Who Is James T. Hodgkinson? (Scalise's shooter)

[NUance]

Who Is James T. Hodgkinson?

By KRISHNADEV CALAMUR 11:57 AM ET The Atlantic

 

The FBI identified the gunman who opened fire this morning during a congressional congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia, as James T. Hodgkinson, 66, of Belleville, Illinois. The bureau said Hodgkinson was taken to the hospital, where he died.

 

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A Facebook page belonging to a person with that name from the Belleville area contains several posts critical of President Trump. (There is no confirmation that it belongs to the alleged suspect.) In one, Trump is described as a “traitor” who “has destroyed our democracy.” The Facebook account’s banner has an image of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who ran against Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential primary. His profile picture has the U.S. flag with the words: “Democratic Socialism explained in 3 words: We the People.

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Politically vocal. But a quiet, hardworking, friendly sort. There are a LOT of people who fit this description. But then Mr. Hodgkinson took it to a tragic next level today, becoming a domestic terrorist.

 

I can understand why people are critical of Trump. I just can't understand the extreme malevolence that would drive someone to become a murderer. Apparently he was trying to become a mass murderer. :

[BigRedBuster]

 

BELLEVILLE, Ill. — Signs of a deeply disturbed family life kept surfacing from the well-kept house with the pale sun awning and the pretty flowerpots off a gravel road here.

One of James T. Hodgkinson’s foster daughters killed herself in a gruesome fashion: by dousing herself with gasoline and setting herself on fire. Another described herself as “more of a hindrance than a daughter.” And when Mr. Hodgkinson dragged his grandniece by her hair and tried to choke her, the police were called in, and he was charged with battery. In previously sealed court papers obtained by the local newspaper, she described him as an abusive alcoholic who hit her repeatedly.

 

[zoogs]

Oh my god.

[NUance]

Wow. What a total POS that guys is, or rather, was. It sounds like no one will miss him, not even his family.

[NUance]

After one of the couple’s foster daughters, Wanda Ashley Stock, set herself on fire in 1996, the couple told the local newspaper, The Belleville News-Democrat, that they did not know what had prompted a “very practical, levelheaded girl” to take her own life. The newspaper went on to say that the couple later discovered that the young woman had previously attempted suicide, and that hours before she killed herself, her boyfriend had broken up with her.

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That's from the NY Time article about Hodgkinsons--the source of the Tweet. It sounds like the self-immolation suicide wasn't really his fault. But he sounds like a hot headed POS from other activity described in the article.

[knapplc]

Sounds like, even if that suicide wasn't his fault, he contributed to an atmosphere of chaos in that household. This guy was a fuse looking for a match.

[teachercd]

This idiot should have been killed years ago.