[…] The suspect has been identified as Wess Roley, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Monday. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation.
“We do believe that the suspect started the fire, and we do believe that it was an ambush and it was intentional,” Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris said at a Sunday night news conference. “These firefighters did not have a chance.” MORE. h/t Left Coast Dan
Until we take back our schools…
The firefighters did not sign up for this but most of them won’t back down either.
Why is it taking so long to get this guys picture? No dr lic?
Wess Roley’s photo shows a guy who looks Native American, and a particularly died eyed psychopathic one from the three photos I saw of him as a kid, a teenager, and a young adult.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5ea4ad53174e49b8e36c5846e22da796a2bf184025290658f9329f0cd678cd17.png?w=800&h=527
Additional info on the shooter from Not the Bee:
https://notthebee.com/article/last-night-a-man-started-a-wildfire-to-lure-in-idaho-firefighters-and-then-shot-11-of-them
I don’t know if that last post was really helpful. Reading further it has a lot of speculation.
TheMule — One account I read gave his age – 20 – so the photo on the left is probably what he now looked like.
He doesn’t look particularly Native American to me. What comes across in all three photos is that he has a chip on his shoulder that suggests he feels he has been unfairly passed over, undervalued, or rejected unfairly.
I have posted frequently on how the sin of envy has been rebranded as virtue, inculcated as a virtue and used to stoke resentment. Tell me the face in that photo does not embody resentment.
His mother’s Facebook posts
Happy 20th birthday to my Wess!! I am so proud of the young man you have become!! I love you my son!
https://www.facebook.com/Heather.Lynn.Caldwell1/posts/pfbid05mEZuB5MJhs9a77H8kbdHpaERxwfBVyakygP6A4W2L4yeNGKuqfXDe5qdMxcUd1Dl
Videos:
December 2, 2024 · Haiku, HI ·
Wess and I spent the day at Twin Falls yesterday and he cliff jumped for the first time. The first was from about 25ft and the second was from 40ft! We swam around for a bit then hiked through the rainforest to the other two falls. It was so beautiful!
https://www.facebook.com/Heather.Lynn.Caldwell1/posts/pfbid0B8NgwoxN55Af78ZLwqwJGJcLVRHa5s5x6sWhzbTFG1HFwkPphZZtvgFBAyd4EgWSl
November 29, 2024 · Lahaina, HI ·
Fun day at the beach with my boy 💕
https://www.facebook.com/Heather.Lynn.Caldwell1/posts/pfbid02y6X7tKQAvWjCkJGyoEnMHnrnmSr5e5DJiVA62g5KqXcfQM9Qi61svD97xk56EnCKl
“Weber reported from Los Angeles. Associated Press journalists Alanna Durkin Richer in Washington; Mead Gruver in Cheyenne, Wyoming; Josh Funk in Omaha, Nebraska; and Kathy McCormack in Concord, New Hampshire, contributed to this report.”
It took five journos in five different states to write this story. Six journos if you count Rebecca Boone, who is credited at the top of the story, but nowhere to be found in the final tally. And still nothing about “Wess Roley” but his name. I guess the next journo team is tackling that now.
Far be it from me to criticize how journos do their journolisming nowadays. I’m a relic of a bygone era. All the medias now send a team to do what used to be a one man—or woman—job. I guess they have their reasons, but it doesn’t seem very cost effective in a supposedly troubled industry.
Far be
@JD Hasty – No father in those FB posts…no father in his life?? If not, may be a factor.
I wonder if he was on some psych prescription
That may be where the unemotional eyes come from
Just saw report that dad threatened to set the house on fire and shoot everyone in the family as they ran out.
I’m guessing after that there were a few school counselors sessions with a referral to a psychiatrist who put him on an SSRI
I’m bettin’ trantifa
Anyone who would start a fire for the sole purpose of crating an ambush for First Responders is sick in the head. I don’t need a fancy diagnosis to know that. What I would like to know is what surroundings made him and people like him that sick and twisted… and I think I know that too. The Left has made us a very sick nation, by design!
My guess is undiagnosed/untreated schizo spiraling out of control. The whole “everyone knew the guy had issues, but no one thought he’d ever go that far” kind of thing.