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Last edited Sun Sep 1, 2019, 04:50 PM - Edit history (3)
His name is Seth Ator.
Link to tweet
https://heavy.com/news/2019/09/seth-ator/
The Odessa Police Department has confirmed that the gunman in Saturdays shooting was Seth Aaron Ator.
Ator was 36 years old. Police stated in the press conference earlier Sunday that the gunman had a home address in Ector County, and records confirmed that Ator lived in Odessa. KMID-TV reported that FBI investigators were seen executing a search warrant at Ators house Sunday afternoon. Records also show that Ator had a Toyota Tercel registered to his name.
SNIP
According to a statewide criminal history search on the Texas Department of Public Safetys website, Seth Ator was charged with Criminal Trespass on August 3, 2001, in McLennan County, Texas. It was a Class B Misdemeanor.
He was then charged with a second offense for Evading Arrest. The record shows that Ator issued a guilty plea in February of 2002 and received a sentence of 24 months on probation. The site does not provide further details as to what prompted the arrest.
raccoon
(31,107 posts)Retrograde
(10,132 posts)Odessa - isn't that next to Midland, former home of Bush the Lesser? Not that I'm implying something, but it does make me wonder.
Whoever it was, he won't be anonymous for long: aren't deaths public information in Texas?
still_one
(92,116 posts)southerncrone
(5,506 posts)RandySF
(58,723 posts)What are they trying to hide?
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)and online for things like underage drinking, possession of marijuana, DUI, and failure to pay fines, sometimes wearing orange jumpsuits or striped prison uniforms. But shoot up an entire community? Let's keep it under wraps.
Also, you know he's a right winger. If this was anybody else, his name would be out there already.
DBoon
(22,354 posts)if he wasn't his picture would be all over
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Seth Ator has been identified as the suspect who opened fire in a series of locations across Odessa, Texas, in a random attack that left seven people dead.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/odessa-mayor-says-shooting-death-toll-has-risen-to-seven-11567349836
pnwmom
(108,973 posts)Peace06
(248 posts)I smell trump
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Experts Call for Mass Killers' Names to Be Kept Quiet
https://www.livescience.com/60595-stop-naming-mass-shooters-say-scientists.html
Vinca
(50,255 posts)I want to know who he is, what he's posted on social media, what kind of gun he used and whether or not it was legally purchased. For starters.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)encourages others to commit similar crimes, but there is ample evidence that that is the case.
Vinca
(50,255 posts)He's a nice white guy and probably a district chairman for Trump, ergo "we won't make him a celebrity." Bull. In particular, I want to know about his social media history to learn if our esteemed Idiot-In-Chief is what inspired him. The only thing causing mass killings at this point is the hatred ginned up by Trump, his acolytes and the entire reich wing media machine that profits off it. Killing is now an okay thing to do if you're an angry white guy who can't imagine why he doesn't earn 7 figures as CEO of whatever business he works at. Doesn't matter he isn't interested in being educated - he's entitled because Don loves trucks (in this instance). I'm sick of it. Totally fucking sick of it. I can go out and by a gun easier than I can buy a car and that's just not right. And I've even had training and know how to shoot! Most of them can't be bothered. And responsibility? Like maybe requiring gun owners to carry insurance besides being trained? Forget about it!
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)And if this turns out to be more of what we all believe it to be, then it only adds to our narrative on why we not only need gun control but why it's the right that needs to face more scrutiny and consequences for their rhetoric that leads to violence like this. Those two things would do way more to deter future shootings than keeping one name hidden from the public. At this point, any would be copycats literally have dozens if not hundreds of preexisting examples to choose from to "inspire" them. Keeping this one name hidden won't change that. Tighter restrictions on guns and greater monitoring of the right wing hate machine would.
pnwmom
(108,973 posts)Without knowing his name, the public can't help with this.
tblue37
(65,287 posts)DUgosh
(3,055 posts)Bud ator
pnwmom
(108,973 posts)So I think you should delete your post.
I found this piece about Seth. He looks nothing like the guy you named.
https://heavy.com/news/2019/09/seth-ator/
Ator was 36 years old. Police stated in the press conference earlier Sunday that the gunman had a home address in Ector County, and records confirmed that Ator lived in Odessa. KMID-TV reported that FBI investigators were seen executing a search warrant at Ators house Sunday afternoon. Records also show that Ator had a Toyota Tercel registered to his name.
SNIP
According to a statewide criminal history search on the Texas Department of Public Safetys website, Seth Ator was charged with Criminal Trespass on August 3, 2001, in McLennan County, Texas. It was a Class B Misdemeanor.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,166 posts)Because now there is a big scramble to find out who he is.
Theres a certain balance that has to be used in these situations. This isnt it.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)While a few on DU were leaping to conspiracist fancies just as fact-free as the RW "Hillary" versions, some people were thinking of, and even confirming (!), some good reasons why TX authorities would temporarily withhold the ID. Even if not all of them are obvious.
The Koch alliance's Governor Abbott is intensely corrupt, NO doubt about that, but that's not enough reason to rush to on-line bonfires, much less not bother to take our heads with us.