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I'm safe, regarding mass shooting in my city
6 years ago
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For the context, yesterday around afternoon there is mass shooting happen in my city, that shopping mall were like 2-3 kilometers away from my house.
(I'm spending my daily routine at home at the moment)
The shooter are soldier, he have personal argument with his superior before he went rogue, killing his superior and his wife, went to the army's armory and take down the guardsman, stole several armed gun and ammunition, then running away to the city and flee into said shopping mall.
Last night is a whole chaos, the shooter was just shot down this morning, totally results around 80 casualties, 23 deceased and more than 50 injured.
It's depressing to hear actually, one of the deceased are just a 2 years old baby that cried during the assault, the shooter just shot down the baby in front of their parents just to shut them up.
One of the victim that died in the incident are the sister of my mother's best friends, my condolence to her.
This incident actually make us question so many things again, the biggest one is the purpose of mainstream media/news reporting.
As soon as the mass shooting happened, the shooter live streaming the massacre on Facebook.
When his account got shut down later on, he stole and use hostage's phone to track down the police team's activity that being live report, such as
- Deploying the sniper team into position(so he moved to the basement floor)
- Assault team using CCTV to track down his location(so he shot down all of the camera)
- Assault team deploying drone for further visual information(and he shot down the drone)
- Reporting on survivor's location(so the shooter followed that track and make those survivor a hostage instead)
The action toward those news report are getting question more and more by the social, because the live broadcast news are actually help out the terrorism and results in more casualties, people are really angry about this and asking for humanity and ultimately, the responsibility from the reporter after all these mess.
Anyway, that's the update about what happened. It's the most tragic mass shooting that ever happen in my city, perhaps in my country, caused by a single man.
(I'm spending my daily routine at home at the moment)
The shooter are soldier, he have personal argument with his superior before he went rogue, killing his superior and his wife, went to the army's armory and take down the guardsman, stole several armed gun and ammunition, then running away to the city and flee into said shopping mall.
Last night is a whole chaos, the shooter was just shot down this morning, totally results around 80 casualties, 23 deceased and more than 50 injured.
It's depressing to hear actually, one of the deceased are just a 2 years old baby that cried during the assault, the shooter just shot down the baby in front of their parents just to shut them up.
One of the victim that died in the incident are the sister of my mother's best friends, my condolence to her.
This incident actually make us question so many things again, the biggest one is the purpose of mainstream media/news reporting.
As soon as the mass shooting happened, the shooter live streaming the massacre on Facebook.
When his account got shut down later on, he stole and use hostage's phone to track down the police team's activity that being live report, such as
- Deploying the sniper team into position(so he moved to the basement floor)
- Assault team using CCTV to track down his location(so he shot down all of the camera)
- Assault team deploying drone for further visual information(and he shot down the drone)
- Reporting on survivor's location(so the shooter followed that track and make those survivor a hostage instead)
The action toward those news report are getting question more and more by the social, because the live broadcast news are actually help out the terrorism and results in more casualties, people are really angry about this and asking for humanity and ultimately, the responsibility from the reporter after all these mess.
Anyway, that's the update about what happened. It's the most tragic mass shooting that ever happen in my city, perhaps in my country, caused by a single man.
I will also pray that the reporters who caused harm from outside will be haunted by what they did. I will pray that the reporters will be haunted by the images and reminders of how their words gave the murderer more information than necessary, leading to survivors being recaptured and more deaths.
The open reporting needs to stop everywhere. People need to be conscionable about what they expose to the public and the results of their actions.
I'm very glad that you are doing well, Shinoda!