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January 10, 2011 11:24 AM EST
The U.S. prosecutors have filed five different charges, at the federal court in Phoenix, against the man suspected of the gruesome Arizona shooting, including two counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted assassination.
Even as the law takes its course and the accused is to be produced before the court on Monday, no two people apparently agree on the killer's motives, ideological affiliations and if he was politically motivated.
The killer, identified as Jared Lee Loughner, who is held responsible for the killing of six people including a federal judge and critically wounding Gabrielle Giffords, Democratic Congresswoman from the state, is variously described as a right wing extremist, a mentally deranged killer, an anti-government fanatic, a white supremacist and as a die-hard leftist who adored Che Guevara.
Was he just an ordinary but highly-stressed youth who was detrimentally influenced by vitriolic political propaganda, or, closer to truth, just one of those worst criminals?
Following are some key facts about Jared Lee Loughner:
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PERSON
Loughner is a 22-year-old white man who attended educational institutions like Northwest Aztec Middle College and Pima Community College. He was born on September 10, 1988. Huffington Post quoted a witness who described the assassin "as a young white man who looked like a "fringe character," in his mid-to-late 20s, clean-shaven with short hair and wearing dark clothing."
The shooter, who tried to flee the crime scene after running out of ammunition but overpowered by the Congresswoman’s staffers, has reportedly posted paranoid text messages and videos on his YouTube account. "His notes on MySpace and YouTube are rambling and sometimes unintelligible," says a report in National Conservative Examiner.
"Schoolmates of the alleged shooter describe Loughner as a loner, an ultra-liberal with a penchant for hard rock music, flag burning, and pot smoking," reports Examiner.
Those who think he was lunatic should perhaps pause as evidence of some solid planning in the run-up to the murder has emerged.
According to The New York Times, investigators from the FBI found an envelope in Loughner's house bearing handwritten words: "I planned ahead," "My assassination" and "Giffords."
VIEWS
Articles on the Internet variously describe him as a 'semi-literate' who was thrown out a local college, and whose writings display 'weird syllogisms' and 'unexplained numbers and references'.
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