Catholic student gunned down in Colorado; few reporters ask crucial questions about shooters

[The Purge]

Have you noticed the LACK OF LIBERALS CALLING FOR GUN CONFISCATION after this horrendous act.....Could that be because the shooters were QUEER and the other a Christian and Trump hater???? Of course we know the answer, even the socialist MSM is silenced!!!! Hmmmmm!!!!!


GetReligion.com ^ | May 10, 2019 | Terry Mattingly

Posted on 5/11/2019, 307 PM by Mrs. Don-o

Another week, another school shooting, although this latest one in the Denver suburb of Highlands Ranch has quickly turned into a religion story.

Well, it’s a religion story if reporters note crucial details and ask basic questions.

As I scanned various stories, I learned there was very little news about the shooters, especially some of their more controversial aspects. One was LGBTQ; the other had Satanic symbols on his car, yet that didn’t make it into many media accounts. (As for Kendrick Castillo, the 18-year-old who died at the scene, he was an only child. I cannot imagine his parents’ sorrow...A TRUE AMERICAN HERO!)

The Denver Post tells us this much at the arraignment:

One of the shooting suspects, Devon Erickson, sat hunched in his chair throughout his hearing where he was advised of the charges he is being held on. As the proceeding continued, the skinny 18-year-old with shaggy black and pink hair curled farther into himself — his bangs nearly touching the defense table by the end.

Alec McKinney — who is charged under the legal name of Maya Elizabeth McKinney but uses male pronouns and the name Alec — sat up straight in her chair. …

Also, there is this: According to folks who checked out his Facebook account, there was an anti-Christian screed there.

Another student, Aiden Beatty, said that Erickson worked as a vocal instructor and acted in school musicals. Beatty and Erickson formed multiple rock bands together. Beatty said he couldn’t imagine his band mate committing such horror. Nothing on Erickson’s public social media pointed toward violence.

“In my mind he’s pretty much dead,” Beatty said. “He’s effectively killed himself, too, in a terrible and unimaginable way.”

McKinney was transgender and had struggled with personal problems, freshman Ben Lemos said. The two shared a study hall, a lunch group and mutual friends, Lemos said.

“He just had a negative experience with school,” he said.

But the Daily Mail had a lot more interesting details, including how Erickson had “666” and a pentagram spray-painted on the hood of his car.

In case you think they are making this up, a news producer for the Denver affiliate of CBS posted a photo of said car.

Now why isn’t this detail being mentioned much? If the suspect had the words ‘Trust Jesus’ or the like spray-painted instead, would there be a lot more made of it?

A reporter at heavy.com quickly got on social media and cached photos (and lots of other information) from the suspects’ Instagram accounts before anyone else could take them offline. It’s there that we learn that Alec’s Instagram handle was ‘thatgaykidalec’ and that his mother ‘hates the new Alec” and that he missed his dad. So here’s a girl who doesn’t get along with her mom who’s transitioning to be a boy who is without a dad.

Still, I don’t see media picking up on the LGBTQ shooter angles. There’s some sites out there commenting on how a trans kid committing a murder doesn’t fit into the media narrative, hence they’re not reporting on it. Because the child is a juvenile, I understand why reporters must be cautious but when this kid’s friends are posting on Instagram that she/he had mental problems because of the trans issue, it’s sure worth mentioning.

As for the victim, his religious connections have received short shrift as well. The New York Times profiled Castillo, but managed to miss the fact that he’d attended a private Catholic school before transferring to the STEM school where he was killed. The Times’ only religious reference was a friend referring to Castillo’s faith being important to him. We’re not told what that was.

This USA Today story mentioned the boy was often seen “at Knights of Columbus fund-raisers and bingo nights.” Hmmm. What place do you know features such events? Could it be a Catholic church?

Definitely. Catholic News Agency just ran a story on Kendrick’s Catholic faith, so the information was definitely out there.

Why couldn’t other journalists connect the dots? This consistent blindness is wearying at best and a disgrace to the profession at worst.

