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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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[–] Bongles@lemmy.zip 20 points 7 hours ago

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.

Once again, we do absolutely nothing until it's too late.

[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago

I'll never understand what do Trump cultists/Kirk stans get out of being empathy deprived peons. They present the other side as weak but they are either in collectives with rapists, abusers or murders. That loser cut those two girls lives short for nothing.

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 11 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Violent MAGAs are woke flakes. (And I don't know what that means any more than they do.)

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 9 points 7 hours ago

ThE vIoLeNt LeFt

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, when it's a hater like kirk being killed, suddenly he gets a day of rememberance, but when two innocent women get killed by a MAGAt, suddenly there's NO media coverage at all

Anyone wanna bet that he gets a slap on the wrist and a "don't do it again" because he's a MAGAt?

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 3 points 3 hours ago

The extent of how they reacted to Kirk's death was fucking insane. It happened right on the eve of the 24th anniversary of 9/11 and... no one on the right gave a fuck! They just forgot about it and all acts of remembrance were entirely for that fucker and not the thousands of people who died that day.

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 15 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Guy shared a much closer cultural tie to Tyler Robinson than he did with the people he killed. From a family involved in law enforcement, from a culture of guns and hate. Unlike Tyler Robinson, the guy will probably get the George Zimmerman treatment because it's not where it's coming from but whom it affects. US in a nutshell.

[–] borQue@lemmy.zip 4 points 7 hours ago

wow, is this real? what a complete ahole

[–] DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 30 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

Why this is not heavily covered in the news? What is going on?

[–] Seefoo@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Not to naysay, the dude is a "nice guy" PoS. But the link is tenuous at best at the moment. its a clip of him saying one of the girls is a dumb ass for a tiktok video she shared that was negative towards charlie kirk.

Basically, it seems he was a stalker and killed her (and her friend) for some reason, but I doubt the kirk thing was the main reason. Motive is not clear yet, other than the obvious parts (stalking, probably liked her, but got rejected, she may have gotten a recent BF, jeolous, various anti-female other sentiments).

[–] HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago

Because Trump is president and mainstream news has been essentially directly threatened by him.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 9 points 10 hours ago

Idk if you noticed the extra-legal nazi takeover of USA? Are you not aware we live in a post-truth, post-law, post-rights world?

[–] TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

Because it goes against the narrative attempting to be pushed by the mainstream media i.e. Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, etc. They're not directly responsible for everything that makes it to the news, no, but they are quick to fine/fire any execs who go against their mission, so eventually only sycophants and cowards remain

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 0 points 7 hours ago

Two words: Brendan Carr.

It took Trump little time to install a department head that would use the FCC to interfere in corporate mergers and acquisitions - like the Soviet Union of old would (but the GOP's not communist - oh, no.. not at al!) - and as the corporations that own the broadcast are held hostage to the FCC.. Welp.. there it is.

[–] PetteriSkaffari@lemmy.world 39 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Another case of femicide, men killing women because they think they owe them and should be punished when they don't follow. Absolutely disgusting mindset, no wonder lots of women avoid dark alleys or travelling alone. And even that doesn't help them enough, obviously...

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I would say avoiding dark alleys is good advice for anyone.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

But where else am I going to sell watches out of my trenchcoat while chewing on a toothpick?

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 1 points 3 hours ago

Do you have a gravely voice and say 'ehhh Mac? You wanna buy a watch? Genuine Rolex... dah good shit!'

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Sunnydale, California.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago
[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

no wonder they dont like to hang around men in bars,. all those pickup videos i have been unfortunately been exposed to, when we had out older bro live with us, he was binging on that junk for hours on end. one trend i notice amongs the different artists, is that the women are always very uncomfortable around the men, also being filmed makes it worst(eventhough they blurred the womens identities. plus the commentary after, or before implies calling them sluts if they dont agree to "date" them.

also getting roofied, some women have brought thier friends just in case the guy trys to date rape them, or watch the guy put drugs in her drinks.

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago

Yup. Date rape drugs are nothing new.. Old shit.

This is why - for years - I only drank beer in bottles that I could carry with me into the bathroom. Just folded a napkin over the top (it's not like girls spray like loose firehoses when we pee) and all was fine.

40 years into a relationship - now I don't drink.. God's honest, don't miss it either.

[–] horse@feddit.org 12 points 16 hours ago

plus the commentary after, or before implies calling them sluts if they dont agree to "date" them.

Date men? Slut. Refuse to date men? Believe it or not: also slut!

The logic of those dweebs is irrefutable.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 277 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What's extra fucked up is before the murder happened the family tried to get help from the police but they didn't do anything because the MAGA psycho is from a cop family.

[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 157 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Further proof that many cops aren't accidentally useless, they'll jerk themselves off about protecting their community, but readily deny assistance to someone that they can justify not giving a fuck about. Fucking pieces of shit, they hung those two girls out to dry while they were being actively stalked.

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[–] ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 85 points 1 day ago (6 children)

They did something: they immediately distanced themselves from him once the news picked up this story. The reporting is terrible bc a lot is via NJ.com which is a garbage site but he is the nephew of the chief of police (his dad, the chiefs brother, is also a cop), and the chief was very quick to make a statement that was basically like “hey fuck this kid, not my family (except he literally is)”.

He also initially got away with it. Despite the fact that she had a restraining order and a history of issues with this boy he runs her and her friend down in cold fucking blood going 3x the speed limit. So what do the cops do? Give him 15 tickets and let him go home of course. And what does he do? Immediately livestreams and talks about the crime like he didn’t just straight up murder them.

I mean maybe I’m crazy but this reeks of Elliot Rodger misogynist incel shit. People just want literally everything to be politics now. Tbf that is more right wing but it’s not necessarily political as much as it’s nihilism. I’m sure the Charlie Kirk thing was true but it’s probably the spark that set off the misogynistic bomb. Like he wasn’t going out to murder libs, if that makes sense? He was looking for an excuse to murder this girl that he felt owed him sex or whatever. Real bad shit

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[–] DarkSurferZA@lemmy.world 15 points 18 hours ago

He was just doing politics the right way... /S

Fucking pig

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 41 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Is trans or LGBTQ?

Yes-> You see, these people are mentally ill, he has been stalking these poor girls for months too.

No->

Is he or family democrat?

Yes-> Figures since democrats are known to endorse violence

No-> Those girls got what they deserved for talking shit about Charlie Kirk who would have forgiven that poor boy.

[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 22 points 18 hours ago (8 children)

No-> he was a poor lost soul struggling with mental health issues. This act of random unmotivated lone-wolf violence was brought on because he couldn't get a job because an immigrant took it.

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[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 121 points 1 day ago (6 children)

This guy is being charged as a minor? Come the fuck on. He is 17! Charge this guy as an adult and put him away for life. No room for people like this in soceity.

[–] SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 84 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He's the son of a cop. We're lucky he isn't just getting administrative leave.

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[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world 110 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ahh, so he targeted a few defenseless young females. That's about as masculine as MAGAts get

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[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 76 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank GOD he wasn't Trans! OTHERWISE Murdering Two Children in Revenge for your Favorite Political Figure would be BAD NEWS and TERRORISM! THIS American was just a Misguided Good Christian (UNLESS we Find out he knew a Trans Person once!)!

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