Savage Is Reporting Identity of Utah Multi-Murderer
The lastest media story I could find is here.
Michael Savage opened his radio program by reporting that the first name of the murderer is (rough spelling) “Suleman,” (update — Solejman Talovic) who is:
- 18 years old
- A Bosnian
- A Muslim
- A Refugee
- Brought into Salt Lake City by a (sponsoring) family.
Savage is saying that a reporter named Linda Thomson (not sure of spelling) has been told the above by immigration officials.
Let’s see where else this gets confirmed/reported.
More info will come as it is heard, and found.
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UPDATE: An official interviewed by Fox Radio at 6:30 PM ET is characterizing the murders as “random.”
UPDATE 2, 6:40 PM: This report from just after 6PM (strangely dated Feb. 14) says:
No known motive in Utah shootings
SALT LAKE CITY: The gunman who shot dead four people in a Salt Lake City shopping mall rampage was an 18-year-old Bosnian refugee, but his motive was a mystery, police said on Tuesday.
The teenager, dressed in a trench coat and carrying a shotgun, a.38 calibre pistol and what police said was a “backpack full of ammunition,” opened fire at random on Monday evening, sending terrified shoppers running for cover.Salt Lake City police chief Chris Burbank said the gunman appeared determined to “shoot as many people as he possibly could.”
Five people were killed and four others were wounded before an off-duty police officer opened fire and stopped the youth from moving farther through the mall. He was killed by police who arrived in force.
Police identified the gunman as Solejman Talovic, who they said had lived in Salt Lake City for a few years with his mother. He had four minor incidents with police when he was a juvenile, they said.
“We don’t have any motive or reason behind his actions. We know very little,” Burbank said, adding that the victims were picked at random.
The living circumstances could be contradictory to Savage’s “refugee” and “(sponsoring) family” claims. See Update 4 — “Refugee” would be accurate.
UPDATE 3: A Savage caller is claiming that Bosnian Muslims are not violent fundamentalists. Hmmm — but they both agreed that the name is indisputably Muslim. Update 3A: A follow-up caller about an hour later disagreed strongly, and even claimed that Sarajevo is now a city where the majority of women wear burquas. That would seem possible, since Wiki says that Sarajevo, which had been 50% “Bosniak” (Bosnian Muslim) in the early 1990s was 87% Bosniak by 1997.
UPDATE 4: E Canada Now says — “The shooter has been identified as Solejman Talovic, a bemulleted eighteen year-old Bosnian refugee living in Salt Lake City.”
UPDATE 5: SLC Deseret News — Here is Linda Thomson’s report, but it does not contain the word “Muslim.” Savage’s link to the story at his home page does.
UPDATE 6: Judi at Canada Free Press e-mailed Savage and told him that there is no shortage of violent Bosnian Muslims. Another caller from SLC claimed to have verified that the local news stations are refusing to broadcast that the murderer is a Muslim. Another SLC caller claims that there is a mosque three blocks from where the shooting took place.
FINAL UPDATE: I don’t think there is any question that the religious background of the murderer is being glossed over and avoided, which was the point of creating this post in the first place. A Savage caller claiming to be in law enforcement says that the agenda behind the non-identification is to keep fundamentalist Muslims from getting to enjoy or celebrate the “fruits” of their extremism. First, I’m not convinced the guy was for real, but second, even if he was, I believe that the people need to know the truth. The erosion of trust in what people are told is palpable. FINAL-FINAL, Feb. 14: DeseretNews.com acknowledges Muslim identity of family.
