Random acts of violence

[Ghoul]

ako postoji nešto što me zaista plaši, to je upravo vrsta nasilja opisana dole:
nasumično, besmisleno, psihopatsko, iracionalno, bezrazložno...

(btw: 1 forumaš, čiji identitet neću otkrivati sem ako on sam ne odluči da se oglasi na ovoj temi, pre par dana je imao baš ovakav bliski susret sa dve psihopatice čijim je ničim izazvanim napadima jedva umakao...)




Japan aghast as wave of thrill kills goes on

Teenager pushes stranger in front of train in latest attack that points
to wider social problem

JAPAN
Julian Ryall in Tokyo
/Mar 27, 2008/



The teenager bore no grudge against Kuniaki Kariya when he pushed him
into the path of a train in Okayama, Japan. He simply wanted to kill
someone.

The killing on Tuesday night came just two days after a deadly stabbing
rampage at another train station, with both incidents sowing fear of
random violence in a nation where such occurrences are rare.

In the latest killing, an 18-year-old youth told police he randomly
chose a person to kill and watched as Kariya, a civil servant, was hit
by the 11.05pm train as hundreds of horrified commuters looked on.

To his incredulous interrogators, the youth said: "I thought I can go to
prison if I kill someone. It didn't matter who it was. I just pushed the
back of the first person in front of me."

The youth graduated from high school this month. He had a fruit knife on
him when he was arrested. "I was going to stab someone," he told
investigators.

"Obviously these are all individual cases and there will be different
factors in each of these incidents, but it is deeply worrying to see
this sort of psychopathic behaviour by young men," said Makoto Watanabe,
a lecturer in media and communications at Hokkaido University.

"The underlying problem appears to be the lack of face-to-face
communication within families and communities, which leads some people
to feel marginalised and not acknowledged as belonging."

The family used to be the bedrock of Japanese society, with several
generations often living under the same roof and youngsters absorbing
their parents' and grandparents' values.

With more young people living on their own and the lives of countless
others revolving around "friends" they met only in cyberspace, a growing
number were apparently unable to cope with modern society.

"They have a sense of loss, of being cut out of society, and in a
distorted way believe that by committing a serious crime they will get
society to pay them attention," Professor Watanabe said.

Tuesday night's attack came a day after a young man riding a bicycle in
Nagoya stabbed a woman leaving the restaurant where she worked, and,
even more shockingly, a rampage at a train station on Sunday that left
one person dead and seven wounded.

Arrested in the town of Tsuchiura, north of Tokyo, Masahiro Kanagawa,
24, told police: "It didn't matter who they were. I planned to kill
seven or eight people."

Four days earlier, Kanagawa had allegedly knifed to death Yoshikazu
Miura, 72, and was being hunted by police.

Kanagawa did not know his victims and it is the indiscriminate nature of
the attacks that has caused consternation and confusion in a society
that still prides itself on being one of the safest in the world.

Police believe Kanagawa acted out of a sense of isolation and reportedly
rarely left his home, where he constantly played computer games after
leaving his part-time job in a local convenience store in January. He
told authorities he had planned to kill his younger sister because she
often argued with their mother, but had been unable to find her.

He added that the family never ate together, he did not know their
mobile phone numbers and none of them had talked to him recently.

"There has been a clear increase in the number of cases like this in the
last few years, but also in the severity of the attacks and the madness
of the perpetrators," Professor Watanabe said. "I fear it indicates the
depth of the social crisis we face in Japan, the breakdown in human
communications and the destruction of the family and local community."

[slavkod]

Nasilje je,naročito ničim izazvano,stvar prema kojoj ova civilazacija nema nikakav odbrambeni mehanizam.Ne treba ići daleko u neki super razvijeni(dehumanizovani)svet Japana,Sjedinjenih država ili Australije,setimo se dečaka bačenog s mosta kod nas ili drugih primera.U mom neposrednom komšiluku se nalazi nekoliko škola,što osnovnih što srednjih.Količina nasilja medju sasvim malim klincima je vrlo ozbiljna,a sa rašćenjem se srazmerno povećava.
To jeste razlog za strah,tim pre što veliki broj roditelja to kao da ne primećuje.

