People In Pitt ARE CRAZY....

[TheWretchedMass]

Check this dude out:

[url="http://www.mayhem.net/Crime/2000.html"]http://www.mayhem.net/Crime/2000.html[/url]

RICHARD SCOTT BAUHAMMERS

Classification: Mass murderer
Arrested: April 29, 2000
No. Victims: 5
Victim Profile: Men and women of diverse ethnic backgrounds
Weapons: Handgun
Location: Suburbs surrounding Pittsburg


A racist immigration lawyer in Pittsburg went on a one-hour ethnically-motivated shooting rampage leaving five dead in four different locations. The victims were a Jewish woman, an Indian grocer, two Asian employees in a Chinese restaurant and an African-American man in a karate school. A second Indian man was critically wounded. Richard Scott Baumhammers, the 34-year-old rampager, reportedly was trying to form a political party to act against immigrants. Not surprisingly he had unspecified mental problems that led to a recent voluntary hospitalization. The killings took place within a 20-mile range through suburbs surrounding pissburgh. Baumhammers used a .357- caliber handgun for the rampage.

Police first responded to a small fire at the home of Anita Gordon in Mount Lebanon, next door to the home of Bauhammers' parents. Gordon, 63, was found dead inside the home. She had been shot several times. Baumhammers allegedly set a small fire at the house after killingGordon whom he had known since childhood. Next Baumhammers shot at the Beth El Congregation synagogue and painted the word "Jew" on the front and swastikas on the outside walls.

Then he stoppoed at an Indian grocery store in Carnegie where he killed Anil Thakur, 31, and critically wounded Sandip Patel, 25. The Pittsburg Post-Gazette said he was shot in the neck and was facing the possibility of permanent paralysis. Kent Kretzler, a witnes who owns a travel agency next to the Indian grocery, said Baumhammers appeared calm as he walked out of the store, tucked away a gun and got into his car. "He sat for maybe five or 10 seconds without doing anything, and just very calm and collectedly pulled out as if pulling out after buying a bag of groceries," Kretzler said.

Then he did another drive-by on a synagogue in Carnegie before stopping at the Ya Fei Chinese Cuisine restaurant and killing Thao Pham, 30, a deliveryman of Vietnamese descent, and Ji-Ye Sun, 34, the Chinese manager of the restaurant. About 15 minutes he stopped at a karate school in a shopping plaza where he shot to death 22-year-old Gary Lee.

On May 18 Baumhammers was deemed incompetent to stand trial and ordered transferred to Mayview State Hospital for treatment. Judge Lawrence O'Toole said Baumhammers was incompetent to aid in his own defense on homicide charges and could be tried later if his mental state improves. Baumhammers, a 34 former immigrant lawyer, is accused of fatally shooting five people and wounding a sixth in Allegheny and Beaver counties April 28. His victims were Jewish, Indian, Vietnamese, Chinese and black. The son of Latvian refugees Baumhammers ran a Web site that touted the rights of immigrants from Europe over those from the third world. One of the psychiatrists who interviewed him testified that Baumhammers had an "eerie" emotional detachment and was paranoid, believing he had been poisoned during trips to Europe. He and two other psychiatrists testified that Baumhammers was unfit for a trial.

On September 6, 2001, Pittsburg judge formally sentenced Baumhammers to death for fatally shooting five people. Judge Jeffrey Manning blamed the racially-motivated rampage in part on Internet hate sites and lax enforcement of firearms laws. "They and their families will forever suffer needlessly and senselessly because you decided that their only misdeed was that they were different from you," Manning said.

Baumhammers was sentenced additionally to at least 112 years in prison for 20 other charges, including ethnic intimidation. Defense attorneys -- claiming that executing Baumhammers was like "lynching of the town fool" -- argued that his client was psychotic and that his fixation on minorities resulted from delusions that he was being followed, shot with lasers and otherwise persecuted by often nameless, faceless entities.



Here is his offender page from the Pennsylvania Offender Database:
[url="http://www.cor.state.pa.us/inmatelocatorweb/"]http://www.cor.state.pa.us/inmatelocatorweb/[/url]

[Hooky]

I bet all Stealers fans are like that, they just haven't been caught yet.