#jaylene lopez

[unabombzz]

Jaylen Fryberg and his friend Carmen Lopez. A day later, he would gather her and his other friends at a lunch table. He would kill most of them then shoot himself, Carmen survived.

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[hoeforseungcho]

Average Ages Of Mass Shooter’s Victims

It's a long list, so I added a page break.

7.0 - Patrick Purdy

7.4 - Thomas Hamilton

9.0 - Charles Roberts IV

13.4 - Salvador Ramos

13.8 - Wellington de Oliviera

14.3 - Jaylen Fryberg

14.5 - Li Zhongren

15.4 - Adam Lanza

16.0 - Ethan Crumbley

16.3 - Victor Hoffman

16.6 - Dylan Klebold

16.8 - Kosta Kecmanovic

17.0 - Robert Smith

17.8 - Tyler Peterson

18.0 - Michael Clark

19.6 - Nikolas Cruz

19.9 - Eric Harris

20.0 - Elliot Rodger

20.1 - Larry Ashbrook

21.0 - Matthew Murray

21.6 - Mauricio Garcua

23.0 - Steven Kacmierzak

23.3 - Travis Reinking

23.6 - Tim Kretschmer

23.7 - Marc Lepine

24.1 - Matti Saari

25.3 - Dimitrios Pagourtzis

25.3 - James Huberty

25.7 - Vladislav Roslyakov

25.8 - Chase Garvey

26.2 - James Holmes

26.5 - Gonzalo Lopez

26.8 - Pekka-Eric Auvinen

26.8 - Seung-Hui Cho

27.0 - Noah Esbensen

27.7 - Timur Bekmansurov

28.2 - Jeff Weise

28.3 - Michael Silka

28.5 - Ruslan Akhtyamov

28.8 - Wesley Higdon

29.3 - Sterling Hunt

29.4 - Omar Mateen

29.8 - Muhammad Abdulazeez

30.0 - Charles Whitman

30.0 - Colt Gray

30.8 - Kimbrady Carriker

31.7 - Phasid Trutassanawin

32.0 - Todd Kohlhepp

32.6 - Anderson Aldrich

32.8 - Chris Harper-Mercer

33.1 - One Goh

33.2 - Connor Betts

33.2 - Howard Unruh

33.3 - Ryan Palmeter

33.7 - Solejman Talovic

33.8 - Thomas McIlvane

34.8 - Audrey Hale

35.0 - Cedrid Ford

35.3 - Snochia Moseley

35.7 - Richard Farley

35.7 - Richard Poplawski

35.8 - Chai Vang

36.0 - Robert Dear Jr.

36.3 - Mark Essex

36.4 - Nidel Hasan

37.0 - Noah Harpham

37.3 - Radcliffe Haughton

37.9 - James Pough

38.0 - Ivan Lopez

38.2 - Gary Martin

38.4 - Mark Baton

38.7 - Patrick Sherill

38.8 - Leo Held

39.3 - Joaquin Roman

39.5 - Maurice Clemmons

39.6 - Stephan Paddock

39.7 - John Parish

39.7 - Michael McLendon

40.1 - Gian Ferri

40.2 - Andre Bing

40.4 - Edward Allaway

40.7 - Albert Wong

41.0 - Gavin Long

41.0 - Jonathan Sapirman

42.0 - William Bonner

42.3 - Michael McDermott

42.4 - Lyndon McLeod

42.8 - Eduardo Sencion

43.0 - Zane Floyd

43.2 - Ian Stawicki

43.6 - Micah Johnson

44.3 - George Sodini

44.3 - Terry Ratzmann

44.9 - Jennifer San Marco

45.0 - Randy Stair

45.1 - Samuel Cassidy

45.4 - Brian Uyesegi

45.7 - Jiverly Wong

45.8 - Herman Klink

46.1 - Robert Card

46.3 - Timothy Hendron

46.6 - Ahmad Al Aliwi Al-Issa

47.0 - Brandon Hole

47.3 - Kenneth Tornes

47.5 - William Baker

48.4 - Zephen Xaver

48.7 - Ronald Taylor

48.8 - Anthony Ferrill

49.4 - Robert Hawkins

49.8 - Joseph Wesbecker

50.3 - Carl Brown

50.7 - Jimmy Lam

50.8 - Isaac Zamora

51.0 - Douglas Williams

51.0 - Kevin Neal

51.2 - Andrew Engeldinger

51.3 - Amy Bishop

52.6 - George Hennerd

53.8 - Connor Sturgeon

53.8 - John Neumann Jr.

