Gunman at Pa. health club was bitter over women
My Way News
August 6, 2009
By MICHAEL RUBINKAMBRIDGEVILLE, Pa. (AP) – Neighbors and friends mourned the losses of three women killed in a shooting rampage during an exercise class at a Pittsburgh-area gym as the shooter’s online diary revealed a man who was ignored by women and referred to an “exit plan” to avenge his rage.
George Sodini went to a sprawling L.A. Fitness Club, turned out the lights on the Tuesday night “Latin impact” dance-aerobics class for women, and opened fire with three guns, spraying dozens of bullets before committing suicide.
“He just had a lot of hatred in him and (was) hell-bent on committing this act, and no one was going to stop him,” Allegheny County Police Superintendent Charles Moffatt said Wednesday.
George Sodini was a misogynist and killed three people. There have been three other mass murders committed by misogynists. Marc Lepine, George Hennard, and Campo Elias Delgado come to mind. Lepine killed 14 women in the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal in 1989. Hennard mainly killed women at a Killeen Luby’s in 1991. Delgado was driven by hatred of woman when he killed 30 people in Bogota in 1986. Sodini had a website, which was a blog and even videos. Here is one of them.
