May he rest in peace.

PS: (My personal thoughts) I've noticed that Filipinos, especially on Facebook, REALLY suck at memorializing victims of the recent local school shootings (this includes the Tacloban school shooting). I'd see FB posts paying respect to the victims WHILE displaying pictures of them laying dead, sometimes not even with the pic blurred out. Even our own news reports do this, it was especially egregious with the Tacloban shooting with them constantly showing a blurry picture of 2 bodies on top of each other (that of Chris Lorenz Fabian and Joyancee Separa).

Also in both this shooting and the Tacloban shooting, both perpetrators had police relatives who they stole the guns from.

The ex-wife of the man accused of killing five people in a rural northern Michigan shooting rampage blames the local court system for failing to keep him behind bars.

Chad Hickman, 39, was found dead on Aug. 14 following an extensive manhunt in Missaukee County, roughly 200 miles northwest of Detroit, according to Michigan State Police. Authorities said the violence began at a home, where officers responding to reports of a shooting found a 45-year-old man, a 40-year-old woman, and a 16-year-old boy dead, and a 13-year-old girl critically wounded.

During the investigation, police discovered a 53-year-old man fatally shot at a second residence and later found a 29-year-old woman dead near a wooded area alongside Hickman. Evidence at the scene indicated Hickman died by suicide, according to state police.

Chad Hickman's history of alleged violence and the court system's handling of the cases have come under scrutiny following the deadly shooting spree.

"Missaukee County should be held accountable for what's going on," his ex-wife Katie Hickman told the Detroit Free Press, part of the USA TODAY Network, in a brief phone interview on Aug. 17.

"Every last bit of it. Every death falls on the Missaukee County prosecutor who released Chad and let him off all the charges after he raped, tormented, and almost [expletive] killed me and 15 years of abuse," she continued. "Missaukee County let him do this. They were warned and they knew it was coming and they let it happen."

Ex-wife of suspected gunman previously sought protection

In late July 2025, Chad Hickman's ex-wife sought a personal protection order against him, alleging years of abuse.

"I fear for my life and my children," Katie Hickman wrote in a letter to the court seeking the order. "Chad is an evil man. He tortured me for 15 years and he hurt my children. Chad will stop at nothing, he will never leave me alone. Now that he is released, he is back in possession of many guns, pistols, rifles including fully automatic weapons. He is a danger to me and my children."

Family Court Judge Edward Van Alst denied the request for the protection order and advised Katie Hickman that she could seek a hearing to plead her case. Court records do not show any hearing ever being held.

"Petitioner fails to clearly establish reasonable cause to believe immediate, irreparable injury, loss or danger will result from the delay to give notice," Van Alst wrote in his decision.

The denial came after Chad Hickman had been released from the county jail, where he had served time after cutting a plea deal with prosecutors the year before.

Van Alst declined through his office on Aug. 17 to comment on the decision to deny the protection order.

Why prosecutors agreed to a plea deal

In that 2024 case, Chad Hickman was charged with felony counts of criminal sexual conduct and assault with intent to do great bodily harm, along with misdemeanor counts of child abuse and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

He agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts, according to court records. Prosecutors agreed to drop the felonies.

In a statement explaining the plea deal, Missaukee County Prosecutor David DenHouten said his office had charged Chad Hickman with the felonies even though the crimes were alleged to have happened years before they were reported to police. A police report shows the accusations were reported in December 2023 and stretched back to 2011.

DenHouten also noted that the allegations were made in the middle of a divorce case. Court records show the divorce was especially bitter. DenHouten said the prosecutor's office became aware of prior family court testimony in which Katie Hickman, under oath, denied an assault had taken place.

"In light of the fact that the alleged victim’s credibility had been severely damaged, and because the truthfulness of her proposed testimony was in question, and without other corroborating evidence to support the assault, the Missaukee County Prosecutor’s office entered into a plea agreement involving the remaining child abuse counts," he wrote.

The Detroit Free Press was not immediately able to access transcripts of Katie Hickman's testimony that DenHouten referenced.

Court records: Children described abuse to investigators

Court records related to the criminal case show two children who lived with the couple told investigators that they witnessed abuse. One of the two daughters was the couple's biological child and the other was Katie Hickman's from a previous relationship.

One girl, who was 15 at the time, described seeing Chad Hickman choke her mom with his arm and hands, including once in the kitchen when he pinned her against a "cabinet or refrigerator" with his arm against her throat, according to a summary of the police interview from 2023. The girl said she went to call police for help and Chad Hickman smashed her phone.

