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  1. I am not sure what his “plan” was. No clue what he did between noon and 5:00 pm. But I mean we are dealing with someone who is seriously disturbed/ill. So maybe he didn’t have a plan. I know he had a sister that he was abusive to/along with his parents and I am sure if he could have Tuesday he would have gone after her as well. Has he been charged with all 6 murders yet? Or just two in Austin and two in San Antonio. I know SA would really like to try him first. I’ve read several articles about how “brutal/grisly” the crime scene was and “no one should ever die like that” comments from law enforcement regarding the murder of his parents. And I understand why San Antonio would like to try him first even though Austin has him. Their expectation is that he never be let out again. Reading in between the lines and from a few comments on “X” or whatever that the way he killed his parents was highly disturbing. So I am guessing it was more than just shooting them.
  2. More on the misdemeanor incident involving his family: Law enforcement officials this week described the incident, which resulted in James being arrested on three charges of misdemeanor family violence, as James scratching and striking his parents and his sibling. James shoved his father several times and scratched his neck, and his mother fell and hit her head after James pushed her husband into her, a BCSO incident report shows. She had a “quarter size knot” on the back of her head, the report shows. James pushed his sibling twice, causing her to fall and injure her shoulder, according to the report. All three family members told deputies they wanted to press charges against James, the report states. James was first ordered not to have contact with the three people, charging paperwork obtained by KSAT Investigates shows. The order, however, was amended three weeks later to state that he was to have no harmful or injurious contact with them, the records show. ———————- cops were called to his parents’ house 14 times after Shane moved in with them in 2016. The last known incident was 4 months ago in August when he had an episode and his parents called the police and he barricaded himself in his room. No idea what his diagnosis was or what he was supposed to have been taking. I do know this shows me at least that family/caregivers cannot “handle” this on their own if a person isn’t on a regimen not taking their meds. I saw the story about that ND senator’s son today. He has some mental illness with delusions and his brother had passed away in 2018 and he starts saying he wants to go see his dead brother. Mom panics and drives him to the hospital but somehow he gets control of the car and goes on a high speed chase that resulted in an officer’s death. Cramer is the last name of the senator. Their son had been dealing with this a long time. The other brother died from alcoholism. Anyway, another story yet again that shows you can’t just handle or reason with someone when they are having an episode. The episodes themselves should lead to some type of care over a period of days to get a diagnosis and a regimen that is then closely monitored and supervised. It sucks. I don’t want to CR this up by mentioning the senator or his politics. Just an example again of parents thinking they can handle this shit at home and now their son has basically killed a cop.
  3. Why is New England even trying? They have to draft a QB in addition to many weapons. I don’t think KP is the one for Pittsburgh but they may have to go HC shopping? I hate saying that because their HC is awesome at the podium and needs to be an analyst on tv. They will probably win this game. And should. Bill really needs to hang it up but I truly think on some level this was a tank job all along. I know he sucks without Brady but finding a guy like him that was willing to take all the heat and also lead and follow the Patriot way and be awesome also isn’t exactly easy to find. Brady kept the team believing in the “way” kept them in line. He took all the heat from Bill. Bill inspires like no ones
  4. Victims found shot dead in house near Circle C identified: Catherine Short, 56, and Lauren Short, 30, were allegedly shot and killed by suspect Shane James, 34, during a home burglary at around 6:48 p.m. in the 5300 block of Austral Loop in Southwest Austin. Mother and daughter.
  5. The movie FlashDance was set and mostly filmed in Pittsburgh. That’s all I got. This game is shittay.
  6. It will be aggy soon if they keep losing any more players to the portal. 👍🏻
  7. We can start afresh but we have to actually CARE. Both sides use this issue and the homelessness issue like a political football. one side: Hey let’s ring the dinner bell and bring all the homeless here without an infrastructure to support them. Great idea. Once enough people see their plight we’ll get funding for our “infrastructure” and convert hotels into homes and all that. Other side is basically like fuck’em. They are crazy and lock up indefinitely. So now we have crazy people shitting on the sidewalk not living their best lives without dignity shooting up and causing harm to themselves and others. And once they got here we don’t have the infrastructure and instead of people seeing the plight and feeling sympathy they saw the destruction and crazy and the harm to businesses and humans and avoided downtown and pretty much voted to have all their camps moved out. Basically, a better solution would be education. Talk to cities that have made this work. Ignore the cities with rampant problems and do the opposite. Recognize what works and do that. You have so many different groups within the homeless community. A lot of vets and they are the hardest to reach and often do not ask for help. Then you have mentally ill and drug abusers (could also be vets) and then you have housing challenged folks and finally a bunch of fucktards. If we already had a place to put these folks that need assistance and aren’t here to experience the “life” and set up programs for them, mental health, drug addiction and so forth and set them up in a program designed to help them prosper… ah fuck it what am I talking about? It will never happen because common sense is basically gone. Or at least we don’t use it to solve societal problems. Having some experience working with the homeless I can say quite honestly that there are very successful programs and they are working in other places and can work here. One thing you can’t do however is continue to allow these communities to grow and do nothing. Because what we are doing now is not dignified. It sucks. Same with the mental health issue. Sometimes when all avenues have been exhausted the correct and difficult call may be institutionalization. But that’s on a case by case basis where everything else has not worked and the person is incapable of caring for themselves and may be a threat to others. sighs smdh.
