CHRISTCHURCH (NYTIMES) - He announced his mass killing over social media and filmed it live on the Internet.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
He shared a 74-page online manifesto peppered with sarcastic jokes about popular culture, repeating well-known Internet memes and striving to mint new ones.
The man accused of killing 49 people on Friday in a shooting spree at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, identified in court papers on Saturday as Brenton H. Tarrant, is a 28-year-old body builder and personal trainer from the small town of Grafton, Australia.But after the death of his father, in 2010, the suspect's life took him in an unexpected direction.
Tarrant now appears to have become the first accused mass murderer to conceive of the killing itself as a meme; it seems he was both inspired by the world of social media and performing for it, hoping his video, images and text would go viral. "Just an ordinary white man" from"a working class, low income family", Tarrant wrote in his manifesto."I had a regular childhood, without any great issues. I had little interest in education during my schooling, barely achieving a passing grade. I did not attend University as I had no great interest in anything offered in the Universities to study."
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