Incel shoots up Arizona mall, wounds 3

This event as far as I can tell wasn't mentioned here when it happened this past Wednesday, May 20th. A local man identified as Armando Hernandez entered a shopping mall in Glendale, Arizona and began firing at shoppers in an attack which he live-streamed on Snapchat. By sheer luck, his spray of bullets managed to only wound 3 people, one of whom remains in serious condition in the hospital. Hernandez used an AR-15, the Mass Shooter Special, for his attack.

Hernandez was captured alive and has been talking to investigators. By his own account, he has contemplated such an attack for a long time to punish society out of frustration at being an "incel", and intimated that he had specifically tried to target couples during the mall attack.

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"Mr. [Armando] Hernandez had the purpose of taking out his express anger at society, the feeling that he has been bullied, the feeling that women don't want him," Leiter said in court Thursday. Leiter also detailed that while the suspect said he didn’t intend to kill anyone, he had every intention to cause injury to people at the mall with their significant others. "He specifically was hoping to shoot at least 10 people," Leiter said, successfully making the case for bail to be set at $1 million. “He wanted these people to feel the pain that he feels on a daily basis. He suffers from extreme anger. He’s very open about the fact that he has a dark side, and his dark side was coming out.”

Although he has been planning the attack for a prolonged period, he has told police that he decided today was the day, when he learned that a restaurant and theater he wanted to visit at the mall complex were both closed due to COVID, after which he became enraged.

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