New Mexico School Shooter Had Secret Life on Pro-Trump White-Supremacy Sites

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

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For years before William Edward Atchison killed two students and himself, he lived a shadow life online—one full of crude alt-right memes and praise for school shooters.

BRANDY ZADROZNY

BEN COLLINS

12.15.17 5:00 AM ET

In real life, William Edward Atchison—people called him Bill—lived in a little yellow house with his parents, about a mile away from the Giant gas station where he worked and from Aztec High School, where he shot and killed two students and then himself last Thursday.

At the murder scene, police found a thumb drive with a note that read, “If things go according to plan, today would be when I die. I go somewhere and gear up, then hold a class hostage and go apeshit, then blow my brains out.

He wrote “work sucks, school sucks, life sucks. I just want out of this .”

“It’s a shame he wasn’t on our radar,” San Juan County Sheriff Ken Christesen told Fox News last week. “I don’t think he had anything so much as a traffic ticket.”

And yet online, the 21-year-old New Mexico resident lived a prolific life as a white supremacist, pro-Trump meme peddler who was most known for his obsession with school shooters. For a half-decade, Atchison spent most of his days online, repeatedly posting threats of violence and cries for help.

When users saw posts from Atchison, who went by dozens of names like “Adam Lanza” and “Future Mass Shooter” on both larger platforms like YouTube and racist communities like The Daily Stormer, they would often ask how his manifesto was going.

 

Despite local law enforcement’s claims that he wasn’t a known threat, and a visit from the FBI in 2016, Atchison spent most of the last half-decade glorifying school shooters on alt-right websites and posting plaintive appeals for help in fixing his life, according to hundreds of posts analyzed by The Daily Beast.

 

At EncyclopediaDramatica, a Wikipedia-style site for fringe internet users to describe memes and in-jokes in detail, he volunteered as a SysOp, the site’s word for an administrator. Atchison’s page, now replete with his screen name @satanicdruggie and his real identity, is filed under the “An Heroes” section, reserved for people who have killed themselves.

On the alt-right forums and hate groups he frequented, Atchison appears to have made many enemies. Despite later becoming a moderator of the site, one of Atchison’s most popular EncyclopediaDramatica accounts, AlGore, was banned from the site for two years when it was labeled as a “troll.

 

 

[smilesammich 10,727]

uh, yeah..he got that visit from the fbi for asking what kind or how to get a gun to shoot up a school (something like that) and the fbi saw that he was a big white supremacist site lurker and troll but didn't consider him a threat. read that on the root earlier today, i think. maybe the fbi should just consider white supremacists a threat, period.

[Ban Hammer 13,342]

2 hours ago, smilesammich said:

uh, yeah..he got that visit from the fbi for asking what kind or how to get a gun to shoot up a school (something like that) and the fbi saw that he was a big white supremacist site lurker and troll but didn't consider him a threat. read that on the root earlier today, i think. maybe the fbi should just consider white supremacists a threat, period.

fbi dropped the ball on that one.