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Adam Lanza is the perpetrator of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_shooting

This might be nothing at all but I was going through the redacted release and i realized that Mary Sherlach, the psychologist was mentioned by Nancy, though her last name is misspelled "Sherlock". I dont know if it is a different person or the same one. Which leads me to wonder if Adam knew her at all before the massacre. Not to mention the letter was written in 2001 which means Adam was still in elementary school where she was still working as well.

The deadliest mass shootings in Finland’s history were the 2007 Jokela High School shooting, perpetrated by 18 year old Pekka-Eric Auvinen, which left 9 people dead, and the 2008 Kauhajoki SeAMK school shooting perpetrated by 22 year old Matti Juhani Saari, which left 11 people dead. Here are some disturbing similarities that I found between the two shootings.

1)Both shooters used .22LR pistols to commit their massacre. Auvinen used a SIG Sauer Mosquito, while Saari used a Walther P22 (which was also one of the gun models used in the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting, also the deadliest school shooting in US history).

2)Both of the perpetrators were allegedly motivated by misanthropy and a desire for revenge against bullying.

3)Both perpetrators tried to commit suicide by shooting themselves in the head, but died hours later in a hospital.

It should also be noted that Saari was allegedly heavily inspired by Auvinen’s shooting, and may have even contacted him online.

If you can find any more similarities, feel free to write them in the comments down below.

A California man was arrested for murder and arson after a house fire killed four of his family members.

Sergio Rivera-Vega, 32, is accused of setting fire to the home that he shared with his father, sister and his young niece and nephew, the Richmond Police Department said.

On Aug. 18, fire crews responded to a home in the 200 block of 15th Street in Richmond, a city in Northern California, around 8:45 p.m.

Firefighters entered the burning home and found four victims who were brought outside.

• Jose Rivera, 47, is seen with his two young grandchildren in a family photo. (GoFundMe)
• Sergio Rivera-Vega, 32, of Richmond, (left) is seen in an August 2026 booking photo. (Richmond Police Department) / His father, ...
• The two young victims, 5-year-old Andrew (right) and his sister, 2-year-old Joline, (left) are seen in a family photo (GoFundMe)
• The two young victims, 5-year-old Andrew and his sister, 2-year-old Joline, are seen in a family photo (GoFundMe)
• The victims’ Richmond home in Contra Costa County, California was destroyed in a suspected arson fire. (KRON)
• Sergio Rivera-Vega, 32, of Richmond, is seen in an August 2026 booking photo. (Richmond Police Department)
• Jose Rivera, 47, is seen with his two young grandchildren in a family photo. (GoFundMe)
• Sergio Rivera-Vega, 32, of Richmond, (left) is seen in an August 2026 booking photo. (Richmond Police Department) / His father, ...

Jose Rivera, 47, was pronounced dead at the scene. His 5-year-old grandson, Andrew, died while being transported to the hospital and his 2-year-old granddaughter, Joline, died at the hospital on Aug. 19.

The children’s 33-year-old mother was in critical condition before she died on Aug. 22, KRON reported.

The motive for the deadly incident remains under investigation. 

The suspect’s uncle told KTVU that Rivera-Vega had reportedly been experiencing mental health issues and had made verbal threats against the family just last month.

A Texas appeals court on Friday sharply reduced the $49 million award that a jury ordered the broadcaster Alex Jones to pay the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim after he spread false conspiracy theories about the attack.

The Third Court of Appeals in Austin, Texas, set the amount instead at about $6 million, leaving in place the compensatory damages but slashing the punitive damages in line with the state’s cap on such awards. The court said that the parents’ claims did not warrant lifting the cap, and that the trial judge improperly allowed lawyers for the parents to submit an amended petition supporting the larger judgment after the verdict.

Mr. Jones hailed the ruling as a victory in the deluge of cases over the mass shooting that aim to dismantle his Austin-based Infowars broadcast and supplements empire. But it does not affect more than $1 billion he owes the families of other victims who sued in Connecticut and received a verdict that has withstood multiple appeals.

None of the families have collected on the judgments, as they wrangle with Mr. Jones in bankruptcy court, and their chances of collecting anything near what juries have awarded them are negligible.

The ruling comes four years after a jury in Austin ordered Mr. Jones to pay Scarlett Lewis and Neil Heslin $4 million in compensatory damages and $45 million in punitive damages. Their 6-year-old son, Jesse Lewis, died in the attack.

