Deputies: Former Marine was shooter among 3 dead in Orlando

[Scurrilous]

Source: Associated Press

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"A 30-year-old former Marine featured in a 1999 news photo from a refugee camp in Macedonia that circulated worldwide was responsible for killing himself and two others in a double murder-suicide, authorities said Monday.

Jason Robert Drake, 30, had several potential motives, witnesses reportedly told the Orange County Sheriff's Office. He allegedly killed Ralph Gonzalez, a well-known 39-year-old GOP political consultant, and David Abrami, a 36-year-old attorney also active for the Republican Party.

Drake's image was seen everywhere in a photo distributed by The Associated Press featuring him with two Albanian children in a NATO refugee camp, one tousling his short hair.

The shootings happened in Gonzalez's house, where Abrami had been living since moving within the past year from Atlanta, a friend said.

Drake was allegedly carrying a firearm and backpack full of ammunition."



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Republican consultant among 3 dead in home

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[tanyev]

1. "several potential motives", eh?

Intriguing. Of course the article does not say what they might be.

[nebenaube]

2. blow-back... n/t

[Up2Late]

3. How much you wanna bet some RW Tin-hat reads this and the part about ...

"...after returning from Eastern Europe in June of 1999, Drake related sadly how the Albanians lived - cold and poor, terrorized and hungry.

"It's given me a different perspective," he told the newspaper. "But people are still people. We're all basically the same...."

And conclude that he was some sort of mole from the Democratic Party sent to infiltrate the GOP and do this, because, as we all know, Republicans don't care about the "...cold and poor, terrorized and hungry....":tinfoilhat:

Just watch.

[Barrett808]

4. PTSD?

Seems like the obvious first thing to look at.

[Jacobin]

5. Expect a LOT more of this in the years to come

[DCKit]

6. No kidding

At least after Vietnam the returning soldiers had protests and decent weed with which to blow off some of the built-up stress. Repukes beware, you own this war as well as the hearts and minds of our returning soldiers.