Police discover composition book saying ‘Kill Johanna. She must die.’ (Wesleyan U Shooting)

[sabra]

Source: CNN

MIDDLETOWN, Connecticut (CNN) — Police probing the slaying of a Wesleyan University student discovered a composition book with an entry saying “Kill Johanna. She must Die,” an arrest affidavit said.

The composition book is believed to belong to the suspect, Stephen Morgan, 29, the affidavit said.

The entry is dated May 6, the day Johanna Justin-Jinich, 21, was shot and killed at a Middletown bookstore near the Wesleyan University campus.

The entry in the composition book also mentioned “seeing all of the beautiful and smart people at wes” and “I think it okay to kill Jews and go on killing spree at this school,” the arrest affidavit quoted the composition book as saying.

Read more: http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/08/police-discover-composition-book-saying-kill-johanna-she-must-die/

[brentspeak]

1. How was this nutcase able to get a gun?

[sabra]

2. police say he's a former Navy sailor

http://www.wfsb.com/news/19401581/detail.html

Police said Morgan, a former Navy Sailor, had no identification on him when he was taken into custody, but that he gave police the correct Social Security number.

[Demobrat]

3. Anybody can get a gun.

Or guns. Don't kid yourself.

[shadowknows69]

9. I can't, I've never once had someone offer me guns. Ok, I never asked but...

I use to run with crownds that you think would.

[Demobrat]

10. Sure you can.

You can probably get one legally. Or if not, just go to a gun show. If that doesn't work you might have to go the illegal route, but just because nobody's ever offered you a gun doesn't mean you couldn't get one that way if you wanted to. Or at a pawn shop, or off the internet ... or, or, or. If you wanted a gun you could get one.

[Baby Snooks]

4. Another stalking. Another stalking victim dead.

Many of these incidents wouldn't happen if stalking were taken more seriously. Unfortunately it's not. Particularly by universities.

She filed a harassment complaint at New York State University and her mistake was filing it with campus police instead of NYPD.

Had she filed with with NYPD he might have been charged with stalking. Which is what it was. Although at this point it's a realization that came too late for the victim. And it comes too late for quite a few stalking victims around the country. Many of them on campuses.

And of course this will be turned into something else. We like to call stalking something else.

Virginia Tech became a battle cry for gun control and allowing students to carry weapons on campus.

Lisa Nowak became the spurned woman in a NASA love triangle.

Johanna Justin-Jinich is becoming a victim of an anti-Semitic serial killer who planned to kill other Jews.

In all three cases, there was a stalking that resulted in tragedy. Simply because no one wants to deal with stalking. Particularly the media. Stalking is so boring when you can turn it into something more sensational. Which the media usually does.

[Dappleganger]

7. One problem

is that college administrations encourage students to file this with campus police INSTEAD of the local police--they would rather keep it in-house and out of the news circuit.

[Baby Snooks]

8. Bingo!

Public relations versus the public interest.

[shadowknows69]

5. Something's in the fucking water

This is happening in record numbers lately.

[Baby Snooks]

6. Road rage has left the road....

That sums up a lot of what lurks beneath the surface of the mind of a stalker. Consumed with rage which the stalker then directs towards someone else. A spouse, a lover, a business partner, an acquaitance, sometimes a total stranger. In the vast majority of these cases you have a bully mentality combined with rage that becomes a stalking which becomes a newspaper headline. Road rage has left the road.

[Jennicut]

11. This is strange to see on CNN as this nut was in Meriden, CT right before the shootings

I used to live there in an apartment for 2 years. My parents live in the next town over, in a town called Cheshire. You see stories like this all the time on national tv but it feels weird to have CNN talking about the little CT towns I have spent years in. Middletown is where I took my kids to a great children's museum and my husband and I went to see shows at Harbor Park,a restaurant that has bands outside and its right on the Connecticut River. Its a down to earth place, people have always been nice and friendly there. I feel for the kids who go to Wesleyan and for the victim's friends and family. This is terrible. Things do not happen like this on campuses in CT very often. You start to feel isolated on a campus and its shocking when that is broken.

[RamboLiberal]

12. More from NYT

As Mr. Morgan, 29, was brought into a Middletown courtroom Friday to answer to a murder that virtually paralyzed an elite college and a Connecticut town, an incongruous portrait of his life and movements emerged through police documents, public records and interviews. He came from a large churchgoing family and a privileged upbringing in one of Boston’s nicer suburbs. He graduated from an elite Roman Catholic high school for boys before completing an unblemished four-year stint in the Navy.

But upon returning to civilian life in 2003, Mr. Morgan struggled, hopscotching from town to town and holding dead-end jobs, including one as a technician at a garage door company in Colorado Springs, and spending two semesters in 2007 as a nondegree student at the University of Colorado in Boulder before moving back with his parents.

During the summer between those semesters, Mr. Morgan took a course at New York University, the same sexual diversity class in which Ms. Justin-Jinich was enrolled. By the end of it, Ms. Justin-Jinich had complained to the university of harassment, saying that Mr. Morgan called her repeatedly and sent her threatening and insulting e-mail messages.

-----

He began criticizing her, saying she was not so attractive and making an issue of her being half-Jewish, saying that Jewish people are greedy, and criticizing her for wearing what he said were revealing clothes and flaunting her body, the person who reviewed the e-mail messages said. Mr. Morgan suggested that she needed a lot of attention and said she was behaving like a little girl.

Mr. Morgan, who had lived in Colorado Springs and Boulder, also made comments about how people in those parts of the state looked down on people from the area of Colorado where Ms. Justin-Jinich’s family lived, near Fort Collins.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/09/nyregion/09wesleyan.html?hp

[Behind the Aegis]

13. Anti-Semitism...alive and kicking, old school style!