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Callaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm Read Carter, and welcome
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to celebrity trials on this Wednesday, July thirtieth. Yesterday, we
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told you that generally we bring you trials, but some
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horrible crimes will never see a courtroom because the perpetrators
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chose to take their own lives rather than face justice.
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Monday's mass shooting in Manhattan reminds us that while we
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focus on legal proceedings and courtroom drama, the deadliest criminals
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often write their own final chapters. We're bringing you updates
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on three cases of sudden violence that shocked America this week.
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A former football player's rampage at NFL headquarters, a random
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stabbing spree at a Michigan walmart, and ongoing testimony in
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a Washington trial where parents tried to commit an honor
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killing of their own teenage daughter. These stories show us
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different faces of American violence. The aggrieved gunmen seeking revenge
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against an institution, the random attacker targeting innocent strangers, and
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the calculated family violence hidden behind cultural traditions. What connects
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them all is the speed with which ordinary people can
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become capable of extraordinary evil. Let's start with Monday's massacre
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in Manhattan, where the deadliest mass shooting in New York
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City in twenty five years played out in the shadow
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of one of America's most powerful sports organizations. Shane Devon Tamura,
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a twenty seven year old from Las Vegas, drove cross
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country to execute a plan that ended with five dead
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and a city in shock. The gunmen walked into three
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forty five Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan shortly after the
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close of business Monday, armed with an M four rifle
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and opened fire in the lobby and again on the
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thirty third floor before taking his own life. But this
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wasn't a random mass shooting. This was a calculated attack
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with a specific target, the National Football League. In a
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suicide note found in Tamura's pocket, he expressed grievances with
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the NFL and its handling of CTE chronic traumatic encephalopathy,
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a brain disease linked to head trauma. The note revealed
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the depth of Tamura's delusion and rage. Terry Long Football
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gave me CTE and it caused me to drink a
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gallon of anti freeze, Timura wrote. According to sources, you
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can't go against the NFL. They'll squash you. Terry Long
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was a former Pittsburgh Steelers player who was diagnosed with
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CTE and died by suicide in two thousand and five
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after drinking anti freeze. Study my brain. Please, I'm sorry,
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tell Rick, I'm sorry for everything, the note continued. Think
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about that for a moment. Timura had constructed an entire
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narrative where his mental illness was caused by playing high
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school football and where the NFL was somehow responsible for
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his suffering. His attack wasn't just about revenge. It was
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about forcing the world to examine his brain after death
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to prove his theory. Here's what we know about Timura's
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path to Monday's violence. He was a competitive high school
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football player in southern California who earned all conference honors,
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but according to former classmates and coaches, he never expressed
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ambitions to play in college or the NFL. I knew
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so many kids in high school who made it clear
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that's all they wanted to do. One former teammate said,
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I never got that from Shane. So how did a
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high school football player who never pursued the sport professionally
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convince himself that the NFL was responsible for his mental illness.
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The answer lies in the dangerous intersection of legitimate scientific
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research and personal delusion. CTE is a real disease that
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has been found in the brains of numerous deceased NFL players.
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The league has faced massive lawsuits over its handling of
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head trauma and brain injuries. But Tamura took this legitimate
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scientific concern and weaponized it into a personal grievance that
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justified mass murder. Tamora had recently driven across the country
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from Las Vegas to New York, with his vehicle tracked
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through Colorado on Saturday, Nebraska, and Iowa on Sunday, and
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arriving in Manhattan just hours before the shooting. This wasn't
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a spontaneous act of violence. This was a premeditated cross
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country journey to commit murder. The attack began when Tamura
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entered the building lobby and immediately opened fire on Officer
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Didarul Islam, a thirty six year old NYPD officer who
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was working security. Islam, a Bangladeshi immigrant with two young
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sons and a pregnant wife, died trying to protect innocent people.
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He is being hailed as a hero who gave his
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life in service to others. After killing Islam, Tamora shot
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a woman taking cover behind a pillar and fired at
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others before taking an elevator to the thirty third floor.
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But here's where Tamura's plan went wrong. From our preliminary investigation,
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he took the wrong elevator bank up to the NFL headquarters.
