Another day, another American mass killing

 

Musk's AI Grok is on it.

You know, the US government uses Grok.

The actual victims in Dallas are being swept under the rug

 

Meanwhile, MAGA and Trump and claiming the shooter was a lefty trying to kill ICE agents.  He only shot detainees.

Another day, another American mass killing

 

According to court documents, Nigel Edge [aka Sean William Debovoise] is charged with three counts of first-degree murder, five counts of attempted first-degree murder and five counts of assault with a deadly weapon.

  MSN

According to social media, Nigel Edge is involved in several lawsuits against the US government, local sheriff’s department, and others for alleged civil rights violations.

According to Grok, ...

  Scallywag & Vagabond

You'll need to confirm, in other words.

...Key claims include: Eighth Amendment (cruel and unusual punishment, e.g., torture, drugging). – Fourth Amendment (unlawful searches, e.g., GPS tracking). Fourteenth Amendment (due process failures). Additional allegations: hate crimes, human trafficking, genocide, kidnapping, attempted murder, conspiracy involving family, police, and government. Cases like 7:2024cv01086 were dismissed; others (e.g., 7:2025cv00598) are ongoing with motions to dismiss.

Stated a user on X, ‘Nigel Max Edge aka Sean Debovoise is the suspected shooter. He is a veteran with schizophrenia and massive brain damage after being shot in the head.’

Posted another user on X, ‘Alleged Southport NC shooting person of interest changed his name to the alias NIGEL MAX EDGE, which appears to be an anagram formed by the words MANGLED EX-GI. The alleged shooter appears to have suffered severe injuries in the US military.’

And Trump is slashing the VA.

ICE detainees shot at Dallas facility

Two of the three people shot at a Dallas ICE field office this morning are dead, an ICE spokesperson said. The third person is in the hospital.

The three people shot do not include the shooter, who is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

All three people shot were detainees at the facility, and no ICE agents were shot or hurt.

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The ICE building where Wednesday's gunfire erupted had recently received a bomb threat, DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said on Fox News.

Investigators will be looking into how long the shooter might have been planning this attack, McLaughlin added.

The DHS official did not disclose how close the shooter got to the ICE field office, but stressed this was not a detention center.

  NBC

What else do you call a facility where arrested people are held?

In a social media post, Vice President JD Vance called the shooting at a Dallas ICE facility this morning an "obsessive attack on law enforcement" that "must stop."

On law enforcement?

UPDATE 01:57 pm:

Oh, FFS!  It's amateur hour at the DOJ. I'd like to see that in a ranking of the most obvious plants in law enforcement history. One of the unspent shells just happened to be amongst those that hadn't yet been fired after killing several people, including the shooter, with a sharpie (favorite tool of DJT) message on it.  

This shooter didn't target the officers!  He targeted the detainees.  Or he was the worst gunman in the world.

The long and the short of it...

UPDATE 09/25/2025:

Spin harder.

Blood on Fox News hands

 

In the city’s latest shooting, three of the seven wounded suffered injuries that are considered life-threatening, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said. Two of those victims were shot in the head.

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O’Hara said the shooting is likely related to drug activity and involved multiple shooters. No suspects had been arrested as of Tuesday afternoon.

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This encampment has been at the center of a dispute for months.

  KSTP

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I don't suppose Brian Kilmeade's Fox News comment that homeless people should just be killed had anything to do with it.

Only in America

 

The Trump regime is rounding up and deporting immigrants, most of whom have no criminal record or only minor civil charges, on the pretext of making us safer, but they won't do a damned thing about guns.

More political violence: mass shooting on campus

We have to snatch and detain students who write pro-Palestine op-eds in campus newspapers or who join protests, but a white supremacist shooter?  He'll get due process.

Two people are dead and a sheriff's deputy's son is in custody after an active shooter was reported at Florida State University's campus in Tallahassee.

The suspect is the 20-year-old son of a sheriff's deputy who had access to one of her weapons, Leon County Sheriff Walt McNeil said.

