunting/ATV trails running very close to it. Most of the items the police found scattered were within 1000 feet to 1/2 mile of the RAV4 burn site, and either right beside a road or in a creek, yet they didn't find them until a week after the RAV4 was burned.

Nathaniel Berhow was the first to find his father dead after a heart attack. That must have really messed him up.

Guest wrote:

It can also be about the mass shooting.

These are mine:

- Adam Lanza once asked a classmate for a cigarette in university

- Robert Hawkins didn't just break up with his girlfriend like every single media outlet told you. He in fact cheated on her with a co-worker at McDonald's and SHE broke up with HIM. Also he committed suicide up the chin according to his autopsy and not through the head like Wikipedia told you.

- Jamal Albarghouti's cellphone that recorded the shooting at Virginia Tech is now at the Newseum at DC.

- Eric Harris admitted he's not a sociopath because he says he feels remorse. (in an unreleased tape)

- Devin Patrick Kelley's sexual assaults dated back to when he was 13.

- There is no evidence of Omar Mateen being bipolar. His ex-wife saying he was bipolar is not necessarily a diagnosis.

- Stephen Paddock moaned and screamed "Oh my god!" in his sleep.

I'm one of very few people that actually interacted with Adam Lanza if that counts.

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Aaron Ybarra planned to commit suicide by slitting his throat instead of shooting himself, but failed to do so. His father also attempted suicide the same way.

One of Woo Bum-kon's nicknames was "Crazy Tiger".

Not sure how rare it is but the bullet hole is still in the wall where Roger E. Needham shot two students (1 fatality) in Lansing, Michigan, on February 22, 1978, at Everett High School. Locker C2-069.

Jens Rüther, the 2018 Munich Van attacker, went to the Bataclan theater concert a couple weeks before the terrorist shooting.

Arcan Cetin planned to target the movie theater at Cascade Mall by wedging his phone into the exit door. It was noticed by someone and taken out. Arcan realized this and claimed his phone was missing, so he got it back. About a half hour later he walked into the Macy’s store and began his shooting.

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Duluth wrote:

Carnifex879 wrote:

Arcan Cetin planned to target the movie theater at Cascade Mall by wedging his phone into the exit door. It was noticed by someone and taken out. Arcan realized this and claimed his phone was missing, so he got it back. About a half hour later he walked into the Macy’s store and began his shooting.

It's somewhat similar to James Holmes (Aurora movie theater shooting; 12 killed, 62 wounded) deciding to prop open the fire exit door to Theater 9.

My guess is he must have drawn some inspiration from Holmes. Those people in the theater were lucky his original plan failed.

One of the Boston Marathon bombers, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, along with his friend, Ibragim Todashev, murdered 3 drug dealers in their apartment in 2011. I find it interesting how quite a few Islamic terrorists in developed countries start off as petty criminals, then become radicalized.

Primate Murder wrote:

The other two terrorists at the Bataclan laughed when Samy Amimour died.

That’s pretty shitty of them. Then again, I don’t expect much more from guys who massacred a concert crowd.

James Holmes tried to call a mental health hotline at his university right before he opened fire in the Aurora movie theater. No one answered.

Adam Lanza was invited to a bar by female classmates at Western Connecticut University. He declined, saying he was 17. He also chatted with the same girl at a video game store she worked at.

Patrick Crusius allegedly tried to recruit a high school classmate to a "white supremacy group" in 2017.

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Not a mass shooter, but Tomohiro Kato left on his high school yearbook or the student council maganize after graduating the following "I'm not your doll. The Girl with the Red Eyes (the third one)" (original japanese text:ワタシはアナタの人形じゃない。赤い瞳の少女（三人目)) which is a refence the anime character Rei Ayanami from Neon Genesis Evangelion.

José Ángel Ramos Betts discussed via WhatsApp with a classmate about firearms, explosives, and the 1999 Columbine massacre.

Pekka Eric Auvinen’s father named him after two guitarists: Pekka Järvinen and Eric Clapton.

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About a month before, the PioneersProductions, in June 2008, Randy Stair appaered on a video on his brother's channel untitled "Retarded Relatives". The channel was been inactive for a very long, because according to a livestream Randy made he forgot the passwords. For those curious his brother has there YouTube channels made in 2008. Their names are InsaneAlvin, GoldenLockz and orangejulius21 (the one where the Retarded Relatives vídeo has posted).