[zakk]

Ovakvih stvari je bilo i biće. Sad se čini da ih je drastično više nego ranije, ali opet - sad se lakše sazna. Sa interneta, recimo :-/

Nasilje među srednjoškolcima

Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico

Sophie Lancaster killed for being goth

To su, čini se, opšta ludila, koja bi trebalo da smo davno prevazišli...

[zakk]

ali, evo, ne bavi se omladina samo nasiljem:

End of term party becomes village square orgy

By Laura Clout
Last Updated: 1:11am GMT 29/03/2008

A school was forced to help girls get emergency contraception after an end of term party saw under-age pupils having unprotected sex in a village square.

The event is said to have involved "a disturbingly high number of girls" having sex while they were too drunk to know what they were doing, and also left one boy hospitalised.

Witnesses described how "all hell let loose" at the party in a picturesque Lancashire village, and said that two youths tried to break into an ambulance that was called for the collapsed boy.

Alison Hughes, the deputy head of the Queen Elizabeth School in Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, was so concerned that she detailed the "catalogue of disasters" in a two-page letter to parents, warning them about the sexual activity, violent behaviour and alleged drug abuse that took place.

She wrote: "We have had to help a disturbingly high number of girls through the aftermath of having unprotected sex that evening, most of whom have told us they were too drunk to be in control of themselves. The risks are real. Assume the worst."

In the letter, sent out at the end of term on Thursday, Mrs Hughes said that around 70 pupils from the school had attended the event, along with a large number of gatecrashers. She added that the school was dismayed to discover that many of the pupils had been taken to the party by parents who "must have known" their children were carrying alcohol.

Mrs Hughes added: "A lot of the children who came to us needed sexual health care. These are children we have to protect. Thankfully there is a great deal of trust between ourselves and the children so they felt they could talk to us."

Witnesses said that around 200 youths gathered in and around the village hall in Wray, Lancashire, which is a few miles from the school. The event, to celebrate the end of Year 11, had been organised by pupils, although the village hall committee had understood that an adult had taken responsibility for the booking.

Alan Day, the village hall chairman, said: "All hell let loose at this event. The children were drunk to the eyeballs. They were having sex in the village square standing up."

Neil Taplin, the landlord of the nearby George and Dragon pub, said that youths had urinated against his wall and sworn at him when he refused to sell them cigarettes. "They were a law to themselves," he said. "It was upsetting for people in the village. We are all quite close and look out for each other."

A resident involved in the clean-up said that she saw evidence of drug use, blood stains and broken glass and said that a newly fitted sink had been smashed.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/22/norgy122.xml

[Ghoul]

The risks are real. Assume the worst.

   

mada, zaista je zalutalo na ovaj topik: niti je random, niti je violence...

[zakk]

Sve je to za ljude.

[Ghoul]

zajebani trećenci!

When a veteran third-grade teacher at the Center Elementary School in Waycross, Georgia scolded one of her students for standing on a chair, she never thought it would come to this. A group of students in the class decided to retaliate for that scolding and planned an elaborate and vicious attack on her.

The Associated Press reports that the girls and boys, all of whom ranged between 8 and 10 years old and none of whom was known as a troublemaker, hatched a plot to knock the teacher unconscious with a glass paperweight, bind her with handcuffs and electrical tape and then stab her with a broken steak knife. Police Chief Tony Tanner said each of the nine students assumed responsibility for a specific job. For example, one child was to cover the windows so no one could see outside, while another was to clean up after the attack. "We're not sure at this point in the investigation how many of the students actually knew the intent was to hurt the teacher," Tanner explained to AP. "You can't dismiss it. But because they are kids, they may have thought this was like a cartoon--we do whatever and then she stands up and she's OK. That's a hard call."

