The sheriff of the State of Arizona, Clarence Dupnik, has confirmed that the young man suspected of firing indiscriminately on a crowd at a political act of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, identified as Jared Lee Loughna, had made death threats in the past, but none against the lawmaker. It has also suggested that the authorities do not believe it has carried out the attack on his own, and looking for a second suspect.Arizona has been shocked after yesterday lasseis pm (Spanish time) a man dispararacontra demócrataGabrielle Congresswoman Giffords, 40, who at that time participated in a meeting with voters in front of a supermarket. Within minutes, witnesses said, the man opened fire indiscriminately at present coming to shoot up to 20 times with his semiautomatic weapon.
Bullets that hit 19 people. The result of the attack, six people dead, five of them died on the spot and another in the hospital, and 12 people wounded, some of them seriously, as the congressman, who is in critical condition after the bullet went through head, as reported by the sheriff Clarence Dupnik Pima County (Arizona) at a press conference.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is investigating whether Loughna is the same person who posted on the internet a manifesto accusing the Government to control the minds of citizens and which called for the adoption of a new currency for country. A person "unstable" In a series of videos on YouTube, a person who is identified as Jared Lee Loughna complains that the government controls the minds of its citizens, the laws of treason, of dreamers and currency illiterate U.S..
"The government is controlling the minds and brainwashing people through control of the rules of grammar," wrote this person at one of the videos containing music and text in white on a black background. No, no I pay unamoneda debt is not backed by gold or silver. No, I rely on God "rivets.
These statements show no coherent policy unaideología, according to researcher from the Southern Poverty Law Center, Mark Potok, which monitors violent extremists. Loughna was not in the database center and radical racist groups. This idea was endorsed Dupnik sheriff who believes that the suspect would not be a person with mental problems, but with an individual with a personality "unstable" and a troubled past, both for their mental problems as a criminal dispute.
Dupnik said to the media that is precisely the unbalanced people which is more "susceptible" to fall into the trap of intolerance, and confirmed that the attacker was intended to attack the congressman. The investigation is ongoing, Obama has already sent to the FBI director to the area to take care of her, "and authorities have reportedly seeking a second suspect.
"We are not convinced that he acted alone," said the sheriff. Authorities believe that a person, which just reported that it is a middle-aged white man of which have a picture to help locate him, collaborated with the detainee. Without a political ideology The New York Loughna Timesinforma that was expelled from the Institute in late September as a result of one of his videos posted on YouTube.
The blog of the newspaper to follow the last hour of the attack shows the version of a spokesman for the center, which ensures that if the boy wanted to go back to school should undergo a psychological test. "Wow, I'm happy not having committed suicide. I see you on national TV! This is an ad ...
Why does not anyone talk to me?" Escrbía on MySpace in December a day after writing: "I'm not well, I'm ready to kill a policeman. I can say. " A local newspaper also includes some of his thoughts in YouTube: "Most of the people residing in District 8 are illiterate-comic." In a biographical video cut on YouTube, writes Loughna went to school in Tucson and their favorite books are Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler, the Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey .
Sheriff Dupnik is the first officer to establish a relationship between the shooting and political hostilities in Arizona and has denounced the virulent political climate that exists in the state of Arizona, the epicenter of the heated immigration debate in the country and sponsor of the "Law Arizona, a provision to criminalize undocumented immigrants.
"We've become a mecca of prejudice and intolerance," he said to reporters.
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