Court records: Accused shooter threatened to kill wife, himself

[TommyO]

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/jul/28/woman-accused-shooter-hated-anyone-different-him/

The man who is accused of Sunday's church shooting was described today by a long-time acquaintance as a loner who hates "blacks, gays and anyone different from him.''

Why am I not surprised?

[raccoon]

1. Kick, kick, kickarooni....nt

[devilgrrl]

2. "anyone different from him"... that would be 99.9999999999% of humanity.

eom

[varkam]

42. Thankfully. eom

[HCE SuiGeneris]

3. The message of the propagandists, espousing hate and intolerance,

will manifest itself in more of these actions as our economy deteriorates. Thanks Rove, Rush, Beck, etc, etc. You must be so proud. :(

My thoughts and prayers for all those affected by such evil...

[jody]

4. Sad, I know people on both sides of the political spectrum who hate anyone different from them. n/t

[redqueen]

16. I bet you do! (nt)

[jody]

22. Do you have a problem? n/t

[redqueen]

27. No... do you? (nt)

[pnorman]

47. From my fairly extensive knowledge, very few from the "other side" (ie: the "left/liberal" side)

would go any further than defacing/destroying a yard sign. Actually, I know very few who would even go even that far.

pnorman

[jody]

49. #4 was about those who "hate" anyone different from them, not about violent criminal acts. n/t

[Garbo 2004]

5. Per article, his ex-wife was a former member of the church. That may also have been a factor in his

selection of that church.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

41. Put money on it. It was a sick revenge for a broken relationship.

[slackmaster]

6. He should have been put in jail for threatening his wife with a gun

Why wasn't he?

[raccoon]

7. His ex-wife was in that church. Real interesting stuff in this article!

Adkisson's ex-wife, Liza Alexander of Powell, was a former long-time member of the church, congregant Barbara Kemper said today.

The Adkissones' marriage disintegrated eight years ago after Adkisson had been drinking heavily and then put a gun to Alexander's head, said Carol Smallwood of Alice, Texas.

According to Anderson County Court records, as their marriage went awry, Jim David Adkisson said he had an option.

That choice was to blow his wife's brains out and then do the same to himself…

"He always had the attitude the government was trying to get him,'' Smallwood said. "He disliked blacks, gays, anyone who was a different color or just different from him.

"I think he's got a heart of gold when he's good, but he has so much anger inside of him. He didn't go into that church to harm any children because he loved children.'' (Well, I guess he succeeded in scaring the crap out of the children, anyway.)

"He was just the life of the party,'' Smallwood said, "but then those dark periods would hit and you didn't want to be around him. They would go on for weeks. Everything was negative. You couldn't talk him out of it."

Some of the comments on the article:

“this article speaks volumes. Now we know why he targeted this particular church...he knew about it from his ex wife. I knew there had to be some kind of connection. It's not a church that most of us "know" a lot about.”

“Dark moods that lasted for weeks...
Sounds like he suffered from a pretty nasty bi-polar disorder and never got any help for it.”

[uppityperson]

8. He had another choice, do it the other way around.

I am sorry for the mentally ill, but really, if you are going to kill someone and then yourself, just do it the other way around. Makes for a lot less trouble.

[enki23]

11. "life of the party?"

i think i can form a pretty accurate picture of the kind of people would have appreciated such a prick at a party, no matter how chipper and and oh-gosh-just-hi-fucking-larious and swell the motherfucker may have been when he was manic. you don't hate your bad guys only when you're depressed.

[raccoon]

25. "Life of the party" could also mean he drank a lot.

Usually when people say somebody liked to party, they mean that person liked to drink a lot.

[Taverner]

40. Armchair Psychiatrist here thinks it looks a lot like Manic Depression

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[Marrah_G]

The fact that you think "white trash" is a group is very telling.

If you were repeatedly calling any other racial group "trash" you would have been tombstoned by now.

[RB TexLa]

12. And burying your head in the sand doesn't make that group go away

just read the posts about this guy's beliefs and it's pretty easy to tell he is pure trash. I'm not calling an entire race trash just the actual trash like the piece of shit this thread is about.

[redqueen]

19. The meaning of that slur doesn't change just cause you wish it were so.

"White Trash" means poor, uneducated white people.

