Jose Reyes (Sparks Middle School shooting, 2013) – shot and killed a teacher and wounded two others before killing himself at Sparks Middle School in Sparks, Nevada. Reyes, 12-years-old at the time, had been placed on generic Prozac just three days before the October 21 shooting. The child complained of being bullied at school and possessed a collection of first-person shooter video games. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/13/jose-reyes_n_5319148.html
Archive: July, 2015
Adam Lanza – Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting (2012)
Adam Lanza (Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, 2012) – shot and killed his mother before traveling to Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut where he murdered 20 children and six teachers before killing himself on December 14, 2012. Diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome at the age of 13, Lanza suffered from developmental and anti-social issues most of his life. Lanza, age 20 at the time …
Laura Sorensen – Grocery Store shooting (2012)
Laura Sorensen (Grocery Store shooting, 2012) – thought she was hunting pedophiles when she opened fire in a grocery store in Gig Harbor, Washington on August 11, 2012, wounding two men and killing a third. Sorensen, 20-years-old at the time of the shooting, had a history of mental illness and was diagnosed with schizophrenia as a teen. Sorensen’s mother, a mental health therapist, said she …
James Holmes – Batman Theater shooting (2012)
James Holmes (Batman Theater shooting, 2012) – opened fire in a midnight screening of the Batman movie “The Dark Knight Rises,” at the Century 16 Theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 and injuring 58 on July 20, 2012. Holmes, 24-years-old at the time of the shooting, was one in six recipients of a National Institute of Health Neuroscience Training Grant at the University of Colorado …
Mohamed Merah – Toulouse shooting (2012)
Mohamed Merah (Toulouse shooting, 2012) – methodically gunned down and killed three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers in Toulouse, France on March 11, 2012. Merah, a 23-year-old Frenchman of Algerian descent, was reportedly inspired by radical Islam and trained in Afghanistan. Merah had been prescribed psychotropic drugs and sleep aids “to calm his stress.” http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/big-list-of-drug-induced-killers/ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/22/toulouse-shooting-mohamed-merah-shot-dead_n_1372387.html
John Shick – Western Psychiatric shooting (2012)
John Shick (Western Psychiatric shooting, 2012) – opened fire, killing one and wounding five others before being shot and killed by police at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania on March 8, 2012. Shick, 31, was a patient at the hospital. Upon searching his apartment, police found handwritten complaints about his medical treatment including various misdiagnoses from doctors at the clinic. Police also …
Anders Breivik – The Norway massacre (2011)
Anders Breivik (The Norway massacre, 2011) – disguised himself as a police officer before planting a car bomb in close proximity to government offices in Oslo, Norway, killing eight people on July 22, 2011. Breivik, 33-years-old at the time of the killings, then drove to the island of Utoeya, where a summer youth camp of Norway’s governing Labour Party was being held. He opened fire, …
Jared Lee Loughner – Jared Loughner Arizona shooting (2011)
Jared Lee Loughner (Jared Loughner Arizona shooting, 2011) – shot and killed 6 people, including US District Court Judge John Roll at a Congress on Your Corner event held by Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz), his intended target. Giffords and 13 others were injured in the January 8, 2011 attack near Tucson, Arizona. Many close to Loughner, who was 24-years-old at the time of the shooting, describe …