54.1 - Scott Dekraai

54.4 - Omar Thornton

54.6 - Robert Long

55.0 - Jarrod Ramos

55.2 - Charles Thornton

55.5 - Jared Loughner

55.8 - Aaron Alexis

55.7 - Jason Dalton

55.9 - Wade Page

56.1 - Dylann Roof

57.3 - Anthony Polito

57.6 - Arcan Cetin

58.3 - Chunli Zhao

59.1 – Patrick Crusius

62.0 - Robert Crimo III

62.1 - Payton Gendron

66.9 - Huu Can Tran

73.8 - Robert Bowers

79.3 - Robert Stewart

83.3 - Beau Wilson

[blaseballshipbracket]

BLASEBALL SHIP BRACKET ROUND 1

64 ships enter, one ship leaves! who will reign supreme? how will your faves fare? it's a tlournament for the ages!

this is a seeded bracket generated from ships suggested in a google form. round 1 begins thursday, 03/30/23 and will run for one week. propaganda is encouraged - tag this blog and i'll share it!

ROUND 1 MATCHUPS:

Megan Ito/Parker MacMillan VS Leon Duncan/Andrew Trebek

Finn James/Kennedy Loser VS Hewitt Best/Yeong-Ho Garcia

Flattery McKinley/Niq Nyong'o VS Jessica Telephone/Betsy Trombone

Tillman Henderson/Declan Suzanne VS Don Mitchell/Percival Wheeler

Baldwin Breadwinner/Alyssa Harrell VS Axel Cardenas/Miguel Wheeler

Dominic Marijuana/Andrew Solis VS Eduardo Ingram/Leach Ingram

Pedro Davids/Valentine Games VS Anathema Elemefayo/Patty Fox/Hatfield Suzuki

Stevenson Heat/James Mora VS Baby Triumphant/Castillo Turner

Yosh Carpenter/Sebastian Woodman VS Cannonball Sports/Bees Taswell

Igneus Delacruz/Howell Franklin VS Mcdowell Mason/Sexton Wheerer

Allison Abbott/Kichiro Guerra VS Eugenia Garbage/Ziwa Mueller

Caleb Alvarado/Isaac Johnson VS Conner Haley/Sebastian Telephone

Brock Forbes/Adalberto Tosser VS Domino Bootleg/Theodore Honeywell

Lenny Marijuana/Chorby Short VS Moody Cookbook/Landry Violence

Margarito Nava/Nic Winkler VS Riley Firewall/Geraldine Frost

Inez Owens/Bees Taswell VS Paula Turnip/Hiroto Wilcox

Tyreek Olive/Landry Violence VS Fitzgerald Blackburn/Math Velazquez

Val Hitherto/Nerd Pacheco VS Ortiz Lopez/Pitching Machine

Luis Acevedo/Tot Clark VS Derrick Krueger/Sebastian Telephone

The San Francisco Lovers VS Gita Sparrow/Jayden Wright

Tillman Henderson/Mike Townsend VS Famous Owens/Mclaughlin Scorpler

Alaynabella Hollywood/Magi Ruiz VS Nerd Pacheco/Lars Taylor

Nagomi Mcdaniel/York Silk's Mom VS Qais Dogwalker/Grollis Zephyr

Jacob Haynes/Alaynabella Hollywood/Moses Mason VS Burke Gonzalez/Brock Watson/Joshua Watson

Jaylen Hotdogfingers/Jessica Telephone VS Juice Collins/Sutton Dreamy

Sandford Garner/Don Mitchell VS Famous Owens/Nerd Pacheco

Rivers Rosa/Lou Roseheart VS Jode Crutch/Rush Ito

Declan Suzanne/Edric Tosser/Baby Triumphant VS Lady Matsuyama/Bottles ��uljak

Cornelius Games/Richardson Games VS Mags Banananana/Eugenia Bickle

Workman Gloom & PolkaDot Patterson VS Shannon Chamberlain/Kennedy Loser

Caligula Lotus/Beck Whitney VS Steals Mondegreen/Silvaire Semiquaver

Summers Preston/Stephanie Winters VS Haruta Byrd/Bright Zimmerman

[testimonyz]

Tyla’s Wisdom (with Jaylen Shon) ✔️🌟💫

“Oh, the party went nice…”

Somehow *Payphone- Maroon 5* is “Our Song” by Taylor Swift. “Okay, bye…”

“He’s literally texting me... I’m calling my sister. Also… He wants to stop by. K. I’ll be brave…”

“This is a Movie. But it is also Enough by Jennifer Lopez. Or somethin’ so San Andreas. Okay… Justice exists.”