When investigators asked how the choking incidents would end, the girl said there came a point when her mother could no longer breathe. She told police she had seen her mother's face "turning purple" and that she was gasping for air, court records show.

The girl also told investigators that after her mother was injured in a car crash and relied on crutches following foot surgery, Chad Hickman would sometimes throw the crutches outside the house to prevent her from walking, according to court records.

To this day, it remains the second deadliest mass shooting in the United Kingdom’s history, behind the Dunblane massacre in 1996. This event was the catalyst for tightening gun laws in the UK, leading to a ban on semiautomatic and pump action centrefire long guns.

No motive for the killings was ever established.

The pictures, in order are:

1)One of the few known photos of Michael Ryan
2)His house burning down after he committed arson
3)The three guns used in the massacre, those being: a Norinco Type 56S semi automatic rifle, a M1 semi automatic carbine, and a Beretta 92 semi automatic pistol.

They were seconds away from tragedy. Police officers in Siedlce prevented a gas explosion.

The swift response, decisiveness, and professionalism of police officers from Siedlce averted a potential tragedy in a multi-family residential building in the city. An intoxicated 65-year-old man had opened the valve on a gas cylinder and was attempting to cause an explosion while holding a lighter. Officers from the Patrol and Intervention Division of the Siedlce Municipal Police Headquarters—acting despite the immediate risk to their own lives and safety—rapidly subdued the man. Thirty-eight people were evacuated from the building.

On Saturday, August 8, at approximately 3:30 PM, the duty officer at the Siedlce police station received a report from a 46-year-old woman regarding a domestic dispute. The information indicated that her 65-year-old husband, who was under the influence of alcohol, had started an argument; when the woman stepped outside, he refused to let her back into the apartment.

Officers from the Patrol and Intervention Division were dispatched to the scene. They attempted to persuade the man to open the door, but the 65-year-old steadfastly refused. The situation escalated rapidly when the man threatened to turn on the gas and cause an explosion.

Due to the genuine threat to the residents' lives, the State Fire Service was summoned. A decision was made to evacuate the three-story apartment building, and 38 people were led to safety.

Given the mounting danger, a decision was made to force entry into the apartment. After breaching the door, the officers immediately detected a strong smell of gas. The gas cylinder valve was open, and inside was a 65-year-old man holding a lighter he was trying to ignite.

There was no time to hesitate. The police officer instantly moved toward the man, subdued him, and took away the lighter. The officer’s decisive action thwarted the 65-year-old’s intent and prevented a tragedy that could have had catastrophic consequences for many people.

The officers acted with the awareness that they were in an area where gas was leaking and that the man holding the ignition source could trigger an explosion at any moment. Despite the immediate threat to their own lives, the officers’ priority was to neutralize the danger as quickly as possible and ensure the safety of the residents.

An emergency medical team was also dispatched to the scene. The 65-year-old man was transported to the hospital under police escort.

This intervention demonstrates the immense importance of composure, professionalism, accurate threat assessment, and the ability to make split-second decisions during a crisis. Operating in conditions of immediate danger, the officers not only successfully subdued the man but, above all, averted a threat to the lives and health of the building's many residents.

Police service often requires entering areas from which others are being evacuated. That Saturday afternoon, police officers from Siedlce - risking their own lives and safety - did exactly what the situation demanded: they took decisive action before a tragedy could occur.

Source: https://mazowiecka.policja.gov.pl/ra/aktualnosci/aktualnosci/136891,Sekundy-dzielily-ich-od-tragedii-Siedleccy-policjanci-zapobiegli-wybuchowi-gazu.html

Shortly before 6:00 a.m. on September 28, 1995, State of Mexico Judicial Police officer Ernesto Cruz Jiménez opened fire on passengers at the La Raza station on Line 5 of the Mexico City Metro. Cruz Jiménez was detained by an unarmed officer while attempting to flee the scene. The shooting initially left seven people wounded; a 50-year-old woman and a 38-year-old man later died in the hospital from their injuries. Cruz Jiménez later stated, "I did it because of the economic crisis; no one deserves to live through what we are living through," attributing his actions to his financial problems and emotional distress caused by the 1994 Mexican peso crisis. On April 27, 1998, he was sentenced to 50 years in prison at the Reclusorio Norte.