Well, watch the drama play out with the accused kids in the next few weeks. If we see anything about Erickson’s anti-Christian connections (and I’ve not listed them all) and why McKinney’s trans issues led him to pick up a gun, then I’ll know there’s some objective reporting going on.

If not, you know what that means, too.

 

[bodecea]

So you want to showcase the murderers now?

 

[SaxxyBlues]

As I understand President Trump resended the Brady Law. That should make you feel better sleeping. Where's the Repubs on that?

 

[whitehall]

It wasn't even revealed that it was a Catholic school. Could we call it a "hate crime"?

 

[Dekster]

Is is because they used handguns and not an AR-15

 

[Rustic]

Have you noticed the LACK OF LIBERALS CALLING FOR GUN CONFISCATION after this horrendous act.....Could that be because the shooters were QUEER and the other a Christian and Trump hater???? Of course we know the answer, even the socialist MSM is silenced!!!! Hmmmmm!!!!!


GetReligion.com ^ | May 10, 2019 | Terry Mattingly

Posted on 5/11/2019, 307 PM by Mrs. Don-o

Another week, another school shooting, although this latest one in the Denver suburb of Highlands Ranch has quickly turned into a religion story.

Well, it’s a religion story if reporters note crucial details and ask basic questions.

As I scanned various stories, I learned there was very little news about the shooters, especially some of their more controversial aspects. One was LGBTQ; the other had Satanic symbols on his car, yet that didn’t make it into many media accounts. (As for Kendrick Castillo, the 18-year-old who died at the scene, he was an only child. I cannot imagine his parents’ sorrow...A TRUE AMERICAN HERO!)

The Denver Post tells us this much at the arraignment:

One of the shooting suspects, Devon Erickson, sat hunched in his chair throughout his hearing where he was advised of the charges he is being held on. As the proceeding continued, the skinny 18-year-old with shaggy black and pink hair curled farther into himself — his bangs nearly touching the defense table by the end.

Alec McKinney — who is charged under the legal name of Maya Elizabeth McKinney but uses male pronouns and the name Alec — sat up straight in her chair. …

Also, there is this: According to folks who checked out his Facebook account, there was an anti-Christian screed there.

Another student, Aiden Beatty, said that Erickson worked as a vocal instructor and acted in school musicals. Beatty and Erickson formed multiple rock bands together. Beatty said he couldn’t imagine his band mate committing such horror. Nothing on Erickson’s public social media pointed toward violence.

“In my mind he’s pretty much dead,” Beatty said. “He’s effectively killed himself, too, in a terrible and unimaginable way.”

McKinney was transgender and had struggled with personal problems, freshman Ben Lemos said. The two shared a study hall, a lunch group and mutual friends, Lemos said.

“He just had a negative experience with school,” he said.

But the Daily Mail had a lot more interesting details, including how Erickson had “666” and a pentagram spray-painted on the hood of his car.

In case you think they are making this up, a news producer for the Denver affiliate of CBS posted a photo of said car.

Now why isn’t this detail being mentioned much? If the suspect had the words ‘Trust Jesus’ or the like spray-painted instead, would there be a lot more made of it?

A reporter at heavy.com quickly got on social media and cached photos (and lots of other information) from the suspects’ Instagram accounts before anyone else could take them offline. It’s there that we learn that Alec’s Instagram handle was ‘thatgaykidalec’ and that his mother ‘hates the new Alec” and that he missed his dad. So here’s a girl who doesn’t get along with her mom who’s transitioning to be a boy who is without a dad.

Still, I don’t see media picking up on the LGBTQ shooter angles. There’s some sites out there commenting on how a trans kid committing a murder doesn’t fit into the media narrative, hence they’re not reporting on it. Because the child is a juvenile, I understand why reporters must be cautious but when this kid’s friends are posting on Instagram that she/he had mental problems because of the trans issue, it’s sure worth mentioning.

