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I could make some crack, but this is too sad. Poor people...

Pa. man kills 3, himself; Web page describes plans
By GENARO C. ARMAS, Associated Press Writer Genaro C. Armas, Associated Press Writer 18 mins ago

BRIDGEVILLE, Pa. – A man who sprayed bullets into a fitness class filled with women, killing three and then himself, apparently kept a Web page in which he wrote about years of rejection by women and an earlier plan for violence at the gym in which he said he "chickened out."

Neighbors described 48-year-old George Sodini as anti-social, and the Web page in his name showcased a resume setting forth his credentials as an unhappy loner. It listed his date of death — Aug. 4, 2009 — and his status of "Never married." The page ended with the words "Death Lives!"

On Tuesday night, the gunman walked into the fitness center, entered a "Latin impact" dance aerobics class and placed a duffel bag on the ground. After pausing a few moments, he took out at least two guns out of the bag and started shooting.

Three women were killed and nine people were injured. Police say may have fired as many as 52 shots before turning the gun on himself and committing suicide.

"He walked right into the room where the shootings occurred as if he knew exactly where he was going," Allegheny County police Superintendent Charles Moffatt said. "I think he went in with the idea of doing what he did."

Authorities on Wednesday identified the gunman as Sodini, of nearby Scott Township. The three women who died were Heidi Overmier, 46, of Carnegie; Elizabeth Gannon, 49, of Pittsburgh; and Jody Billingsley, 38, of Mount Lebanon.

The 4,610-word Web page, on a domain registered in Sodini's name, appeared to be a nine-month chronology of his plans to commit the shooting, his decision to delay it and the process that led to the eventual carnage at the health club Tuesday. Authorities did not immediately confirm that the site belonged to Sodini, but the elaborate nature of the comments so soon after the shootings suggested authenticity.

"The biggest problem of all is not having relationships or friends, but not being able to achieve and acquire what I desire in those or many other areas," said an entry dated Sunday. "Everthing stays the same regardless of the effert I put in. If I had control over my life then I would be happier. But for about the past 30 years, I have not."

The Web site's author wrote of planning the attack since at least November, and had tried to do it when the same Tuesday-night dance aerobics class he targeted met on Jan. 6.

"It is 8:45PM: I chickened out!" he wrote. "I brought the loaded guns, everything. Hell!"

The violence rocked the suburban Pittsburgh town of about 5,300 residents some eight miles southwest of downtown Pittsburgh.

Joann Gazzam, a member of the weekly dance aerobics class, saw the gunman walk to the back of the room near some weights, set down a bag and fumble with it for a few minutes before coming up with what appeared to be two guns and opening fire, according to her sister, Debi Wozniak, of suburban Dormont.

Gazzam told Wozniak that the instructor was among those who appeared to have been shot, and that the gunman had killed himself.

"She told me, 'Debi, I seen everything. Oh, my God, I seen everything. I seen him pull out the guns,'" said Wozniak, who usually attends the class ever Tuesday from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. but was running late and didn't make it. Police say the shooting happened about 8:15 p.m.

The clean-shaven gunman walked in the room wearing workout gear, turned off the lights and, at first nobody knew what was happening, said Stacey Falk, 26, of Bridgeville, who was in the class.

"All of us girls were just ducking behind each other and it was just, you know, I was behind a girl, one of the girls in front to get hit, and when he was in the opposite corner shooting, I booked it," she told WPXI-TV.

The gunman went into the health club planning to shoot several people — firing "multiple" weapons "indiscriminately" — and didn't say anything before unleashing a burst of bullets, Moffatt said. Moffatt said police recovered at least two guns from the scene and a note from the shooter's duffel bag, but he would not say who wrote it.

"I don't think anyone could have stopped him," Moffatt said.

Five of the wounded victims arrived in critical condition at UPMC Mercy Hospital, but three of them were upgraded to serious condition by early Wednesday. Two women remained in fair condition at another Pittsburgh hospital. One victim was treated and released for a shoulder wound and a woman with a bullet wound to the knee remained in stable condition Wednesday.

