[Nefarious]

The man arrested today in connection to the shooting of two women at a suburban Virginia mall may have announced his crime minutes in advance on the 4chan message board.

“Sure op. show us what you look like? Name? Address?” an anonymous poster replied 5 minutes after the posting. Minutes later, another anonymous poster chimed in: “guys…this is going on right now.”

The alleged shooter identified himself on the troublemaking /b/ board on 4chan as Neil Macinnis “and I go to new river community college in Christiansburg Virginia,” he said. The man provided his contact information with his posting.

The shootings occurred at a mall in the town of about 21,000 in southwestern Virginia. The two victims were rushed to a local hospital. Their condition was not immediately known. Police were called about 2 p.m. when somebody reported a man with a gun at the community college’s satellite location in the mall.

“I”m a bit nervous because I’ve never really handled a shotgun but a few times with the Christiansburg police,” the alleged gunman wrote, adding: “I’m at school writing this.”

About eight minutes after the initial posting, an anonymous poster on the 4chan message board typed: “Shots fired.” Another promptly replied: “I can’t believe this is fucking real…wtf.” A little later on, somebody else wrote: “IT”S HPPAENINGIT”S HPPAENINGIT”S HPPAENNING.”

The message later dropped from 4chan. A reliable source took the below screenshot of the thread while it was still live. It is NSFW.

You can see images of the whole thread here.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/04...l-shooter/

[Sypher]

How many people write out their plans on 4chan right before they embark on a mass shooting?

[Dismas]

How many people write out their plans on 4chan right before they embark on a mass shooting?

The ones that want attention.

[i0xIllusi0n]

Aside from the fact it's wrong and you know all that shit, it was in a way slightly smart to tell people before-hand instead of letting the Media take over and get everything wrong.

[Bannedshee]

Yay, another reason why the feds are monitoring the internetz... Good job faggot, good job.

[i0xIllusi0n]

Yay, another reason why the feds are monitoring the internetz... Good job faggot, good job.

As if they weren't before this?

[Bannedshee]

Yay, another reason why the feds are monitoring the internetz... Good job faggot, good job.

As if they weren't before this?

Well like I said "another reason".

[i0xIllusi0n]

Yay, another reason why the feds are monitoring the internetz... Good job faggot, good job.

As if they weren't before this?

Well like I said "another reason".

Lol well yeah, they're watching anyways, that's just one reason out of tons more.
Nevertheless, I think that's pretty crazy that he do that. Publicly announce it then actually going with it.

[Bannedshee]

Yay, another reason why the feds are monitoring the internetz... Good job faggot, good job.

As if they weren't before this?

Well like I said "another reason".

Lol well yeah, they're watching anyways, that's just one reason out of tons more.
Nevertheless, I think that's pretty crazy that he do that. Publicly announce it then actually going with it.

I remember once in Iraq on the news they were reporting this terrorist attack on a whole city. What they did was basically hijack a mosque because the mosque had a loud ass megaphone, and then told the city they were about to be raided and most likely killed...

But yeah, crazy.

[Balls]

I have nothing to say but people are faggots.