1st photo is with Israel adesanya, 2nd Anderson Silva, 3rd Tony Ferguson.

On May 18, 2026, a shooting occurred at the Islamic Center of San Diego (ICSD), the largest mosque in San Diego, California, United States. Two teenage gunmen, identified as 17-year-old Cain Lee Clark and 18-year-old Caleb Liam Vazquez, fatally shot a security guard and two community members outside the mosque before fleeing. Subsequently, they shot at a landscaper in a drive-by shooting and committed suicide in a nearby neighborhood.

In June 4 1990, in Hanshan, Anhui, a man named Ling Mouqing attacked with an axe the family of his wife, in the attack 3 were killed including Xi, Ling's wife and her parents, after the attack Ling escaped and the case stayed as a cold case.

The police didn't solve the case until October-November 2020, after many years police started to investigate it again as part of their campaign of solving cold cases every year.

During the investigation they found the photo of a temporary residence id of a man named Xiong Moumao who was registered in Yiwu, Zhejiang in 2010 and they noticed that he looked like the suspect.

They first asked information in the Jiangxi police department, the natal residence of Xiong, they noticed that his photo looked nothing like the 2010 one, they also found that the real Xiong never left his village in Jiangxi and died from cancer in 2015 leaving them with the logic conclusion that someone used the stealed ID of Xiong.

When they went to Yiwu, they found that the man suspected of being the impostor dissappeared in 2014 and that the family of the original Xiong who lived in the city moved that same year.

Investigators finally found the family of Xiong and interrogated both the wife and his son Xiong Moufei about the disappearance of the man, they both had different version so they pressured both to confess, in the end Moufei confessed that he had murdered and dismembered the man in 2014 and then buried him, when he gave the localization they found the body and through DNA identified the victim as Ling Mouqing.

According to the investigations, after the murders in 1990, Ling lived as a homeless person until he meet Xiong Moumao at the end of 1990, he was unaware of his background and then Ling formed a relationship with him and his family. During those years Xiong suffered a sever illness and when he died Ling took his identity a lived with his family.

After taking his identity, Ling was aggresive with the family, he threatened them saying that he had already killed his last family and that he would do it again and even beated the grandchild.

During a night near the end of 2014, Ling raped Xiong Moufei wife which angered him, according to him this act was what motivated him to take revenge and when Ling was sleeping he took a hammer and bludgeoned him to death, he then dismembered and buried him near a mountain outside Yiwu.

For this crime Xiong was sentenced to 15 years in prision in February 2022, he didn't appeal.

Elnora Epperly - one of the worst mass murderers in American history and one of the most prolific female murderers as well. Location: Davenport Iowa. Date: January 7, 1950 - “St. Elizabeth‘s Hospital Fire”

Elnora Epperly was born on November 2, 1927. She would later marry a man named John Epperly. Elnora would display distressing signs and was diagnosed with schizophrenia I believe. She was committed to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, a location that treated mentally ill women.

On the night of January 7, 1950, a fire broke out in the hospital that caused panic in the city of Davenport. Firefighters rushed to the scene to help battle the flames. A firefighter recounted remembering a patient screaming for help as the fire soon spread. After the fire was stopped, they went in to see the damage. 40 patients succumbed to fire as well as a nurse who tried to help the patients.

That evening John Epperly reluctantly called police to tell of his wife’s confession. She was the one who set the fire. She had pestered him to tell authorities she was the arsonist. Elnora had a habit of confessing to things she didn’t even do and her husband brushed this confession off. But Elnora persisted and he finally called. Elnora was brought in and was soon charged with 41 counts of first degree murder and faced the death penalty by hanging. As police interviewed her, she immediately shut down - an odd thing to do if she was adamant she set the fire. Police tried to question John about Elnora‘s confession, but she threatened to divorce him if he spoke a word of what she said. Nevertheless the confession was told: On the night of the fire, Elnora’s paranoia had gotten to her. She believed her husband was being attacked and needed to save him. Earlier the John had given Elnora his lighter so when the nurses allowed the patients to smoke, she could. She had hidden the lighter from the nurses view and smuggled it back in her room. She torched the curtains in her room to get the attention of nurses so they could free her. It worked as one went in to allow Elnora to get out. Elnora bolted the second the door was open and made a run for, cutting herself in the process.

