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Originally Posted by RobsonLegend

Thus, folks who would be considered at-risk for committing acts like these need to be pinpointed and provided with support groups and counseling ASAP.

Problem is, pinpointing individuals becomes a task where people would have to admit certain behavioral tendencies.

I completely agree with your argument. I think in my opinion, the below statement from CNN might be some of the clues that could prevent the mass killing from happening. Of course, the girlfriend might not think right away what the intentions of the other person just based on the clues, but she could at least tell law enforcement about the last cell phone conversation, the note, and the package with a gun holster and ammunition. This could have saved his life and too many other innocent lives. *RIP*
I rest my case!!!!!!!


1- “Either the day of the shooting or the day after, Baty received a package in the mail from Kazmierczak. It was a two textbooks with what she described as a "goodbye" note, and a new cell phone.
2- She said she had never known her boyfriend to lie: "He was always open and honest; we didn't keep anything from each other."
And the social-work student said she had no indication that anything was amiss.
3- "I would have helped him, I would have done something for him," Baty said. Even last week, when the two talked every night until the killings, she was not alarmed.
4- Kazmierczak "told me that he loved me and that he would see me on Thursday and missed me," she said. "That whole week I talked to him; he sounded fine."
5- It was during their last conversation, a few minutes past midnight Wednesday, that she got her first inkling that something was amiss, she said. "He told me not to forget about him and he told me that he would see me tomorrow, and when we got off the phone he said 'Good-bye.' He never said good-bye."
She has no idea why he sent her a new phone, but read the contents of the note to CNN.
6- "You are the best Jessica!" it read. "You've done so much for me, and I truly do love you. You will make an excellent psychologist or social worker someday! Don't forget about me! Love, Steven Kazmierczak."
7- He sent her another package with a gun holster and ammunition in it, Baty said. She said she has no clue why he would have done that.
Shaking and crying, her family at her side during the interview, Baty said she still loves the man she met in a hallway at NIU when they were both undergraduate students. “