As for the victim, his religious connections have received short shrift as well. The New York Times profiled Castillo, but managed to miss the fact that he’d attended a private Catholic school before transferring to the STEM school where he was killed. The Times’ only religious reference was a friend referring to Castillo’s faith being important to him. We’re not told what that was.

This USA Today story mentioned the boy was often seen “at Knights of Columbus fund-raisers and bingo nights.” Hmmm. What place do you know features such events? Could it be a Catholic church?

Definitely. Catholic News Agency just ran a story on Kendrick’s Catholic faith, so the information was definitely out there.

Why couldn’t other journalists connect the dots? This consistent blindness is wearying at best and a disgrace to the profession at worst.

Well, watch the drama play out with the accused kids in the next few weeks. If we see anything about Erickson’s anti-Christian connections (and I’ve not listed them all) and why McKinney’s trans issues led him to pick up a gun, then I’ll know there’s some objective reporting going on.

If not, you know what that means, too.

Gun control has never been about firearms or caring about any kids or anyone else for that matter, it’s always been all about control.

 

[MaryL]

Kendrick Castillo. He didn't have a gun, and he tried to take it away from the shooter. The penultimate gun grabber. Can't have that, can we? He died for your sins, not mine.

 

[Crepitus]

Have you noticed the LACK OF LIBERALS CALLING FOR GUN CONFISCATION after this horrendous act.....Could that be because the shooters were QUEER and the other a Christian and Trump hater???? Of course we know the answer, even the socialist MSM is silenced!!!! Hmmmmm!!!!!


GetReligion.com ^ | May 10, 2019 | Terry Mattingly

Posted on 5/11/2019, 307 PM by Mrs. Don-o

Another week, another school shooting, although this latest one in the Denver suburb of Highlands Ranch has quickly turned into a religion story.

Well, it’s a religion story if reporters note crucial details and ask basic questions.

As I scanned various stories, I learned there was very little news about the shooters, especially some of their more controversial aspects. One was LGBTQ; the other had Satanic symbols on his car, yet that didn’t make it into many media accounts. (As for Kendrick Castillo, the 18-year-old who died at the scene, he was an only child. I cannot imagine his parents’ sorrow...A TRUE AMERICAN HERO!)

The Denver Post tells us this much at the arraignment:

One of the shooting suspects, Devon Erickson, sat hunched in his chair throughout his hearing where he was advised of the charges he is being held on. As the proceeding continued, the skinny 18-year-old with shaggy black and pink hair curled farther into himself — his bangs nearly touching the defense table by the end.

Alec McKinney — who is charged under the legal name of Maya Elizabeth McKinney but uses male pronouns and the name Alec — sat up straight in her chair. …

Also, there is this: According to folks who checked out his Facebook account, there was an anti-Christian screed there.

Another student, Aiden Beatty, said that Erickson worked as a vocal instructor and acted in school musicals. Beatty and Erickson formed multiple rock bands together. Beatty said he couldn’t imagine his band mate committing such horror. Nothing on Erickson’s public social media pointed toward violence.

“In my mind he’s pretty much dead,” Beatty said. “He’s effectively killed himself, too, in a terrible and unimaginable way.”

McKinney was transgender and had struggled with personal problems, freshman Ben Lemos said. The two shared a study hall, a lunch group and mutual friends, Lemos said.

“He just had a negative experience with school,” he said.

But the Daily Mail had a lot more interesting details, including how Erickson had “666” and a pentagram spray-painted on the hood of his car.

In case you think they are making this up, a news producer for the Denver affiliate of CBS posted a photo of said car.

Now why isn’t this detail being mentioned much? If the suspect had the words ‘Trust Jesus’ or the like spray-painted instead, would there be a lot more made of it?

A reporter at heavy.com quickly got on social media and cached photos (and lots of other information) from the suspects’ Instagram accounts before anyone else could take them offline. It’s there that we learn that Alec’s Instagram handle was ‘thatgaykidalec’ and that his mother ‘hates the new Alec” and that he missed his dad. So here’s a girl who doesn’t get along with her mom who’s transitioning to be a boy who is without a dad.

