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with him and his wife from August 2012 to May 2013 in Fort Worth, but that they had to part ways because he wasn’t paying his bills. Alexis was a “nice guy,” Suthametewakul said, though he sometimes carried a gun and would frequently complain about being the victim of discrimination. Suthametewakul said Alexis had converted to Buddhism and prayed at a local Buddhist temple. “We are all shocked. We are nonviolent. Aaron was a very good practitioner of Buddhism. He could chant better than even some of the Thai congregants,” said Ty Thairintr, a congregant at Wat Budsaya, a Buddhist temple in Fort Worth. Thairintr said Alexis told him he was upset with the Navy because “he thought he never got a promotion because of the color of his skin. He hated his commander.” As Thairintr and others at the temple understood, Alexis took a job as a contractor and he indicated to them he was going to go to Virginia. He last saw him five weeks ago. “He was a very devoted Buddhist. There was no tell-tale sign of this behavior,” Thairintr said.
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In the early 2000s, before he moved to Seattle, Alexis lived with his mother in an apartment in Queens, N.Y., said Gene Demby, of Philadelphia, who said he dated one of Alexis’ younger sisters at the time. He said Alexis and his two younger sisters had a difficult relationship with their father, who divorced their mother in the mid-1990s. “I wouldn’t call him nice, but he seemed harmless, if really awkward,” said Demby, the lead writer for NPR’s Code Switch blog about race and culture. “He was insecure. He was like a barbershop conspiracy theorist, the kind of guy who believes he’s smarter than everyone else. He also was kind of like perpetually aggrieved, but not megalomaniacal or delusional.” Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, which offers online courses in aviation and aerospace, confirmed that Alexis was enrolled as an online student via its Fort Worth campus, started classes in July 2012 and was pursuing a bachelor’s of science in aeronautics. “We are cooperating fully with investigating officials,” the university said.
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Police: Man ejected for threats, abuse On Sept. 15, a UNMH nurse observed a man “speaking in a verbally abusive manner” to a female patient in the patient’s room, according to a police report. The nurse allegedly told the man to cease his abuse, which was also disruptive to the care of other patients on the floor. The man allegedly refused, so the nurse ordered him to leave. The man refused again and acted verbally abusive toward the nurse, according to the report. Eventually, the man agreed to depart, but continued shouting profanities at the nurse, according to the report. As he walked out of the door, the man allegedly threatened the nurse with physical violence. Although no further incident
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Report: Stolen pack had credit cards, IDs On Sept. 13, a man reported the theft of his backpack and its contents to UNMPD. According to a police report, he set his backpack down in the lounge of Chama dorm in Casas del Rio but forgot to pick it up before he left the building that night. When the man returned the next morning, the backpack and its contents were missing. According to the report, the thief tried to use the man’s credit cards, which had been in the backpack. The man had allegedly already cancelled the cards. Police advised him to notify the state Motor Vehicle Department about the theft of his IDs, according to the report. Police are unable to find a suspect or a witness to the incident, and the case is closed pending further leads. ~compiled by Ardee Napolitano
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