Learn.

[Marrah_G]

30. If that were true you would have just called him trash without the qualifier.

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[Marrah_G]

37. Pathetic

Hopefully the mods will deal with you

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[redqueen]

35. Your demonizing of poor white people is no different

than someone else demonizing poor minorities.

:puke:

Your "fuck 'em"? You know that saying about when you point your finger?

[Marrah_G]

38. It is not a cultural group- your remarks are racist, plain and simple

[TommyO]

14. Please, take your bigotry elsewhere. It's not welcome here.

[RB TexLa]

23. Of course, we should not be bigoted against a racist homophobic murderer.

Unbelievable.

[TommyO]

28. But that's not who you attacked.

[redqueen]

29. You didn't use an epithet describing racist homophobic murderers. You said "White Trash".

You wouldn't happen to be pretending to miss that very obvious point in the hopees of starting a flame war, would you?

[Garbo 2004]

33. He just left out "rednecks" which he also included in his previously locked "WT" thread.nt

[redqueen]

36. Just more racist, flamey disruption... no pattern though.

Mmhmm.

[redqueen]

17. White trash? Is your hate better than his, do you think?

:puke:

Sickening.

[TommyO]

20. Thank you, redqueen.

His posts are truly sickening.

[NightWatcher]

10. we need to start an ad blitz to popularize suicide with these nutjobs

Life got you down? feel like shooting up a church or school? write your manifesto and do the honorable thing and give your Beretta a blowjob.

Suicide's for winners

[enki23]

13. Amen to that

Are Liberals ruining your life? Do you have any plans for how you want to shoot up a church, school, workplace, or other gathering of people you hate? Do you feel like killing someone and then committing suicide?

Be a hero. Kill yourself *first*. Jesus gives heroes, and martyrs like you seven hundred brain dead virgins and a free handjob every day for eternity if you don't kill anyone else on your way out. Plus, he promises to make sure to make sure "they" see. He'll "show them" for you, guaranteed. Oh yes, they will pay. Jesus will see to it for you, if only you become a glorious martyr all by your goddamned self.

[TommyO]

15. Or maybe the health care that they truly need.

[redqueen]

21. Hear hear! (nt)

[Alter Ego]

18. So he's a Freeper, then?

[Steepler0t]

24. I am sure Rim Job

Scrubbed freeperville of his username and posts already. Like usual.

[TexasObserver]

26. hates "blacks, gays and anyone different from him.''

Thank God this is coming out, even they're going to try to twist it until it's just some guy mad because he can't find a job. They've known this was a hate crime since the moment it was called in.

[Ganja Ninja]

34. So just another rank and file Republican then.

That pretty much describes the average male GOP voter age 25 to 55.

[Taverner]

39. Yup.

[Heidi]

43. But, but, but ... his friends say he was 'a very nice guy'!

Suspect 'was a very nice guy' <-- It's on the internets, so it must be true!

[aspergris]

44. neighbors/friends say this on almost

every guy who ever gets arrested for ANYTHING. It's like media thing 101.

guy gets arrested for garroting puppies, and they'll find some guy to say "he was a very nice guy".

[Heidi]

45. When I was in journalism school, we were taught to interview a wide range of sources

in order to get a wide range of perspectives. _That's_ a Media 101 thing. :hi:

[aspergris]

46. right.

but seriously. the point is you can find SOMEBODY to say ANYBODY was a nice guy.

It's meaningless pap.

It's kind of like when the guy gets arrested for homicide, rape, and barratry, and they find the family member who says "he was turning his life around"

that's my other fave. Well, apart from that pesky rape/murder thing, you mean.

[raccoon]

50. Right. I can only remember once when they didn't. Pat Sherrill, who went

postal in a P.O. in the mid-80's--neighbors called him "Crazy Pat."

What do neighbors usually know anyway? Most of the time they barely know the perp.

If you speak to your neighbor on the way to the mailbox in the morning and s/he speaks back and you exchange small talk, that makes them a nice guy? :shrug: I guess it seems that way if that's all the interaction you ever had with them.

[TexasObserver]

48. He's had a lifetime devoted to hating others, being a jackass, and being violent.

[samsingh]

51. typical conservative, freeper, repug