Fortunately, school officials caught wind of the plot before it happened after a student told a teacher that a girl had brought a weapon--that would be the broken steak knife--to school. Friends and parents told AP that the students who plotted the attack all have learning disabilities, including attention deficit disorder, delayed development and hyperactivity. "We did not hear anybody say they intended to kill her, but could they have accidentally killed her? Absolutely," Tanner told AP. "We feel like if they weren't interrupted, there would have been an attempt. Would they have been successful? We don't know."

So what happened to the kids? Two girls ages 9 and 10, who brought the steak knife and paperweight to school, have been arrested on juvenile charges, and a third arrest of an 8-year-old boy who brought the electrical tape is expected. District Attorney Rick Currie said the girls face charges of conspiracy to commit aggravated assault, and both girls are being charged with taking weapons to school. Other students told Currie that they didn't think the plot was serious or had decided not to participate. The children are too young to be charged as adults and probably too young to even be sentenced to a youth detention center. Still, nine students have been disciplined by the school, including a punishment of long-term suspension. A spokeswoman for the Ware County school system said none of the kids has returned to school since the case came to light. AP notes that school system policy says any student who brings "anything reasonably considered to be a weapon" is to be expelled for at least the remainder of the school year.

Source Netscape

[Son of Man]

Tvrdim dakle tako je...
Prvi put sam dobio poshtene nichim izazvane batine sa 15 godina (beshe to '93 od lokalnih dizelasha), i to je bio onaj fazon : kao znali smo se iz shkole prilazi mi jedan i kao dodji da porazgovaramo, i onda me uvati njih 10 da me umlati,i valjano su me umlatili, al naravno ne dovoljno jer kad te bije njih 10 ne mogu poshteno da te zabodu, ali zato me posle navatala policija zbog uchestvovanja u tuchi   i taj jedan policajac koji me je tukao je bio u vidno alkoholisanom stanju tako da sam stradao samo tako. E od tad im se svetim jer :
Bolje je biti nego biti BIVEN !!!  

[Ghoul]

Bolje je biti nego biti BIVEN !!!  

E, tako se srpski menja glagol 'biti'!
Bijem, dakle postojim!

[Son of Man]

Upravo, a i ono : Tvrdim, dakle TAKO JE BRE !!!  

[zakk]

The Depressive and the Psychopath
At last we know why the Columbine killers did it.
By Dave Cullen
Posted Tuesday, April 20, 2004, at 11:59 AM ET

Five years ago today, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold murdered their classmates and teachers at Columbine High School. Most Americans have reached one of two wrong conclusions about why they did it. The first conclusion is that the pair of supposed "Trench Coat Mafia outcasts" were taking revenge against the bullies who had made school miserable for them. The second conclusion is that the massacre was inexplicable: We can never understand what drove them to such horrific violence.

But the FBI and its team of psychiatrists and psychologists have reached an entirely different conclusion. They believe they know why Harris and Klebold killed, and their explanation is both more reassuring and more troubling than our misguided conclusions. Three months after the massacre, the FBI convened a summit in Leesburg, Va., that included world-renowned mental health experts, including Michigan State University psychiatrist Dr. Frank Ochberg, as well as Supervisory Special Agent Dwayne Fuselier, the FBI's lead Columbine investigator and a clinical psychologist. Fuselier and Ochberg share their conclusions publicly here for the first time.

The first steps to understanding Columbine, they say, are to forget the popular narrative about the jocks, Goths, and Trenchcoat Mafia—click here to read more about Columbine's myths—and to abandon the core idea that Columbine was simply a school shooting. We can't understand why they did it until we understand what they were doing.

School shooters tend to act impulsively and attack the targets of their rage: students and faculty. But Harris and Klebold planned for a year and dreamed much bigger. The school served as means to a grander end, to terrorize the entire nation by attacking a symbol of American life. Their slaughter was aimed at students and teachers, but it was not motivated by resentment of them in particular. Students and teachers were just convenient quarry, what Timothy McVeigh described as "collateral damage."

