Daily Commentary - Friday, November 6th, 2009 - Man Shows Up to His Own Funeral

A case of mistaken identity in Brazil lead to a man arriving just in time to watch his own funeral.

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Major Malik Nadal Hasan Kills 12 Soldiers and Wounds 31 at Ft Hood, TX Murder Shooring Spree

Tragic News Out of Fort Hood, TX … Mass Murder at Fort Hood

Twelve people have been killed and 30 wounded at Ft Hood in Texas in a heinous and murderous shooting spree. The gunman has been identified as an Army psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan who was supposed to be deployed to Iraq later this month. According to reports, Hasan feared an impending war deployment is in custody as the sole suspect in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood.

Our sympathies and prayers go out to the brave fallen soldiers and their families.

Malik Nadal Hasan

So does this mass murder rise to the level of a hate crime? Or is it an act of terror?

Hasan was initially reported as killed in the following gun battle; however, according to later reports, the Fort Hood shooter is not dead. Hasan survived his wound and is not in danger of dying.

The shooter was initially reported to have been killed, but Lt. Gen. Robert W. Cone told a late night news conference that the suspect was wounded and in custody. Cone would not say what Hasan’s medical condition was, but said the suspect was not in danger of dying.

Hasan is not talking to authorities, said Cone.

Two other soldiers were taken into custody, but were later released.

Fort Hood Presser

Deaths are a result of a single gunman, even though initially two other officers were taken into custody. They were later released. Malik Nadal Hasan is a 39 year old graduate of Virginia Tech and a psychiatrist licensed in Virginia who was practicing at Darnall Army Medical Center at Fort Hood. He had previously worked at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. It would appear that Hasan received a poor performance evaluation while at Walter Reed, SHOCKER!

Many updates at The Jawa Report, Hot Air and Patterico Pontification.

Statement from Hasan’s family:

“Our family loves America. We are proud of our country, and saddened by today’s tragedy,” the statement said. “Because this situation is still unfolding, we have nothing else that we are able to share with you at this time.”

Interview with co-worker Terri Lee of Hasan from Fox News via Macsmind. This individual worked with Hasan at the psych ward at Fort Hood. Hasan had made outlandish comments in the past condemning and critical our foreign policy. It cannot be lost on the fact that this killer was a Muslim and had made comments like according to this individual, “maybe Muslims should stand up and fight against the aggressor.” Hasan was referring to Muslims standing up to Americans as he believed that American should not be in Iraq or Afghanistan.

One thing is for certain, there are 12 people dead and over 30 injured. Families, friends, wives, husbands and children are suffering tragic losses tonight. This is believed to be the worst attack ever at a U.S. base, said the commanding general of Fort Hood, Lt. Gen. Robert Cone. This is no time for the press, military or our political leaders to get PC on this heinous mass murder. Call it for what it was … a terror act.

15 Year Old Juvenile Charged with First Degree Murder of 9 Year Old Elizabeth Olten

A 15 year old has been charged with first degree murder in the death of 9 year old Elizabeth Olten. The name and gender of the individual charged has been withheld; however, it has been confirmed that the person is not related to Elizabeth Olten, but is an acquaintance. Elizabeth Olten went missing on October 21, 2009 while reportedly walking home from a friends house. Her body was found in a wooded area two days later.

According to Missouri law, children as young as 12 can be tried as adults for first degree murder; however, the process must first begin in the juvenile courts.

For more details go to MissingExploited.com and for updates and to provide your opinions go to Scared Monkeys.net: Missing Persons: Elizabeth Olten.

Arrest Made in Connection with UCONN Football Player Jasper Howard (Johnny Hood Arrested, Second Arrest To Come)

Arrest in connection with stabbing death at the University of Connecticut.

There has been an arrest connected with the senseless murder of UCONN football player Jasper Howard. According to reports, 21 year old Johnny Hood from Hartford, Ct was arrested in connection with the stabbing death of Jasper Howard. Hood is being held on $100K bond and charged with interfering with an officer and breach of peace. He has not been charged in the killing.

Johnny Hood was identified by witnesses as being involved in the fight that occurred Sunday night at UCONN following a school sponsored dance at the student union at approximately 12:30 am. Hood is reported by police to have provided a fake name. However, according to the report incident, Hood was identified as being involved in the attack by the second football player, Brian Parker, who was injured and name was previously unknown.

Brian Parker, a 19-year-old sophomore wide receiver from Sarasota, Fla., suffered small injuries during the melee, The Associated Press reported.