Still, I don’t see media picking up on the LGBTQ shooter angles. There’s some sites out there commenting on how a trans kid committing a murder doesn’t fit into the media narrative, hence they’re not reporting on it. Because the child is a juvenile, I understand why reporters must be cautious but when this kid’s friends are posting on Instagram that she/he had mental problems because of the trans issue, it’s sure worth mentioning.

As for the victim, his religious connections have received short shrift as well. The New York Times profiled Castillo, but managed to miss the fact that he’d attended a private Catholic school before transferring to the STEM school where he was killed. The Times’ only religious reference was a friend referring to Castillo’s faith being important to him. We’re not told what that was.

This USA Today story mentioned the boy was often seen “at Knights of Columbus fund-raisers and bingo nights.” Hmmm. What place do you know features such events? Could it be a Catholic church?

Definitely. Catholic News Agency just ran a story on Kendrick’s Catholic faith, so the information was definitely out there.

Why couldn’t other journalists connect the dots? This consistent blindness is wearying at best and a disgrace to the profession at worst.

Well, watch the drama play out with the accused kids in the next few weeks. If we see anything about Erickson’s anti-Christian connections (and I’ve not listed them all) and why McKinney’s trans issues led him to pick up a gun, then I’ll know there’s some objective reporting going on.

If not, you know what that means, too.

They were obviously mentally ill.

Thoughts and prayers for the victims and their families.

Now is not the time to discuss the causes of this tragedy, we should focus on mourning the victims.

Any of this sounding familiar to you?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

As I understand President Trump resended the Brady Law. That should make you feel better sleeping. Where's the Repubs on that?

WTF is "resended"?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

It wasn't even revealed that it was a Catholic school. Could we call it a "hate crime"?

It was not a Catholic school, but a charter school.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Have you noticed the LACK OF LIBERALS CALLING FOR GUN CONFISCATION after this horrendous act.....Could that be because the shooters were QUEER and the other a Christian and Trump hater???? Of course we know the answer, even the socialist MSM is silenced!!!! Hmmmmm!!!!!


GetReligion.com ^ | May 10, 2019 | Terry Mattingly

Posted on 5/11/2019, 307 PM by Mrs. Don-o

Another week, another school shooting, although this latest one in the Denver suburb of Highlands Ranch has quickly turned into a religion story.

Well, it’s a religion story if reporters note crucial details and ask basic questions.

As I scanned various stories, I learned there was very little news about the shooters, especially some of their more controversial aspects. One was LGBTQ; the other had Satanic symbols on his car, yet that didn’t make it into many media accounts. (As for Kendrick Castillo, the 18-year-old who died at the scene, he was an only child. I cannot imagine his parents’ sorrow...A TRUE AMERICAN HERO!)

The Denver Post tells us this much at the arraignment:

One of the shooting suspects, Devon Erickson, sat hunched in his chair throughout his hearing where he was advised of the charges he is being held on. As the proceeding continued, the skinny 18-year-old with shaggy black and pink hair curled farther into himself — his bangs nearly touching the defense table by the end.

Alec McKinney — who is charged under the legal name of Maya Elizabeth McKinney but uses male pronouns and the name Alec — sat up straight in her chair. …

Also, there is this: According to folks who checked out his Facebook account, there was an anti-Christian screed there.

Another student, Aiden Beatty, said that Erickson worked as a vocal instructor and acted in school musicals. Beatty and Erickson formed multiple rock bands together. Beatty said he couldn’t imagine his band mate committing such horror. Nothing on Erickson’s public social media pointed toward violence.

“In my mind he’s pretty much dead,” Beatty said. “He’s effectively killed himself, too, in a terrible and unimaginable way.”

McKinney was transgender and had struggled with personal problems, freshman Ben Lemos said. The two shared a study hall, a lunch group and mutual friends, Lemos said.

“He just had a negative experience with school,” he said.

But the Daily Mail had a lot more interesting details, including how Erickson had “666” and a pentagram spray-painted on the hood of his car.