The killers, in fact, laughed at petty school shooters. They bragged about dwarfing the carnage of the Oklahoma City bombing and originally scheduled their bloody performance for its anniversary. Klebold boasted on video about inflicting "the most deaths in U.S. history." Columbine was intended not primarily as a shooting at all, but as a bombing on a massive scale. If they hadn't been so bad at wiring the timers, the propane bombs they set in the cafeteria would have wiped out 600 people. After those bombs went off, they planned to gun down fleeing survivors. An explosive third act would follow, when their cars, packed with still more bombs, would rip through still more crowds, presumably of survivors, rescue workers, and reporters. The climax would be captured on live television. It wasn't just "fame" they were after—Agent Fuselier bristles at that trivializing term—they were gunning for devastating infamy on the historical scale of an Attila the Hun. Their vision was to create a nightmare so devastating and apocalyptic that the entire world would shudder at their power.

Harris and Klebold would have been dismayed that Columbine was dubbed the "worst school shooting in American history." They set their sights on eclipsing the world's greatest mass murderers, but the media never saw past the choice of venue. The school setting drove analysis in precisely the wrong direction.

Fuselier and Ochberg say that if you want to understand "the killers," quit asking what drove them. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were radically different individuals, with vastly different motives and opposite mental conditions. Klebold is easier to comprehend, a more familiar type. He was hotheaded, but depressive and suicidal. He blamed himself for his problems.

Harris is the challenge. He was sweet-faced and well-spoken. Adults, and even some other kids, described him as "nice." But Harris was cold, calculating, and homicidal. "Klebold was hurting inside while Harris wanted to hurt people," Fuselier says. Harris was not merely a troubled kid, the psychiatrists say, he was a psychopath.

In popular usage, almost any crazy killer is a "psychopath." But in psychiatry, it's a very specific mental condition that rarely involves killing, or even psychosis. "Psychopaths are not disoriented or out of touch with reality, nor do they experience the delusions, hallucinations, or intense subjective distress that characterize most other mental disorders," writes Dr. Robert Hare, in Without Conscience, the seminal book on the condition. (Hare is also one of the psychologists consulted by the FBI about Columbine and by Slate for this story*.) "Unlike psychotic individuals, psychopaths are rational and aware of what they are doing and why. Their behavior is the result of choice, freely exercised." Diagnosing Harris as a psychopath represents neither a legal defense, nor a moral excuse. But it illuminates a great deal about the thought process that drove him to mass murder.

Diagnosing him as a psychopath was not a simple matter. Harris opened his private journal with the sentence, "I hate the f---ing world." And when the media studied Harris, they focused on his hatred—hatred that supposedly led him to revenge. It's easy to get lost in the hate, which screamed out relentlessly from Harris' Web site:

"YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!!? Cuuuuuuuuhntryyyyyyyyyy music!!! . . .

"YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!!? People who say that wrestling is real!! . . .

"YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!!? People who use the same word over and over again! . . . Read a f---in book or two, increase your vo-cab-u-lary f*ck*ng idiots."

"YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!!? STUPID PEOPLE!!! Why must so many people be so stupid!!? . . . YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!!? When people mispronounce words! and they dont even know it to, like acrosT, or eXspreso, pacific (specific), or 2 pAck. learn to speak correctly you morons.

YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!!? STAR WARS FANS!!! GET A FaaaaaaRIGIN LIFE YOU BORING GEEEEEKS!

It rages on for page after page and is repeated in his journal and in the videos he and Klebold made. But Fuselier recognized a far more revealing emotion bursting through, both fueling and overshadowing the hate. What the boy was really expressing was contempt.