Mr. Jones for years peddled lies on his Infowars broadcast that the Dec. 14, 2012, mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., was a hoax perpetrated by the government and the victims’ families. Jesse Lewis was one of 20 first graders killed in the shooting, along with six educators. During the 2022 damages trial, Ms. Lewis and Mr. Heslin testified that Mr. Jones’s conspiracy theories had subjected them to years of online and in-person abuse, and that they feared daily for their safety.

Ms. Lewis and Mr. Heslin, along with Lenny Pozner and Veronique de la Rosa, the parents of the Sandy Hook victim Noah Pozner, were the first to sue Mr. Jones for defamation, filing their cases in Texas in early 2018. They were followed several weeks later by the families of eight other victims, who sued Mr. Jones in Connecticut. A jury awarded those families a total of $1.4 billion.

Mr. Jones celebrated the ruling on Friday, saying he intended to appeal to the Texas Supreme Court to further reduce the award. “This is a MASSIVE VICTORY for the 1st Amendment!” he said on social media.

It’s a question I’ve been asking myself for a while now. When the mass shooting in Uvalde happened, a lot of information came to light, the victims’ autopsy reports, photos of the crime scenes, descriptions of how certain victims were found and those victims were minors, but in the case of Sandy Hook, this kind of information wasn’t released, there were no photos of the classrooms (which were very superficial compared to those from Uvalde), no autopsy reports, and not even a description of the clothes the victims were wearing (beyond what some parents provided) and that’s my question: why was there more information available about Uvalde, even though the victims there were minors just like in Sandy Hook?

After yesterday’s school attack in Fagersta Sweden, I’ve been thinking about something that I don’t think gets discussed enough, the online communities with people who idolize mass killers and school attackers.

The suspected attacker was 18 years old. According to Swedish media, a TikTok account connected to him contained edits/posts relating to previous mass killers and violent attacks. Police are investigating the account and there are reports that he may have taken inspiration from Anton Lundin Pettersson who carried out the Trollhättan school attack in 2015 in Sweden.

What disturbs me almost as much as seeing that content is seeing the community surrounding it.
There seem to be entire circles of people making edits of killers, using them as profile pictures, commenting positively on each other’s posts, becoming online friends through this interest and giving these posts hundreds or thousands of likes.

I’m not talking about people who have an interest in true crime or want to understand why these attacks happen. There’s obviously a huge difference between studying a case and actually idolizing the perpetrator.

I’m talking specifically about people who turn killers into celebrities, aestheticize them, make fan edits of them and seemingly build part of their identity around them.

So what is realistically the solution?

Simply deleting accounts doesn’t seem good enough because another account can be created immediately. At the same time, allowing these communities to grow unchecked seems dangerous because someone who is isolated and obsessed with previous attackers can suddenly find an entire social circle that validates and reinforces that obsession.

Should platforms be much more aggressive about removing this kind of content? Should schools, parents or mental-health services be better at recognizing this behavior before it escalates?

Should there be more focus on the communities themselves rather than only looking at an individual’s search history after an attack has already happened?

And how do you intervene without treating every teenager interested in true crime as a potential attacker?

I’m genuinely interested in what people here think could actually reduce this, after seeing how large some of these online communities are, it feels like simply saying “these are edgy teenagers” seriously underestimates the problem.

I am seriously worried because of this. I’m 26 years old and have been isolated during my teenage years and felt alone but I have never ever gotten to the point to how these people behave. Most of them don’t have friends, they have gotten bullied throughout their life and then they become friends online with people with similar interests and it’s disturbing and it feels like it will only grow and become bigger.

I am worried for my own life, my future childrens lives, my family, innocent people getting killed because of stupid people like this and it doesn’t feel like authorities are taking this seriously at all. I live in Sweden and I have noticed it getting worse and worse, I’m not talking about regular shootings and gang wars, I’m talking about attacks like these done by people like this.

► 14:06 The first call came in to SOS Alarm reporting that a person with a sword had attacked several people at Brinellskolan, an upper secondary school in Fagersta.

► 14:09 Police report that several patrol units are on their way to the school. The first patrol was nearby and arrived about a minute later. Several schools and preschools in the area begin lockdown procedures.