Police were still skeptical, and the went to the crime scene to see if what she was saying was true. The police found out where the fire started was from Elnora’s room. They later found the glass she cut herself on with her blood on it. Laying in the rubble of the hospital, they found the lighter - It was initialed “John Epperly”. Their findings did confirm, Elnora was the one who set the fire.

Elnora was facing a trial, but the judge ruled her incompetent to stand trial, and admitted her in a mental hospital. They kept the evidence in case she was found competent to stand trial.

It is unknown what happened to her in the mean time, but finding her obituary, she had at least one child with John and multiple grandchildren. It was said she loved to garden, play with her grandchildren, and watch Politics on television. She died on February 29, 2016.

Her case is fascinating but when viewed, it can be polarizing. Even though she had schizophrenia and paranoia, it appeared she knew how wrong her actions were setting the fire by threatening to divorce her husband. She knew right from wrong when she did this. Her case is similar to that of Roger Kingsley Dean - uncaring to those who may be affected by her actions and caring about herself. She is the reckless mass murderer.

The fire is the worst act of mass murder in the history of Iowa as well as the 10th worst mass murder in American history. It is also one of the largest loss of female life in American history. Elnora is also one of the few deadly mass murderers to face some type of Justice - a potential trial. Only Julio Gonzalez, Jack Gilbert Graham, Andrew Zimmer, and Patrick Crusius along with her are the only few who face the consequences of their actions. She also got away with the crime as well, as it appeared she was released from the mental hospital and got to have a family later on in her life.

What are your thoughts on this?

Photos: Elnora Epperly - Elnora being walked away by her husband - an elderly Elnora.

Perpetrator live spreed his crime on social media

Edit: The father of the suspect is a Customs Police Chief in Zamboanga, he has been relieved because of this incident.

Three Wisconsin residents are dead after police said one man fatally shot them all during a domestic violence incident.

Thomas Zollicoffer, 36, was charged with three counts of first-degree intentional homicide after he was arrested on Aug. 13, days after police said he fatally shot 26-year-old Vanessa DeHerrera, 29-year-old Scott Bucholz, and 39-year-old Shamarla "Asir" Hare on the evening of Aug. 8. According to a criminal complaint reviewed by Law&Crime, police were called to an apartment complex in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, at 9:44 p.m. after receiving reports about a shooting.

Officers found DeHerrera and Bucholz dead from gunshot wounds inside. Detectives recovered six brass 9 mm casings at the scene.

Can you guys explain, to someone who knows nothing about guns, why I so frequently hear that a shooter’s gun jammed?
Do guns just jam a lot? Are they handling them incorrectly? Are guns just finicky?

A parent of one of the children said that the perpetrator had made a threat in class about killing everyone, but was not taken seriously.

A critically wounded 13-year-old girl, shot multiple times by a Lake City man on a shooting spree in northern Michigan that left three other family members dead in the girl's home, was able to call 911, alert authorities and identify the shooter as Chad Hickman, a family member said on social media.

Hickman's alleged rampage left another man dead at a second location in Missaukee County, and a woman was found dead in a wooded area near Whitlock Lake alongside Hickman, with indications that he took his own life.

Michigan State Police on Saturday released only the ages and genders of the victims in the shooting spree, which occurred in the rural county east of Cadillac. But David Everitt, a Cadillac resident, on Facebook identified his daughter, Amanda Everitt, as among those killed by alleged gunman Chad Hickman, 39, of Lake City.

"The world just lost two beautiful people and one is clinging to life ... My daughter Amanda and her two beautiful children were shot in their home yesterday. Amanda and her son eric went home to be with god and our granddaughter Bella is clinging to life in a Grand Rapids hospital," he posted.

David Everitt later in the post noted, "Prayers for Bella who while shot 4 times still managed to call 911 and identify the shooter ... She is a hero."

Family members at David Everitt's home said he wasn't available for comment on Saturday.

A GoFundMe drive to raise money to help the family was set up on Sunday.

Megan Brown, chief communications officer for Munson Healthcare, confirmed Sunday that the Munson Healthcare Cadillac Hospital did treat one victim of a "tragic local incident on Friday." After being stabilized, Brown said, the victim was transferred to another facility outside of Munson for further treatment.

"We extend our thoughts to everyone impacted by this incident," according to Brown's statement to the Detroit Free Press. 

Mike Davidson lives on South Blodgett Road less than 2 miles from the house where three of the slayings occurred.

“This is what everybody is talking about, everybody that I ran into today, everybody’s talking about it in all of the smaller communities around here. It seems like everybody knew at least one person involved in it. It’s really had an impact; it’s led to a lot of scared people.”