In case you think they are making this up, a news producer for the Denver affiliate of CBS posted a photo of said car.

Now why isn’t this detail being mentioned much? If the suspect had the words ‘Trust Jesus’ or the like spray-painted instead, would there be a lot more made of it?

A reporter at heavy.com quickly got on social media and cached photos (and lots of other information) from the suspects’ Instagram accounts before anyone else could take them offline. It’s there that we learn that Alec’s Instagram handle was ‘thatgaykidalec’ and that his mother ‘hates the new Alec” and that he missed his dad. So here’s a girl who doesn’t get along with her mom who’s transitioning to be a boy who is without a dad.

Still, I don’t see media picking up on the LGBTQ shooter angles. There’s some sites out there commenting on how a trans kid committing a murder doesn’t fit into the media narrative, hence they’re not reporting on it. Because the child is a juvenile, I understand why reporters must be cautious but when this kid’s friends are posting on Instagram that she/he had mental problems because of the trans issue, it’s sure worth mentioning.

As for the victim, his religious connections have received short shrift as well. The New York Times profiled Castillo, but managed to miss the fact that he’d attended a private Catholic school before transferring to the STEM school where he was killed. The Times’ only religious reference was a friend referring to Castillo’s faith being important to him. We’re not told what that was.

This USA Today story mentioned the boy was often seen “at Knights of Columbus fund-raisers and bingo nights.” Hmmm. What place do you know features such events? Could it be a Catholic church?

Definitely. Catholic News Agency just ran a story on Kendrick’s Catholic faith, so the information was definitely out there.

Why couldn’t other journalists connect the dots? This consistent blindness is wearying at best and a disgrace to the profession at worst.

Well, watch the drama play out with the accused kids in the next few weeks. If we see anything about Erickson’s anti-Christian connections (and I’ve not listed them all) and why McKinney’s trans issues led him to pick up a gun, then I’ll know there’s some objective reporting going on.

If not, you know what that means, too.

They were obviously mentally ill.

Thoughts and prayers for the victims and their families.

Now is not the time to discuss the causes of this tragedy, we should focus on mourning the victims.

Any of this sounding familiar to you?

Ya until the shooters meet with your criteria and then suddenly it is all ABOUT the shooters.

 

[Crepitus]

Have you noticed the LACK OF LIBERALS CALLING FOR GUN CONFISCATION after this horrendous act.....Could that be because the shooters were QUEER and the other a Christian and Trump hater???? Of course we know the answer, even the socialist MSM is silenced!!!! Hmmmmm!!!!!


GetReligion.com ^ | May 10, 2019 | Terry Mattingly

Posted on 5/11/2019, 307 PM by Mrs. Don-o

Another week, another school shooting, although this latest one in the Denver suburb of Highlands Ranch has quickly turned into a religion story.

Well, it’s a religion story if reporters note crucial details and ask basic questions.

As I scanned various stories, I learned there was very little news about the shooters, especially some of their more controversial aspects. One was LGBTQ; the other had Satanic symbols on his car, yet that didn’t make it into many media accounts. (As for Kendrick Castillo, the 18-year-old who died at the scene, he was an only child. I cannot imagine his parents’ sorrow...A TRUE AMERICAN HERO!)

The Denver Post tells us this much at the arraignment:

One of the shooting suspects, Devon Erickson, sat hunched in his chair throughout his hearing where he was advised of the charges he is being held on. As the proceeding continued, the skinny 18-year-old with shaggy black and pink hair curled farther into himself — his bangs nearly touching the defense table by the end.

Alec McKinney — who is charged under the legal name of Maya Elizabeth McKinney but uses male pronouns and the name Alec — sat up straight in her chair. …

Also, there is this: According to folks who checked out his Facebook account, there was an anti-Christian screed there.

Another student, Aiden Beatty, said that Erickson worked as a vocal instructor and acted in school musicals. Beatty and Erickson formed multiple rock bands together. Beatty said he couldn’t imagine his band mate committing such horror. Nothing on Erickson’s public social media pointed toward violence.

