The alleged Highland Park shooter left a digital trail that specialists say is indicative of a pattern among mass shooters who become radicalized in what’s described as “dark corners of the internet.”
The alleged Highland Park shooter left a digital trail that specialists say is indicative of a pattern among mass shooters who become radicalized in what Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, describes as “dark corners of the internet” that are attractive to people who are angry or predisposed to violence.
It’s different than the markers left by the alleged shooter in the May shooting at a grocery store in a Black neighborhood Buffalo, which was explicitly racist. You can think of it like going shopping online, when a browser search brings up a new store and suddenly you’ve got a full cart, are on a new company’s mailing list, and you become a return customer.Newhouse said the alleged Highland Park shooter fits a pattern of mass shooters and violent people who spend their time online in this way.
“What they’ll often display is in a sort of burgeoning inability to distinguish between the story and the fiction, and reality. And they’ll even talk to this. They’ll talk about making the story real. They will talk about the fact that reality doesn’t really exist for them anymore, or time has been sort of destroyed for their mental state,” he said.
There are a multitude of aggressive videos and song lyrics that are popular in modern culture that doesn’t foretell violence, but Newhouse says Crimo’s posts had those aesthetic and stylistic indicators that investigators can be on the lookout for.
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