At least six people are being treated at Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare, a hospital spokesperson said.

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An FSU student who saw the shooter described him as a “normal college dude" who was wearing an orange T-shirt and khaki shorts. "I was walking, and this guy pulls up in an orange Hummer," the student said. "And he gets out with a rifle and shoots in my direction."

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Revell, the Tallahassee police chief, said of officers’ confrontation with the gunman that they “challenged him and they ended up shooting him. He did not comply with commands and was shot. I do not believe he fired at all.”

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The suspect remains in the hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, Tallahassee Police Chief Lawrence Revell said tonight.

  NBC

I dare say, if he'd been brown-skinned, he'd be dead.

The shooter was identified by police as Phoenix Ikner, a 20-year-old whose stepmother is a Leon County sheriff's deputy who has worked with the department for over 18 years. Authorities said a former service weapon that belonged to her was recovered at the scene.

Leon County Sheriff Walter McNeil said Ikner was a long-standing member of the Sheriff's Office Youth Advisory Council.

  Yahoo

Ouch. Cobbler's children, and all that.

NOLA terror attack addendum

UPDATE 07:21 pm:  Curiouser and curiouser...

A Tesla Cybertruck burst into flames outside the front doors of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on the morning of Jan. 1, killing the car’s driver and injuring seven more.

Emergency personnel said that two people were hospitalized as a result of the apparent attack.

Authorities described the explosives in the vehicle as a combination of fireworks, camping fuel and gas tanks, according to CNN.

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The electric vehicle was obtained via private rental app Turo, according to a law enforcement source who spoke with the Associated Press—the same app allegedly used by a man who plowed into a crowd of New Years’ revelers in a truck on New Orleans’ Bourbon Street early Wednesday morning, killing 15 people and injuring more than 30 others. Authorities are also investigating that mass killing as an act of terrorism, and whether the two acts were connected.

  Daily Beast

UPDATE 1/2/25:

While officials have not confirmed a link between the Las Vegas explosion and the New Orleans pickup truck attack, both suspects served in the Army.

President Biden said Wednesday that authorities are still working to determine if the two incidents were connected. Both suspects used vehicles from the peer-to-peer rental app Turo.

Matthew Alan Livelsberger was a member of the U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) and was "on approved leave at the time of his death," an Army spokesperson told Axios in a statement Thursday.

  Axios

The Trump team completely expected response:

Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL), who President-elect Donald Trump has tapped as his national security adviser, said Thursday that the incoming administration should respond to the attack in New Orleans—which was carried out by a U.S. citizen from Texas—by closing the border.

“First and foremost, close our border,” Waltz, a former Green Beret, said on Fox & Friends when asked what should be done to protect the nation from further attacks.

  Daily Beast

Another mass murder in America

I bet it was pretty terrorizing for the people there.  

Air quote terrorism.

“It was very intentional behavior. This man was trying to run over as many people as he possibly could,” the New Orleans police superintendent, Anne Kirkpatrick, said in a news conference Wednesday morning. “He was hellbent on creating the carnage and the damage that he did.”

According to Ms. Kirkpatrick, the man drove the truck at high speed into crowds at around 3:15 a.m. before crashing and opening fire, shooting two police officers. Investigators said they later found what appeared to be improvised explosive devices in the truck and were trying to determine whether the devices were viable.

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Alethea Duncan, an assistant special agent in charge with the F.B.I. in New Orleans, said the attack was not being investigated as a terrorist attack.

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The attack happened at the intersection of Canal and Bourbon Streets during New Year’s Eve celebrations, which bring large, raucous crowds to the city’s French Quarter. It also came just hours before college football’s Sugar Bowl, between Notre Dame and the University of Georgia, was scheduled to kick off at the city’s Superdome.

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The status of the suspect was unclear.