Part 2 soon? 😂

[welcome-to-my-life-posts]

Remember their names

Nevaeh Alyssa Bravo

Jacklyn Jaylen Cazares,

Makenna Lee Elrod

Jose Manuel Flores Jr.

Eliahna Amyah Garcia

Uziyah Sergio Garcia

Amerie Jo Garza

Xavier James Lopez

Jayce Carmelo Luevanos

Tess Marie Mata

Maranda Gail Mathis

Alithia Haven Ramirez

Annabell Guadalupe Rodriguez

Maite Yuleana Rodriguez

Alexandria Aniyah Rubio

Layla Marie Salazar

Jailah Nicole Silguero

Eliahna Cruz Torres

Rojelio Fernandez Torres

Irma Linda Garcia

Eva Mireles

[paulawritez]

23.02.13

starting now, monday’s are for #whatthisweek

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- what i’ve been reading

last week was great for me reading wise (hello? I read 3 books? howw?), this week tho i’m more packed with university so i’m just taking it slow. i’m starting this week with the stationery shop by marjan kamali.

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-what i’ve been listening to

bibi vengeance by bibi

mind games by 88rising, milli, jackson wang

telepatía by kali uchis

omg by newjeans

reading the room by jaylen lopez [podcast]

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-what i’ve been watching

abbott elementary

lockwood & co.

is tiktok ruining reading? & the desire to be ‘a reader’, a video essay by the book leo

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-what i’m looking to

the book fair is coming to town this weekend! so excited to browse through the book stands and meet author chloe gong

[wausaupilot]

Tatum shakes off illness, helps Celtics slow Giannis and beat fellow East power Bucks 119-116

Brook Lopez led Milwaukee (10-5) with 28 points.

By KEN POWTAK Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Jayson Tatum shook off an illness to have 23 points and 11 rebounds, carrying the Boston Celtics over the Milwaukee Bucks 119-116 on Wednesday night in an early showdown of top Eastern Conference teams. Jaylen Brown had 26 points and eight assists for Boston, which improved the NBA’s best record to 12-3. Kristaps Porzingis added 21 points and Derrick…

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Hello lovely !! I hope this ask finds you well !! I was wondering if I you could possibly help me with a sister or half sister fc of Harvey Guillen ?? Any age will do ! Thank you so much sweetheart !! I hope you have a wonderful day/evening xoxo !!

Eréndira Ibarra (1985) Mexican - is bisexual.

Roberta Colindrez (1986) Mexican - is queer.

Audrey Esparza (1986) Mexican.

Lauren Lopez (1986) Mexican / Ashkenazi Jewish.

Jessica Marie Garcia (1987) Mexican / Cuban.

Cassandra Ciangherotti (1987) Mexican.

Francia Raisa (1988) Mexican / Honduran.

Lindsey Morgan (1990) Mexican / Irish.

Zuleyka Silver (1991) Mexican.

Jennifer Cheon (1992) Mexican / Korean.

Yvette Monreal (1992) Mexican.

Daniela M. Biah (1993) Mexican / Palestinian.

Cierra Ramirez (1995) Mexican / Colombian.

Georgie Flores (1996) Mexican.

Eva Noblezada (1996) Mexican / Bisaya and Ilonggo Filipino.

Brianna Hildebrand (1996) Mexican / German, English, Irish - hasn’t chosen to label her sexuality but says she is interested in men and women.

Jaylen Barron (1997) African-American / Mexican.

Victoria Moroles (1996) Mexican / Finnish, Polish, French-Canadian, Welsh.

Hey anon! Thank you so much for being so sweet. I'm not entirely sure of his (or the suggestions!) ethnic background so these might need creating if/when more information comes to light.

[collectorhq]

mwm?

at the moment i'd love to see michael b jordan , lakeith stanfield , mena massoud , daniel kaluuya , yahya abdul-mateen ii , jaylen barron , daniel ezra , jharrel jerome , dylan o'brien , keith powers, christ hemsworth , sebastian stan , charles melton , charlie hunnam , manny montana , maxence danet-fauvel , avan jogia , tom maden , jorge lopez , hwang hyunjin , thomas doherty , lucien laviscount , winston duke but anyone you'd bring would be adored by me , personally , until the end of time .

