Comments on: 5 Dead in Shooting at Lane Bryant

By: Lynette Morris

Lynette Morris — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:42:41 +0000

To all of the family’s and friends that are still suffering so much from this senseless act of violence. My heart is hurt for all of you. I do know what it is like to live this nightmare my cousin was taken from us 12/28/1990 and the man that killed her was just sentenced today 18 years later. The pain will subside with time but the broken heart will always be there. All you can do is keep their memories alive and talk to them often they will always be with you, find strength in each other it’s together that you will rise above.

By: Mochi Hada

Mochi Hada — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:26:44 +0000

Am I weird for feeling an amount of distaste and frustration over the chump change reward Lane Bryant posted? (I think it’s 50-60K.) Especially as the days and weeks are starting to tick by…someone is almost certainly protecting the guy who did this. Give them more of an incentive to turn him in! There’s a couple of things I really need, but I am holding off buying anything there for now.

By: fillyjonk

fillyjonk — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:37:34 +0000

Why Layla, how positively sunny of you. I hope those words taste good.

By: Layla

Layla — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:25:23 +0000

I live less than 5 mins from this location. My family and I regularly shop at that mall. We were shocked, horrified, and apalled to hear the very tragic news of what occured that day. I definitely do not that that a robbery makes sense. I have talked to people who know officers working on this case and there are a couple other stories that make much more sense. I don’t want to publically state them, because I don’t want gossip jeopardizing this case. My heart is broken for the victims and their families. They are constantly in my thoughts and prayers. I don’t know if it is because a close family member of mine was murdered in 98, but I feel very close to these women and their families. I pray that this guy is caught and that justice is served. It will never bring them back, but I know from experience that it will help bring some comfort and peace of mind to the families and to the community that he can’t harm anyone else.

I think that the comments worrying about people making jokes about this tragedy are obsurd and inappropriate…. I don’t know of one person, no matter how crude they can be, that has heard this news and felt anything but horror and sympathy for everyone involved. I do not think it had anything to do with weight discrimination….. the suspect was of a heavier frame and weight, himself. It is insulting to the victims and their families to even make such remarks. I think that kind of nonsense should be dismissed and left alone…. it has no place here at all.
This was obviously something else that happened in this case. The truth will be unveiled in time.

By: Kellie

Kellie — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:06:41 +0000

Just to make this even more miserable, apparently the hatemongers from Westboro Baptist “Church” (you know, godhatesfags.com) are planning to picket the victims’ funerals. Why? Rumor has it that LB caters to cross-dressers. I’m told that the funerals are on their schedule, but I can’t bring myself to check the site.

By: Bethany

Bethany — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:56:15 +0000

Being an LB employee, I agree that robbery makes no sense simply because of our policies and the situation, but beyond that, keep in mind that this man took all 5 women into the backroom, tied them up, and shot them execution-style. That is NOT a panic reaction… that man planned on killing those women before he ever entered that store.

Regardless of what this monster’s motives were, he has successfully ruined uncountable lives… let’s just hope that includes his own.

By: kreis

kreis — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:38:31 +0000

I have grown up in this area and lived there for 23 years -my parents still reside there- I can’t stress enough how INSANELY strange this is, tor this to happen here! I understand it can happen anywhere, but it shouldn’t happen at all! This is a SICK individual who hopefully comes forward or SOMETHING so that these families can have some kind of closure! It’s days later, and I still can’t believe what had happened…you just feel like you wish you could do something to help…y’know?! God Bless, be safe, and pray for those families!!

By: thorswitch

thorswitch — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:40:02 +0000

One thing I appreciated about the Roeper article is how he pointed out that – while many of us may have had an initial reaction of wondering if this might be an anti-fat hate crime – the general consensus of the thread is that it wasn’t. Too often a group that suffers from the kind of discrimination and bigotry that we do is ridiculed for having that kind of a reaction, so it was nice to see that he not only recognized that, as a group, we weren’t making any kind of a leap to a “hate crime” conclusion as the most likely scenario, AND that our wondering if it *might* be a hate crime wasn’t entirely unreasonable. It may not be a huge deal overall, but I think maybe it’s at least a decent step in the right direction.

By: EJah

EJah — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 02:50:53 +0000

Yeah that’s foul. The manager was a friend of our family. Damn too many people dying over bs. I mean you murdered 5 people over $1500 at the most. Terrible!

By: AnnieMcPhee

AnnieMcPhee — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:32:38 +0000

This one expands on the same possible motive slightly – http://www.nbc5.com/news/15227060/detail.html?rss=chi&psp=news

They say he may have chosen a women’s clothing store to avoid confrontation with men, that he carried duct tape and the gun, and made sexual advances to at least one of the women before killing anyone. That doesn’t sound like robbery, if it’s accurate.