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The 17-year-old suspect from Garwood — a son of a retired police officer and the nephew of the Westfield police chief — was charged Wednesday with the first-degree murders of Maria Niotis and Isabella Salas.

Relatives of Niiotis said the teen had been stalking her for months — something the teen suspect acknowledged on livestreams of his MLB co-op games, which attracted thousands of followers on TikTok.

https://nj1015.com/cranford-murder-case-update-2/

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 57 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Both are symptoms of the same mental illness

[–] PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago

The alt-right is certainly targeting men, so it is correlated, but I think it’s important to note that these girls were targeted because of their gender first and foremost. The ‘Charlie Kirk’ aspect was just the excuse provided by the perpetrator. There’s a deeper issue at play and should be acknowledged.

I’ve never been truly stalked before, but I started working early and naively had a picture on OKCupid (when it was new and all the rage) when I was 18. I had a guy I never actually talked to show up at my work and seek me out. I was 18 and dumb, but I’m glad I learned that lesson. It could have been so much worse.

[–] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Im mentally ill, I never stalked or killed anyone, whats your point?

Days before the deadly crash, while hosting an online baseball game live-streamed on YouTube on Sept. 23, the suspect talks about sending a pizza to "Maria's house" by using his old iPhone as a burner because his number had been blocked. The suspect says he will order the pizza for cash on delivery.

"I think Maria's hungry. I think we're going to send her two pizzas. So you all know I have a vengeance against this girl for accusing me of sending porn and s**t. I'm going to call a pizza to her house."

He also says Maria's mother has a "stupid f**kin' name and accused her of reporting the porn.

"So Fouli, you made a bad decision making a bad name of myself. You made a bad decision having this girl return to that school without me being there," the teen says on the video, referencing the girl's mother.

Someone watching the stream suggests he go to the house and watch the pizza be delivered. He rejected the idea because the mother called the police before.

read the whole article, the guy was a fucking pig and a creep, being egged on by a livestream "community" of creeps and pigs.

Don't throw a no context "oh he's just mentally ill" with no further comment, you make me sick

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You're certainly reading a lot into my comment that I didn't say.

This is the sociopathy of the alt-right. I said nothing about all mental illness in general.

[–] tae_glas@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 days ago

people can have ASPD & still use cognitive empathy & never harm people. not to mention how this murderer wasn't diagnosed with anything like ASPD or NPD etc.

if someone's a vile, cruel, misogynistic, racist, murderer, we can just call them that. we can get creative with our insults without letting an already vulnerable population catch any strays.