Multiple "suspicious Deaths" close Hwy 2 at Claresholm bioth directions

[Azure]

Originally Posted by getbak

I wouldn't be surprised if it was a combination of things, such as:

Left the party at 1:15 - friends tell police it was 1:00 (close enough for drunken memory).
Took time to warm up car, grab luggage, grab snacks for trip - actually leave Lethbridge around 1:45.
On the road, receive phone call from angry ex, convinces her to stop at 7-11 in Claresholm to talk.
Get to Claresholm around 2:45, angry ex catches up around 3. Argument outside 7-11. She drives off shortly after 3 and he follows.
Outside of Claresholm, he's following and harassing them, she pulls over and tells him to leave them alone. He pulls gun and shoots them all, followed by himself around 3:15.
Motorist comes upon the scene a few minutes later and calls the police around 3:25 (close enough to 3:30 for media).

I was thinking the same thing.

If the theory is correct, they probably received the call from the ex right before they got to Claresholm. The 7-11 is right on main street, so they probably pulled over for snacks/washroom break/gas. Ex catches up, they argue, leave....and he follows them.

From there they would have had to stop and he shot them and himself.

[albertGQ]

Originally Posted by Azure

Seriously? If you were being followed you would pull over and see why you were being followed?

If I was in a car with three other people and a car with only one person driving was following me, I'd feel safe getting out of my vehicle

[Acey]

I knew him. I graduated a year before him but I started early, so he was my age ('91). He was mormon. Played football with him... good receiver. We were on the same bus, he lived one subdivision over. He was a really nice kid. Haven't talked to him since high school but obviously something went horribly wrong.

I THINK I remember seeing him at U of L in the fall of '09, I believe he was doing pre-engineering. He might have been in my microeconomics class or another, can't remember which, but I didn't talk to him. His older sister was in my Bio 30 class. Again, really nice, seemed like just the normal Lethbridge Mormon family, i.e., the whole damn city.

As cliché as it sounds, if you asked me on graduation day 3 years ago who from this school would be a mass murderer, he would be absolutely positively LAST on the list.

I'm losing it right now even just realizing I talked to, laughed with, played football with a triple murderer. My sincere condolences to ALL the families... including his.

[InglewoodFan]

Originally Posted by Cowperson

Well, the other question is "Why stop in Claresholm at all."

Potato wedges at the 7-11. Seriously, they are frigging awesome. We stop for wedges every time we pass through Claresholm.

[conroy22]

I went out for lunch with people at boston pizza in Lethbridge today and while a friend of mine was waiting for a table, two girls infront of her we talking about it. Somehow my friend came involved, and it turns out the two girls she was talking to were with them that night. I'm not trying to speculate any kind of story, as I have respect for all of the victims and their families, however this is what they told her. They had all gone out to the Balarney Stone in Lethbridge that night to celebrate one of the victims birthdays, and thats when they ran into Derek Jensen. He found out that Stepple was driving the three to the Calgary airport to go home for Christmas, and became extremely jealous. When Stepple left to drive them to Calgary, Jensen went home and got his riffle, caught up with them on the highway, and drove them off the road, with a horrific ending. It shouldnt matter about the timeline of this story, regardless of what they were doing at what time doesnt really matter. What matters is that 3 young lives were lost in a horrific tradgedy that should never have happened. I've already heard the story first hand about the RCMP having to tell Stepple's father he has list his only child, and it just breaks my heart, because something like this never should have happened.

My prayers, thoughts, and deepest condolences go out to the families and the victims <3

[dustyanddaflames]

Originally Posted by darklord700

Most guys in their lifetime have been dumped, rejected or even humiliated by the opposition sex. But most guys don't just pick up a guy and shoot people. Why did this happen?

Knowing this, and the fact my father had a vasectomy - he'd probably be my last option if I had to choose someone to go war with.

[Ducay]

Originally Posted by InglewoodFan

Potato wedges at the 7-11. Seriously, they are frigging awesome. We stop for wedges every time we pass through Claresholm.

Who stops at 7-11 for potato wedges?


Its all about the chicken on a stick, my friend. That flakey piece of all white meat is literally the only reason I have ever stopped in Claresholm or Coleman, AB.

[Madman]

Details are coming out from the survivor.

The gunman said nothing when he shot Shayna Conway.

The force of the bullet sent her crumpling to the road. He fired two more rounds, striking the 21-year-old woman, then began shooting her three friends.


Lying wounded on the highway, Conway looked up and watched as the killer turned the gun on himself.


She crawled to a cellphone, called 911 and waited.


“She can just remember screaming and yelling for help, and calling for Tanner,” said Conway’s sister, Courtney Crosby.


“She knew that he was dead because he couldn’t come and help her.”


Conway, 21, was the sole survivor of a horrific murder-suicide on a southern Alberta highway in the pre-dawn hours Thursday.

It was about 3 a.m. when Conway was steering the SUV along Highway 2 north of Claresholm. Another driver rammed the back end of their vehicle, Conway later told her family.

She pulled over and stepped outside. That’s when she came face to face with the gunman.

Conway was shot three times — in the stomach, the shoulder and thigh, her family said.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/al...775/story.html

[T@T]

Crazy.

Aren't guns great? you snap, yourself and 3 others are dead. No gun, your probably beat up a bit and everyone is alive to laugh about it later on.

[drewboy12]

Wow.... That's fata scary. Poor girl!

[Delthefunky]

Originally Posted by T@T

Crazy.

Aren't guns great? you snap, yourself and 3 others are dead. No gun, your probably beat up a bit and everyone is alive to laugh about it later on.

Thats another question. Was it a rifle (easy to get) or a pistol? I own a rifle, and I don't believe they should be illegal, but they should be harder to get.

[RedJester]

Pretty sure it was a rifle. Derek Jensen was apparently an avid hunter and was believed to possess a hunting rifle.

[Slava]

That account (from the survivor) is scary. She probably had no idea when she got out of the car. What a tragedy.

[Azure]

Yes, lets blame the gun instead of the control freak piece of crap boyfriend who obviously had a serious jealously problem.

[Cowperson]

Profile of the killer and a picture of him with the dead ex-girlfriend.

http://m.calgarysun.com/2011/12/17/a...villain-friend

Cowperson

[puckluck]

Could you imagine if this jealous bf's name was Mohammed? Why hasn't the religion aspect of this been raised yet? Because it doesn't matter what religion a crazy person is.

[RedJester]

Not to pick a fight, but if the jealous ex BF's name was Mohammed, and this was in fact done in the name of religion, then there would probably be a party demanding he be excused and pardoned for his actions because it was authenticated/mandated by whatever fairy-tale scripture they believe in.

This wasn't done in the name of religion, though. This was done out of jealousy and rage. Although there are parties trying to paint the gunman as "not a villain," none of them are excusing him for his actions.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Originally Posted by puckluck

Could you imagine if this jealous bf's name was Mohammed? Why hasn't the religion aspect of this been raised yet? Because it doesn't matter what religion a crazy person is.

You've got to be kidding right? Playing the muslim card in a tripple murder?

Maybe they'd bring up his religion if there was evidence that he was a religious fanatic who believed women should be stoned to death of immorality (or in this case shot). Maybe that will still happen.

But why in the world would you automatically assume that if he was muslim that the media would label him a religous zealot?

[CrusaderPi]

Seriously, how is baseless speculation ok, but too soon jokes not? It isn't fair!

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Originally Posted by CrusaderPi

Seriously, how is baseless speculation ok, but too soon jokes not? It isn't fair!

Jokes are ok.

Is that what you wanted to hear?