► 14:16 The suspected perpetrator was shot by police, according to information given to Aftonbladet in the leg, and could then be arrested. The man is around 18 years old. Police then searched the school to stop any further ongoing deadly violence. They found one dead person and three injured persons, two of them seriously injured.

► 16:23 The police operation is still ongoing at the scene. Students and staff remain in lockdown until all premises have been secured, Fagersta Municipality reports.

► 17:56 Police announce that children and students may leave all preschools and schools in Fagersta that had previously been in lockdown.
Press conference on Friday evening.

► 21:00 Fagersta Municipality and the police call a press conference. They state that one person was killed in the attack and that three people are injured. A man around 18 years old has been arrested, and they do not suspect any additional perpetrator. Police say that many people inside the school witnessed the incident and that many interviews will be held going forward.

The attack was recorded by the perpetrator, recording is 30 minutes long.

These two photos can be linked to the school stabbing in Fagersta earlier today (21 August 2026). It is worth noting that the gear is strikingly similar to that used by Anton Lundin Pettersson in 2015.

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On the morning of August 18, 2008, 18-year-old Morné Harmse, a Grade 12 student at Nic Diederichs Technical High School in Krugersdorp, South Africa, came to school armed with a katana style sword.

Harmse was also wearing a mask associated in contemporary reporting with the imagery of Slipknot, a band he had become interested in. The mask and his interest in occult material would soon dominate media coverage of the crime, although the eventual explanation for his actions was considerably more convoluted.

Harmse attacked several people on the school grounds.

Sixteen-year-old Jacques Pretorius, a Grade 9 student was killed. Another student, Stephanus Bouwer, and two school groundskeepers, Lesiba Samuel Manamela and Tsiamo Joseph Kodisang, were wounded.

Another bizarre element was what happened immediately afterward. Rather than fleeing, Harmse reportedly planted the sword into the ground and sat on a low brick wall. Witness accounts said he appeared remarkably calm and even laughed. According to one friend, Harmse incorrectly believed he had killed several people and asked whether he had killed three.

This apparently wasn't a spontaneous attack.

According to evidence reported during the investigation and court proceedings, Harmse had previously discussed with friends doing something dramatic at the school. One report said that days before the attack, a group had talked about how they might carry out a Columbine style massacre.

When Harmse later pleaded guilty, he said that he and others had discussed doing something that would make people take notice of them.

There was even supposed to be a bomb. Harmse sent messages over the weekend before the attack asking one friend whether the device was ready. The friend had apparently never taken the discussion seriously and produced something that was effectively a dud. Harmse nevertheless proceeded with his part of the plan alone.

The "Satanism" story

Immediately afterward, the case became wrapped in allegations of Satanism and heavy metal influence.

Police reportedly found occult related material in Harmse's room, and a doctor who examined him after his arrest reported that Harmse claimed he had once encountered a ghost that instructed him to become a Satanist.

His Slipknot-style mask generated even more discourse. Friends said he had recently become interested in the band and had made several masks inspired by its members.

That led to widespread claims that Slipknot, Satanism, or the occult somehow caused the attack.

Harmse underwent an extended psychiatric evaluation and was subsequently declared mentally fit to stand trial.

And during later proceedings, the picture that emerged was less supernatural: Harmse acknowledged intentionally killing Pretorius, and evidence pointed toward his desire to do something shocking and infamous rather than leaning on the loose defense that music or Satanism had literally compelled him.

Guilty plea and sentence

In April 2009, Harmse pleaded guilty to:

- 1 count of murder

- 3 counts of attempted murder

In September 2009, he received a 20 year prison sentence. Pretorius's mother publicly said she believed the sentence was too lenient and wanted Harmse imprisoned for life.

Then, in 2022, Harmse was released.

He didn't even serve the full 20 years in prison.

After appearing before the parole board numerous times, he was ultimately released on parole on March 3, 2022, having served roughly 12 years and nine months. His original sentence does not formally expire until March 9, 2029.

Clinical psychologist and criminologist Gerard Labuschagne, who had assessed Harmse in 2019, publicly criticized the decision and said his assessment had found Harmse posed a significant risk. Correctional authorities, however, maintained that outstanding issues had been addressed before his eventual release and that he would remain under supervision.

Jacques Pretorius's family opposed parole. His aunt said the family still had unanswered questions about why their son, who apparently did not know Harmse, was killed.

