House Explosion in North Arlington

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Anonymous wrote:Is the family ok that shares the duplex with him? I can’t watch news with my kids close by

No injuries reported per ARLnow. I think I saw somewhere that the neighbors had been evacuated before the explosion.

My friend lives right by this-she confirmed that the other side of the duplex had been evacuated to a neighbors house. They are ok.

I’m glad they are ok. I kept staring at their snowman inflatable on their side of the duplex when the whole thing exploded. Can you imagine. One day, you’re decorating for Christmas. The next day, the deranged person who lives next to you blows up his house and yours.

This. All your stuff, POOF. It sucks. Insurance almost never covers enough to rebuild. It's so traumatic for those kids!

How do you even rebuild a duplex? Insurance only covers your side. How do you coordinate with whoever has title now with the mentally ill guy’s half (assuming he’s dead)?

The suspect was renting.

The landlord will be made whole by the insurance company.

No he was not. The reason the internet found his so fast his he was easily traced through public records to the that address because he owns it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is the family ok that shares the duplex with him? I can’t watch news with my kids close by

No injuries reported per ARLnow. I think I saw somewhere that the neighbors had been evacuated before the explosion.

My friend lives right by this-she confirmed that the other side of the duplex had been evacuated to a neighbors house. They are ok.

I’m glad they are ok. I kept staring at their snowman inflatable on their side of the duplex when the whole thing exploded. Can you imagine. One day, you’re decorating for Christmas. The next day, the deranged person who lives next to you blows up his house and yours.

This. All your stuff, POOF. It sucks. Insurance almost never covers enough to rebuild. It's so traumatic for those kids!

How do you even rebuild a duplex? Insurance only covers your side. How do you coordinate with whoever has title now with the mentally ill guy’s half (assuming he’s dead)?

The suspect was renting.

The landlord will be made whole by the insurance company.

He's on the property records as the owner.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So incredibly sad that this man didn’t get mental health treatment he so obviously needs . How did he get so many guns?

To clear the air:

This is a regular SFH/brick duplex neighborhood in Arlington a couple of blocks from the Ballston metro, near a popular trail, a big elementary school, a large community center, etc. About as low-crime, suburban kind of neighborhood as it gets, with those small, close-in lots.

There's no such thing as a "meth lab" in Arlington, lots are too small and rents are too high for there to be vacant properties like that. Small older houses sell for $850K in one week and are torn down to build $1.5M McMansions.

There is no evidence of any guns except the flare gun, so laws may have actually worked in this case. Signs point to natural gas as the source of the explosion.

Records show family (sister and ex-wife) had tried to get him mental health treatment, which is hard to do with an adult.

Calling him "racist against white people" is ridiculous. He was an untreated paranoid schizophrenic, he didn't have coherent thoughts, he thought anyone and everyone was out to get him.

Pretty clearly he was racist against white people, he put that right on YouTube. If it was a white paranoid schizophrenic racist he'd still be a racist, works both ways.

Don't know why you are so determined to say he is racist against white people. His complaints about his neighbors were not just that they were white, he also said they were spies, witches, and aliens. Racism is prejudice against a person or community because of their race. He wasn't prejudiced. He was psychotic.

Interesting that everyone is assuming that he was wrong and that the neighbors were not spying on him.

He had foil on his windows.
He chased away a potential home buyer with a knife.
He thinks ESPN is out to get him, sending him "signals" in their commercials/ads.
He noted Donald Trump's inauguration date as a key point in one of his law suits (a signal that he was being stalked/watched).
And on and on....

What do you think?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So incredibly sad that this man didn’t get mental health treatment he so obviously needs . How did he get so many guns?

To clear the air:

This is a regular SFH/brick duplex neighborhood in Arlington a couple of blocks from the Ballston metro, near a popular trail, a big elementary school, a large community center, etc. About as low-crime, suburban kind of neighborhood as it gets, with those small, close-in lots.

There's no such thing as a "meth lab" in Arlington, lots are too small and rents are too high for there to be vacant properties like that. Small older houses sell for $850K in one week and are torn down to build $1.5M McMansions.

There is no evidence of any guns except the flare gun, so laws may have actually worked in this case. Signs point to natural gas as the source of the explosion.

Records show family (sister and ex-wife) had tried to get him mental health treatment, which is hard to do with an adult.

Calling him "racist against white people" is ridiculous. He was an untreated paranoid schizophrenic, he didn't have coherent thoughts, he thought anyone and everyone was out to get him.