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Mayor Eric Adams said, Instead, it took him to Rudent management,
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and that is where he carried out additional shootings and
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took the lives of additional employees. The NFL offices are
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on the fifth floor of the building. Timora's rage was
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so focused on the league that he couldn't even navigate
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to the right floor to carry out his revenge fantasy. Instead,
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he murdered innocent real estate employees who had nothing to
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do with his imagined grievances. Among the dead was Wesley Lapatner,
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a Blackstone executive who embodied the best of Blackstone and
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leaves behind a husband and children. She was brilliant, passionate, warm, generous,
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and deeply respected within our firm and beyond, the company, said.
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An NFL employee was seriously injured but survived. The entire
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attack was captured on surveillance cameras showing Tamora's methodical approach
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to mass murder. Security footage shows him exiting a black
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BMW while carrying an M four rifle, entering the lobby,
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and immediately opening fire. The building's cameras documented every moment
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of his rampage until he barricaded himself on the thirty
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third floor and took his own life. What makes this
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case particularly chilling is how Timura's former friends and classmates
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described him. When I knew him, he was a great teammate,
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He was a great guy in general. He didn't cause
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any problems actually at all, in the locker room or
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on the field. A former teammate said, you never would
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have thought violence was something you'd associate with him. This
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is the face of modern mass violence, not the obviously
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disturbed loner, but the seemingly normal person who constructs an
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elaborate grievance narrative that justifies unspeakable acts. Timora convinced himself
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that playing high school football had given him a brain disease,
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that the NFL was covering up his condition, and that
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mass murder was the only way to force the world
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to acknowledge his suffering. The tragedy is that CTE research
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exists precisely to help players like Tomorra might have been.
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The scientific community and even the NFL have acknowledged the
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link between repetitive head trauma and brain disease, but Tamora
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took legitimate research and twisted it into a justification for murder,
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targeting people who had nothing to do with his alleged condition.
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Back in a moment, while New York was reeling from
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Monday's mass shooting, Michigan was dealing with its own outbreak
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of sudden violence. On Saturday, a man armed with a
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folding knife went on a stabbing spree at a Walmart
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in Traverse City, attacking eleven people before heroic bystanders stopped
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him in the parking lot. Bradford James Giel, forty two,
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of Afton, Michigan, entered the busy walmart at four ten
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PM and waited inside for thirty five minutes before carrying
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out his attack. Think about that he wasn't in a rage,
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He wasn't responding to some immediate trigger. He walked into
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the store, looked around for over half an hour, and
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then decided to start stabbing strangers. All eleven victims, who
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range in age from twenty nine to eighty four, are
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expected to survive. One was treated and released, two are
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in serious condition, and the rest are in fair condition.
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But the psychological trauma of this random attack will last
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far longer than the physical wounds. Eyewitness accounts described the
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chaos as Gilah moved through the store with his knife.
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By the time an employee in the checkout area yelled
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about a man with a knife, it was too late.
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Nearly a dozen people had been stabbed. Grand Travers County
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Sheriff Michael Shay said, but what happened next shows the
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best of humanity in response to the worst. Matt Kolakowski,
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a thirty nine year old former marine who was shopping
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with his thirteen year old daughter, heard a store employee
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yell he's got a knife. His military training kicked in
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and he told his daughter to stay put while he
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and his brother in law, Chris O'Brien took off after
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the suspect. Kolakowski didn't have any weapon, so he grabbed
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an empty grocery cart in the parking lot. He rammed
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the attacker in the ankle with the cart, lifted it
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over his head, and tried to slam it down on
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the man. Another marine who happened to be in the
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parking lot drew his gun on the attacker, showing the
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kind of citizen response that probably prevented even more casualties.
