He blamed East Carolina University for costing him his career and destroying his reputation, his previously posted online ramblings show.

He blamed East Carolina University for costing him his career and destroying his reputation, his previously posted online ramblings show.

The man who fatally shot three people last week at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, had resigned from another school, despite having tenure, after a female student accused him of making a sexual comment about her appearance.

Kristin Marshburn said she was sitting in the front row of Anthony Polito’s business course at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, in 2016 when he walked in and made the remark.

“He said to me that if I wore a shirt that low cut for the rest of the semester, I’d be sure to get an A,” Marshburn, now 28, told NBC News.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    712·
    11 months ago

    “He said to me that if I wore a shirt that low cut for the rest of the semester, I’d be sure to get an A,” Marshburn, now 28, told NBC News.

    That was 2016, months later he “resigned” even tho he had tenure.

    4 years later applied to UNLV and a bunch of other schools, but couldn’t get hired and had an eviction notice on his door.

    So then he made a “hit list” of faculty at UNLV and committed a mass shooting.

    So it sounds like he fucked his own life up, then blamed everyone else.

      • dingdongmetacarples@lemmy.world
        11·
        11 months ago

        I think it provides a lot of context. The list of conspiracy theories is enlightening and should be a warning for people unfamiliar. People always ask why did someone do something so terrible, and here’s something to shed some light. Maybe we can prevent more violence?

        I’m a UNLV grad btw.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      103·
      11 months ago

      I like how he ordered the topics by craziness…

      Like, perfectly normally up top, got to:

      Famous Puzzles, Oddities & Unsolved Mysteries

      And thought, oh, here’s the weird shit.

      Then saw the next one is

      Powerful Organzations Bent on Global Domination!

      And then (obviously) he launches into ads for auto insurance? Like, not that he has ads on his website, it’s just a list of like 10 different auto insurers?

      Dude definitely lost it at some point, chalk it up to another reason healthcare isnt a private issue. Some therapy and pills and this guy might still be living a normal life as a tenured professor who make a couple inappropriate comments a semester, but at least he’s not a mass shooter.

      • dingdongmetacarples@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 months ago

        He definitely wanted be kill more people. He had a lot of ammunition and a hit list for 2 campuses.

        The lists are very strange, like why take time to put Amazing in a list? My father in law made lists on pads of paper, but it was lists of things he owned or important historical events.

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          11 months ago

          1. I didn’t even see that lol

          2. Isn’t that somehow more crazy?

          Like, boilerplate conspiracy theories that’s kind of the public zeitgeist isn’t surprising, but then lumping in Bridesmaids is such a mind fuck I almost clicked to read his (obviously flawed) rationale.

    • ericatty@infosec.pub
      52·
      11 months ago

      I didn’t go through the whole thing, but spot clicking, found he was still updating it in 2019. 2 sections of links on conspiracy theories. Overall web design circa 1996.

      That website alone could be a big red flag for a lot of employers. Although it could have been worse. I didn’t find some stuff I expected to find, but I also stopped looking after about half an hour.