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Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Oklahoma City Police Department had "Columbine-style training" planned today.

KTOK AM 1000 reported that the Oklahoma City Police Department was involved in "Columbine-style training" today(4-17, the day after) for school resource officers. A spokesman for the OCPD said it was simply coincidental that their training was scheduled for today and that it had been prepared months in advance. .... As someone close to me said today, "What is it about these tragedies happening in April?"

The usual post-event hysteria:



www.foxnews.com/story/0,2...62,00.html

School Threats Hit At Least 10 States Since Virginia Tech Shooting Massacre
--Threats in Louisiana, Montana and Washington state on Tuesday directly mentioned the massacre in Virginia, while reports of suspicious activity surfaced in Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, Tennessee, North Dakota, South Dakota and Michigan.


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In Louisiana, parents picked up hundreds of students from Bogalusa's high school and middle school amid reports that a man had been arrested Tuesday morning for threatening a mass killing in a note that alluded to the murders at Virginia Tech. ..... police arrested a 53-year-old man who allegedly made the threat in a note he gave to a student headed to the private Bowling Green School in Franklinton. ...

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A Great Falls, Mont., high school was locked down for a time Tuesday after a threatening note was found in a girls' bathroom.
... It stated, "the shooting would start at Great Falls High at 12:30 and it would be worse than Virginia Tech" ....

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Washington State University's branch campus in Vancouver was evacuated because of graffiti discovered in a campus restroom threatened harm likened to the Virginia slayings....

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In Rapid City, S.D., schools were locked down after receiving reports of a man with a gun in a parking lot at Central High. ....

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In Austin, authorities evacuated buildings at St. Edward's University after a threatening note was found, a school official said. ....

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Seven North Dakota State University buildings in Fargo were evacuated after a duffel bag was found outside a bus shelter in the main part of the campus. .....

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In Bloomfield Hills, Mich., police attributed a 30-minute lock-down at the exclusive Cranbrook Schools complex in response to jittery nerves following the Virginia slayings. School officials called police after parents and students reported spotting a 6-foot-tall man in a skirt, high heels, lipstick and a blond wig... [now this is scary!!]

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At the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, officials ordered three campus administration buildings evacuated for almost two hours Tuesday morning in response to a telephoned bomb threat. ...

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In Arizona, classes were canceled at Estrella Mountain Community College in Avondale, a suburb of Phoenix, after a note threatening a shooting was delivered via intercampus mail. ....

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A scare at the University of Oklahoma at Norman started with a report of a man spotted on campus carrying a suspicious object, officials said.

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Schools in Yuba City(north of Sacramento), California, were ordered into a "lockdown" on Thursday after the county sheriff warned a man had threatened to go on a killing spree....
"Local law enforcement is using all available resources and assigning off duty officers in unmarked vehicles in the vicinity of each school in the city and county."

[Comment: a local meth head makes some wild threats and now they have strange men sitting in cars outside schools? Hmmm..... ]

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A teen boy in Florida has been arrested for a plot to kill 100 people in a school shooting. The St. Johns County Sheriff's Office the boy, 14-year-old student at Bartram Trail High School, reportedly e-mailed a school shooting threat to a friend, claiming he'd top the Virginia Tech Massacre death count - by 67. FOX News is reporting that the Florida teen had made similar threats earlier on, and all threats and talks of a mass murder never took place on school grounds. The boy communicated his plans for a devastating school shooting through emails only, and nothing beyond that.

[Comment: this kid is going places.]




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excerps from the link

Corona del Sol High School
.... a surveillance camera had captured individuals running away from a bush outside the school that was set on fire last Friday. A message referring to an earlier threat on April 10 was found on the ground beside the bush.

Another threatening message was found written on a bathroom stall Monday. All were targeting this Friday(4-20) as the time frame for violence.

At Chandler High School Wednesday, students were talking about the possibility that the Corona threats and the Virginia Tech shooting Monday could prompt copycat actions or threats.

"....hopefully it won't happen here," said Stephanie Wells, 15, a CHS freshman.

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azpunk,

Thanks for the link. The fact that these threats predated VTech is of interest. Also strange that they would quote students from another high school-'CHS'-on this story. Hmmm....