Loretta Moss, 44, of McDonald, said she was exercising on a treadmill when she heard a popping noise.

"I didn't pay any attention, and the next minute, people were screaming," said Moss, who had come to the gym Tuesday night for the first time in a couple of weeks. She said she then heard more pops.

"There was like a whole spray of them. I'd say about 15 altogether, and then people started screaming and yelling and started running out the building," she said.

"We laid down, and then after the last set of ... gunshots, we got up, and someone said, 'run.'"

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Associated Press writer Kimberly Hefling in Bridgeville, Pa., contributed to this report.

Link:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090805/ap_on_re_us/us_health_club_shooting

FYI, click that link for a pic of the gunman. He was quite handsome. Which shouldn't matter, but...yeah. It sounds unusual.

Er, yeah. If you're really into morbid, he had a journal: http://georgesodini.com/20090804.htm It's still available, but who knows for how long.
 
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His blog talking about it. Sick.

I know. I actually spent some time reading through it. It scared me - not because of the cold-bloodedness of it, though. It's because it sounded so normal. I've read rants like this (minus the killing people thing) all over the internet from various people. Now, they tended to be in their 20s, but still...

This is truly scary stuff.
 
Pathetic. That's a classic case of American "He who shoots the most, fastest, wins." attitude which I find disgusting.

Has noone on your continent heard about accuracy?
 
Anyone got a mirror to his blog?
 
This guy had issues bigger than women, but maybe he should have turned to call girls and escorts... the fact that he didn't confuses me.
 
This guy had issues bigger than women, but maybe he should have turned to call girls and escorts... the fact that he didn't confuses me.

Yeah. If that website wasn't phony (especially since it had street address information!), then he definitely was out there. Problem is, I've seen folks who've written stuff like this before - but they're usually venting. He took it one step beyond that, and then some.

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I'm almost up to Aug 4 09, and I have YET to see this pathetic excuse for a man take responsibility for anything in his life, its all his father, brothers, womens fault for why he is an introverted little crybaby. I mean hell, I am an introvert myself, but even I know that when I get into a funk its because I am withdrawing, not that I am being pushed away. All this guy had to do was take a shot (no pun intended) and he could have gotten a woman... he seems to have this odd expectation that they would just flock to him his entire life if he just worked out and made money and had no personality. Its pathetic.
 
Oh and its obvious he had exceedingly high expectations... notice he always says "desirable" women then talks about 20 year something college girls... what the hell was a 40+ guy doing sitting around pining over 20 year olds all day? He could have got with a woman his age im sure and had a good relationship... this is just another case of some sad loser with super high expectations blaming other people for his own cowardly inhibitions.
 
I'm almost up to Aug 4 09, and I have YET to see this pathetic excuse for a man take responsibility for anything in his life, its all his father, brothers, womens fault for why he is an introverted little crybaby. I mean hell, I am an introvert myself, but even I know that when I get into a funk its because I am withdrawing, not that I am being pushed away. All this guy had to do was take a shot (no pun intended) and he could have gotten a woman... he seems to have this odd expectation that they would just flock to him his entire life if he just worked out and made money and had no personality. Its pathetic.

I like you.
 
This guy seems to have had some problem that induced psychosis. He obviously couldn't see himself or the world realistically; he had too many unrealistic expectations.
 
Sad and pathetic. But that is often the case when someone takes their own dissatisfaction with their choices that they make others pay for them.

Look at the majority of these murder-suicide random killers.

They all have in common that they blame everyone else for their unhappiness.
 
Boo fucking hoo.

This is why Americans get paid out online. Germans are far more efficient.

see Tim Kretschmer

Alabama:
Michael McLendon
One SKS Rifle, a Bushmaster AR-15 and a .38-caliber handgun.
200+ shots.
10 dead.

Winnenden:
Tim Kretschmer
One 9mm Beretta.
60 shots.
16 dead.

That’s what I call German efficiency.