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passiveporcupine

(8,175 posts)
Sun Jul 3, 2016, 08:49 PM Jul 2016

Chilling prediction about Portland man charged with murder: 'She feels he is eventually going to kil

Source: Oregon Live (Oregonian)

Cory Lumber was found dead in her Southeast Portland apartment Saturday morning. July 3 2016, and her boyfriend, Spencer Thomas Johnson has been charged with murder.







Read more: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2016/07/chilling_prediction_about_man.html#incart_2box



In 2015 Johnson's 43-year-old girlfriend (previous girlfriend) was visited by police after a relative called for a wellness check, and as she was talking to them, Johnson came toward her with a gun in his hand. He refused to put it down when the officers, with guns drawn, instructed him to...he didn't even look at them, just her, and he said "You called the police...I can't believe you called the police".

He eventually turned over his weapon and was cuffed and arrested. He told the police he had another gun in the other room, and about 30 weapons, including an AR 15 in other locations. He was charged with a misdemeanor and was sentenced with 18 months of probation

with conditions including a prohibition on drinking alcohol and possessing guns or other weapons.

His girlfriend told the officers
she was frightened of Johnson and that he had repeatedly threatened to shoot her and had hurt her with his hands. "She feels that he is eventually going to kill her,"


Well, he didn't kill her, but he did kill his next girlfriend.

Does anyone see a pattern here with the ammosexual who needs an arsenal of weapons, and is abusive to his women?

Yet...even after this bizarre display of gun play in front of two officers, he's allowed to go free and own guns (I'm presuming the prohibition on guns was just for 18 months?). Sounds like maybe he broke his "probation" in that regard.

I wish women were wiser about staying with abusive men. I know many of them repeatedly refuse to press charges against their abusers and stay with them. I don't know how long these two were together, but I bet if he abused his 2015 girlfriend, he did with this one too. Maybe she was threatening to leave him. I think the other woman just got lucky.

This is so sad. She was a beautiful woman. I saw the story about her being found yesterday, but at that time they didn't say they had a suspect. This just pisses me off. Even with red flags and arrests these things still keep happening. These people still have their weapons, who have absolutely no business owning a gun of any kind.



RIP Cory.
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Chilling prediction about Portland man charged with murder: 'She feels he is eventually going to kil (Original Post) passiveporcupine Jul 2016 OP
gun humpers are the biggest cowards on the planet Skittles Jul 2016 #1
+1. Bullies who go after women and children. nt bemildred Jul 2016 #2
I agree... Liberal Jesus Freak Jul 2016 #3
I second that madokie Jul 2016 #5
That is exactly what they are. smirkymonkey Jul 2016 #10
She wasn't with him that long if the first GF was only 2015. Afraid to leave, seabeyond Jul 2016 #4
Yes. librarylu Jul 2016 #6
I am sorry to hear that, and thrilled you made it through. Nt seabeyond Jul 2016 #7
"This is so sad. She was a beautiful woman.".... marble falls Jul 2016 #8
They are two separate sentences. secondwind Jul 2016 #9
All women are beautiful passiveporcupine Jul 2016 #12
Wasn't snarking, but noting physical beauty as a multiplier of a tragedy seems shallow and offensive marble falls Jul 2016 #13
Sorry, you don't get it passiveporcupine Jul 2016 #14
You've had a hand in it, too IF that's true.... marble falls Jul 2016 #15
Kick, kick, kick! Heidi Jul 2016 #11

madokie

(51,076 posts)
5. I second that
Sun Jul 3, 2016, 09:31 PM
Jul 2016

I'd like to see us do as Australia did a decade or so ago. We don't need so many guns. Our 2nd amendment has been taken out of context as far as I'm concerned.

No guns in my home. Bad ass old Vietnam vet, S.E.R.E. school graduate/instructor to take up the slack though

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
10. That is exactly what they are.
Mon Jul 4, 2016, 10:40 AM
Jul 2016

Weak little cowards. Unfortunately, so many innocent people suffer for their pathetic egos.

 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
4. She wasn't with him that long if the first GF was only 2015. Afraid to leave,
Sun Jul 3, 2016, 09:09 PM
Jul 2016

because of fear of being murdered. Dangerous time for a woman.

librarylu

(503 posts)
6. Yes.
Sun Jul 3, 2016, 09:49 PM
Jul 2016

The only solution for the woman, really, is to vanish and that can be very difficult to do. The man, of course, is free to do it to the next one.

Been there, done that, worn the T-shirt.

marble falls

(57,014 posts)
8. "This is so sad. She was a beautiful woman."....
Mon Jul 4, 2016, 12:30 AM
Jul 2016

would it have been less tragic if she had been less 'beautiful'?

passiveporcupine

(8,175 posts)
12. All women are beautiful
Mon Jul 4, 2016, 01:44 PM
Jul 2016

but I can tell from her picture she had a beautiful soul, like my little sister. She just exudes warmth. That is true beauty.

Something in her struck me, like my little sister strikes everyone. Everyone who knows her loves her.

If you feel the need to snark at a time like this, please keep it to yourself.

marble falls

(57,014 posts)
13. Wasn't snarking, but noting physical beauty as a multiplier of a tragedy seems shallow and offensive
Tue Jul 5, 2016, 12:12 PM
Jul 2016

to we beauty challenged as if our lives have less worth because we don't bowl the beauty appreciators over.

The real tragedy is that a serial abuser of women lived up to one of his victim's prediction of his eventually murdering one of his victims. "Beauty" doesn't enter into the equation at all.

Would he have been less culpable if his victim looked like me? Or if he were better looking would his guilt be of a lesser crime?

Snark? Nope. Disappointment for society's discrimination of the less than beautiful.

marble falls

(57,014 posts)
15. You've had a hand in it, too IF that's true....
Tue Jul 5, 2016, 08:41 PM
Jul 2016

That the real tragedy is that a serial abuser of women lived up to one of his victim's prediction of his eventually murdering one of his victims? I certainly get it, don't you? "Beauty" doesn't enter into the equation at all.

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