Also, the story does not mention the threats at Estrella Mountain Community College. Any more info on that?

Cho was likely a schoolmate of another 'Columbine-client' at Westfield High, who went bezerk a year before. This guy definitely sounds like a mental case, though there are elements that we see over and over. Nor does mental illness explain why he would attack a police station.




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5-8-06
Michael W. Kennedy, 18, a 2005 graduate of Westfield High School(Cho was a 2003 grad) drove to the rear parking lot of the the Sully District police station** in Chantilly(Fairfax County, VA) in a stolen minivan and opened fire, getting off at least 70 rounds. Det. Vicky O. Armel, 40, emerged from the station to return fire was hit by fatal fire. Officer Michael E. Garbarino, 53, shot five times while sitting in his cruiser, died nine days later. Kennedy also lay dead on the pavement, dressed in camouflage fatigues. Kennedy was armed with five pistols, an AK-47-style assault weapon and a long-barreled high powered hunting rifle. The female detective had recently served a criminal warrant on the suspect, resulting from an argument during which a dog was killed. The gunman had stolen a van that he drove to the station after unsuccessfully attempting to carjack a pickup truck.

--For hours after the shootings, area roads were blocked and nearby buildings, including Westfield High School, were locked down as police sought other possible suspects. Police later determined there was just one gunman....

--Police were on the lookout for a white Ford pick-up truck that may be related to the shootings. The truck, which had Virginia plates, was recovered in Centreville. Police did search for at least one other possible suspect, but police could not confirm that a second person was involved. Officers did search in the Centreville area late Monday afternoon(the day of the shooting).

--On 4-16-06 he was put in a mental institution( Potomac Ridge Behavioral Health Center in Rockville, Md.) after his parents committed him voluntarily; he broke out that evening. Claiming he had a gun, Kennedy allegedly carjacked a vehicle in Germantown, Md., and drove back to Virginia where he surrendered to Fairfax County police. He was returned to Maryland and charged with armed carjacking and theft. His family posted bond, and he was expected to stand trial May 24(2006).

--Many of his friends said that Kennedy had been suffering from hallucinations recently; had talked about aliens and may have been suffering from schizophrenia.

--Peter Kirschner said he went to high school with Kennedy and met him in seventh grade. He described Kennedy as a nonconformist and somewhat of a loner who often wore military clothes to school.

"Personally, he was kind of dark, Gothic-like," Kirschner said. "He always used to play violent video games and stuff. He used to talk about it when he came to school, 'I killed this and this, and these people,' stuff like that." Schoolmate Marc Capistrant also said Kennedy's disposition was often dark. "I remember he wrote some really weird poems, took some pictures of himself wearing a gas mask," he said. "Really weird stuff like that. ... I thought it was kind of awkward."

--Friends who attended high school with Kennedy recalled that he would sometimes talk about attacking police. "He started making those jokes about shooting up a police station about a year ago, but we never took him seriously," said Yasmeen Davis, 18, who graduated last year from Fairfax County's Westfield High School with Kennedy.

--A few months ago, even close friends began noticing a change in Kennedy. His style of dress changed and he started hoarding weapons and ammunition as his conversation focused increasingly on talk of fighting zombies and aliens.

--"He thought he was Jesus," said Brendon Baker, 18, who'd known Kennedy since sixth grade.

--In the minutes before Michael Kennedy died, the teenager told a friend that he needed an exorcism. Daniel Sforza said he was exchanging instant messages by computer with Kennedy on Monday afternoon until about 3 p.m. Less than an hour later, police say, Kennedy began his rampage. "He was very upset," Sforza said yesterday. "What he told me was he wanted to get an exorcism because he felt like medication, therapy, doctors . . . nothing helped him. There's something possessing him to make him feel so miserable. And he said, 'The last thing I can think of is an exorcism.'"
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--Neighbors said they saw little of Kennedy or his father at their residence.... "He was quiet. He stayed indoors a lot," Mavis Powell said. On Kennedy's MySpace.com site earlier this spring, some friends had expressed concern about his whereabouts.

--He(Sforza) would listen to Kennedy's suspicious railings against the government and world conspiracies....

