On that FR thread, they were already putting out there he was a burned CIA agent or other stories like that.
It really reinforces my belief many are just trolls trying to see what crap they can spread.
Money/multiple houses widely distributed/Philippine connection/multiple aircraft/foreign ties/High roller gambling All that's missing is the ties to drug trafficking (oh, and ties to agency black ops).
While some strange stuff has been thrown out, his lifestyle might well be the sort which could conceal large amounts of money being moved around off the radar. It is easy to suspect some sort of impropriety, especially in a group who are as suspicious of most wealthy people as the Socialists, and who would attribute that wealth to some sort of nefarious activity.
Whatever happened here, we may never know the absolute truth or the motivation of the shooter.
We are left with trying to interpret whatever events and facts we can sift from the internet dross and piece together.
Established:
Profession: real estate
Age: mid 60s
Activities: High Roller Gambler
Race: White
Marital Status: Divorced, presumably straight, with girlfriend.
Politics (still uncertain, and may/may not be relevant)
Religion: (uncertain)
Criminal record: None known
Apparent gripes: (uncertain)
Which leaves us with no clear motive to shoot up a crowd of any size, much less to engage in the sort pf preparation/planning to do so.
He had the means.
He had the opportunity.
Motive is the big question mark.
This leaves us trying to assemble a picture of the guy's mental state and other factors which may have influenced him to commit this crime.
Was this related to business/gambling dealings? (Did he lose a 'bet'?)
Was this a personal grudge?
Did this arise from his relationship with the GF? Directly? Indirectly?
Did this arise as a result of a physical problem (tumor, or drug abuse, for instance).
Does it have a religious factor? (Jihad? Did he sell his soul for success, and ol' Scratch came to collect?)
Did he have some sort of psychological breakdown and manage to conceal that during his preparations for the crime?
Was this done under duress? (which leaves a few possible causes open to speculation).
We have to try to piece the mental state, his motive, from evidence, from the accounts of others ( less defining, because no one person ever completely knows another), and from any clues he may have left.
If this involves any sort of networked behaviour (radicalization, for instance) then that information may well not be forthcoming as part of an ongoing investigation.
That leaves sleuthing (which means there will be false leads and dead ends) and also leaves us at the mercy of official information releases and the spew of the press, which ranges wildly in accuracy and content and degree of speculation.
There will be brainstorming, under the circumstances, and some of it will be obvious nonsense, but still essential to eliminate in the process of finding any answers. Until we have enough info to eliminate any of those theories, we can't, and for all we know (and don't) there may be a convoluted conspiracy involved.
Until then, it's all theory.
