UVA mass shooting

[Anonymous]

Just read the shooter was not in the class, but was invited on the trip by the prof? Wow. I suspect UVA is going to be successfully sued for a very very large sum by everyone involved. What a tragedy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Prosecutor says one of the football players was asleep.

My gut says the "people were picking on me" + video game comments speak more to schizophrenia/paranoia than any actual conflict with these guys.

This was what I thought too especially with the comments from the father about his paranoia. This is the age when schizophrenia can show up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Prosecutor says one of the football players was asleep.

My gut says the "people were picking on me" + video game comments speak more to schizophrenia/paranoia than any actual conflict with these guys.

Our teen son plays those streaming video games and everyone in the group playing amongst each other talks crap over their mics. It can be really, really cruel and vile. If it is really related to an old hazing incident, often the worst hazing is sexual in nature, so is it possible someone brought up a horrific hazing allegation (true, half true, not true - who knows) when talking crap during the video game and re-opened deep years old trauma? You don’t really ever get over bullying.

And it’s just a coincidence that he had a gun on him?

[Anonymous]

Wednesday’s hearing also revealed that Jones was charged and convicted of a reckless driving and hit and run in 2021 and had a concealed weapons charge the same year. He received suspended sentences for all of the offenses.


https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/16/us/university-of-virginia-shooting-wednesday/index.html

[Anonymous]

Have we talked about the tweet from the sister of a UVA student who was scheduled to be roommates with the shooter starting next semester (after the brother returned from semester abroad)?.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wednesday’s hearing also revealed that Jones was charged and convicted of a reckless driving and hit and run in 2021 and had a concealed weapons charge the same year. He received suspended sentences for all of the offenses.


https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/16/us/university-of-virginia-shooting-wednesday/index.html

"..“The Threat Assessment Team escalated his case for disciplinary action” on October 27, Coy said..."

That leaves only 2 weeks between escalation and the shooting. My guess is it was escalated when they learned about those prior incidents/charges.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Prosecutor says one of the football players was asleep.

My gut says the "people were picking on me" + video game comments speak more to schizophrenia/paranoia than any actual conflict with these guys.

This was what I thought too especially with the comments from the father about his paranoia. This is the age when schizophrenia can show up.

I was thinking the same. I had a friend in college who became violent. Thankfully no guns were involved, but they quickly went from popular and well liked to banned from campus. They were diagnosed with schizophrenia.

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Anonymous wrote:CTE?

From playing high school football? The kid never played in college. Didn’t even practice. Get a grip.

Yes, it has been shown in studies and it does not even take a concussion to cause it. They have found it in high school football players who have not suffered concussions. So even the constant lower-level collisions are leaving a mark.

I said this many, many posts back. My first thought was CTE.

Or, psychiatric comorbidity (including schizophrenia) due to cannabis use.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:CTE?

From playing high school football? The kid never played in college. Didn’t even practice. Get a grip.

Yes, it has been shown in studies and it does not even take a concussion to cause it. They have found it in high school football players who have not suffered concussions. So even the constant lower-level collisions are leaving a mark.

I said this many, many posts back. My first thought was CTE.

Or, psychiatric comorbidity (including schizophrenia) due to cannabis use.

Unfortunately, CTE can only be determined after death.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have we talked about the tweet from the sister of a UVA student who was scheduled to be roommates with the shooter starting next semester (after the brother returned from semester abroad)?.

What about it?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Have we talked about the tweet from the sister of a UVA student who was scheduled to be roommates with the shooter starting next semester (after the brother returned from semester abroad)?.

What about it?

NP here. The only thing I found unsettling about that tweet was there was an upperclassman who didn't have anyone to room with him so he was being matched by the school. If he had been there since 2018 you'd think he would have known someone to have as a roommate or live in an apartment or group house. It sounds like his fall semester roommate wasn't even planning on living with him for next semester.

[Anonymous]

I just keep thinking as horrific as this situation is, it could have been much, much worse with him shooting in that enclosed space. Everyone else on that bus much have such terrible survival guilt - I can't imagine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just read the shooter was not in the class, but was invited on the trip by the prof? Wow. I suspect UVA is going to be successfully sued for a very very large sum by everyone involved. What a tragedy.

+1!

[Anonymous]

I guess I'd like a university to not allow and adult with previous weapons charges to be living with my 19 yr old.

[Anonymous]

So was he packing a gun for the entire trip? On the bus, at the theater, in the restaurant?

I'm not a gun owner, but I thought pistols were pretty hard to conceal. Unless he wore a coat the entire time.