William Spengler raised no alarms in prison for 17 years and for more than a decade afterward. Well-spoken, well-behaved and intelligent, his demeanor was praised by four straight parole boards that nevertheless denied him parole, worried that bludgeoning his 92-year-old grandmother with a hammer showed a violent streak that could explode again.
After his sentence was up in 1996, he stayed out of trouble until 2010, police said Friday. That's when Spengler went to a sporting goods store with a neighbor's daughter, picked out a Bushmaster semiautomatic rifle and a shotgun and had her buy the guns that the convicted felon couldn't legally possess. On Monday, he used the weapons to ambush firefighters lured to a blaze he set at his house in upstate Webster, killing two people and wounding three others before killing himself.
On Friday, state and federal authorities charged the woman who bought the guns, 24-year-old Dawn Nguyen, with lying on a form that said she would be the owner of the guns she bought for Spengler.
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So the death penalty would have resolved this issue from the get go.
ReplyDeleteand they say the death penalty stops nothing. This would not have happened if he'd paid the price for killing the first time.
ReplyDeleteResults from unregulated breeding.
ReplyDeleteShe broke existing gun laws just as the shooter in Conn. did so now we who obey the laws will have to suffer more anti-gun laws that do very little to stop the miscreant from perpetuating their evil.
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