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He was screaming something about him being a soldier and
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that everybody in Walmart were bad people, Kolakowski said. The
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attacker's delusional thinking that random shoppers at Walmart were somehow
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bad people who deserved to be stabbed shows the same
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kind of warped logic we saw with Shane Tamura in Manhattan. Eventually,
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the attacker dropped his knife and Kolakowski held him down
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until deputies arrived. When the officer recognized Kolakowski as a
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fellow veteran, he handed him first aid supply and asked
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him to help treat the wounded. It was just mass
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panic in the parking lot, ambulances, lights everywhere, sirens everywhere,
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blood everywhere, Kolakowski said. Gila faces one count of terrorism
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and eleven counts of assault with intent to murder. The
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terrorism charge was brought because of the attacks impact on
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the entire community, not just individual victims. Obviously, the victims
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are most affected, but it is we believe, in some ways,
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done to affect the entire community, to put fear in
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the entire community, and to change how maybe we operate
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on a daily basis. Prosecutor Noel Muggenberg said the motive
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remains unknown, but Gila's criminal history shows prior assault of
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incidents as well as controlled substance violations. He may have
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previously lived in the area and was somewhat familiar with it,
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but investigators haven't determined why he returned or why he
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chose Walmart as his target. This case highlights how random
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violence can strike anywhere, any time. Traverse City is a
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small community of about sixteen thousand people, known for its beaches, wineries,
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and annual cherry festival. It's exactly the kind of place
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where people don't expect mass violence, but Gila's attack shows
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that no community is immune to sudden, senseless violence. The
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difference between this case and the Manhattan shooting is the
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response of bystanders. In New York, Shane Tamura was armed
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with a military style rifle in a corporate office building.
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In Michigan, Bradford Gilly had a folding knife in a
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public space where armed citizens and military veterans were present.
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The presence of people willing to fight back probably saved
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lives and definitely prevented additional casualties. Now, let's turn to
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Washington State, where a different kind of violence is playing
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out in a courtroom. Iksan and Zara Ali are on
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trial for attempting to murder their own seventeen year old
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daughter in what prosecutors call an attempted honor killing. The trial,
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which has been ongoing for over two weeks, centers on
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an October eighteenth, twenty twenty four incident outside Timberline High
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School in Lacey, Washington. The Aelias's daughter, Fadimah, had run
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away from home that morning because she didn't want to
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travel to Iraq with her family to be forced into
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an arranged marriage with an older man. Court documents reveal
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that Isan Ali had recently threatened his daughter with an
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honor killing for refusing the arranged marriage and for dating
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a sixteen year old boy against their cultural and religious beliefs.
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When Fadima sought help from a counselor at her high school,
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her parents tracked her down at the bus stop. What
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happened next was captured on surveillance video. And cell phone
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footage that has shocked courtroom observers. Witnesses say Isan punched
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Fadima's boyfriend and then placed his daughter in a choke
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hold until she lost consciousness. His arm was wrapped around
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her throat. One eyewitness testified. Multiple witness described Fatima's lips
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turned purple and her eyes were rolling back. The attack
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was so violent that bystanders intervened, with multiple students and
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adults punching Ishan to try to free Fatimah. A bus
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driver who witnessed the attack described how he blew his
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horn and yelled for Hissan to let her go, but
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the father remained focused and silent, not reacting to the
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punches from people trying to save his daughter. Fatimah herself
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has testified in the trial, describing how the conversation with
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her father began calmly but escalated when she talked back
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to him. I was heartbroken for what my dad did
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and was afraid of dying, she told the jury. She
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testified that when she regained consciousness, her mother, Zarah, was
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holding on to her by her chest and neck, though
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Fatima said she didn't believe her mother was trying to
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hurt her. Medical testimony has been particularly damaging to the defense.
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Doctor Joyce Gilbert, a pediatrician, showed jurors c TEA scams
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revealing air trapped outside Fadama's trachea. Following the incident, multiple
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medical professionals testified about strangulation symptoms. They observed PATIKII small
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red spots on her eyes and face, abrasions and discoloration
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on her neck and shoulder, and ongoing symptoms weeks later,
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including blurry vision, jaw pain, and neck pain. Perhaps most
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chilling was testimony from forensic nurse examiner Sgnovia Rivas, who
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specializes in strangulation cases. She detailed the symptoms. Fatima reported dizziness, numbness, headache,
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memory issues described as life flashing before eyes, visual changes,
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sore throat, difficulty breathing, and pain throughout her body. The
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defense has struggled with the overwhelming evidence against their clients.
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Isan Ali's attorney argued that the case boils down to
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fifty three seconds and claimed that Fatima's boyfriend was the
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aggressor who struck first, but the frame by frame video
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analysis shows is San grabbing his daughter and choking her
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until she lost consciousness. Zara Ali's defense attorney made a
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remarkable closing argument that essentially admitted his client was different,
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but argued she shouldn't be judged differently because of her
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cultural background. My client is different. You can't allow yourself
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to look at her any differently and reach a decision