  8. Still have not identified the victims at Circle C. Also they responded to concerns about the public not receiving an alert (essentially didn’t believe Shadylane and officer shot at HS were related): Because this was not an active shooting event, we did not utilize the TX HB 103. This was a series of events which took place in several different locations across the city with various or unknown motives and no specific commonality. It is not common practice for APD, or any other law enforcement agency, to issue any sort of alert for every shooting that happens in their jurisdiction with an unidentified shooter
  9. Thanks for sharing that. This quote is where I am at essentially (from the article you posted): In Orange County, officials running these courts must achieve a delicate balance: To convince people to accept care without coercion, particularly when their illness causes them to believe they are not ill. "We don't want to punish people," said Maria Hernandez, the presiding judge for Orange County Superior Court. "We want them to maintain their dignity." ______ Thats what we should all want for all of these people. The right diagnosis and treatment plan and some type of monitoring and supervision that is no more invasive than someone with a physical ailment like say diabetes has to monitor their blood sugar every single damn day. So some type of supervision. My former friend believes she is not ill. She drinks and does all sorts of other meds in addition to her prescribed medication for her verified bipolar disorder. She lives in the basement of her own house and barely interacts with her husband. But you cannot get her help. She’s fought everyone who has tried and from what I understand has been saying all manner of disturbing shit to the friends she does still have. It breaks my heart but I couldn’t enable that anymore. She lives out of state and would call thousands of times a week at bizarre hours with bizarre shit. I just couldn’t enable it after 15 years of it. No more. ——- anyway we better look at what California is doing and try as a country to implement it and as soon as possible. The rhetoric towards mental illness and those who suffer from it is taking hit after hit with these weekly incidents and the tide is turning. Which is depressing. But I also understand how mentally exhausting it is for the friends and loved ones of the mentally ill. It’s a constant battle and they have very little support.
  10. And yet somehow that fear of the slope has created a lot of nonsense. And we are slipping off it because of “hypotheticals” instead of dealing with what actually is happening with a common sense approach. No we are worried about some future hypothetical. Totally agree. I am a law school grad but don’t practice. I’m just a lawyer of neighborhood. But I swear if I heard slippery slope or “widget” one more time…lol
  11. Yeah . And I know @Deejwas kinda joking when he posted about those two victims perhaps getting caught in the crossfire. We know Shane shot an officer multiple times and that officer and possibly others returned fire and obviously missed. So much lacking in this portion of the story. I get not releasing names until proper notifications had been made. But after murdering his parents in their home he was mainly shooting people on the street or outside. It’s odd he would enter a home and murder two people. I figure he needed a car but the articles said after he returned fire and shot the officer he fled in a car and while that chase was going on the officers entered the home (the backyard he was found in after a burglary call$ and found two victims deceased. Several articles said woman and daughter. Just a whole lot of nothing on this part of the story. Not saying the were caught in the crossfire or not but not a lot of details either way. On much of this. And yes I know they may have to go to trial and all that. So much we won’t get to know.
