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Home Front: WoT
Salt Lake City Gunman Identified-- and Guess What?
2007-02-13
The 18-year-old man who shot and killed at least five people Monday night at Trolley Square has been identified as Sulejmen Talovic, a Bosnian refugee who lived in Salt Lake City.
"Bosnian refugee", eh? Christian? Jew? Bhuddist? Zoroastrian? Wiccan? Which is it????
As trailing wife notes in a duplicate post, "So we can hope it wasn't Sudden Jihad Syndrome. But hope is not certainty."
Little additional information was released about Talovic. The Bosnian community, which numbers about 3,000 in Utah, planned a news conference later this afternoon.

Talovic parked his car in the west parking lot and walked into the mall, encountering two people, whom he shot. Then he walked further into the mall and shot a woman, said Police Chief Chris Burbank. He then walked to a gift shop and shot five people. He shot several other people before he was gunned down by an off-duty Ogden police officer assisted by four Salt Lake City police officers, Burbank said.

He had a backpack that carried numerous rounds of ammunition as well as a .38-caliber handgun, said the chief. Police have no motive in the killing.
Of course not. We couldn't possibly imagine, could we?
I think he was unhappy the Colts won the Super Bowl. That has to be it.
Posted by:Dave D.

#8  Was he looking for Allan's snackbar in the food court?

Someone must have heard.
Posted by: eLarson   2007-02-13 22:50  

#7  I think he was unhappy the Colts won the Super Bowl. That has to be it.

I'm pretty pissed about it, too. The Pats were so freakin' close...
Posted by: Raj   2007-02-13 22:14  

#6  Let me take a wild guess: a Serbian (Greek orthodox) or a Croat (catholic) boy wouldn't be called Suleiman.
Posted by: gromgoru   2007-02-13 21:32  

#5  Could be. Probably isn't.
Never know now unless he left a note.
I am inclined to think ad hoc jihadist.
Posted by: J.D. Lux   2007-02-13 21:29  

#4  When I heard trench coat, i figured Columbine copycat, or wannabee.

Could still be that. Or could be junior jihadi. Or could be something else.
Posted by: liberalhawk   2007-02-13 21:28  

#3  Isolated incident as usual just like Rockford, Seattle, and San Francisco. Sure they were all islams own, but....
Posted by: Phineter Thraviger   2007-02-13 21:06  

#2  And of course Suleiman is a modified form of Solomon, just as Daoud derives from David. Life is an iron.
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-02-13 20:19  

#1  The first name "Sulejman" appears to be a fairly common Bosnian Muslim name. I assume it must be a variant of the name Suleiman as in Suleiman the Magnificent.
Posted by: Biff Wellington   2007-02-13 19:16  

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