This was a natural gas explosion, albeit a rare “intentional” one. Anyone could pull off the same crime.

I sincerely hope we do NOT see any copy-cat crimes now that this story is all over the news now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is the family ok that shares the duplex with him? I can’t watch news with my kids close by

No injuries reported per ARLnow. I think I saw somewhere that the neighbors had been evacuated before the explosion.

My friend lives right by this-she confirmed that the other side of the duplex had been evacuated to a neighbors house. They are ok.

I’m glad they are ok. I kept staring at their snowman inflatable on their side of the duplex when the whole thing exploded. Can you imagine. One day, you’re decorating for Christmas. The next day, the deranged person who lives next to you blows up his house and yours.

This. All your stuff, POOF. It sucks. Insurance almost never covers enough to rebuild. It's so traumatic for those kids!

How do you even rebuild a duplex? Insurance only covers your side. How do you coordinate with whoever has title now with the mentally ill guy’s half (assuming he’s dead)?

The suspect was renting.

The landlord will be made whole by the insurance company.

What if the insurance company decided this was domestic terrorism?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Police were inside when it exploded. This isn’t going to end well.

They all survived.

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Anonymous wrote:Is the family ok that shares the duplex with him? I can’t watch news with my kids close by

No injuries reported per ARLnow. I think I saw somewhere that the neighbors had been evacuated before the explosion.

My friend lives right by this-she confirmed that the other side of the duplex had been evacuated to a neighbors house. They are ok.

I’m glad they are ok. I kept staring at their snowman inflatable on their side of the duplex when the whole thing exploded. Can you imagine. One day, you’re decorating for Christmas. The next day, the deranged person who lives next to you blows up his house and yours.

This. All your stuff, POOF. It sucks. Insurance almost never covers enough to rebuild. It's so traumatic for those kids!

How do you even rebuild a duplex? Insurance only covers your side. How do you coordinate with whoever has title now with the mentally ill guy’s half (assuming he’s dead)?

The suspect was renting.

The landlord will be made whole by the insurance company.

What if the insurance company decided this was domestic terrorism?

The suspect OWNS the home. His parents originally purchased in 1992.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is the family ok that shares the duplex with him? I can’t watch news with my kids close by

No injuries reported per ARLnow. I think I saw somewhere that the neighbors had been evacuated before the explosion.

My friend lives right by this-she confirmed that the other side of the duplex had been evacuated to a neighbors house. They are ok.

I’m glad they are ok. I kept staring at their snowman inflatable on their side of the duplex when the whole thing exploded. Can you imagine. One day, you’re decorating for Christmas. The next day, the deranged person who lives next to you blows up his house and yours.

This. All your stuff, POOF. It sucks. Insurance almost never covers enough to rebuild. It's so traumatic for those kids!

How do you even rebuild a duplex? Insurance only covers your side. How do you coordinate with whoever has title now with the mentally ill guy’s half (assuming he’s dead)?

The suspect was renting.

The landlord will be made whole by the insurance company.

What if the insurance company decided this was domestic terrorism?

The suspect OWNS the home. His parents originally purchased in 1992.

So, no homeowners insurance, then. Because, as we all know, the insurance industry is full of spies.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is the family ok that shares the duplex with him? I can’t watch news with my kids close by

No injuries reported per ARLnow. I think I saw somewhere that the neighbors had been evacuated before the explosion.

My friend lives right by this-she confirmed that the other side of the duplex had been evacuated to a neighbors house. They are ok.

I’m glad they are ok. I kept staring at their snowman inflatable on their side of the duplex when the whole thing exploded. Can you imagine. One day, you’re decorating for Christmas. The next day, the deranged person who lives next to you blows up his house and yours.

This. All your stuff, POOF. It sucks. Insurance almost never covers enough to rebuild. It's so traumatic for those kids!

How do you even rebuild a duplex? Insurance only covers your side. How do you coordinate with whoever has title now with the mentally ill guy’s half (assuming he’s dead)?

The suspect was renting.

The landlord will be made whole by the insurance company.

What if the insurance company decided this was domestic terrorism?

The suspect OWNS the home. His parents originally purchased in 1992.

Oops sorry he was transferred ownership in 1992. His parents bought in 1974. This is public info.

[Anonymous]

A man claiming he is the suspect is commenting on video of his house exploding saying he is alive and being set up by the government. At least 2 whackos involved.
https://www.facebook.com/melissa.dison.7/videos/1083564829354917

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone seen the footage from YouTube where the suspect is live-commenting after the explosion? I wonder if he's still alive? Like, maybe he had some sort of remote detonation bomb.