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UCONN Football Player Jasper Howard Stabbed & Killed in On campus Attack

Shocking news from Storrs, Ct and the University of Connecticut … UConn football player stabbed and dies in on campus attack.

It was just Saturday afternoon that 20 year old Jasper Howard was playing for the UCONN football Huskies in a win over Louisville. Today, he is dead. Twenty year old Jasper Howard of Miami, a junior and starting cornerback, was stabbed during a fight early Sunday

20 year old UConn student Jasper Howard

Last night, the Miami native was in an altercation and the stabbing happened when a school sponsored dance at the student union was let out. According to police, a fire alarm was pulled at 12:26 a.m. The stabbing happened just after 12:30 a.m. Sunday on Hillside Road near the center of campus. Two people were stabbed in the attack and rushed to Windham Community Memorial Hospital. The other individual, whose name has not been released, who was stabbed was treated and released.

State Police major crime unit and UConn police say the stabbing happened just after 12:30 a.m. Sunday on Hillside Road near the center of campus. Police said two people were stabbed and were found near each other on Hillside Road. Both were taken by UConn ambulances to Windham Community Memorial Hospital.

Howard was airlifted by LifeStar to St. Francis where he died. Police also said there was a second victim who is not being identified and was treated and released from the hospital, but it does not name which hospital or say if the second victim was male or female.

Police said the stabbing happened when a school-sponsored dance at the student union was let out. A fire alarm was pulled at 12:26 a.m., an altercation happened outside the building between two groups of people and then two people were stabbed.

The perpetrator of the stabbing is still at large.

Anyone with information on what happened is asked to call UConn police at 860-486-4800. The state police major crimes squad is assisting with the investigation.

UPDATE I: UConn mourns stabbing death of football player

This story just got worse, if possible. 20 year old Jasper Howard was an expectant father, was the first person in his family to go to college and came to the University of Connecticut to get away from the violence on the streets of his hometown.

How sad, tragic and ironic that his life would end in this manner at a place that was supposed to be a sanctuary. It is just the ultimate tragedy that a sports scholarship which would provide chances not otherwise afforded to Jasper Howard would put him in such a position that would end his life. From all accounts Howard was a great kid with character.

Sunday, as he rattled off memories of Howard, Cubit recalled sitting on the front porch of Howard’s home in Miami and wondering about the circumstances of his upbringing.

“The kid got a chance in life because he was getting a college football scholarship,” Cubit said. “It gave him an opportunity to grow more. And so I feel for Randy (Edsall) because you become like a dad for these kids. They get to campus, and they look to you for direction.”

According to UConn Police Major Ronald Blicher, it is the first homicide at the university in the over 30 years associated with the school.

Edsall said Howard’s death was especially tragic, because he was about to become a father. No additional information about the expectant mother, who Edsall identified as Howard’s girlfriend, was provided by police or the university.

The coach gathered his team at its training facility at 6 a.m. to deliver the news.

UPDATE II: UCONN Mourns Jasper Howard (VIDEO)

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Jessica Lunsford’s Killer, John Evander Couey, Dies in Prison … Good Riddance … Predator Off to Hell

Good riddance to bad rubbish!

51 year old John Evander Couey, the man who kidnapped, raped and murdered Jessica Lunsford is dead. Couey was pronounced dead at 11:15 a.m. Wednesday at Jacksonville Memorial Hospital. It couldn’t have happened to a more appropriate predator.

Couey, you are looking in the wrong direction … you will be residing in Hell

John Evander Couey, 51, had been ill for some time and died in a Jacksonville hospital where he had been since Aug. 12, said Department of Corrections spokeswoman Gretl Plessinger.

John Evander Couey may have cheated the state executioner; however, as Jessica’s grandmother, Ruth Lunsford said … “God took control of it. He took him out of this world.” We can only say good riddance and have a nice time in the 7th level of hell Couey. For what this sexual predator did to Jessica Lunsford and never showed remorse, have a great time with eternal damnation in hell. And Couey thought what he did was heinous. There is one saving grace in the fact that Couey is dead and that is the Lunsford family never has to deal with ridiculous appeals from Couey.

Although no details were released from the hospital due to privacy reasons, it has been reported that Couey had been diagnoses with cancer and had been in serious condition.

Comments from Ruth Lunsford, 77, Jessica’s paternal grandmother:

“Thank you, Lord,” “I wanted to live long enough to see him die,” she said at her West Snowbird Court home in this quiet Homosassa subdivision. “It’s done, it’s finished. I’m glad we didn’t have to wait too long for him to get the needle.”