“In my mind he’s pretty much dead,” Beatty said. “He’s effectively killed himself, too, in a terrible and unimaginable way.”

McKinney was transgender and had struggled with personal problems, freshman Ben Lemos said. The two shared a study hall, a lunch group and mutual friends, Lemos said.

“He just had a negative experience with school,” he said.

But the Daily Mail had a lot more interesting details, including how Erickson had “666” and a pentagram spray-painted on the hood of his car.

In case you think they are making this up, a news producer for the Denver affiliate of CBS posted a photo of said car.

Now why isn’t this detail being mentioned much? If the suspect had the words ‘Trust Jesus’ or the like spray-painted instead, would there be a lot more made of it?

A reporter at heavy.com quickly got on social media and cached photos (and lots of other information) from the suspects’ Instagram accounts before anyone else could take them offline. It’s there that we learn that Alec’s Instagram handle was ‘thatgaykidalec’ and that his mother ‘hates the new Alec” and that he missed his dad. So here’s a girl who doesn’t get along with her mom who’s transitioning to be a boy who is without a dad.

Still, I don’t see media picking up on the LGBTQ shooter angles. There’s some sites out there commenting on how a trans kid committing a murder doesn’t fit into the media narrative, hence they’re not reporting on it. Because the child is a juvenile, I understand why reporters must be cautious but when this kid’s friends are posting on Instagram that she/he had mental problems because of the trans issue, it’s sure worth mentioning.

As for the victim, his religious connections have received short shrift as well. The New York Times profiled Castillo, but managed to miss the fact that he’d attended a private Catholic school before transferring to the STEM school where he was killed. The Times’ only religious reference was a friend referring to Castillo’s faith being important to him. We’re not told what that was.

This USA Today story mentioned the boy was often seen “at Knights of Columbus fund-raisers and bingo nights.” Hmmm. What place do you know features such events? Could it be a Catholic church?

Definitely. Catholic News Agency just ran a story on Kendrick’s Catholic faith, so the information was definitely out there.

Why couldn’t other journalists connect the dots? This consistent blindness is wearying at best and a disgrace to the profession at worst.

Well, watch the drama play out with the accused kids in the next few weeks. If we see anything about Erickson’s anti-Christian connections (and I’ve not listed them all) and why McKinney’s trans issues led him to pick up a gun, then I’ll know there’s some objective reporting going on.

If not, you know what that means, too.

They were obviously mentally ill.

Thoughts and prayers for the victims and their families.

Now is not the time to discuss the causes of this tragedy, we should focus on mourning the victims.

Any of this sounding familiar to you?

Ya until the shooters meet with your criteria and then suddenly it is all ABOUT the shooters.

How many of the school shooters have been like these?

Only these two, that's how many.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Have you noticed the LACK OF LIBERALS CALLING FOR GUN CONFISCATION after this horrendous act.....Could that be because the shooters were QUEER and the other a Christian and Trump hater???? Of course we know the answer, even the socialist MSM is silenced!!!! Hmmmmm!!!!!


GetReligion.com ^ | May 10, 2019 | Terry Mattingly

Posted on 5/11/2019, 307 PM by Mrs. Don-o

Another week, another school shooting, although this latest one in the Denver suburb of Highlands Ranch has quickly turned into a religion story.

Well, it’s a religion story if reporters note crucial details and ask basic questions.

As I scanned various stories, I learned there was very little news about the shooters, especially some of their more controversial aspects. One was LGBTQ; the other had Satanic symbols on his car, yet that didn’t make it into many media accounts. (As for Kendrick Castillo, the 18-year-old who died at the scene, he was an only child. I cannot imagine his parents’ sorrow...A TRUE AMERICAN HERO!)

The Denver Post tells us this much at the arraignment:

One of the shooting suspects, Devon Erickson, sat hunched in his chair throughout his hearing where he was advised of the charges he is being held on. As the proceeding continued, the skinny 18-year-old with shaggy black and pink hair curled farther into himself — his bangs nearly touching the defense table by the end.