Link??!

Here it is...

https://twitter.com/based_coach1/status/1731900923163627573?t=pq1t0qgkgfW9IXaLmdvEqA&s=19

It looks legit to me given the timeline of account creation and of his other posts. His comments have been disabled since last night.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:So incredibly sad that this man didn’t get mental health treatment he so obviously needs . How did he get so many guns?

To clear the air:

This is a regular SFH/brick duplex neighborhood in Arlington a couple of blocks from the Ballston metro, near a popular trail, a big elementary school, a large community center, etc. About as low-crime, suburban kind of neighborhood as it gets, with those small, close-in lots.

There's no such thing as a "meth lab" in Arlington, lots are too small and rents are too high for there to be vacant properties like that. Small older houses sell for $850K in one week and are torn down to build $1.5M McMansions.

There is no evidence of any guns except the flare gun, so laws may have actually worked in this case. Signs point to natural gas as the source of the explosion.

Records show family (sister and ex-wife) had tried to get him mental health treatment, which is hard to do with an adult.

Calling him "racist against white people" is ridiculous. He was an untreated paranoid schizophrenic, he didn't have coherent thoughts, he thought anyone and everyone was out to get him.

Pretty clearly he was racist against white people, he put that right on YouTube. If it was a white paranoid schizophrenic racist he'd still be a racist, works both ways.

Don't know why you are so determined to say he is racist against white people. His complaints about his neighbors were not just that they were white, he also said they were spies, witches, and aliens. Racism is prejudice against a person or community because of their race. He wasn't prejudiced. He was psychotic.

Interesting that everyone is assuming that he was wrong and that the neighbors were not spying on him.

Plug his name into X and you’ll see a lot of the conspiracy theorists have jumped all over this.

Apparently lots of conspiracy theorists or trolls in this thread

[Anonymous]

Most homeowners insurance will deny a claim caused by the home owner, such as arson. It voids the policy. I wonder if this will be the case here and makes me feel even worse for the other duplex family as they will have an uphill battle getting it rebuilt.

In Del Ray 2 years ago there was a duplex that burned quickly to the ground (and taking cars with it). The fire started in the side that housed a well known hoarder and she also hoarded propane tanks among other trash. The first very quickly spread to the adjoining unit where a mother and baby were home and she said she barely had time to get her baby and her dog out, much less move her car or grab anything else. Police evacuated a 4 block radius for hours.

It still hasn’t been rebuilt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So incredibly sad that this man didn’t get mental health treatment he so obviously needs . How did he get so many guns?

To clear the air:

This is a regular SFH/brick duplex neighborhood in Arlington a couple of blocks from the Ballston metro, near a popular trail, a big elementary school, a large community center, etc. About as low-crime, suburban kind of neighborhood as it gets, with those small, close-in lots.

There's no such thing as a "meth lab" in Arlington, lots are too small and rents are too high for there to be vacant properties like that. Small older houses sell for $850K in one week and are torn down to build $1.5M McMansions.

There is no evidence of any guns except the flare gun, so laws may have actually worked in this case. Signs point to natural gas as the source of the explosion.

Records show family (sister and ex-wife) had tried to get him mental health treatment, which is hard to do with an adult.

Calling him "racist against white people" is ridiculous. He was an untreated paranoid schizophrenic, he didn't have coherent thoughts, he thought anyone and everyone was out to get him.

Pretty clearly he was racist against white people, he put that right on YouTube. If it was a white paranoid schizophrenic racist he'd still be a racist, works both ways.

Don't know why you are so determined to say he is racist against white people. His complaints about his neighbors were not just that they were white, he also said they were spies, witches, and aliens. Racism is prejudice against a person or community because of their race. He wasn't prejudiced. He was psychotic.

Interesting that everyone is assuming that he was wrong and that the neighbors were not spying on him.

He had foil on his windows.
He chased away a potential home buyer with a knife.
He thinks ESPN is out to get him, sending him "signals" in their commercials/ads.
He noted Donald Trump's inauguration date as a key point in one of his law suits (a signal that he was being stalked/watched).
And on and on....

What do you think?

I think that all of this information has come out in the last 12 hours and early reports are often wrong.

[Anonymous]

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This was an intentional natural gas explosion. You have the same “explosives” in your own home.

But then how did law enforcement escape unscathed even though they were right outside the front door? I witnessed a natural gas explosion in Massachusetts a few decades ago, and everyone in the immediate vicinity died.