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It was a McDonald's customer who turned him in.(Edit: the article I read has been updated)But I can't help but find the whole thing really suspicious. In his possession they found a gun, silencer, and three-page hand written manifesto.
Who handwrites an essay before going out to kill someone? That just feels hard to believe.
Also he had the same fake ID he used to check into the hostel? What the heck is this guy doing? While it seemed likely he would be caught eventually, disposing of the ID, his guns, the manifesto, and staying in his basement for a while would be by far the best course of action, not going to a McDonalds and eating it inside
He probably also had some copies of The Sims on him
This is the US, where people dont follow instructions like robots. He was actually found carrying three EA Game Cards.
Ahh. It's in the game.
I understood that reference
Signature unclear.
But I can’t help but find the whole thing really suspicious.
He was America's Most On TV Human for the last week. I'm not shocked someone recognized him. And its not like he was picked off a bus in Manhattan at random. The guy was traced all the way to Pennsylvania.
He probably could have gotten away if he'd laid low for another week or two. But this absolutely sounds like a guy with some serious mental health issues who was not thinking ten steps ahead as everyone in the fandom wanted to believe. He was just some angry 20-year-old doing a more newsworthy version of a school shooting, not The Leftist Jackal plotting elaborate Mission Impossible style assassinations.
Who handwrites an essay before going out to kill someone?
The same kind of person who signs their bullet casings.
He wasn't traced there though? They just found a guy that conveniently had all that shit on him like come on
He wasn’t traced there though?
He was traced through the use of his fake ID and through security camera footage along the route he traveled. There were also plenty of sightings (some less reliable than others) that were coming into the police nationally. The tip off in Altoona was almost certainly not the only one made. He was observed on a cab security camera. He was sighted at a bus depot. And there were a few other data points police alluded to that weren't made public. That rapidly narrowed down where he could have gone to next.
Not enough people wearing a mask in New York or Pennsylvania that it didn't make him stand out. That, and he was tall, and the upper part of his face was all over the news for days straight.
That he had all his shit on him was unfortunate. But even if he'd dumped it, if it was on an observed route it would have just been one more data point for police to follow. Guy fought the law and the law won.
I think he wanted to be caught.
Agree
It's the handwritten bit that I find hardest to believe, though. The guy studied AI at university and was involved in Game Design classes. He was a tech guy. Nobody who's that intimate with computers would choose to convey their message across three hand-written pages. It just seems really odd.
Nobody who’s that intimate with computers would choose to convey their message across three hand-written pages.
Seems like a guy with a background in tech and a significant concern over his privacy would be exactly the kind of person to keep his heretical most views on paper rather than online. The guy had basically dropped off the web for months prior to the assassination.
Someone in IT would be intimately familiar with why you would want something like a manifesto to be offline.
Being an IT guy makes you not use real pens or paper? The amount of cope for this guy is unreal. That's just stupid.
Handwriting is more intimate and allows for better expression through the script. For something so personal, it sounds perfect. I love handwriting, do it regularly and I've been intimate with computers more than once ;)
As an IT guy: I love and hate handwriting things. I get the point about intimacy but especially for longer texts expressing many connected thoughts I would never do it by hand. Being able to edit text, switch around blocks of text etc etc is so ingrained in me that doing this by hand frustrates me greatly.
Yeah, I didn't like taking handwritten notes (until I got an e-ink tablet) during lectures because of that.
Though as I started doing audits I got better at writing with proper spacing and anticipating where something is missing, so it gets better.
I feel like he could be on TV but the majority of the public puts that in the back of their mind and not something they are looking out for. I really think it's this guy and he had a message from his now deleted YouTube videos that were supposed to be released after he was caught. We will never know unless he shares more in court what is going on. The only lead I have seen is his review of Teds book, and how much it spoke of someone fed up with the system and making a point that "those who don't stand up to commit violence are cowards or the accused" or among those lines.
I feel like he could be on TV but the majority of the public puts that in the back of their mind and not something they are looking out for.
You don't need the majority to recognize him. Your just need a random distribution over a wide area.
We will never know unless he shares more in court what is going on.
"Everything to support the claim is made up" is going to be the rallying cry of an increasingly fringe group over time
You're not shocked someone saw someone and immediately recognized him as the hooded figure on the TV? "Oh yeah, I recognize those eyebrows, I'm going to call the police immediately," doesn't sound unusual to you?
Traced to Pennsylvania? You got a source for that? This is not the cops I've ever met.
The rest of y'all really not have a few manifestos just laying around?
Who handwrites an essay before going out to kill someone? That just feels hard to believe.
The kind of person who writes a message on the bullet casing (and fully expects to get caught).