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demmiblue

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Fri Dec 15, 2017, 12:41 PM Dec 2017

New Mexico School Shooter Had Secret Life on Pro-Trump White-Supremacy Sites

For years before William Edward Atchison killed two students and himself, he lived a shadow life online—one full of crude alt-right memes and praise for school shooters.

Source: Daily Beast

In real life, William Edward Atchison—people called him Bill—lived in a little yellow house with his parents, about a mile away from the Giant gas station where he worked and from Aztec High School, where he shot and killed two students and then himself last Thursday.

At the murder scene, police found a thumb drive with a note that read, “If things go according to plan, today would be when I die. I go somewhere and gear up, then hold a class hostage and go apeshit, then blow my brains out.”

He wrote “work sucks, school sucks, life sucks. I just want out of this shit.”

“It’s a shame he wasn’t on our radar,” San Juan County Sheriff Ken Christesen told Fox News last week. “I don’t think he had anything so much as a traffic ticket.”

And yet online, the 21-year-old New Mexico resident lived a prolific life as a white supremacist, pro-Trump meme peddler who was most known for his obsession with school shooters. For a half-decade, Atchison spent most of his days online, repeatedly posting threats of violence and cries for help.


Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-mexico-school-shooter-had-secret-life-on-pro-trump-white-supremacy-sites?via=twitter_page

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New Mexico School Shooter Had Secret Life on Pro-Trump White-Supremacy Sites (Original Post) demmiblue Dec 2017 OP
These sites need to be required to report these suicidal violence worshippers. marble falls Dec 2017 #1
If you want 'out of this shit' Dude, START with the suicide, Aristus Dec 2017 #2
"economic concerns" Blue_Tires Dec 2017 #3
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