( 𝐀𝐃𝐌𝐈𝐍 𝐋𝐄𝐎 𝐈𝐒 𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐋𝐘 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄 … typically responds in 5 - 15 minutes )

[thesiteofstyle]

JAYLENE LOPEZ

Jaylene on her booming brow business, favorite face products, and curly hair must-haves. 

“Hey, Site of Style! My name is Jaylene Lopez, I'm 21 years old and from the town of Manchester, Connecticut. By day, I’m a full time student at the University of Connecticut pursuing a degree in Human Development and Family Studies. By night, and on weekends, I’m an entrepreneur running my own business called Brains Beauty Brows. The goal of my business is to make each person feel their inner beauty as much as they feel their outer beauty, while simultaneously slaying their brows! I see it as an instant confidence booster. When I'm not doing eyebrows, I’m researching face products to make like scrubs, lotions and toner. I find it so fun and therapeutic!

Speaking of face products, here are some I can't live without; Nip + Fab Glycolic Fix Daily Cleansing pads, African Black Soap, GNC Vitamin E, A & D moisturizer, and Olay Regenerist Micro-Sculpting cream. The Nip+ Fab cleansing pads are gentle enough for everyday use but powerful enough to get the job done. I can’t live without these. The moment I start to feel a breakout, I swipe my face with this and it begins to relax within seconds. I suffered from really bad hormonal acne when I turned 20, [as well as] hyper pigmentation. Glycolic serum actually helps break down and lighten acne scars and hyper pigmentation, while not drying out your face, which is why I love it so much! I use African Black Soap directly on my face; it's exfoliating so it helps get rid of my dead skin and leaves my skin with a fresh clean glow every time. Now that I've covered cleansing, let's talk moisture!! My holy grail, super cheap deal is my GNC E, A & D moisturizer. It costs $2 at your local GNC, it is perfect as a light everyday moisturizer. It absorbs into my skin so smoothly and gives a nice glow, so more often than not I skip the makeup! Last but not least, and most importantly, is my Olay Micro-Sculpting cream. It is so important to find a sculpting cream in your early 20's because fighting wrinkles and signs of aging starts now. Every morning when I wake up I apply a thin layer to my face when I wake up. When it is bed time, I use a thicker layer while sleeping to allow my skin ample time for absorption. By the time I wake up, I always feel like I have a brand new face. I highly recommend it. Having a great skin care routine and products is essential to a healthy aging process.

Not only does having a great skin care routine in place slow aging down, but it is essential to a flawless makeup application. My everyday look consists of my vitamin moisturizer as a base, followed by my Sephora liquid foundation or my all time favorite... L.A Girl Pro Coverage foundation. I found it is a dupe to the Makeup Forever HD foundation and it only costs $8, and yes it really works. Lately I love my Fenty Beauty Match Stick in French vanilla as my concealer/ highlight. It blends so well and creamy, I have no complaints! To set my face, I use Airspun translucent powder, it's affordable and smells divine! I use a little shimmer on the eyes and use my go to mascara from Kiko. All of their products are LIT! A little blush on my cheeks goes a long way in waking me up and my go to highlighter pallet is Nude Rose from BH cosmetics. When my face is on, I set it with the Urban Decay All Nighter setting spray.

Now let's talk hair. I am Puerto Rican so I have very curly hair that is silky. After years of using dollar store gel, I've found my go to brand. It is Curls Unleashed. I use everything including their sulfate free shampoo, curl jelly and sulfate free curling mousse. These products together give me the best curly puff, I love it. I usually switch between wash-n-go or flexi rods. I'll wash my hair on average every 5 days, to keep my curls in place. If I don't let it air dry, I will always use a diffuser; in my opinion they give the best curls I've ever seen in my life! Also, oil and moisturizer is key for your hair. I use a coconut oil mixture that gives it a tropical smell while acting as heat protectant if I were to straighten or blow dry.

