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[Spoiled Milk]

Old thread please close Tampa, Florida

tl;dr: four white supremacists share an apartment in Tampa. One decides to convert to Islam but his homeboys are not having it. Furious at the disrespect, he murders two of them, then takes employees hostage at a smoke shop to avenge besieged Muslims countries. Police arrest him, go back to his apartment to find the bodies, and find out that the remaining surviving roommate is a Timothy McVeigh worshipper that was making bombs in his garage.

A man accused of shooting his two roommates Friday in a Tampa Palms apartment told police he shared neo-Nazi beliefs with the men until he converted to Islam then killed them because they showed disrespect for his faith.

Officers found a garage stocked with bomb materials as they arrived to investigate the double homicide, leading to federal explosive charges against Brandon Russell — a Florida National Guardsman and admitted neo-Nazi who kept a framed photo of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh on his dresser.

Russell, 21, was the man Tampa police officers found crying outside his door Friday evening when murder suspect Devon Arthurs led them back to the apartment that the four had shared in an affluent suburb north of the University of South Florida.

While searching the garage, investigators found a cooler full of a white, cake-like explosive material known as HMTD, or hexamethylene tiperoxide diamine, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court. Nearby, they found explosive precursors — chemicals that can be mixed to create explosives — including potassium chlorate, potassium nitrate, nitro methane and more than a pound of ammonium nitrate in a package addressed to Russell.

Investigators also found electric matches and empty 5.56-caliber ammunition casings with fuses that could be used to detonate destructive devices once HMTD was added to the casings. The materials could be used to make a bomb, according to the complaint.

Arthurs told investigators that all four roommates shared neo-Nazi beliefs until he converted to Islam, according to the complaint.

"Arthurs stated that for some time before the murders, he had been privy to Russell participating in online neo-Nazi internet chat rooms where he threatened to kill people and bomb infrastructure."

Russell's arrest is the latest twist in a case that began unfolding Friday when Arthurs briefly took hostages at the Green Planet Smoke Shop down the street from his apartment. A Tampa police report obtained by the Times on Monday provides new details about the hostage-taking and killings.

Arthurs entered the smoke shop at 15325 Amberly Drive about 5:30 p.m. and pulled a semiautomatic pistol from his waistband.

"Do me a favor and get the f--- on the ground!" he yelled to a female employee and male customer, the report states. Arthurs asked the customer, "Why shouldn't I kill you?"

A few minutes later, another customer entered the store and Arthurs ordered him to get down. He told all three people in the store that he had already killed someone.

"He further informed all three victims that he was upset due to America bombing his Muslim countries," according to the report, by police Detective Kenneth Nightlinger.

Two Tampa police officers arrived about five minutes after the second customer entered the store. One hostage ran out of the store and the officers were able to persuade Arthurs to let the other two leave. After several more minutes of negotiating, Arthurs surrendered and allowed the officers to place him in handcuffs.

Arthurs made references to "Allah Mohammed" as officers walked him to a patrol car.

"I had to do it," he said, according to the report. "This wouldn't have had to happen if your country didn't bomb my country."

 

[Skinpop]

I think we had this news last week.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1378392

 

[timetokill]

Tampa, Florida

tl;dr: four white supremacists share an apartment in Tampa. One decides to convert to Islam but his homeboys are not having it. Furious at the disrespect, he murders two of them, then takes employees hostage at a smoke shop to avenge besieged Muslims countries. Police arrest him, go back to his apartment to find the bodies, and find out that the remaining surviving roommate is a Timothy McVeigh worshipper that was making bombs in his garage.

Pretty sure we had a thread on this already, but wow, what a group.

 

[Any Questions]

Words fail

 

[Spoiled Milk]

Oh, it's an update then. Let me go do that while a mod closes the thread

 

[Kard8p3]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1378392

 

[brian577]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1378392

 

[BobNewbert31]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1378392&highlight=

 

[Dice//]

Just a whole shitshow of bad seeds going either way.

 

[RedHill]

I'm not a state I'm a monster