He is disgusted with the morons around him. These are not the rantings of an angry young man, picked on by jocks until he's not going to take it anymore. These are the rantings of someone with a messianic-grade superiority complex, out to punish the entire human race for its appalling inferiority. It may look like hate, but "It's more about demeaning other people," says Hare.

A second confirmation of the diagnosis was Harris' perpetual deceitfulness. "I lie a lot," Eric wrote to his journal. "Almost constantly, and to everybody, just to keep my own ass out of the water. Let's see, what are some of the big lies I told? Yeah I stopped smoking. For doing it, not for getting caught. No I haven't been making more bombs. No I wouldn't do that. And countless other ones."

Harris claimed to lie to protect himself, but that appears to be something of a lie as well. He lied for pleasure, Fuselier says. "Duping delight"—psychologist Paul Ekman's term—represents a key characteristic of the psychopathic profile.

Harris married his deceitfulness with a total lack of remorse or empathy—another distinctive quality of the psychopath. Fuselier was finally convinced of his diagnosis when he read Harris' response to being punished after being caught breaking into a van. Klebold and Harris had avoided prosecution for the robbery by participating in a "diversion program" that involved counseling and community service. Both killers feigned regret to obtain an early release, but Harris had relished the opportunity to perform. He wrote an ingratiating letter to his victim offering empathy, rather than just apologies. Fuselier remembers that it was packed with statements like Jeez, I understand now how you feel and I understand what this did to you.

"But he wrote that strictly for effect," Fuselier said. "That was complete manipulation. At almost the exact same time, he wrote down his real feelings in his journal: 'Isn't America supposed to be the land of the free? How come, if I'm free, I can't deprive a stupid f---ing dumbshit from his possessions if he leaves them sitting in the front seat of his f---ing van out in plain sight and in the middle of f---ing nowhere on a Frif---ingday night. NATURAL SELECTION. F---er should be shot.' "

Harris' pattern of grandiosity, glibness, contempt, lack of empathy, and superiority read like the bullet points on Hare's Psychopathy Checklist and convinced Fuselier and the other leading psychiatrists close to the case that Harris was a psychopath.

It begins to explain Harris' unbelievably callous behavior: his ability to shoot his classmates, then stop to taunt them while they writhed in pain, then finish them off. Because psychopaths are guided by such a different thought process than non-psychopathic humans, we tend to find their behavior inexplicable. But they're actually much easier to predict than the rest of us once you understand them. Psychopaths follow much stricter behavior patterns than the rest of us because they are unfettered by conscience, living solely for their own aggrandizement. (The difference is so striking that Fuselier trains hostage negotiators to identify psychopaths during a standoff, and immediately reverse tactics if they think they're facing one. It's like flipping a switch between two alternate brain-mechanisms.)

None of his victims means anything to the psychopath. He recognizes other people only as means to obtain what he desires. Not only does he feel no guilt for destroying their lives, he doesn't grasp what they feel. The truly hard-core psychopath doesn't quite comprehend emotions like love or hate or fear, because he has never experienced them directly.

"Because of their inability to appreciate the feelings of others, some psychopaths are capable of behavior that normal people find not only horrific but baffling," Hare writes. "For example, they can torture and mutilate their victims with about the same sense of concern that we feel when we carve a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner."

The diagnosis transformed their understanding of the partnership. Despite earlier reports about Harris and Klebold being equal partners, the psychiatrists now believe firmly that Harris was the mastermind and driving force. The partnership did enable Harris to stray from typical psychopathic behavior in one way. He restrained himself. Usually psychopathic killers crave the stimulation of violence. That is why they are often serial killers—murdering regularly to feed their addiction. But Harris managed to stay (mostly) out of trouble for the year that he and Klebold planned the attack. Ochberg theorizes that the two killers complemented each other. Cool, calculating Harris calmed down Klebold when he got hot-tempered. At the same time, Klebold's fits of rage served as the stimulation Harris needed.

The psychiatrists can't help speculating what might have happened if Columbine had never happened. Klebold, they agree, would never have pulled off Columbine without Harris. He might have gotten caught for some petty crime, gotten help in the process, and conceivably could have gone on to live a normal life.

