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Quixote1818

(28,928 posts)
Sat Feb 17, 2018, 05:34 PM Feb 2018

Aztec High School, New Mexico shooting in December was an alt-right Trump fan too

We are lucky Atchison wasn't able to get hold of an AR-15 with a bump firing add-on or a lot more kids probably would have been killed.

Snip:

Atchison's online activity included posting pro-Hitler and pro-Trump thoughts on alt-right forums white nationalist websites like The Daily Stormer under such usernames as "Future Mass Shooter" and "Adam Lanza", and joking about school shootings, in particular the Columbine High School massacre. He also posted about his frustration with life in rural New Mexico and bleak career prospects.[13][14]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_High_School_shooting


Edit to add another link: 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.
BRANDY ZADROZNY
BEN COLLINS
12.15.17 5:00 AM ET
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.


More: https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-mexico-school-shooter-had-secret-life-on-pro-trump-white-supremacy-sites




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