--(friend Brandon)Baker: "He was talking about how he was superhuman." "He told me he'd been on medication for a while," Baker said.

--Kennedy had also recently changed his MySpace profile name from Kennedy to "Herr Azriel," in reference to an angel of destruction.

--The teen claimed he was into knowledge and "militant hippism."

--Police also found a notebook they say includes satanic symbolism beneath a bed at the perp's house.

--Elsewhere in the townhouse, police found several knives and a handwritten note from Kennedy that described shooting the family's dog in February and also "mood disorder" documentation from Prince William Hospital dated April 25.


Could Herr Azriel and Ismail Ax have know each other?



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**(Cho lived with his family in a townhouse located in Centreville's Sully Station community)

prisonplanet.com/articles...dramas.htm

From April 17th broadcast of CNN's Showbiz Tonight, hosted by Brooke Anderson and A.J. Hammer.

ANDERSON: The Virginia Tech shooting proved too close for comfort for network TV. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT can tell you the Fox network has pulled this week`s episode of the crime drama Bones, which features a body found on a college campus. Fox tells SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, "out of sensitivity to the victims and families touched by this senseless tragedy, we felt the change was appropriate.

But you can`t always stop art from imitating life. In a shocking coincidence, just last week, an episode of the CBS action series "The Unit" depicted a Virginia school being taken over by gunmen.


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'The Unit' episode was called, "In loco Parentis" Season 2, Episode 22, first broadcast on 4-10-07. Plot synopsis:
Captors who make no demands take children of government officials and foreign nationals hostage in a Wash DC area school. Initial reports indicate 5-6 assailants wearing dark hoodies. Quote from the script:
"I don't know if its Munich or Columbine." (Munich refers to hostage taking of Israeli athletes at Olympics in that city back in '72)


That episode was immediately followed by a rerun of the show

'Criminal Minds' episode title "The Perfect Storm" Season 2,
Episode 25, first broadcast on 10-4-06.
Episode is about a duo of sadistic serial killers, who enjoy making videos of their victims and sending them to the relatives. While explaining the dynamic of killing duos, the profilers mention Harris and Klebold, and briefly flash their senior class pics across the screen.


There was also an episode of

"Crossing Jordan," CBS tv show, title: "Faith", Season 6, Episode 12, first aired on 4-4-07, concerning a school bus kidnapping for ransom. One of the two hikackers is identified as a janitor at the school. The other hijacker is later identified as an ex-soldier, special-ops type.


Caught this tidbit at another forum:

www.libertyforum.org/show...#8706;=all
'nin po post'
"You ever see the movie "Higher Learning"? They played it every day on cable the days before the shooting...And guess what. In it, a shooter (white nazi) kills himself on a university campus after shooting students.

["Higher Learning" was released Jan 1995 by Columbia Pictures. Fictional college is called "Columbia" University(filmed at UCLA).]


And this one:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/...wcho01.xml

NBC show foreshadowed Virginia shootings

The television network to which the Virginia Tech gunman sent a disturbing multi-media "manifesto" about his motives had only hours earlier shown a documentary about another mentally-ill man who went on a killing spree.

On the night of Sunday April 15, the day before Cho shot dead 32 people, the prime time current affairs show "Dateline NBC" devoted its entire edition to the story of the psychotic murderer John Hyde and the failure of mental health experts to heed warnings about the danger he posed after he was released from hospital care. In a series of shootings in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 2005, Hyde allegedly killed five people...... .......

In a question that seems relevant to the Virginia Tech shootings, which began just 12 hours after it was broadcast, the Dateline show included the tag line: "Why wasn't a mentally ill man stopped before he launched his brutal rampage?"




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One more thing about that episode of "The Unit":

At some point the members of the 'Unit' find out that the hostage takers are Chechyan, and they mention the very real Beslan School #1 attack in southern Russia. One of the "Unit" characters says something like "Yeah, and today is the third anniversary of Beslan." However, that hostage taking incident occured on 9-1-04, which would put the 'date' of the fictional TV event at 9-1-07. Which is strange for an episode that was first aired on 4-10-07. Or are they trying to give us a little hint of what is still to come?