Their view of Harris is more reassuring, in a certain way. Harris was not a wayward boy who could have been rescued. Harris, they believe, was irretrievable. He was a brilliant killer without a conscience, searching for the most diabolical scheme imaginable. If he had lived to adulthood and developed his murderous skills for many more years, there is no telling what he could have done. His death at Columbine may have stopped him from doing something even worse.

Correction, April 20, 2004: The article originally identified Dr. Robert Hare as a psychiatrist. He is a psychologist. Return to the corrected sentence.

http://www.slate.com/id/2099203/

[Milosh]

Zanimljiv članak, baš sam se prisetio mog maturskog rada iz psihologije...

[Son of Man]

Ja mislim da skroz kontam ova dva momka iz Columbine akcije, posebno ovog shto je bio na Zoloftu, ono jbga, skapirali su da im je zivot losh a da nisu sad neki umetnici pa da mogu se proslave i onda aj shta raditi ako ne mozesh da postanesh poznat po dobrome a zeljan si slave, pa normalno napravish neshto da postanesh poznat po ZLU, a zlo posebno ovog tipa se uvek dalje chuje. Ova akcija je premashila po meni chak i jednog MekVeja. Ovo ce u buducnosti biti smatrano za jednu vrstu umetnosti, performansa al sa zivim zrtvama i josh decom (dojaja), a oni ce biti rodonachelnici. Isto mislim i za serijske ubice pa i za sve ostale koji ne ubijaju radi profita ili osvete, ljubomore i slichnih poriva. No, videcemo...

[mac]

To je sasvim moguće objašnjenje. Plus to što je jedan bio psihopata a drugi manijak.

[Tex Murphy]

ako postoji nešto što me zaista plaši, to je upravo vrsta nasilja opisana dole:
nasumično, besmisleno, psihopatsko, iracionalno, bezrazložno...

Ne bih da ruiniram topik totalno, pa ću da napravim samo malu digresiju: Koji (kvalitetni) filmovi tretiraju ovakvu vrstu nasilja?

[Ghoul]

angst, henry itd.

[Ghoul]

UHAPŠEN OSUMNJIČEN ZA OBLJUBU NEMOĆNE OSOBE
Majdanpek - Majdanpečka policija je zbog postojanja osnovane sumnje da je 20. januara izvršio obljubu nemoćne osobe, uhapsila maloletnog M.J. i predala ga istražnom sudiji Okružnog suda u Negotinu. Takođe, uhapšeni su P.V. (57) iz Crnajke i M.P. (42) iz Rudne Glave zbog sumnje da su pomagli u izvršenju tog krivičnog dela.

[Truba]

mislim kako nema boljeg filma od Angsta na tu temu

ubistava bez ikakvog smisla i motiva...

[Ghoul]

ovo ste sigurno videli na vestima, ali neka ostane i ovde pomenuto:

Man on 'murder mission' stabs 17 in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- A man police said was on a murder mission plowed into pedestrians with a truck in a crowded Tokyo neighborhood Sunday and then stabbed 17 people in three minutes, killing at least seven in a grisly attack that shocked Japan.
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Rescue workers from the Tokyo Fire Department gather to help the injured in Tokyo's Akihabara district.

The lunchtime assault -- on the seventh anniversary of a mass stabbing in Japan in 2001 -- sent thousands of pedestrians into a panic in Tokyo's crowded Akihabara district, an electronics and video game area wildly popular among the country's cyber-wise youth.

A 25-year-old man, Tomohiro Kato, was arrested with blood on his face. Police said Kato provided no motive for the attack -- other than he wanted to murder strangers.

"The suspect told police that he came to Akihabara to kill people," said Jiro Akaogi, a spokesman for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.

"He said he was tired of life. He said he was sick of everything," Akaogi said.