Killisaki wrote:

About a month before, the PioneersProductions, in June 2008, Randy Stair appaered on a video on his brother's channel untitled "Retarded Relatives". The channel was been inactive for a very long, because according to a livestream Randy made he forgot the passwords. For those curious his brother has there YouTube channels made in 2008. Their names are InsaneAlvin, GoldenLockz and orangejulius21 (the one where the Retarded Relatives vídeo has posted).

Nice find. It's interesting seeing shooter's relative's accounts before the shootings happen.

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paddock hemorrhoid wrote:

William Unek was 6'0"

I don't like the idea that we get to know William Unek's height yet we still don't know what he looked like.

William Atchison was molested and abused as a kid.

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Elliot rodger was a fan of Ownage pranks on youtube

Nikolas Cruz took the selfie pointing the airsoft gun to his head on a Nintendo DS Lite.
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Carnifex879 wrote:

Nikolas Cruz took the selfie pointing the airsoft gun to his head on a Nintendo DS Lite.
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Proof that GAMERS are DANGEROUS and must be stopped! SAD!

Though a mass stabber rather than a mass shooter
Joel Otto Aukusti Marin, perpetrator of the Kuopio school stabbing, originally intended to use a chainsaw in the attack but didn't because it was "too clumsy" and a new one was found in his apartment.
He only went to the school solely because he wanted to commit a massacre & actually picked up the sword on the morning of the murder, he also tried to continue the attack even after being shot by swinging the sword at the police.
According to psychologists, Marin shows signs of being on the autism spectrum.
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To add to this, one of the eye witness inside the school sister's godson was killed by Pekka-Eric in his shooting spree.
Joel apparently spared one of the people he came across, saying "Get Out Of Here, I Won't Kill You"

The case of a junior at the "Carmen de patagones" school in Argentina is very little known. He murdered 3 classmates by shooting him in front of the blackboard (if I'm not mistaken) there are not even images of the shooter, only one that is a recreation.

Charles Williams (who was a school shooter who killed two people and injured 13 others in 2001) was pat down in search of a gun by several of his friends the morning of his school shooting. His friends were highly concerned as the day before he told two separate people he was going to shoot up his school, and for weeks before the killings he told his friends that he was going to "shoot kids at school" and "pull a Columbine" (when people would ask if he was serious, he'd play it off as a joke).
It turned out Charles hid the gun in his backpack.

Daniil Monakhov was going to join the Russian army but was rejected because of a heart condition.
Daniil was also investigated by the FSB since he said he would commit a terror attack.
He was also interested in extreme industrial tourism as one of his hobbies.
Daniil drove his white Kia during the massacre. He used two smoothbore shotguns as his weapons of choice & had 40 cartridges on him, he used a bandolier carry some of them.
Daniil only got the license for the shotguns in September, and month before the shooting
The injury to his grandmother was so severe that one of her arms had to amputated before she eventually passed away.
Monakhov's suicide method of buckshot mouthwash was so brutal that it spilt his face open & sent a chunk of flesh a distance away from him.
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Patrick Crusius spread a rumor in high school that one of his childhood friends, who was from Egypt, was a member of the Taliban. Ironically enough, that student went on to join the US army after graduating high school.

Some facts about Michael Andrew Clark:
-He had hobbies such as fishing and camping, according to his mother, and according to his classmates he tinkered with boats and autos as a hobby;
-He played the saxophone in the high school band;
-He was considered good at math and at music;
-He was a Sea Scout;
-The rifle he used was bought by his father in 1959 for deer hunting;
-According to his parents he wasn't shoot from that rifle for three years before the shooting;
-Outside of taking the family car (which was a 1960s black Cadillac which was registered in his mother name) and the guns, he also took his parents' credit cards and 15 dollars from his mother's purse;
-He also took 85 dollars from his money;
-With him it was found a cigarette lighter emblazoned with the Playboy bunny emblem;
-He took about 80 rounds of ammuntion, shooting about 50 rounds and the remaining 30 rounds being found with him;
-His boby can be visable in the photo of the police sheriff inspecting the rifle he used being the original caption of the phot being "SNIPER AND WEAPON—Barbara County deputy sheriff William Steele Inspects a rifle which authorities said Michael Clark, 16, of Long Beach, Calif., used to kill two motorists and then kill himself near Santa Maria, Calif. Clark's body lies In the grass alongside the highway" note this was taken from a newspaper before the third victim died;