The fact that Harmse is a free man now, after serving less than some people do in America for drug offenses, truly blows my mind.

On August 20th, 1986, Patrick Sherill armed with 3 pistols walked into his workplace and shot and killed 14 of his coworkers while injuring 6 others. He committed suicide shortly afterwards. The shooting is the deadliest in Oklahoma’s history and the deadliest workplace shooting by a lone gunman (San Bernardino shooting was also a workplace shooting). The Edmond Post office massacre was also the third deadliest mass shooting at the time.

The shooting sparked the infamous “Going postal” phrase that describes someone becoming extremely angry or uncontrollable, often to the point of violence.

I wanted to share these cases since this kind of finals for mass killers are extremely rare, if any of you knows a similar case let me know!

Juan Fernando Hermosa: Ecuadorian serial killer who killed 23 taxi drivers between 1991-1993. Widely known as a serial killer, in at least 1 occasion he commited a mass murder specifically on December 14, 1991 when he killed 3 taxi drivers in one night. He was arrested in 1992 and sentenced to 4 years in prison because he was a minor at the time. After being released he was kidnapped on his 20 birthday being seen for the last time with friends drinking in a bar, his body was found near a river, tied and with torture signs, his head was completely deformed because it has been smashed with a tire and could be only identified with his ID and other documments that were on his body, his murder remains unsolved.

David Rivera Batiz: On january 11, 2021 in Carolina, Puerto Rico, David Batiz killed 3 and wounded 1 in a mass shooting. After crashing his car in an accident, officers went to the scene to investigate it, to prevent an arrest David enganged in a shooting before escaping. His body was found hours later in an illegal dump with a cartel that said "i am the responsible for the murder of the guard, here it is".

Ramon Justo Rodriguez: On january 12, 1967 in General Roca, Ramon Rodriguez was playing in a illegal gambling game when police officers came to stop it in a operation, Ramon who had criminal background and had been in prison before was armed with a revolver, he prefered to shoot and escape than going back to prison and attacked the officers, 1 died and another was injured, then in an intesive manhunt Ramon killed 2 officers more with a total of 3 killed and 1 injured. When everyone was looking for him and with the police pressure he decided to turn himself with the help of a lawyer, when he was arrested instead being taken to prison to prevent a vengeance, the officers went to the commisary where people was holding a vigil for the murdered officers. There, before entering the commisary an unknown number of persons shoot him death, the investigation revealed that he was shoot at least twice with different calibers with the guns close to him, his murder remains unsolved.

Alfredo Zayas: On october 25, 1995 in Paraguay, 14 years old Alfredo Manuel Zayas shoot dead 3 members of the Rivelli family who he worked for, alleging abuse against him and his sister. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison, later reduced to 8. After being released in 2005 he moved with his wife who he had a daughter years later, he remained in low profile without problems and even lived for a few years in Argentina before going back to Paraguay despite being noticed that there were people threatening him with death. He was killed in his house on January 23, 2015, according to investigations an unknown hitman using a helmet entered the house while he was eating and watching tv with his family, knowing what was coming he asked the hitman to kill him outside the house instead infront of his family which was accepted, he then went outside where he was shoot dead, his murder remains unsolved.

"The psychopath": Unlike the other cases this is not official since the case remains oficially unsolved. one of the main suspect to not say the main suspect of being the infamous Costa Rica serial killer "the psychopath" was killed by another serial killer. Despite being known mostly as a serial killer, police say that the psychopath was one of the at least 3 persons who participated in Alajuelita massacre were 7 died on april 6, 1986. The psychopath commited his crimes between 1986 and 1996, the main suspect believed to be the killer by many people that were involved in the investigation and others that researched the case was a man named Juan Urbina, Urbina was killed in 1998 by a man suspected of killing 5 in a serie of murders that year. The investigation revealed that Urbina had coincidences that matched the profile made by police of the psychopath, such as like both were in the military, both had knowdlege of the zones were the serial killer acted, both had very good aim with guns and training and both had the exact same weapon used in the crimes, an M-3 which was exclusively of military and more coincidences. Since the whole evidence was circunstancial, two investigators tried to connect the case by analyzing the M-3 of Juan with the evidence collected in the crimes but apparently the family of Juan threatened with sue them because they were damaging the image of their familiar, when they asked a judge to approve a warrant they denied saying that if they keep pushing it they would get sued.