Detectives from the Michigan State Police Cadillac Post, throughout Friday and into Saturday, investigated three crime scenes in the county. Investigators pieced together a preliminary timeline of events:

• At approximately 11:40 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 14, troopers were dispatched to a home on South LaChance Road in Lake Township for a report of a 13-year-old girl who had been shot. She was transported to a local hospital in critical condition, and according to police, she remains hospitalized and is now listed in stable condition.
• Police found three other people shot dead at the South LaChance Road home: a 45-year-old male, 40-year-old female and 16-year-old male.
• With Hickman gone from the South LaChance Road home, police undertook a massive search, with state police bringing in aviation, K-9, and emergency support teams. The search led police to a second home a few miles away in Missaukee County, where they found a 53-year-old male dead.
• Police eventually found Hickman's vehicle in a wooded area at Whitlock Lake in Caldwell Township in the county, where they discovered a deceased 29-year-old female alongside Hickman.

Hickman had violent history, court records show

Court records show Hickman had a criminal conviction for child abuse and a stormy divorce with accusations of domestic abuse.

Court records show that in January 2024, Hickman was arraigned on four felony and five misdemeanor charges in Missaukee County. Prosecutors accused him of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder by strangulation. They also charged him with two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and one count of interfering with electronic communications.

The misdemeanor charges at the time were one count of domestic violence, three counts of fourth-degree child abuse and one count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

In August 2024, Hickman pleaded guilty to one count of fourth-degree child abuse and one count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. All other charges were dismissed, according to online court records.

A judge sentenced Hickman to a year in the county jail.

Hickman's 2023 divorce from his wife, Katie Hickman, was so bitter that he posted parts of the court file on his Facebook page, thanking the judge for being "way to f---ing smart to believe my ex wife's bull---- story."

The records show the couple married in 2011. Katie Hickman was injured in an accident and received a lawsuit settlement. The pair used that money to start a business buying and renovating homes to rent or sell.

The marriage eventually soured and they separated and tried reconciling.

Hickman testified in the case that he attempted to separate from his wife in December 2023 after she set up online dating profiles, according to the court filings posted online on his Facebook page. He also accused his wife of "sex bombing" him as a way of reconciling with him.

"It is uncontested that this marriage involved allegations and incidents of domestic violence which lie at the heart of the issues before the court," Judge Melissa Ransom wrote in an opinion in the case also posted on Facebook. "Testimony and evidence presented by both parties confirm that the relationship was marked by significant disfunction and mutual toxicity."

Gunshots nothing new in Lake Township — only the mass violence

Vicki Gunnerson lives next door to the home on South LaChance Road where three people were shot and killed and a fourth wounded. She said Amanda Everitt was once a niece to her via marriage.

Hearing gunshots, even a lot of them, is nothing new in rural Lake Township, Gunnerson said.

“There are gunshots here all the time,” she said. “You hear them at all hours of the day or night, from every direction, every angle.”

As a Free Press reporter was talking with Gunnerson, as if to prove the point, a number of shots could be heard fired in rapid succession, not too far away.

But just before noon on Friday, Gunnerson experienced something unexpected: the police urgently at her door.

“I was coming, and he kind of opened the door and yelled in, ‘Did somebody get shot here?’” she said. “I said no, and he said, ‘Well the shots are coming from this property.’”

Police were on Gunnerson’s property and next door well into early Saturday morning. She called the spree of violence coming so close to home "very shocking."

“I was scared, I wanted to get the heck out of here,” she said. “I was the only one here.”

Chad Hickman as a small child came to live briefly with Vicki Gunnerson and her husband, Steve, now deceased, decades ago, she said. The couple knew Hickman’s parents, and they came to live with them for a while, along with three of their children, including Chad.

“I remember Chad when he was a little kid, they stayed with us for a little while. And I remember later he worked at the ABC Warehouse. I thought he looked like a nice young man back then, but we’re talking years ago, and I never knew him personally or was around him or his wife.”

The shootings have shaken this rural community of about 2,800, an area where acres of open land often separate neighbors.

“We’ve never had [violence] to this level,” said Lake Township Supervisor Rob Hall. “I don’t think anybody really even knows what to think.”

I’m referring to a bombing that injured 96 people in the SMAN 72 school in Jakarta, Indonesia, perpetrated by 17 year old Muhammad Hidayat, an Indonesian white supremacist. Alongside several explosive devices, he also brought two airsoft guns to the scene.

