I could want to kill you because you're deliberately ignorant, and also because you're annoying. They're mutually compatible traits you have, and mutually compatible motivations i have.
If I did, I'd be a psychopath, so my own mental state likely would also have a part to play. If I was unhinged enough to murder someone, no one would be shocked that my political reality was also a ignorant swirl of paranoid delusion including abortion, satanists, and god knows what else.
Only a stupid partisan hack would do the following:
1) reads one snippet about the story
AHA - he was a trump supporter, but you know what, if you antagonize a trump supporter, you are the author of his own misfortune and get shot.
2) reads one other snippet
AHA - it was fake news, turns out the murderer may have suffered from delusions about satanists, abortionists etc etc. it had nothing to do with trump.
I said I wouldn't, but here we go:
"The
El Paso Times reports that he believed the houses on Copper and the intersecting Raynor Avenue were involved in "satanic activity" because of their proximity to Memorial Park.
"The defendant's belief was 'to end the Satanic activity' near the crime scene (Memorial Park) and acted out his manifesto by killing and shooting the Kaufmanns and by mentally fabricating the connection he believed the four corner houses on Raynor and Copper to have been involved in 'satanic activity,' because of their relative geographic location to the park," an officer wrote in the affidavit.
Alvarez also
reportedly wrote that he specifically targeted the Kauffmanns because they voted for Biden and had a Biden flag in front of their house, as well as "a doll of Trump hanging." At the time, the home also reportedly had pro-Democrat posters and LGBTQ flags displayed."