Once again the media ignore the real issues to push their own agenda.
LA Times Emphasizes 'Fascination with Guns,' not Mental Illness, in Santa
Monica Shooting
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The *Los Angeles Times* is reporting that the 24-year-old Santa Monica
shooter had a history of mental illness but leads a June 9 story with the
claim of an “unnamed source” who said that the killer had a "fascination
with guns."
In the *Times*
report<http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-santa-monica-gunman-had-fascination-with-guns-friend-says-20130609%2c0%2c4286367.story>the
story about killer John Zawahri leads with two paragraphs detailing
the
claims of this unnamed source, but the spends many more paragraphs
discussing his mental health problems and run-ins with the law.
It is interesting that the paper leads with this claim when there is far
more evidence of Zawahri’s run-ins with the police in the past, his
reputation as a young man with an explosive temper, and his undefined
mental problems.
Yet the paper quotes an unnamed person said to be familiar with the
murderer and his family who feels he had "a fascination with guns." This
unnamed person also claims that many people were worried about Zawahri's
gun fixation and also wondered where he got the money for the firearms.
But the *Times* finds that Zawahri had a history of emotional problems. He
was upset over his parents divorce and police had been called to his family
home in 2006 over an incident of domestic violence.
Santa Monica police chief Jacqueline Seabrooks confirmed that the
department had at least one incident with Zawahri but refused to divulge
details because he was a minor at the time of the incident.
On Friday afternoon, Zawahri killed his father and brother--Samir Zawahri,
55, and Chris, 25--set their home ablaze, then forced a woman to drive him
around as he shot at people. He ended up at Santa Monica College where he
attempted to shoot more people. Ultimately, police killed the shooter the
the school library.
Randa Abdou, Zawahri's mother, is currently overseas in Lebanon, the
shooter's parent's place of origin, and police have had trouble getting in
contact with her.
Police also report that Abdou had filed domestic abuse charges in 1993 and
1998 against the shooter's father, Samir Zawahri. The pair are divorced.
The family has been residents of Santa Monica since 2000.
Finally, in a separate
story<http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-santa-monica-shooting-police-hope-mother-can-help-answer-why-20130609,0,771385.story>,
the “fascination” as part of the story is left for a last paragraph and
treated as far more incidental.
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