Alec McKinney — who is charged under the legal name of Maya Elizabeth McKinney but uses male pronouns and the name Alec — sat up straight in her chair. …

Also, there is this: According to folks who checked out his Facebook account, there was an anti-Christian screed there.

Another student, Aiden Beatty, said that Erickson worked as a vocal instructor and acted in school musicals. Beatty and Erickson formed multiple rock bands together. Beatty said he couldn’t imagine his band mate committing such horror. Nothing on Erickson’s public social media pointed toward violence.

“In my mind he’s pretty much dead,” Beatty said. “He’s effectively killed himself, too, in a terrible and unimaginable way.”

McKinney was transgender and had struggled with personal problems, freshman Ben Lemos said. The two shared a study hall, a lunch group and mutual friends, Lemos said.

“He just had a negative experience with school,” he said.

But the Daily Mail had a lot more interesting details, including how Erickson had “666” and a pentagram spray-painted on the hood of his car.

In case you think they are making this up, a news producer for the Denver affiliate of CBS posted a photo of said car.

Now why isn’t this detail being mentioned much? If the suspect had the words ‘Trust Jesus’ or the like spray-painted instead, would there be a lot more made of it?

A reporter at heavy.com quickly got on social media and cached photos (and lots of other information) from the suspects’ Instagram accounts before anyone else could take them offline. It’s there that we learn that Alec’s Instagram handle was ‘thatgaykidalec’ and that his mother ‘hates the new Alec” and that he missed his dad. So here’s a girl who doesn’t get along with her mom who’s transitioning to be a boy who is without a dad.

Still, I don’t see media picking up on the LGBTQ shooter angles. There’s some sites out there commenting on how a trans kid committing a murder doesn’t fit into the media narrative, hence they’re not reporting on it. Because the child is a juvenile, I understand why reporters must be cautious but when this kid’s friends are posting on Instagram that she/he had mental problems because of the trans issue, it’s sure worth mentioning.

As for the victim, his religious connections have received short shrift as well. The New York Times profiled Castillo, but managed to miss the fact that he’d attended a private Catholic school before transferring to the STEM school where he was killed. The Times’ only religious reference was a friend referring to Castillo’s faith being important to him. We’re not told what that was.

This USA Today story mentioned the boy was often seen “at Knights of Columbus fund-raisers and bingo nights.” Hmmm. What place do you know features such events? Could it be a Catholic church?

Definitely. Catholic News Agency just ran a story on Kendrick’s Catholic faith, so the information was definitely out there.

Why couldn’t other journalists connect the dots? This consistent blindness is wearying at best and a disgrace to the profession at worst.

Well, watch the drama play out with the accused kids in the next few weeks. If we see anything about Erickson’s anti-Christian connections (and I’ve not listed them all) and why McKinney’s trans issues led him to pick up a gun, then I’ll know there’s some objective reporting going on.

If not, you know what that means, too.

They were obviously mentally ill.

Thoughts and prayers for the victims and their families.

Now is not the time to discuss the causes of this tragedy, we should focus on mourning the victims.

Any of this sounding familiar to you?

Ya until the shooters meet with your criteria and then suddenly it is all ABOUT the shooters.

How many of the school shooters have been like these?

Only these two, that's how many.

there have been lefties and blacks that did shootings and in every case it is not someone the left can claim was a white republicans the press has lost interest fast. Just like here.

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

As I understand President Trump resended the Brady Law. That should make you feel better sleeping. Where's the Repubs on that?

The Brady ban didn't do a damn thing .
Study Shows Brady Bill Had No Impact on Gun Homicides

 

[westwall]

So you want to showcase the murderers now?

No, they remain nameless, we just want the world to know it was one of YOU who murdered that heroic young man.

 

[Penelope]

Have you noticed the LACK OF LIBERALS CALLING FOR GUN CONFISCATION after this horrendous act.....Could that be because the shooters were QUEER and the other a Christian and Trump hater???? Of course we know the answer, even the socialist MSM is silenced!!!! Hmmmmm!!!!!


