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NY Firemen's Killer Mapped Out Plan For Slayings
By GEORGE M. WALSH and MARY ESCH Associated Press
WEBSTER, N.Y. (AP) — The ex-con turned sniper who killed two firefighters (on Christmas Eve) wanted to make sure his goodbye note was legible, typing out his desire to "do what I like doing best, killing people" before setting the house where he lived with his sister ablaze, police said.
Police Chief Gerald Pickering said Tuesday that the 62-year-old loner, William Spengler, brought plenty of ammunition with him for three weapons including a military-style assault rifle as he set out on a quest to burn down his neighborhood just before sunrise on Christmas Eve.
On Tuesday, investigators found a body in the Spengler home, presumably that of the sister a neighbor said Spengler hated: 67-year-old Cheryl Spengler. Spengler's penchant for death had surfaced before. He served 17 years in prison for manslaughter in the 1980 hammer slaying of his grandmother.
But his intent was unmistakable when he left his flaming home carrying a pump-action shotgun, a .38-caliber revolver and a .223-caliber semiautomatic Bushmaster rifle with flash suppression, the same make and caliber weapon used in the elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn., that killed 26.
"He was equipped to go to war, kill innocent people," the chief said of a felon who wasn't allowed to possess weapons because of his criminal past. It was not clear how he got them.
The assault rifle was believed to be the weapon that struck down the firefighters. He then killed himself as seven houses burned on a sliver of land along Lake Ontario. His body was not found on a nearby beach until hours afterward."Spengler's motive was left unclear", Pickering said, even as authorities began analyzing a two- to three-page typewritten rambling note Spengler left behind.
He declined to reveal the note's full content or say where it was found. He read only one chilling line: "I still have to get ready to see how much of the neighborhood I can burn down, and do what I like doing best, killing people."
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Why in the heck isn't the government doing more to control and keep firearms out of the hands of these fruitcakes instead of wanting to disarm the law-abiding citizens to make them more targets for loonies like this? I question why this guy only got 17 years for killing his grandmother with a hammer!? The government's and the anti's priorities sure seem to me to be out of whack at the moment! It seems to me that the government needs to start getting rid of some of these whackos instead of slapping them on the wrist, then setting them loose out on society again! I don't go with the insanity pleas allowed in some of these type of murders either - I'm just as dead whether I'm killed by a mentally deranged killer or by a sane killer. But I doubt the Biden Commissionwill have much to say regsarding that!
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It seems everytime that I connect to the internet that my ISP homepage has these "blaring headlines" about another "gunman going wild". I'm beginning to get a baaaaaaaad feeling about what restrictions the Biden Commission is going to propose that will only affect the law-abiding gun owners of the country and not these goofballs that are getting their hands on whatever firearms they want to carry out their carnage with!
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By GEORGE M. WALSH and MARY ESCH Associated Press
WEBSTER, N.Y. (AP) — The ex-con turned sniper who killed two firefighters (on Christmas Eve) wanted to make sure his goodbye note was legible, typing out his desire to "do what I like doing best, killing people" before setting the house where he lived with his sister ablaze, police said.
Police Chief Gerald Pickering said Tuesday that the 62-year-old loner, William Spengler, brought plenty of ammunition with him for three weapons including a military-style assault rifle as he set out on a quest to burn down his neighborhood just before sunrise on Christmas Eve.
On Tuesday, investigators found a body in the Spengler home, presumably that of the sister a neighbor said Spengler hated: 67-year-old Cheryl Spengler. Spengler's penchant for death had surfaced before. He served 17 years in prison for manslaughter in the 1980 hammer slaying of his grandmother.
But his intent was unmistakable when he left his flaming home carrying a pump-action shotgun, a .38-caliber revolver and a .223-caliber semiautomatic Bushmaster rifle with flash suppression, the same make and caliber weapon used in the elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn., that killed 26.
"He was equipped to go to war, kill innocent people," the chief said of a felon who wasn't allowed to possess weapons because of his criminal past. It was not clear how he got them.
The assault rifle was believed to be the weapon that struck down the firefighters. He then killed himself as seven houses burned on a sliver of land along Lake Ontario. His body was not found on a nearby beach until hours afterward."Spengler's motive was left unclear", Pickering said, even as authorities began analyzing a two- to three-page typewritten rambling note Spengler left behind.
He declined to reveal the note's full content or say where it was found. He read only one chilling line: "I still have to get ready to see how much of the neighborhood I can burn down, and do what I like doing best, killing people."
?????
Why in the heck isn't the government doing more to control and keep firearms out of the hands of these fruitcakes instead of wanting to disarm the law-abiding citizens to make them more targets for loonies like this? I question why this guy only got 17 years for killing his grandmother with a hammer!? The government's and the anti's priorities sure seem to me to be out of whack at the moment! It seems to me that the government needs to start getting rid of some of these whackos instead of slapping them on the wrist, then setting them loose out on society again! I don't go with the insanity pleas allowed in some of these type of murders either - I'm just as dead whether I'm killed by a mentally deranged killer or by a sane killer. But I doubt the Biden Commissionwill have much to say regsarding that!
:shout:
It seems everytime that I connect to the internet that my ISP homepage has these "blaring headlines" about another "gunman going wild". I'm beginning to get a baaaaaaaad feeling about what restrictions the Biden Commission is going to propose that will only affect the law-abiding gun owners of the country and not these goofballs that are getting their hands on whatever firearms they want to carry out their carnage with!
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