My style is a mixture between relaxed and chic. Since I am a student, I have my everyday looks that include boyfriend jeans, converse and a fitted tee. I really like to keep it simple for school. When I do eyebrows I always wear black, so I find it fun to create chic looks using all black colors. I also work at Gap, so that is where I get most of my clothes from and I love it. Their jeans are bomb.com and they last forever. They have a curvy fit jean that is perfect for us women with a little booty back there! When I'm not working or going to school and have time to dress up, I channel my inner JLO. She is everything. I like to feel like JLO on the red carpet back in the 2000's wearing that deep-v, thigh bearing, iconic dress because who wouldn't want to feel how she looked?! Sexy. Although in Connecticut, it gets very cold so I don't get to dress like sexy JLO often. My favorite season in Connecticut is fall, not only because of my birthday in October, but fall fashion is the best fashion! I think the essentials for fall fashion include; a sleek leather jacket, ankle booties, thigh high boots, a warm vest and LOTS of scarves! Scarves have to be my favorite because I can use them around my hair, to keep my chest warm, or use them as a shawl over my shoulders.

There are a few things to my style that are significant and they are; my glasses, my hair, cross necklace, lipgloss and stylish nails.

Since second grade, I've had vision problems so I have been wearing glasses for quite some time now and my glasses are a part of me. Currently I'm sporting glittery Kate Spade glasses; they give my look a uniqueness that I love. Plus when I'm having a rough day my glasses cover the bags under my eyes! My hair is always changing, right now it's currently burgundy for the fall but I almost always wear it in an Afro. I feel like my hair speaks for itself, loud and proud just like me. I love my hair and thank my parents for blessing me with the curls, I feel like it represents my Puerto Rican culture and gives a little sass. I work at a hair salon called the Beauty Room in Wethersfield and they always keep my hair and curls fresh. I always wear my cross necklace because I keep God close to me at all times and as a reminder that every day and chance I get is a blessing. Next, is my lip gloss and yes it's poppin. Currently OBSESSED with Fenty Beauty gloss bomb but anything iridescent and light goes in my purse right away. I love the gloss look cause it's effortless for a girl on the go like myself, I love mattes but gloss just gives that extra POW when needed. Lastly, my nails represent me. Always being in people’s face,  the first thing they see are my hands and my nails so I always keep them on point. I work at a nail salon in Manchester called Bebe’s Nails, that specialize in slaying. I will never have a bad nail day ever.

It's been a pleasure letting you guys get to know me! If you're ever in the CT area stop by to get your brows done!”

Jaylene Lopez interviewed by The Site of Style

[tillman]

💋⚾️ <3

[hummingzone]

Last night was an anomaly, but it still shows Nets need more than their big three

Last night was an anomaly, but it still shows Nets need more than their big three

Things will be different when this is Giannis driving the lane.Image: Getty Images If you told me that the James Harden-Kevin Durant-Kyrie Irving trio would combine for 96 points, opposite 50 from Jayson Tatum and only 6 from Kemba Walker, I would’ve thought the Nets won that game by double figures. But last night, the Jaylen Brown-less Boston Celtics were up by double figures with three minutes…

[jrueships]

IT'S FINALLY FINISHED THANKS TO THE COLLECTIVE EFFORTS OF THE NBA MOOTS!! WE WIN!!!

let's begin 😎

OK so girlboss n malewife position dynamics differ from the str8 up position dynamics cus it relies more on the comparison to another person namean? like standalone steph klay jalen trae ja jimmy, theyre switchy, but shits a lil different here? expect some unexpected tops/bottoms! k so some MORE girlboss people I didn't have room for

Girlboss top: jimmy butler, MICHAEL JORDAN, jaylen brown, Robin lopez, Kawhi, Marcus smart, Rudy gay, Jonas valafuckthisshitbro, ja morant, OG, Fred vanvleet, pat bev, alex caruso LMAO, montrezl harrell, Charles barkley, BOBBYPORTIS WDJHD

Girlboss switch: rj barrett, dennis smith jr, Victor oladipo, collin sexton, de'aaron fox, Zach lavine, d'angelo Russell, immanuel quickley, Brandon ingram, javonte green, danny green, AI, pascal siakam,

Girlboss bottom: Chris Paul (powerbttm paul..), Donovan mitchell, kris dunn, tyrese maxey, keldon johnson, darius garland, dejounte murray, demarcus cousins, GP2, terry rozier, Wendell Carter jr

FOR THE MALEWIVES

Malewife top: boban, brook lopez, joel embiid, lebron, John wall, bam adebayo, myles turner, jarrett allen, royce o'neal, Ivica zubac, juancho hernangomez, Lou will, cade cunningham, shaq