The violence began when he crashed a rented, two-ton truck into pedestrians. Kato jumped out and began stabbing the people he'd knocked down with the truck, then turned on horrified onlookers, police said.

Police confirmed seven deaths -- six men and one woman -- but they could not say whether the victims had died of injuries from the truck or were stabbed to death. Video Watch report on stabbing spree »

Reports said the attacker grunted and roared as he slashed and stabbed at Sunday shoppers crowding a street lined with huge stores packed with computers and other advanced electronics, and the latest in video and computer games.

"He was screaming as he was stabbing people at random," an unidentified male witness told public broadcaster NHK.

A witness also told NHK the suspect dropped his knife after police threatened to shoot him. Amateur video filmed by mobile phone showed policemen overpowering the bespectacled, bloodied suspect.

The attack paralyzed the district and sent thousands of Sunday shoppers into a panic. Amateur video taken five minutes after the rampage showed shoppers helping victims and a man screaming, "Ambulance, Ambulance!"

At least 17 ambulances rushed to the scene, and rescue workers feverishly tended to victims in the blood-pooled street.

As night fell on Akihabara, several pedestrians stopped by and prayed at the crime scene. A bouquet of flowers, bottles of green tea and incense sticks were placed at the site.
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Once rare, stabbing attacks have become more frequent in Japan in recent years as violent crime has increased.

In March, one person was stabbed to death and at least seven others were hurt by a man who went on a slashing spree with two knives outside a shopping mall in eastern Japan. In one of the worst attacks, a man with a history of mental illness burst into an elementary school in Japan on June 9, 2001, and killed eight children. The killer was executed in 2004.

[Ghoul]

Psycho hammers subway passenger

By DAVID GAMBACORTA
Philadelphia Daily News

gambacd@phillynews.com 215-854-5994
As the SEPTA subway train rocked forward, a thirty-something guy leaned over near the doorway and gently planted a kiss on the little boy at his side.

When the train neared the Fairmount Avenue stop shortly after midnight on Thursday, the man reached out like an adoring parent and directed the 3- or 4-year-old tyke to an open seat.

Then he flew into a monstrous rage.

Without uttering a word, police said, the unidentified man whipped out a double-claw hammer and began bludgeoning a 20-year-old man who was dozing off in his seat.

For five long minutes, SEPTA surveillance cameras captured the deranged attacker - who was still on the loose late last night- digging his hammer into the man's head and neck.

Through it all, disgusted investigators said, at least 10 passengers stood by and did nothing as the random attack moved from the train to the platform, when the hammer-wielding maniac tried to push his victim down onto the train tracks.

When the beating was finished and the suspect fled with the little boy, the victim staggered back onto the train, bloodied, confused and alone, said Detective Kenneth Roach, of Central Detectives.

And even then, no one tried to help him.

"Somebody should have helped this guy," Roach said. "I understand the [other] guy had a hammer, but they outnumbered him at least 10 to one."

Miraculously, the victim took the subway up to Temple University Hospital, received several staples and sutures and was discharged, Roach said.

The motive remains a mystery.

"I'm baffled," Roach said. "He had no reason to do that. It was unprovoked. The victim was just going home from work, minding his own business, listening to his iPod."

Roach said that the victim, whose name was not released, boarded the subway at City Hall.

The attacker - a bearded, stocky, 5-foot-9-inch black man who wore a yellow shirt and black pants - also got on at City Hall, with a youngster who may or may not be his child.

The victim and the hammer-toting psychopath never exchanged a word or a glance, Roach said.

"According to the victim, there was no contact or verbal discussion," he said. "They didn't even notice each other."

The hammer was hidden in a black-and-yellow book bag that the attacker clutched throughout the short subway ride.

The little boy dashed off the train with the other passengers during the brutal beat-down, but was later seen running back on to recover the book bag. The boy and the suspect are seen on camera leaving together.