Our prayers go out to Mark Lunsford and his family as this must be a bitter sweet day.

William Safire, News Columnist & Former Nixon Speechwriter Dead at the Age of 79, Rest in Peace

William Safire: 1929 -  2009, RIP.

They do not make them anymore like William Safire and sadly William Safire has passed way today at the age of 79. Today, journalism lost a gem. The journalistic tapestries that this wordsmith could create was like few others. The long time NY Times columnist “was hired to be a sore thumb” at the famously liberal newspaper. Safire was a journalist’s journalist who took no prisoners and most importantly never knew what the definition of PC meant. One always knew they were going to get the straight forward and brutally honest truth from William Safire. Rest in Peace … We lost a truly special person today.

Safire, the former Richard Nixon speech writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning NY Times columnist, died at 79 today from pancreatic cancer. The Pulitzer Prize winning journalist died at a hospice in Rockville, MD.

William Safire receiving the President Medal of Freedom in 2006

William Safire, a speechwriter for President Richard M. Nixon and a Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist for The New York Times who also wrote novels, books on politics and a Malaprop’s treasury of articles on language, died at a hospice in Rockville, Md. on Sunday. He was 79.

The cause was cancer, said his assistant, Rosemary Shields.

There may be many sides in a genteel debate, but in the Safire world of politics and journalism it was simpler: there was his own unambiguous wit and wisdom on one hand and, on the other, the blubber of fools he called “nattering nabobs of negativism” and “hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history

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Murder Case of Annie Le: Person of Interest Raymond Clark’s DNA is a MATCH! Arrest is Imminent

The New Haven Register is reporting that the DNA taken from Person of Interest Raymond Clark is a MATCH to that from the bloody clothes found in the ceiling tiles at research facility at 10 Amistad St. in New Haven, CT! Police are in the process of getting an arrest warrant for Raymond Clark.

An arrest is certain to be made soon if not already done prior to the release of this information. The police were only waiting for a DNA match. This hardly comes as a surprise seeing that it was earlier reported that the bloody shirt belonged to lab tech Raymond Clark.

Police have obtained a DNA match that implicates Raymond Clark III, 24, in the slaying of Yale graduate student Annie Le, police sources said late Wednesday.

Police have obtained, or are in the process of obtaining, an arrest warrant, the sources said.

Police were in Cromwell, where Clark was staying in the Super 8 motel.

This comes hours after police served two more search warrants Wednesday on their “person of interest” in the slaying of a Yale graduate student.

Also, The New Haven Independent is reporting that a press conference has been set for 7:00 a.m. Thursday to announce what is anticipated to be an arrest of Raymond Clark in the murder of Yale graduate student Annie Le.

Person of interest and soon to be arrested Raymond Clark and murdered Annie Le

UPDATE I: Arrest Expected Soon

New Haven police spokesman Joe Avery said early today that an arrest was expected “soon” in the death of 24-year-old Annie Le. Avery stated that he was not aware of any DNA “match;” however, the New Haven Register had reported there had been one and cited police sources.

Police were gearing up to arrest Yale lab technician Raymond Clark 3rd early Thursday

Murder of Yale Grad Student Annie Le and Detention of Person of Interest Raymond Clark … “the suspect took apart her body”

Person of Interest Raymond Clark was detained by police and conducted a search of his residence in Middletown, CT. Raymond Clark was a lab technician who worked closely with Annie Le.

Here is some shocking and breaking news:

According to sources from Fox61, that a possible motive of the murder of Annie Le was a dispute over possible abuse of lab animals in the research facility at 10 Amistad St. in New Haven, CT. A violent struggle ensued between the person of interest, Raymond Clark, and the victim Annie Le. Eventually, the suspect took apart her body and put her behind the wall space in the basement of the facility.. The cause of her death was asphyxiation, confirmation will come tomorrow from the medical examiner.

How did Raymond Clark become a person of interest? Also according to sources, the bloody clothing found in the ceiling tiles of the lab facility belonged to the suspect, Raymond Clark. An acquaintance who Clark lives with noticed that the clothes he was wearing when he came home was different than what he wore in the morning and that he had defensive scratches, cuts and blood on his body. That person tipped off police.

Medical examiner says Yale student was suffocated

Records Show Raymond Clark III Was Last To See Annie Le Alive

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Daily Commentary - Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 - A Farewell to Patrick Swayze … A Class Act & Inspiration

• The courageous actor passed away of pancreatic cancer on Monday. An all-around class act, Patrick Swayze brought hope and strength to countless people who are battling with cancer. What separates entertainers? Class! He will be missed.