Malewife switch: Jamal murray (confirmed by THE GURU and the guru's BELOVED!!), Devin Booker, luka doncic, carmelo anthony, Rudy gobert, KAT, Jordan poole, dwight howard, Giannis, Jordan clarkson, khris middleton, tyrese haliburton,

Malewife bottom: jrue holiday, Scottie pippen, Tobias harris, KD, Andre drummond, AD (unibrow bro), Jayson tatum, markelle fultz, Jae crowder, Andrew wiggins, Norman powell, Penny hardaway, coby white, jaesean tate, Daniel gafford, Blake griffin

[true-reality]

Robb Elementary Shooting

On May 24,2022, 19 kids and 2 adults were shot and killed including 17 people injured inside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX. The perpetrator was 18 year old Salvador Ramos who, before arriving at the school, he shot his grandma in the face at home, wounding her severely. Ramos entered the school with an AR-15 style rifle before shooting around 100 rounds into classroom 111 and 112 (where most of the victims were shot). 

A child from classroom 112 calls 911 and identifies her and the classroom number and once again calls a second time a few mintues later and then a third time and a fourth time. Law Enforcement in Uvalde have been criticzed about their tactics and protocols they had during the shooting. Police waited outside for 78 mins before going inside the classroom. Police were also outside on schools grounds causing conflict with parents who were trying to rescue their children who were still stuck inside.

Ramos was shot and killed after an off-duty US Border Patrol Agent Jacob Albarado rescued most of the children inside the classroom the shooter was in. Albarado did save most of the kids lives after shooting Ramos and ending his terrible act. Footage has been released recently of the 77 mins that the police were outside of the classrooms and chillingly enough, the childrens screams were edited out of the footage, a police officer was seen getting hand sanitizer and another officer checking his phone.

Memorials were set up outside of the school’s sign with crosses of each victims name on them, flowers, gifts, etc. Funerals and headstones were offered to the families of the victims for free by local and state businesses. Because of greif, one of the victims husbands, Joe Garcia, died of a heart attack two days after the shooting while attending an memorial.

This is now currently the third deadliest school shooting in the US.

Rest In Peace:

•Nevaeh Alyssa Bravo, 10

•Jacklyn Jaylen Cazares, 9

•Makenna Lee Elrod, 9

•Jose Manuel Flores Jr., 10

•Eliahna Amyah Garcia, 9

•Uziyah Sergio Garcia, 10

•Amerie Jo Garza, 10

•Xavier James Lopez, 10

•Jayce Carmelo Luevanos, 10

•Tess Marie Mata, 10

•Maranda Gail Mathis, 11

•Alithia Haven Ramirez, 10

•Annabell Guadalupe Rodriguez, 10

•Maite Yuleana Rodriguez, 10

•Alexandria Aniyah Rubio, 10

•Layla Marie Salazar, 11

•Jailah Nicole Silguero, 10

•Eliahna Cruz Torres, 10

•Rogelio Fernandez Torres, 10

•Irma Linda Garcia, 48

•Eva Mireles, 44

[96thdayofrage]

Twelve hours after a gunman walked into Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and killed 19 students and two adults, I learned that he was “lonely” and “bullied” for a stutter and a lisp. I learned that the 18-year-old mass murderer used to play video games like Fortnite and Call of Duty. I learned that the monster at one point used a knife to cut his own face. I learned that on his 18th birthday he purchased two assault rifles that he took photos of and posted online with the caption “my guns.”

And I don’t care.

I don’t care that he had a tough upbringing. I don’t care that middle school was difficult for him. I don’t care that he struggled to make friends.

This is not because I lack sympathy. It’s because all my sympathy is used up on the carnage he left behind. I care that Jacklyn Jaylen Cazares, 10, had the whole world in front of her and that she would help anyone who needed it. I care about her cousin Annabelle Rodriguez, also 10, who was killed in the massacre with her.

And he, whose name I will not mention in this piece because he will not gain infamy from my story in death, doesn’t get to do this. Just because you’ve had it tough, you don’t get to inflict pain and misery onto the rest of the world.

“He was the nicest kid, the most shyest kid. He just needed to break out of his shell,” his friend told The Washington Post.

Fuck that guy.

You know who else was a nice kid?