Roach described the attacker as "very dangerous" and asked anyone who knows him to contact police at 215-686-3093 or -3094. *

[Albedo 0]

YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE!!!? STAR WARS FANS!!! GET A FaaaaaaRIGIN LIFE YOU BORING GEEEEEKS!  


ne bih rekao da je ovo nasilno, ovo bi svako normalan trebao da podržava  

[Ghoul]

Ariz. boy, 8, accused of killing 2, including dad

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – It's a crime that police officers in a small eastern Arizona community can hardly fathom yet have to deal with: an 8-year-old charged in the fatal shootings of his father and another man.

"Who would think an 8-year-old kid could kill two adults?" St. Johns Police Chief Roy Melnick said Friday.

The killings on Wednesday sent shock waves through St. Johns, a community of about 4,000 people. The boy had no disciplinary record at school, and there was no indication he had any problems at home, prosecutors said.

"It was such a tragedy," said the boy's defense attorney, Benjamin Brewer. "You have two people dead; you have an 8-year-old in jail. It tugs at the heart strings. It's a shocker, no doubt about it."

On Friday, a judge determined there was probable cause to show that the boy fatally shot his father, Vincent Romero, 29, and Timothy Romans, 39, of San Carlos, with a .22-caliber rifle. The boy faces two counts of premeditated murder. Under Arizona law, charges can be filed against anyone 8 or older.

Melnick said the boy didn't act on the "spur of the moment," though he didn't elaborate on what the motive might have been.

Melnick said officers arrived at Romero's home within minutes of the shooting Wednesday. They found one victim just outside the front door and the other dead in an upstairs room.

Romans had been renting a room at the Romero house, prosecutors said. Both men were employees of a construction company working at a Salt River Project power plant near St. Johns, which is about 170 miles northeast of Phoenix.

The boy went to a neighbor's house and said he "believed that his father was dead," said Apache County attorney Brad Carlyon.

Melnick said police obtained a confession from the boy, but Brewer said police overreached in questioning the boy without representation from a parent or attorney and did not advise him of his rights.

"They became very accusing early on in the interview," Brewer said. "Two officers with guns at their side, it's very scary for anybody, for sure an 8-year-old kid."

A judge ordered a psychological evaluation of the boy, who was being held at the Apache County juvenile detention center.

Prosecutors aren't sure where the case is headed, Carlyon said.

"There's a ton of factors to be considered and weighed, including the juvenile's age," he said. "The counter balance against that, the acts that he apparently committed."

Carlyon said the boy had no record of complaints with Arizona Child Protective Services.

"He had no record of any kind, not even a disciplinary record at school," he said. "He has never been in trouble before."

City Manager Greg Martin said the community was "saddened" and "shocked."

"Not something that happens very often and hopefully never happens again," he said. "It's been on their minds every since it happened."

FBI statistics show instances of children younger than 11 committing homicides are very rare. According to recent FBI supplementary homicide reports, there were at least three such cases each year in 2003, 2004 and 2005; there were at least 15 in 2002. More recent statistics weren't available, nor were details of the cases.

Earlier this year in Arizona, prosecutors in Cochise County filed first-degree murder charges against a 12-year-old boy accused of killing his mother.

Defense attorney Mike Piccarreta, who is not involved in the latest case, said each case has to be considered on its own merits, but it would be hard for him to comprehend that an 8-year-old has the mental capacity to understand the act of murder and its implications.

"If they actually prosecute the guy, it's a legal minefield," he said. "And, two, society has to make a decision as to whether they want to start using the criminal justice system to deal with 8-year-olds. That doesn't mean you don't have a troubled kid."

Wednesday's homicides were the first in at least four years in the community, where most people know one another, Melnick said. No one else had been killed there since 20 years ago, he said.

Romero had full custody of the child. The boy's biological mother visited St. Johns during the weekend from Mississippi, and returned to Arizona after the shootings, Carlyon said.

Brewer said the boy "seems to be in good spirits.

"He's scared," he said. "He's trying to be tough, but he's scared."