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Authorities say Charlie Kirk shooter said, “Hey fascist! Catch!” on one casing and did NOT reference trans "ideology" (www.salon.com)

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“I think that speaks for itself,” the governor said.

Cox reported that another casing had “Bella ciao” written on it, an apparent reference to a WWII-era Italian anti-fascist song. Another casing had the message, “If you read this, you are gay LMAO,” Cox said.

Additional, unfired bullets had phrases from video games and internet memes written on them. One read “Up arrow, right arrow, and three down arrow symbols,” a possible reference to commands entered on a controller that call in a bomb in the video game “Helldivers.” A separate casing read, “Notices bulges OWO what’s this?”

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[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

fine sharpie makes much more sense. I wish they'd just release pictures of it, but especially after the United Healthcare > MN school shooter > this guy chain, they probably want to discourage copycats.

Though copy cat kind of implies the crimes are similar, which I don't agree with.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I wish they'd just release pictures of it

They're writing as fast as they can, man! Their hands are cramping! They'll show us when they are done, geez!

[–] rocketpoweredredneck@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

I could see similarities if the CK shooter was left wing, current news is saying he's an ultra right wing nut who thought Kirk wasn't far right enough, but who actually knows. I doubt we'll know the truth of any of this for a while or at all. It took weeks for factual info to come out about Luigi, and there's still doubt about the info's validity.