Second Parkland suicide
On Saturday, March 23, a Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student was found dead after committing suicide. As of Monday afternoon, the student’s death was still under investigation. According to the New York Times, “Ryan Petty, who lost his daughter Alaina during the massacre at Stoneman Douglas on Feb. 14, 2018… alluded to the boy’s death in a Twitter post late Saturday, in which he wrote “17+2” with an emoji of a broken heart.”
Jake Patterson pleads guilty to murder and abduction
Jake Patterson was accused of abducting middle-school student Jayme Closs in Wisconsin. Last Wednesday, Patterson pleaded guilty in his arraignment hearing. If convicted, the minimum sentence is life in prison. According to the New York Times, “Mr. Patterson pleaded guilty on Wednesday to the two homicide counts and kidnapping; the burglary charge was dropped. Mr. Jones said Mr. Patterson rejected the other options his lawyers offered him, including trying to persuade the court to set aside his confession.”
Puerto Rico bans conversion therapy for minors
The governor of Puerto Rico, last Wednesday, signed an executive order that bans conversion therapy of gay or transgender minors in Puerto Rico. Rossello said in a press conference, “I firmly believe that the idea that there are people in our society who need treatment because of their gender identity or whom they love is not only absurd, it is harmful to so many children and young adults who deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.”
Infowars helps Florida man stalk victims of Sandy Hook shooting’s
Infowars host Alex Jones, who has spent the past seven years since the Sandy Hook shooting claiming that the massacre did not happen, has been connected to Floridian Wolfgang Halbig, in Halbig’s stalking of the families of the Sandy Hook victims. According to the New York Times, “Infowars gave Mr. Halbig a camera crew and a platform for fund-raising, even as Mr. Halbig repeatedly visited Newtown, demanding thousand of pages of public records, including photos of the murder scene, the children’s bodies and receipts for the cleanup of ‘bodily fluids, brain matter, skull fragments and around 45 to 60 gallons of blood’.”
