Casado said in the backyard of his home in Conklin. He was never racist towards me, or around me,” Mr. “Until Saturday, I always knew him as a good person. Casado, who is Latino, learned that his friend was accused of committing the racist massacre. Gendron said he would return that evening to pick up the bullets. Gendron, who said “he needed space to rearrange his house,” Mr. Gendron unexpectedly showed up at his house and dropped off five boxes of ammunition. The friends had gone target shooting in the past, and on Friday, the day before the attack, Mr. Gendron’s only friends, having known him since they were in second grade together.
Matthew Casado, 19, said in an interview on Monday that he was one of Mr. Gendron appeared to have little inkling about what was in store. “This proved to me that the US healthcare system is a joke.”īut even the few people close to Mr. “I had to spend ~20 hours in that ER waiting for somebody to give me 15 minutes to talk to me,” he wrote. Gendron’s newly discovered online posts also cast doubt on the thoroughness of his mental health evaluation. “We passed the law specifically to ensure that people who exhibit signs of being dangerous to themselves or others can be denied access to guns.” “There’s a real question about whether that law was effectively applied when this person was apparently detained after making threats,” said State Senator Brian Kavanagh, a Democrat who represents parts of Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn and who sponsored the bill. The process involves filing an application with the state court system at the county level, stating that a person “is likely to engage in conduct that would result in serious harm to self or others.” About 18 orders to take guns away from people are issued per month under the law. Since New York’s so-called red-flag law took effect in 2019, judges have issued 589 orders barring people from possessing firearms, according to the state Office of Court Administration. “If I’m not killed during the attack I will go to prison for an inevitable life sentence.” “I am well aware that my actions will effectively ruin my life,” reads one posting from early December. Gendron fully realized the consequences of his violence. The compendium also appears to show that Mr. Gendron and extensive details that align with what is publicly known about him, and in many ways mirror a racist screed the authorities have confirmed he published online just before the attack. The Discord posts include pictures of Mr. Gendron posted on Saturday as he began his attack on Tops, snippets of which circulated online on several platforms before being expunged. Jimboboiii was also the name used in a livestream that Mr. Gendron apparently planned and practiced for his attack and paid for his weapons and other equipment. They feature thousands of lines of racist, antisemitic and often rambling remarks, and include details on how Mr. The newly discovered writings appear to have been posted on Discord, a chat application, by a user named Jimboboiii before being uploaded to internet forums as a pair of comprehensive documents. Gendron, who is now charged with one of the deadliest racist massacres in recent American history. The ruse worked: On Monday, state police confirmed that they did not seek a red-flag order against Mr. It was not a joke, I wrote that down because that’s what I was planning to do.” “That is the reason I believe I am still able to purchase guns. “I got out of it because I stuck with the story that I was getting out of class and I just stupidly wrote that down,” Mr. He described the remark - he responded to a school project question by writing that he wanted to commit a murder-suicide - as a joke, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the case, and was released.īut the postings that came to light on Monday make it evident that Mr.
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