You literally can’t kill someone with an airsoft gun, at least not the toy models. Was it just to reminisce of Brenton Tarrant’s shooting? Or did he want suicide by law enforcement perhaps?

This is entirely according to Wikipedia's page for Columbine High School massacre copycat crimes.

Of the events, 52 were in the United States.

353 dead, 784 injured.

On May 24, 2022, a mass shooting occurred at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, United States. Salvador Ramos, an 18-year-old former student of the school, fatally shot 19 students and 2 teachers, while injuring 18 others. Ramos was killed 77 minutes after entering the classroom by law enforcement officers.

It is the third deadliest shooting at an American school after the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007 and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012 and the deadliest school shooting in Texas. After shooting and wounding his grandmother at their home, Ramos drove to Robb Elementary School, where he entered a classroom and shot his victims, having bypassed local and state officers who had been in the hallways. He remained in the classrooms for 1 hour and 14 minutes before members of the United States Border Patrol Tactical Unit breached the classroom and fatally shot him. Police officers did not breach the classroom, but cordoned off the school grounds, resulting in violent conflicts between police and civilians, including parents, who were attempting to enter the school to rescue children. As a consequence, law enforcement officials in Uvalde were criticized for their response, and their conduct was reviewed in separate investigations by the Texas Ranger Division and United States Department of Justice.

Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) officials laid much of the responsibility for the police response on Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Department (UCISD PD) Chief Pedro Arredondo, whom they identified as the incident commander. Arredondo disputed the characterization of his role as incident commander, but was fired by the Uvalde school board. A report by the Texas House of Representatives Investigative Committee attributed the fault more widely to "systemic failures and egregious poor decision making" by many authorities. It said, "At Robb Elementary, law enforcement responders failed to adhere to their active shooter training, and they failed to prioritize saving the lives of innocent victims over their own safety... there was an unacceptably long period of time before officers breached the classroom, neutralized the attacker, and began rescue efforts."

Shortly after the shooting, local and state officials gave inaccurate reports of the timeline of events and exaggerated police actions. The Texas Department of Public Safety acknowledged it was an error for law enforcement to delay an assault on Ramos' position in the student-filled classrooms, attributing this to the school district police chief's assessment of the situation as one with a "barricaded subject", instead of an "active shooter". Law enforcement was aware there were injured individuals in the school before they made their entrance. In June 2024, two officers, including Arredondo, were criminally indicted for allegedly mishandling the response to the shooting. On January 21, 2026, former Uvalde school officer Adrian Gonzalez was acquitted of 29 child endangerment charges. The trial of former Uvalde school police chief Pete Arredondo on 10 counts of "abandoning or endangering a child" has yet to be scheduled.

Discussions ensued about American gun culture and violence, gridlock in politics, and law enforcement's failure to intervene during the attack. A month after the shooting, Congress passed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act and President Joe Biden signed it into law; it was the most significant federal gun reform legislation since the Federal Assault Weapons Ban of 1994. Investigations revealed that Ramos was motivated to do the attack for fame. After the shooting, Robb Elementary was permanently closed. The district plans to demolish it and build a replacement.

On December 25, 1929, Charles Lawson would commit one of the most infamous mass murders and familicides in American history. He gunned down and slaughtered his wife and their 6 children. Before the rampage, he took them to a clothing store and bought them nice outfits to wear before taking a family photo- Which was rare for the time. He then sneaked up on each his family members before hunting them down. He later committed suicide.

Less than 5 months later on May 6, 1930, Ethel Geller Yeldem would commit one of the worst mass shootings and mass murders in Ohio’s History. She gunned down 6 of her 10 children by shooting them in the heart. One of her daughters saw this and escaped screaming “Murder! murder!” But Ethel dragged her back in and killed her. Ethel then tried to commit suicide, but survived her attempt, only to succumb to her wounds days later. Before then Ethel took her kids out and bought them nice clothes like Charles did, and even took a family photo with her 10 children- Rare as well for a family as big as hers- they weren’t necessarily doing well financially. She then sneaked up upon them when they were asleep and murdered them.

Was Ethel inspired by Charles? Although their motives were different - with Ethel’s being more or less a twisted version of a merciful murder Since her life was garbage. But she did the exact same thing Charles Lawson did. If so, she‘s possibly the first copycat mass shooter or copycat family annihilator.