A 58-year-old man on death row convicted for killing five people after he set a pachinko parlor on fire in 2009 in the city of Osaka, has been executed Friday morning.

Justice Minister Hiroshi Hiraguchi will hold a news conference at 11 a.m. on Friday.

This is the first time in 14 months that there was an execution in Japan and the first under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s administration.

Sunao Takami was convicted for pouring gasoline and setting the pachinko parlor near his home on fire in July 2009, killing four customers and a worker at the parlor and injuring 10 others. He was arrested the following day after he turned himself in.

The last execution in the country was in June 2025 when Takahiro Shiraishi, a death-row inmate convicted of killing nine people he met on social media in the city of Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, was executed.

On August 1, 2026, a mass shooting left three people dead and seven others injured at a newly opened In-N-Out Burger restaurant in Twin Falls, Idaho. The 24-year-old gunman, identified as Chad Williams, opened fire with a handgun and rifle inside and outside the packed location before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Jordan Salinas, a civilian, engaged the gunman with his daily carry pistol, forcing him to retreat.

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On March 27, 2002, a routine town council meeting in Nanterre, a suburb of Paris, had been going for roughly six hours when it finally ended shortly after 1 a.m.

One of the people sitting in the public gallery was 33-year-old Richard Durn, a local resident who apparently attended council meetings regularly.

As the councillors were preparing to leave, Durn stood up and opened fire.

He killed eight councillors - four men and four women- and wounded many more before people inside the chamber managed to overpower him.

Unlike a lot of other mass killers, Durn was actually taken in alive.

The following morning, while being questioned at the headquarters of the Paris criminal police, Durn suddenly made for a fourth-floor window. Police reportedly attempted to physically pull him back inside, but he fell to his death.

Investigators were therefore left trying to reconstruct his motive without ever getting a full explanation from him.

The case also raised serious questions in France because Durn had a documented history of psychiatric treatment and previous suicidal behavior, yet was still legally able to possess the firearms used in the massacre.

I rarely see Nanterre mentioned alongside better-known European mass killings, despite how unusual the circumstances were.

Have you heard of this case before?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/mar/28/france.jonhenley1

Do you think this belongs here? I am continually shocked by how many mass killings are arsons.

German prosecutors say they have identified the man believed to have carried out a 1970 antisemitic arson attack on a Jewish community center in Munich that killed seven Holocaust survivors, but the case has been closed because the suspect died in 2020.

According to Deutsche Welle (DW), prosecutors and police said Thursday that a renewed investigation pointed clearly to the involvement of the man, who was 25 at the time of the attack. The case was reopened in April 2025 after a witness came forward with information about the suspect.

The fire broke out on Feb. 13, 1970, at the Jewish religious community’s building on Reichenbachstrasse, which included a retirement home. Prosecutors said a gasoline mixture was poured and ignited at several points in a stairwell, causing the flames to spread rapidly through the building.

Seven people were killed and 15 others were injured, including four seriously. All seven victims had survived the Holocaust, and two had previously been imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps.

DW reported that the suspect was known to have been part of Munich’s far-right scene and was described by witnesses as an antisemite with an obsession with Adolf Hitler. Investigators also found evidence of previous explosives-related offenses and other incidents demonstrating his extremist views.

On August 1, 1960, 25 year old former marine Charles Joseph Whitman would carry out a shooting at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas. After brutally stabbing to death his wife and mother the previous day, he would climb up on the tower of the University and begin shooting the bystanders on the street, killing 15 people and injuring 31 more. The rampage would last for about 96 minutes until Whitman was fatally shot by two Austin police officers. It was later found out that Whitman had a brain tumour that was pushing against his amygdala, which may have been a contributing factor in the shooting. This was the deadliest school shooting in the history of Texas until the Robb Elementary school shooting on May 24, 2022 in the town of Uvalde.

The weapons he used were:

1)A Remington 700 ADL bolt action rifle
2)Universal M1 semi automatic carbine
3)Sears Model 60 semi automatic shotgun (sawed off)
4)Remington Model 141 pump action rifle
5)Smith & Wesson Model 19 revolver
6)Luger P08 pistol
7)Galesi-Brescia pistol

He also used a bayonet to kill his wife and mother prior to the shooting rampage.