The Dark Descent

The official tumblr for the dark descent discord page. We are a research based through crime community.

[thedarkdescentofficial]

Bringing back our shooter research community discord server

We are currently in the process of reviving a newer and better shooter research-based community on discord. And we need your help! If you were in our old server, we would like to hear from our users which things they liked about the server, and which things they think could have been done better?

[sergeantmiller]

Dylan Klebold (right) with Brooks Brown in 6th Grade

[o-kurwa]

What pretending to be crazy looks like

[borntokill528]

Two newly released photos of Nikolas Cruz’s AR-15 at the scene of the shooting.

[u6ty]

swat team finds the bodies of jamie guttenberg and peter wang in the middle of the stoneman douglas high shooting.

[thedarkdescentofficial]

Lawyers For Parkland Shooter Nikolas Cruz Face Tough Task In Jury Selection

FORT LAUDERDALE - Attorneys for Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz will have one goal when jury selection starts Monday: to identify candidates who might give Cruz the single vote he needs to get a life sentence instead of death for the 2018 murders of 17 students and staff members. Cruz's attorneys "Should not even try to get a jury or juror who doesn't know about the case because that is ignorance; you would have to be living under a rock," said Orlando defense attorney Mark O'Mara. Cruz, 23, pleaded guilty in October to 17 first-degree murders, 17 attempted murders and a jail assault, leaving the jury to decide only whether the former Stoneman Douglas student gets death or life without parole. Instead of deciding whether someone is guilty based upon objective evidence, jurors sitting at this death penalty trial must answer a subjective question: Have prosecutors shown that aggravating factors - the number of deaths, the weeks of planning and the cruelty and horror of Cruz's actions - outweigh mitigating factors such as his lifelong mental illness and the death of his parents? For Cruz to get death, the jurors must all answer, "Yes." In October, Cruz faced trial for assaulting a jail guard nine months after the shooting. About half said they couldn't judge Cruz fairly, and three women cried just seeing him. Such professionals use a mental scale to precisely weigh the aggravating and mitigating factors - a battle Cruz cannot win with 17 dead victims, he said.

[thedarkdescentofficial]

Atchison also had a habit of creating swastikas within video games—such as using a gun in a first-person shooter to “shoot” a swastika into a wall or side of a building. “I can’t stop drawing swastikas to save my own life,” he confessed in March 2017, and screenshots posted from his game provide ample evidence.

[thedarkdescentofficial]

FL v. Cruz: Parkland School Massacre Penalty Phase - Court TV

A Broward County, Florida jury will decide whether Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz gets life in prison or the death penalty.

[thedarkdescentofficial]

Will it be difficult to find jurors for the life-death decision in Parkland shooter case?

They'll have to commit to 16 consecutive weeks and be fair and impartial. How difficult will it be to find a jury for the life or death penalty case of Nikolas Cruz?

[thedarkdescentofficial]

Ethan Crumbley in court: Suspected Oxford shooter's education, psych evaluation addressed

Oxford school shooting suspect Ethan Crumbley will have his jail status reviewed every 30 days under federal law.

[thedarkdescentofficial]

School shooting suspect’s arrest caught on camera, family releases statement

After the shooting, deputies said the young suspect fled the school.

[thedarkdescentofficial]

GP never said Plymouth gunman was fit to own firearm, hearing told

IOPC is investigating police actions over August tragedy in which Jake Davison shot dead five people

Dr Carolyn Adcock, a paediatric consultant overseeing a review of the death of Sophie Martyn, three, who was one of the victims, told the hearing: “The GP wrote [to police] declining to give information because he did not feel he was in a position to be qualified to comment on the personality of a patient to say whether or not they were safe to hold a gun licence.”

Message "Jake Davison"

[thedarkdescentofficial]

Demonic rituals, false confessions, ruined lives: Satanic Panic is still alive and well

The collective fears that consumed the US in the 1980s and ’90s are still alive and well — all the way through QAnon and beyond.

[thedarkdescentofficial]

Analysis: Why it’s time to stop blaming video games for real-world violence

"There is no evidence to support these claims that violent media and real-world violence are connected."

[thedarkdescentofficial]

So I was watching •that chapter. •He talked about how CBS covered this case. Blaming video games again. I think around this time it was also a hype to blame video games. Very interesting how the time we are in influences the way the media covers cases. I think the Satanic panic definitely influenced this idea that music artists and games are to blame

You can also see this in for example the Columbine High School Massacre...

[thedarkdescentofficial]

The shooting of Gregg Butler

[featheredadora]

Happy Transgender Day of Visibility! I hope every trans person has a great day, and I hope today can be a day of being proud, loud, and visible! I want every trans kid to know that there are trans people out here living amazing, happy, fulfilling lives - and that future is waiting for you too!

(Here are some of my trans pride bird designs from my (way too crowded - sorry!) Redbubble store)