Suspect: 'Please don't be mad'
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January 10, 2011, Monday
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THE suspect accused of killing six people and wounding Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords was described as a disturbed young man who was rejected by the military and frequently disrupted his college class.
The Tucson neighbors of 22-year-old suspect Jared Loughner said he often kept to himself - not hostile to anyone but certainly not warming up to anyone, either.
"He was a guy in high school who definitely had his opinions on stuff and didn't seem to care what people thought of him," said Grant Wiens, 22, who went to high school and had a class at Pima Community College with Loughner.
Loughner is in custody after authorities said he opened fire outside a grocery store as Giffords, a Democrat, met voters. The rampage killed six people including Arizona's chief federal judge. Giffords was among 13 people wounded.
Lynda Sorenson said she took a math class with Loughner last summer at Pima Community College's Northwest campus and told the Arizona Daily Star he was "obviously very disturbed."
"He disrupted class frequently with nonsensical outbursts," she said.
In a YouTube video, Loughner describes himself as a US military recruit, but the Army released a statement indicating he had not been accepted.
Federal law enforcement officials poured over versions of a MySpace page that belonged to Loughner and over a YouTube video published weeks ago under an account "Classitup10" and linked to him.
The MySpace page, which was removed within minutes of the gunman being identified by officials, included a mysterious "Goodbye friends" message published hours before the shooting in which he told his friends: "Please don't be mad at me."
On his MySpace page, Loughner spoke of how he liked to read and he also wrote repeatedly about literacy, complaining that the rate was especially low in the district where he lived.
"The majority of people, who reside in District-8 are illiterate hilarious. I don't control your English grammar structure, but you control your English grammar structure," he said.
Wiens said Loughner used to speak critically about religion. He also talked about how he liked to smoke pot.
"He wasn't really too keen on religion it seemed like," Wiens said. "I don't know if floating through life is the right term or whatever, but he was really just into doing his own thing."
In October 2007, Loughner was cited in Pima County for possession of drug paraphernalia, which was dismissed after he completed a diversion program.
A year later he was charged with an unknown "local charge" in Marana near Tucson. That charge was also dismissed following completion of a diversion program.
The Tucson neighbors of 22-year-old suspect Jared Loughner said he often kept to himself - not hostile to anyone but certainly not warming up to anyone, either.
"He was a guy in high school who definitely had his opinions on stuff and didn't seem to care what people thought of him," said Grant Wiens, 22, who went to high school and had a class at Pima Community College with Loughner.
Loughner is in custody after authorities said he opened fire outside a grocery store as Giffords, a Democrat, met voters. The rampage killed six people including Arizona's chief federal judge. Giffords was among 13 people wounded.
Lynda Sorenson said she took a math class with Loughner last summer at Pima Community College's Northwest campus and told the Arizona Daily Star he was "obviously very disturbed."
"He disrupted class frequently with nonsensical outbursts," she said.
In a YouTube video, Loughner describes himself as a US military recruit, but the Army released a statement indicating he had not been accepted.
Federal law enforcement officials poured over versions of a MySpace page that belonged to Loughner and over a YouTube video published weeks ago under an account "Classitup10" and linked to him.
The MySpace page, which was removed within minutes of the gunman being identified by officials, included a mysterious "Goodbye friends" message published hours before the shooting in which he told his friends: "Please don't be mad at me."
On his MySpace page, Loughner spoke of how he liked to read and he also wrote repeatedly about literacy, complaining that the rate was especially low in the district where he lived.
"The majority of people, who reside in District-8 are illiterate hilarious. I don't control your English grammar structure, but you control your English grammar structure," he said.
Wiens said Loughner used to speak critically about religion. He also talked about how he liked to smoke pot.
"He wasn't really too keen on religion it seemed like," Wiens said. "I don't know if floating through life is the right term or whatever, but he was really just into doing his own thing."
In October 2007, Loughner was cited in Pima County for possession of drug paraphernalia, which was dismissed after he completed a diversion program.
A year later he was charged with an unknown "local charge" in Marana near Tucson. That charge was also dismissed following completion of a diversion program.
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