  12. We are weird and we do have freedoms to an extent. If my mom doesn’t take her high blood pressure medication she will die. If Shane doesn’t take his meds well we saw what happened there. 6 people dead. Countless lives affected. I agree on the gun issue. With what people are saying. I am also saying Shane on his meds with proper supervision isn’t living with his parents at 34, unable to hold down a job, have a life and go do things we often take for granted. Shane off his meds now will never have a life. If we got a proper diagnosis for these people and put them under supervision they can have fairly good lives. Which is what all of us should want. That person doesn’t slaughter his parents and drive to Austin for some unknown reason with a gun(s) and slaughter more people. That person probably is living the best life he can. Probably? Or at least 6 people aren’t dead at any rate. And yes I realize they are dead because they were shot. He shot them because in his infinite wisdom stopped taking his medication. And because he access to guns which he never should have had access to use. That medication was actually better for him than not taking it. He had no life when he wasn’t taking the medication and he has no life now. And 6 people are dead. So he could have choices. That’s like asking a five year old what they’d like for dinner every night and letting them choose. Mentally ill people aren’t second class citizens. They have an illness that can only be treated with proper diagnosis, therapy and the proper dosage of medication if warranted. They can’t live their best lives without it. They can’t just magically get better without it. They aren’t going through a phase. It is something like high blood pressure that needs to be monitored. If that’s a loss of their freedom I guess we all have different definitions. Freedom to me means living the best life you can and if you need some help to do that it should be accepted as a normal thing like taking your high blood pressure medication. Without it your quality of life is absolute shit.
  13. Not yet. For a couple of hours I was pretty worried because my best friend’s mother lives very near there. My friend recently lost her father and she has been going down to her moms house and staying with her a lot (she can work from home) because of that. Her mom is understandably grieving the loss of her husband. At any rate, been texting my friend and didn’t hear back for a few hours after it was revealed yesterday that the two people found in the house at Circle C were a mother and a daughter. At least she texted me back last night. She works late and is on call so I often don’t hear from her during the week. But for a bit there I was like oh shit. I understand from what she texted it was absolutely crazy there Tuesday night. Anyway, it was a mother and daughter but no names or ages have been reported. I’ve heard some rumors but looking less and less like the main one is true. I’ve also heard that the way Shane chose to murder his parents and then move the bodies is being described as very disturbing (sick af basically.) I do understand that murder in and of itself is sick af. Just that when the reports came out of a “grisly” crime scene they weren’t exaggerating
  14. “When asked why James Jr. wasn’t rehabilitated for his mental health issues, Gonzales said, “We hope that people can be rehabilitated, but you have to get to court.” Salazar added that James Jr. was discharged from the military for a domestic violence issue and that he had not been taking medication for his mental health issues lately. https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2023/12/06/what-we-know-about-a-series-of-attacks-that-left-2-dead-in-ne-bexar-county-4-others-dead-in-austin/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=snd&utm_content=ksat12 I would never want anyone to live out their lives in a mental institution. Unfortunately, some people will not ever be able to function without some type of supervision/medication/therapy for the rest of their lives. That’s just the truth of it. People don’t want to accept that. They don’t have to be in a place for the rest of their lives but just like people with high blood pressure or other ailments they have to take their medication to have the kind of life that we would all like for them to have. In short, Shane’s life is important (though now his life will never be as a free person) but his life and right to live free is far less important in my mind than the lives of the 6 people he murdered to have a life at all. For a 12 month old to have her mother. For three children to have their father. For Shane’s sibling to have his/her parents. For the two people shot near Circle C to be alive. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have done and made appropriate measures to make sure Shane had a functional life and he should have been supervised. We see what he did without his medication. Incidents swarm escalate and he brutally murdered the only two people probably in this world that loved and cared for him. I am not at all saying that we throw someone like Shane have as normal a life as possible. But more resources should also have gone into keeping those 6 people from losing their lives. If it meant saving 6 lives and the only choice would be keeping someone like Shane under constant supervision and drug testing for the rest of his life to make sure he was taking his medication I’d make that choice every time. Shane couldn’t and will never be able to function without his medication and therapy and other things. He also may have been able to hold down a job and have a life of his own and possibly a family if he’d been MADE to take medication for his own good. It’s not as difficult a choice when you realize that without his meds his life and the lives of innocent people were at risk. He was never going to be “whole” or a have a life without them. I don’t see why people cannot accept this and demand that we do more to help people like Shane have as good a life as possible before another Shane goes on a rampage. And his life is effectively over now and I doubt he is really even all that cognizant of what he did and why he did it. And a 12 month old will live the rest of her life without her mother wondering why we didn’t stop Shane. Sad shit. And it’s difficult but not as difficult as looking into the eyes of the family members of victims and seeing how broken they are and seeing how we’ve robbed them of their lives too.