GetReligion.com ^ | May 10, 2019 | Terry Mattingly

Posted on 5/11/2019, 307 PM by Mrs. Don-o

Another week, another school shooting, although this latest one in the Denver suburb of Highlands Ranch has quickly turned into a religion story.

Well, it’s a religion story if reporters note crucial details and ask basic questions.

As I scanned various stories, I learned there was very little news about the shooters, especially some of their more controversial aspects. One was LGBTQ; the other had Satanic symbols on his car, yet that didn’t make it into many media accounts. (As for Kendrick Castillo, the 18-year-old who died at the scene, he was an only child. I cannot imagine his parents’ sorrow...A TRUE AMERICAN HERO!)

The Denver Post tells us this much at the arraignment:

One of the shooting suspects, Devon Erickson, sat hunched in his chair throughout his hearing where he was advised of the charges he is being held on. As the proceeding continued, the skinny 18-year-old with shaggy black and pink hair curled farther into himself — his bangs nearly touching the defense table by the end.

Alec McKinney — who is charged under the legal name of Maya Elizabeth McKinney but uses male pronouns and the name Alec — sat up straight in her chair. …

Also, there is this: According to folks who checked out his Facebook account, there was an anti-Christian screed there.

Another student, Aiden Beatty, said that Erickson worked as a vocal instructor and acted in school musicals. Beatty and Erickson formed multiple rock bands together. Beatty said he couldn’t imagine his band mate committing such horror. Nothing on Erickson’s public social media pointed toward violence.

“In my mind he’s pretty much dead,” Beatty said. “He’s effectively killed himself, too, in a terrible and unimaginable way.”

McKinney was transgender and had struggled with personal problems, freshman Ben Lemos said. The two shared a study hall, a lunch group and mutual friends, Lemos said.

“He just had a negative experience with school,” he said.

But the Daily Mail had a lot more interesting details, including how Erickson had “666” and a pentagram spray-painted on the hood of his car.

In case you think they are making this up, a news producer for the Denver affiliate of CBS posted a photo of said car.

Now why isn’t this detail being mentioned much? If the suspect had the words ‘Trust Jesus’ or the like spray-painted instead, would there be a lot more made of it?

A reporter at heavy.com quickly got on social media and cached photos (and lots of other information) from the suspects’ Instagram accounts before anyone else could take them offline. It’s there that we learn that Alec’s Instagram handle was ‘thatgaykidalec’ and that his mother ‘hates the new Alec” and that he missed his dad. So here’s a girl who doesn’t get along with her mom who’s transitioning to be a boy who is without a dad.

Still, I don’t see media picking up on the LGBTQ shooter angles. There’s some sites out there commenting on how a trans kid committing a murder doesn’t fit into the media narrative, hence they’re not reporting on it. Because the child is a juvenile, I understand why reporters must be cautious but when this kid’s friends are posting on Instagram that she/he had mental problems because of the trans issue, it’s sure worth mentioning.

As for the victim, his religious connections have received short shrift as well. The New York Times profiled Castillo, but managed to miss the fact that he’d attended a private Catholic school before transferring to the STEM school where he was killed. The Times’ only religious reference was a friend referring to Castillo’s faith being important to him. We’re not told what that was.

This USA Today story mentioned the boy was often seen “at Knights of Columbus fund-raisers and bingo nights.” Hmmm. What place do you know features such events? Could it be a Catholic church?

Definitely. Catholic News Agency just ran a story on Kendrick’s Catholic faith, so the information was definitely out there.

Why couldn’t other journalists connect the dots? This consistent blindness is wearying at best and a disgrace to the profession at worst.

Well, watch the drama play out with the accused kids in the next few weeks. If we see anything about Erickson’s anti-Christian connections (and I’ve not listed them all) and why McKinney’s trans issues led him to pick up a gun, then I’ll know there’s some objective reporting going on.

If not, you know what that means, too.

The school is not a Catholic school
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