Eight-year-old Uziyah Garcia, whose grandfather described him as “the sweetest little boy that I’ve ever known.” And fourth grader Xavier Lopez, 10, who was the life of the party at all his family’s barbecues and had received his honor roll certificate just hours before he was killed.

I care about Eva Mireles, the teacher who died a hero protecting her students. For 17 years, Mireles taught the fourth grade out of pure love for her students. And I know this because my mother taught for 50 years and still has trouble paying her mortgage. There’s no money in teaching. Teachers are paid in smiles, hugs and mugs with silly sayings. It’s a barter system most of us will never understand and a love that many of us will never experience. And I don’t need to know if she shielded a child on the day she died: She was a hero 17 years ago when she walked to the front of her classroom, grossly underpaid, and gathered those tiny faces’ attention.

I don’t care about monsters.

Monsters destroy.

Monsters leave wreckage in their wake.

Monsters gorge until there is nothing left but sadness and pain.

The media needs to stop trying to make men out of monsters. Not everyone is redeemable. Sometimes what it looks like is exactly what it is. Sometimes evil wins.

I don’t ever need to know that the Buffalo mass shooter had a toothache. I don’t ever need to see the Sandy Hook shooter’s drawings or notebooks, or go back to the Charleston, South Carolina, church shooter’s home so that his father can say, “I don’t know what happened, I just know that the boy wasn’t raised that way.”

He was.

He wasn’t.

I don’t care.

Once a life intrudes on another in the most violent way, finding out what that life was before that moment doesn’t matter. I don’t believe that monsters are afforded the rights of people. They don’t get to be redeemed. There is no need for reflection on the life they lived up until that point.

They are monsters.

But for some reason, America wants to study them; it wants to know who they were before that day. Why? What difference does it make? Has it gotten us closer to understanding what makes them hate-filled and callous? Has it worked to curb the violence? If the goal isn’t to paint the monster in a more humanistic light, then why bother learning who they were before they attacked and unloaded their pain onto others?

In October 2017, columnists for Slate argued against my beliefs. In a piece titled “We Need to Humanize Shooters,” Elizabeth Adetiba and Jake Bittle argued that by not giving air to their stories we aren’t learning what makes them who they are and thus are stopped from preventing acts like this in the future. They write:

But responding to these harmful characterizations by saying that we must label mass shooters like [Las Vegas shooter Stephen] Paddock as “evil” and shun all information about their motives or struggles is course-correcting in the wrong direction. The truth, difficult as it may be to accept, is that societal influences play as much of a role in perpetuating mass shootings as they do in local, small-scale shootings. The magnitude of mass shootings makes the intentions behind them more difficult to comprehend, but these shooters are also products of a society that is notoriously apathetic toward more quotidian acts of violence.

While I agree that societal influences definitely play a part in the dejection and isolation that seems to be consistent in the mass-shooter profile, I don’t know what knowing that after the shooter has murdered innocent victims helps us to understand. Everyone is dejected and isolated at some point in life, but that doesn’t mean that any of us are going to commit mass murder. We would have to have precognition levels of insight to determine who has the propensity for this level of violence. But we can stop lionizing shooters and rehashing their past with a sympathetic bent.

If we must look at shooters past then it’s best we take our cue from this 2019 Los Angeles Times op-ed and use researchers’ exhaustive lookat every mass shooting since 1966 as the template. The authors found four common themes. The first was that the majority of shooters have experienced childhood trauma, and as a result have mental health issues. The second is that in the weeks or months leading up to the shooting, almost all of them had experienced some kind of crisis that led to their breaking point. The third is the most intrusive and telling: that almost all of them studied other shooters, and in the information age, many were radicalized online. Finally, all of the shooters found ways to carry out their plans, from finding the location to securing a weapon.

These findings tell us much more than knowing that the Uvalde shooter missed large portions of school and wasn’t on track to graduate.

Other than learning whether or not the shooter has died after the shooting or has lived and will face justice, I don’t need to know anything else about them, nor do I care. The best thing to come out of the Uvalde shooting was learning that the monster was dead. The family of those who lost loved ones that day will not have to be further terrorized like those in the Buffalo supermarket shooting who will have the see the monster’s face every time he goes to court. You don’t get to take away 19 of the most vulnerable among us and two adults who loved them like family and tell us after the tragedy, after the remains, after the devastation, how tough you’ve had it. Because at that point I don’t care. 

And the media needs to stop caring too.

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