  NYT

At that same NYT link, 7 minutes earlier, a different reporter filed this:

The driver of the pickup truck is dead after getting into a shootout with police after he ran over pedestrians and crashed, according to two law enforcement officials speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing. The incident is being investigated as a suspected act of terrorism, the officials said.

So, it is and it isn't being investigated as a terrorist attack, and the status of the suspect is unclear and he's dead. As always, early reports of events are not entirely reliable.

Here's what a local station has to say this morning:

Hours into the New Year, a man drove a white pickup truck through barricades on Bourbon Street in the city's French Quarter area during a time when police officials said they were "staffed 100 percent" for New Year's Eve and the Sugar Bowl.

At some point, police said the driver left the vehicle and began firing shots from an assault rifle into the crowd, injuring two police who exchanged fire. Police believe the suspect is dead, according to ABC News.

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Local police have considered the incident an act of terrorism. Officials with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said they are also investigating the incident but did not declare Wednesday's incident as an act of terrorism.

Officials said the suspected driver is not in custody and remains at large and have asked locals to steer clear of the area.

  WJLA

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 07:53 am:

And while we're on the subject...

UPDATE 09:57 am:  Official announcement

Mayorkas is secretary of Homeland Security.

The pickup had a Texas license plate affixed.  

UPDATE 12:35 pm:

The suspect accused of killing at least 10 people and injuring 30 Wednesday morning in New Orleans has been preliminary identified as Shamsud Din Jabbar.

  NBC

Of course, they could be investigating this as an act of terror simply because of the man's name.  According to NBC, Shamsud is a US citizen born in Texas, but he DID have an ISIS flag flying from the trailer hitch of his truck.  Haven't heard anything about ISIS in a while.  I wonder why he went to New Orleans to wreak havoc instead of somewhere in Texas.

UPDATE 03:37 pm:

JFC

UPDATE 07:40 pm:

Final judgment on Alex Jones

It was a long time coming.

Too bad we can't sell Alex Jones for parts.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

There will be appeals

In the meantime, parents better start paying attention.

Completely expected since she was recently convicted.

We can now say we're still an exporter

 

UPDATE 12/22/2023:

Surely thoughts and prayers would have been enough.

Stop electing Republicans

Another day, another mass killing in the USA

(Click the pic above for the article.)

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

We just set a new record

Too bad we can't do anything about it. 

On the plus side, no other country is even in the competition.

Another day, another 13 mass shootings in America

There were 13 mass shootings — defined as when at least four victims are injured or killed — between Friday and Sunday, according to the Gun Violence Archive. The shootings left at least 12 people dead and 79 people injured, according to the nonprofit organization.

  The Hill

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Another day, another mass killing in America

Hundreds of police searched the city of Lewiston and surrounding areas of Maine state for a man sought in connection with mass shootings at a bar and a bowling alley [about 4 miles away], as news outlets reported a death toll ranging from 16 to 22, with dozens more wounded.

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State and local police identified Robert R. Card, 40, as a person of interest in the case after previously posting on Facebook photographs of a man wielding what appeared to be a semi-automatic rifle.

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Several media reported that a Maine law enforcement bulletin identified Card as a trained firearms instructor and member of the U.S. Army reserve who recently reported that he had mental health issues, including hearing voices. It also said he threatened to shoot up a National Guard base.

"Card was also reported to have been committed to mental health facility for two weeks during summer 2023 and subsequently released," said the notice from the Maine Information & Analysis Center.

  Reuters

But he still owned a semi-automatic rifle.

The number of U.S. shootings in which four or more people were shot has surged since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, with 647 occurring in 2022 and 679 projected to occur in 2023, based on trends as of July, according to data from the archive.

The only gun problem we have in this country is if you don't own one. Right?

Great timing.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 06:33 pm:

About goddam time.  Can I assume his constituents had a word with him?

The time has long past, pal.  But we'll take it.  

UPDATE 10/28/2023:

UPDATE 10/30/2023:

Mass shooter sentenced

I have one question:  How are they going to identify him in his future incarnations?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.