  15. We do this a lot. Throw the baby out with the bath water. We continually worry about the “slippery slope” something I have heard my whole GD life instead of taking a common sense approach to an issue. we would rather have a couple of crazies slip through the cracks I guess and kill a bunch of people for the greater good. Instead of you know looking at these people on a case by case basis and not just bailing groups of people out without rhyme nor reason. We don’t want to go back to the way things were where the ACLU stepped in to keep people from being committed indefinitely to mental institutions and put away for the wrong reasons and losing their freedom. We also do not want people in obvious distress and potentially a danger to others to just wing it on their own without proper supervision. I read an article last night that spoke to this. There should be check ins and supervision for some types of people when they have psychotic breaks. Instead we are all grappling with why are all these innocent people now dead. Wondering why something was not done. Things can be done if we can realize that there are some people who cannot be “fixed” without proper supervision (think of it like a parolee checking in with their parole officer.) We should be following a strict plan authored by mental health professionals and a community of therapists, psychiatrists and psychologists. The idea is we should try to help these people be able to function as well as they can so they too can have as normal a life as possible. Instead we have allowed these people to be free range along with their family members and to have access to weapons and we use the police (going from one call to another) as some kind of stop gap for them. Bad solution. I honestly blame lawyers. So worried about the slippery slope we are all sliding right off the damn mountain. Truth. Non violent offenders shouldn’t be incarcerated with violent offenders and most of the nonviolent crimes can be dealt with without jail time. Or ruining one’s record and future chances for a career. Truly violent fucking people shouldn’t be just given bail. If necessary and they are bailed out put them in a halfway house under supervision depending on how violent the crime was and the offender’s history. You have to look at the offender, their history and the offense. We don’t do this. But because we have thrown people in jail disproportionately according to race and for way more than the crime we have groups bailing people out in groups thinking they are doing a great service. And as per usual people slip through the cracks. History is littered with this shit. Guys getting out and committing even worse atrocities and we are sitting ducks. I see stories every day on this. Shit the movie Halloween (with Michael Myers) specifically addresses the rehabilitation program that was popular in California where they let out people like the Dating Game Killer and shit like that. Who then went on to murder many more women. The system is not broken but it is seriously flawed. We don’t take into account the correct factors. These decisions should be made on a case by case basis. We should devote more resources and help towards mental health and education as well as prison reform. We think we are doing right by everyone. We aren’t. Tuesday was a perfect example about this. Or the police officer last year that shot his daughter he’d been molesting for years when he was out on bail. At some point people cannot be fixed and should not be allowed to ruin the lives of innocent people. I’m am sorry they cannot be all fixed and to live productive lives. But you know what? I am even sorrier for their victims whose lives were cut short because we were too paralyzed to make tough decisions when they are warranted. TLDR: I totally understand. I probably won’t read it either. We need a common sense approach instead of being so paralyzed by the slippery slope we do nothing. Because what we are doing ain’t working.
  16. She will never admit it. She was jealous of him. Seemed like he was all the things she was not and could never be. I bet for him growing up with her was an experience. I watched a special where they interviewed her students and they mentioned she’d always bring up that she was “Harvard educated.” Then pretending she was in a fog afterwords. Pretty much the same shit she did after shooting her brother. I bet all he wanted was to escape from her—that house—but you know not that way obviously. Yet another person with shitty problem solving skills.
  17. I remember Amy Bishop not getting tenure and shooting people.
  18. Man that breaks my heart. Still not in a position to adopt. Wishing I was. Damn thanks though and will mention to anyone I know looking.
  19. That’s what I was thinking after reading the AAS article. That the first two Austin homicide victims one was getting into his car. Perhaps he stole that car and drove around or did whatever for a few hours and needed another one. I assume he used his parents car to get to Austin (not sure if he had his own car.)
  20. Then you hear robbery/burglary/backyard in relation to the final murders and shootout with police and some have postulated he stole the car he fled in on the brief high speed chase from the last victims. No clue. They’ve not been great with information sharing. I’m sure because he is alive and will be prosecuted there is a lot more they can’t share. And are likely still putting together. And retracing his movements from San Antonio as best they can.
  21. Thanks for providing that history and the reasons this is more difficult to solve than the gun issue. It’s very complex. Have been wanting to post something similar for a long time just couldn’t put it together as succinctly as you did. it’s depressing. And it’s not as simple as just more healthcare and access and resources and education—-though we don’t do enough in any of those areas. Simply put we probably all know families dealing with someone with mental health struggles. And how damned difficult it is to deal with and to solve. But we have to get help for those in the midst of a psychotic episode and at least try to diagnose them so they can be put on a regimen of meds and therapy. The trickery part is when they stop taking their meds. It’s just depressing.ugggh
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