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demmiblue

(36,865 posts)
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 12:42 PM Jan 2019

All 5 of the Sebring shooter's victims were women, police chief says

Armed with a gun, Zephen Xaver, 21, walked into SunTrust Bank in Sebring, Florida, on Wednesday afternoon, took four employees and one customer hostage, and shot them dead. They were all women.

Then, Xaver called the police to tell them what he’d done.

While police made their way to the bank, just off a highway along Lake Jackson, dispatchers tried to keep Xaver on the phone. When SWAT got there, Xaver refused to allow them access to the victims.

When the police chief finally gave SWAT permission to break the bank’s windows and enter the building, Xaver surrendered and was taken into custody. By then, all five women had succumbed to their injuries and were pronounced dead at the scene.

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All 5 of the Sebring shooter's victims were women, police chief says (Original Post) demmiblue Jan 2019 OP
#I keep saying #neveragain. Someday--maybe. maybe riversedge Jan 2019 #1
got home at 6pm PST lapfog_1 Jan 2019 #2
another incel asshole? nt Javaman Jan 2019 #3
Very possibly. MineralMan Jan 2019 #6
This is the shooter vlyons Jan 2019 #4
Putrid little pudknocker... Aristus Jan 2019 #5
He looks oddly like the Aurora movie theater shooter. Shell_Seas Jan 2019 #7
I wouldn't say his looks have anything to do with his mind being warped by right wing nutjobs flygal Jan 2019 #8
I stated in my post vlyons Jan 2019 #9
color me shocked: Blue_Tires Jan 2019 #11
!st rule of policing- always take the white killers alive. TeamPooka Jan 2019 #10
He called 911 himself. Tipperary Jan 2019 #12

lapfog_1

(29,213 posts)
2. got home at 6pm PST
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 12:47 PM
Jan 2019

and turned on MSNBC... woke up this morning to watch more news... this barely got a mention

MineralMan

(146,318 posts)
6. Very possibly.
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 01:10 PM
Jan 2019

Perhaps we'll learn more over time, but the mug shot sort of supports that assessment, I think.

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
4. This is the shooter
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 12:58 PM
Jan 2019

Look at that face. What do you see? This guy is 21. I see a guy, who couldn't get a date to the prom. A sullen guy, who probably watched porno all day and felt resentful that he couldn't get a GF. A guy, who was never sweet and nice to girls, because it never occurred to him to just be a good person. A guy drowning in self-loathing. And now, he is a murderer. He has destroyed 5 families. And for what. I know that I am projecting. When and how did a little boy get so twisted and move to the dark side. And don't blame it on porno. I watch porno, and I've never ever wanted to shoot people in a bank, or anywhere else for that matter.

I feel so sorry for those murdered people, their families, their friends. And I feel sorry for the shooter too. He's ruined his life. In Florida, he will probably be executed. I just don't understand. I think I'll just cry now.

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flygal

(3,231 posts)
8. I wouldn't say his looks have anything to do with his mind being warped by right wing nutjobs
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 02:06 PM
Jan 2019

According to the Vice article, he was into Alex Jones and Milo Y whatever his name is...



Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
11. color me shocked:
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 08:28 PM
Jan 2019

Gerlach told the Associated Press that Xaver “always hated people and wanted everybody to die.” She also told the Post the two met at a psychiatric hospital in 2013.

“Since the time we met, he had this fascination with death,” Gerlach told the Post. “It got worse as we broke up. We got back together on and off for a while. Then I decided it was too much for my mental health.” She also said he aspired to join the military, because he wanted to kill people.

Two Facebook accounts linked to Xaver (which have since been taken offline) were littered with dark imagery, like pictures of the Grim Reaper. His interests include “Alex Jones memes” and “Milo Yiannopoulos,” whose book he gave a five-star rating.

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