Alleged Arizona Shooter Posted Gun And Conspiracy Links
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Leslie Allen Merritt, Jr, 21, is being held on charges in the Arizona freeway shootings. He posted on Facebook about guns and put up links to conspiracy websites.
Merritt has not been charged with all eleven of the shootings with authorities believing some may be the handiwork of copycat shooters.
According to police, a 9MM handgun owned by Merritt has been positively linked through ballistic testing to the shootings which resulted in no deaths and a few minor injuries from flying glass.
On a now taken down Facebook page purportedly belonging to Les Merritt Jr. — with photos and employment history matching the suspect — the New Times reports that there were pro-gun posts and memes including one featuring a high-powered rifle reading “Long range shooting, it’s like golf…but for men.”
Merritt also posted a link to conspiracy website allnewspipeline.com for an article suggesting the U.S. government is experimenting with introducing the black plague into the populace as a form of population control. Over the headline reading “As Darkness Descends On The United States First – Is The Black Plague Intentionally Being Given A Trial Run?,” Merritt wrote “Government fucking shit up.”
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