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The Rachel Maddow Show [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
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Aired on Monday, Jan 10, 2011 (1/10/2011) at 05:00 PM
00:00:00 >> Thank you so much.
00:00:01 >> I'm keith olbermann.
00:00:02 Good night and good luck.
00:00:03 Now to continue our coverage of the aftermath, ladies and gentlemen, here is rachel maddow.
00:00:08 >> Good evening.
00:00:08 Thank you.
00:00:09 Thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour.
00:00:11 The suspect in this weekend's mass shooting in arizona is a young man named jared lee loughner.
00:00:24 He was born september 10, 1988.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/16/nation/la-na-jared-loughner-20110116
Los Angeles Times
Suspected Tucson shooter 'slowly spiraled into madness'
Interviews with friends, law enforcement reports and Jared Lee Loughner's own writings depict a troubled young man who seemed in need of mental health intervention.
January 16, 2011|By Robin Abcarian, Maeve Reston and Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times
The two teenagers were in an old minivan just before midnight, driving through their scrubby neighborhood on the outskirts of Tucson when they were pulled over by sheriff's deputies. The driver and his passenger, Jared Lee Loughner, both smelled strongly of pot. It was the eve of Loughner's 19th birthday. Deputies cited him for possessing drug paraphernalia, his first criminal charge as an adult.
Between that stop Sept. 9, 2007, and Jan. 8 of this year — the day he was arrested as a suspect in shootings that killed six and wounded 13, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, outside a Safeway store in Tucson — Loughner frequently acted and sounded like a young man in need of mental health intervention.
He'd been kicked out of school, was rejected by the Army and struggled to find work. He was fired from a volunteer job at an animal shelter. His Internet postings were hostile and incoherent, with certain themes repeated — a distrust of government and his college, the Constitution, illiteracy and "lucid dreaming." He alienated fellow players in an online game with disjointed, hostile posts, including one in which he called the physicist Stephen Hawking a "freaking retard" and equated rape with sex.
Interviews with friends, teachers and classmates, and reviews of school documents and law enforcement reports — plus Loughner's own writings and comments — depict a young man's downward spiral, slow at first, accelerating dramatically a year ago, and culminating with his arrest on suspicion of murder eight days ago.
Loughner, an only child, was born Sept. 10, 1988.
