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In reply to the discussion: Waukesha Massacre: As it happened per the criminal complaint [View all]BGBD
(3,282 posts)He drove onto the parade route looking to kill people. He clearly drove past a lot of people in the video that he could have easily run over had that been the intent. I think he came up to a spot where he couldn't drive by anymore and decided that he wasn't going to stop.
I think in his mind he knew he just left another domestic while out on bail and apparently with out of state warrants. He knew he'd be in jail for a very long time if he went back and was trying to get away.
I don't think he's a terrorist. I'm pretty sure he's a sociopath who was willing to run over 40 people of it meant he might be able to get away from going back to jail. He didn't set out to kill people,but when they were in his way he didn't care if he did. His actions were intentional and any reasonable person would know were likely to cause deaths, so he's guilty of the intentional homicides.
I think he was basically in GTA mode. Plowing over people in the street wasn't the aim, but it wasn't really something that mattered to him either.